Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

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ern traveler. Here we see beets that will weigh
over a hundred pounds each; onions at least ten
inches across the top; cabbages weighing eighty
pounds, and the smaller vegetables in proportion..
Fruit is raised so easily that it has a low market.
The cars that come up from the Santa Clara Valley
bring to San Francisco several tons of strawberries
daily, and this most delicious fruit is in the market
every month in the year.
The potato will give two annual crops, and such
potatoes I One would suppose they were at least
two years in growing.
The long, dry summer allows the farmer to harvest his wheat and barley when he chooses, which
are ripe the last of May or the first of June; but
do not injure by shelling or otherwise by standing
after ripening, as with us.
There are many overgrown estates in California
which are injurious to the prosperity of any country.
I visited one in San Joaquin Valley, near Stockton,
of some twenty thousand acres, sixteen thousand of
which was in wheat that year. To prepare the
ground the owner had nine hundred horses plowing
at the same time. Should he get an average crop
the sacks to put it in would cost him at least thirty
thousand dollars. Some stock-raisers have estates
large enough to keep a hundred thousand head of
cattle uni)on them and large flocks of sheen.
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