AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA. [" From the " Pacific News."]

New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 449, 3 August 1850, Page 1

AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA. [" From the " Pacific News."]

California has other sources and resources than gold upon which to baie prospects of a flattaring future. Though in a great measure neglected thus far, the time is not distant when the good old-fashioned implements, the plough, the shovel and the hoe, will excite atten- fc tion equally with the gold-bearing-quartz of our mountains This may not be the case (or a year or two yet, for the reaion that the norclty of gold-hunting mvi have time to woars itself off, and the fact that monry cab. be made by seeding and harvesting be demonstrated to'the comprehension of the most incredulous. No person who has travelled over the countiy can doubt the wonderful richness of the soil. In this particular it is not surpassed by the famed bottoms of the Mississippi or the river lands of Texas. The valleys of all our rivers are of this class, and these valleys are sufficient in extent to support millions of inhabitants, to say nothing of hundreds of small rivulets, heading and emptying within the distance of half a dozen 1111108, surrounded by mountains, with beautiful lakes in the centre, and lauds capable of all manner of productioni running back to the very base of the barriers that sepaiate them fioin similar nookn, while the mountains themselves are covered with a growth of wild oats, of which an eastern farmer might proudly boast. This is a peculiar feature of the southern portion of the State, and the dutiict through which pa s a the route from Los Angelos to San Jose. The great valleys ot ihe San Joaquin and Sacra.*

mento rivers, though differing in many points from the smaller one* of the southern streams, d?rce in one narlif nJar, the exceeding lichnes- ot the soil ; while \, Yin.ulad rouniry >s lepiesi mcd a* equaling ether vi - '.t> iiMuct, and far suip.issinp; both m one ma!- ' - ',in' point— its, lnxuuant growth of timber. A -.eat bughcar to many is the fear that notliing enn be accomplished w.th ccrUiuty (torn the wan of rain. Tho plain truth is simply this :- All kinds of small grain can be grown in any of Ibew loca htiej in defiance of the dry .eason. In the netf-bon h, od of the coast all the productions natural to the latitude, nature as well as in the east, hnijatation for any purpose is necessary only foi the in.e.ior, and there the facilities for it aio such that want of rain need hardly be regaided as an inconvenience, for under this system of ullage two crops can be garnered yearly, instead of one.