Excerpt: ...interspersed with vine-clad cottages, where, a few years before, there had been only the rough and scattered huts of a few miners. Immense quantities of wheat were raised, especially in Humboldt County on the northern coast of the State, where we hear of crops averaging sixty bushels to the acre. In 1860 the surplus of wheat, the quantity, that is, available for exportation, exceeded three million bushels; and the barley crop was still larger. The Stanislaus and Santa Clara Valleys, not far from San Francisco, ...
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Excerpt: ...interspersed with vine-clad cottages, where, a few years before, there had been only the rough and scattered huts of a few miners. Immense quantities of wheat were raised, especially in Humboldt County on the northern coast of the State, where we hear of crops averaging sixty bushels to the acre. In 1860 the surplus of wheat, the quantity, that is, available for exportation, exceeded three million bushels; and the barley crop was still larger. The Stanislaus and Santa Clara Valleys, not far from San Francisco, and southeast of the city, were also grain-growing districts, as is recorded in Bret Harte's story Through the Santa Clara Wheat. Pg 191 He describes his heroine as following her guide between endless rows of stalks, rising ten and even twelve feet high, like "a long, pillared conservatory of greenish glass." "She also discovered that the close air above her head was continually freshened by the interchange of lower temperature from below,
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Photos, frontis of Harte. G ex-library. Harte was born in Albany, NY, 8/25/1839. His father was a well-known scholar, Prof. of Greek at Albany College. Navy blue binding, gilt lettering. Library markings, edge wear.
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