Identifier: notesofvoyagetoc01upha (find matches)
Title: Notes of a voyage to California via Cape Horn, together with scenes in El Dorado, in the years of 1849-'50. With an appendix containing reminiscences ... together with the articles of association and roll of members of "The associated pioneers of the territorial days of California."
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Upham, Samuel C. (Samuel Curtis), 1819-1885
Subjects: Associated Pioneers of the Territorial Days of California Voyages to the Pacific coast Ethnic groups Law Business
Publisher: Philadelphia, The author
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ly nature than the mountains,while some are composed entirely of basalt, slate andmarble. The Californias are rich in minerals. Gold,silver, lead, oxide of iron, manganese and copper ore aremet with throughout the country, the j^^ccious metals beingthe mod abundant. Upper California is naturally divided into two greatsections, the cultivated and the wild country. The formermay be said to be that portion which lies along the Pacific,already populated to a considerable extent. The latter, orthe Indian country, part of which is called the Talares ormarshy plains, intersected by lakes and swamps, occupyinga valley of 500 miles in extent, running north and south.The climate is variable, as is that of all mountainouscountries, but the mean temperature of the country in thespring is QQ°; summer, 70°; autumn, 67°, and winter, 61°.Warmest month, 74° ; coldest, 48° Fahrenheit. The productions of the country are timber of the finestquality and all fruits and grains peculiar to the tropical
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FIRST VISIT TO SAN FRAISTCISCO. 541 and tciin)erate zones; among which are apples, pears,peaches, oranges, lemons, figs, plums, cherries, grapes andalmost every tropical fruit, in tlie southern portion of thecountry. Wheat, rye, oats, barley, beans, peas, hemp, flax,tobacco, coffee, corn, Irish potatoes and sugar-cane. Vege-tables of all kinds can be raised in the greatest abundance,frequently two or three crops a year. Wormwood andwild mustard abound as weeds. Oats grow wild, and thecultivated grow to an enormous height. Wheat crops,sown in the fall, early the following year have yielded onehundred and fourteen busJiels to the acre. At the Missionof St. Joseph it was ascertained that the yield was one hun-dred and twenty bushels to the acre, and the spontaneous cropthe folloiving year loas sixty bushels to the acre. The wheatof Taos has six distinct heads. Clover and the grasses areextraordinarily fine and productive. Indian flax growswild all over the country, florscs, cattle, sheep

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