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18 AROUND^ THE WORLD. The Chinese question remains a puzzle. Hard coin is likely to continue the circulating currency. Exchange is found a profitable business. The present has been a year of unprecedented prosperity all along the Pacific shores. Californians tell us they can spare twelve million quintals of wheat from their coast this season, and have enough for home-consumption. Lacking vessels and railway conveyances, quantities must remain unsold. English and other foreign nations control the great shipments. They can afford to underbid our shipowners. Congress would do well to turn its attention from railway corporations and subsidies to American shipping interests, and their necessary relations to the great tradingmarts of the world. THE FRUIT AND THE V^B. Tons of melons, peaches, pears, apricots, figs, grapes, &c., during this September month, and much earlier, literally blockade Oakland Wharf and the front streets. Passing, one naturally asks. How can they be disposed of? The markets are cloyed, and it will not pay to transfer them to the Western. States. The Pacific Railway at present is a perfect monopoly. When those other lines projected are constructed, fares and freights must necessarily be reduced. Soulless corporations threaten the life of the country. Oh for Congressmen that cannot be bought! — for judges who are rigidly just! This State seems determined to excel in other things than gold-mines and mammoth trees. Think of a single squash weighing two hundred pounds ! Last year the Santa Barbara grape-vine produced nearly seven tons of grapes. R. B. Blowers, a substantial land-owner of Woodland, Yolo County, took us into his Chili clover-field, which he pastures four months, and then mows five times during the year. This Chili variety of clover is excellent for grazing purposes, and exceedingly nourishing as hay. It has a small white bios-
HAMMONTON TO CALIFOENIA. 19 som, strikes its roots down ten and twelve feet into the deep, rich soil, and often produces twenty-four tons to the acre. Ranches do best when thoroughly irrigated. The agricultural and horticultural outlook of the whole State is full of promise. Rice-growing on Sherman Island has proved a complete success. Oranges of fine flavor are to be had in all parts of the State, ripening from November to April. Three varieties of lemons grow in the Southern Coast District. Two counties, Yolo and San Joaquin, have produced four milHon bushels of wheat in a season. Large fields often average from ninety to one hundred bushels to the acre. The low " tule " lands, if reclaimed, would produce immense crops of rice ; an important matter considering California's sixty thousand population of Chinese. • Peach orchards fringe the rivers ; while beautiful vineyards either dot the valleys, or shingle the rugged sides of the Sierra Nevadas. What CaHfornia most needs to-day is a fresh immigration of sober, industrious, energetic men. BELIGIOUS TENDENCIES. Countries, like individuals, have their aural emanations. There is less restraint west than east of the Rocky Mountains. Thought free, the intellect clear, liberalism fruits out spontaneously in California. Residing anywhere in the stirring, pulsing West, broadens the vision, expands the emotional nature, and inspires a most generous toleration. Our lectures upon the harmonial philosophy and social life in Turkey were delivered in Mercantile Library to audiences intelligent and critical. Mr. Kendrick was the presiding officer. The progressive lyceum was full of promise. Dr. Dunn drilled officers and pupils in calisthenic exercises. Rev. Herman Snow, one of God's faithful shepherds, has ever at hand a choice assortment of liberal and Spiritualist books. This is the head-center of liberalism in the city, and the only liberal bookstore worthy the name upon the Pacific Coast.
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18 AROUND^ THE WORLD.<br />
The Chinese question remains a puzzle.<br />
Hard coin is likely<br />
to continue the circulating currency. Exchange is found a<br />
profitable business.<br />
The present has been a year of unprecedented prosperity<br />
all along the Pacific shores. Californians tell us they can<br />
spare twelve million quintals of wheat from their coast this<br />
season, and have enough for home-consumption. Lacking<br />
vessels and railway conveyances, quantities must remain<br />
unsold. English and other foreign nations control the<br />
great shipments. They can afford to underbid our shipowners.<br />
Congress would do well to turn its attention from<br />
railway corporations and subsidies to American shipping<br />
interests, and their necessary relations to<br />
the great tradingmarts<br />
of the world.<br />
THE FRUIT AND THE V^B.<br />
Tons of melons, peaches, pears, apricots, figs, grapes, &c.,<br />
during this September month, and much earlier, literally<br />
blockade Oakland Wharf and the front streets. Passing, one<br />
naturally asks. How can they be disposed of? The markets<br />
are cloyed, and it will not pay to transfer them to the Western.<br />
States. The Pacific Railway at present is a perfect<br />
monopoly. When those other lines projected are constructed,<br />
fares and freights must necessarily be reduced. Soulless corporations<br />
threaten the life of the country. Oh for Congressmen<br />
that cannot be bought! — for judges who are rigidly<br />
just!<br />
This State seems determined to excel in other things than<br />
gold-mines and mammoth trees. Think of a single squash<br />
weighing two hundred pounds ! Last year the Santa Barbara<br />
grape-vine produced nearly seven tons of grapes. R. B.<br />
Blowers, a substantial land-owner of Woodland, Yolo County,<br />
took us into his Chili clover-field, which he pastures four<br />
months, and then mows five times during the year. This<br />
Chili variety of clover is excellent for grazing purposes, and<br />
exceedingly nourishing as hay. It has a small white bios-
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