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THE GOLDEN: FIFTIES © <i
As Sketched by the Ben of a1
TALLMAN HATHAWAY ROLFE naa
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EDITED BY BELLE ROLFH DOUGLASS / ye
(Installment No, Twenty-four)
SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF.,
October 16, 1858.
‘To T. H. Rolfe,
_ Nevada, “ais nia.
' Dear J u ~
as you fists heretofore learned, I.
‘am not as industrious at letter writing as you are but will endeayor to
‘acquaint you with happenings at this
end of the State.
Your reference to grape culture is.
_ quite in line with an industry that)
. Promises a great future. The grape .
i aeaeee to the highest perfection next!
to the placers of gold, thus some ten
millions: of acres in California could:
be cultivated in ‘this noble fruit. If
we study the commercial side of the
“grape trade in Europe, with the various trades included in manufacturing
,wines, brandies, tartars, raisins, as
‘well as the glass, cork and copper
“necessary for its distribution, we can
form an idea of the value the industry
would be to California. Since the
time of Padre Junipero and his eo.
,adjutors the grape has been cultivat-ively for seventy years. In Los Aned! Native wine was used excluseles now, champagne is being made
by Sausevaine and Bros. from their
own vineyard. They have brought
from Trance, workmen and machinery of the best kind and by December expect to have one hundred thousond dozen of pure wholesome champagne, at a reasonable price. Two
hundred boxes of grapes were shipped this year from Wolfskill’s vineyard to New York and as they were
reach their destination safely. BUT,
the gals down inLos Angeles wear
hoops made of grape vines, and judgtumes I fear grapes will be very high
next year and the wine presses suspend operations, Whole vineyards
will have to be destroyed to make
crinoline. An yet according to the
tales of an old gentleman in our
neighborhood, who has a keen memory. the fashions of these times ‘are
an improvement on those of the 18th
century, He says the ladies of 1798
wore a single hoop as high up as the
hip and as large as the lower one now
used and below it extended a train
streets or was held up by maids or
boys, All women wore stays! Heels
two or three inches high! Silver
buckles on thelr shoes! Silk was
not so common but muslin was admired according to the size of the
flowers on it; roses large as one’s hand
considered most elegant. History refast, heels hight, skirts longer.
well packed it is thought they will}:
ing from the present size of the cos. .
. water to the mines was built at Yan. kee Jims in June 50. I had previ‘. ously thought Nevada County was the
. for a period of ‘ninty-nine years,
I recently meét some men who fold .
me that the first ditch that carried
first in that. project. How about it?
They also told me that J. C. Doll had
been granted the right to supply Red
Bluff with water by pipes and pumps
Whaling in San Diego Harbor is
exciting sport. . Five whales have
been taken in a short time. I learn
that one of them had @ pair of boots
in his-hump marked “J” and it is
thought they might belong to Jonah.
The citizens of Los Angeles celebrated the arrival of the overland}
mail by firing one hundred guns. This ,
mail brought special message * from j
= \
President Buchanan and an extra ef-;
‘fort was made toward time. Nine-}
five or six yards long that swept the . ,
peats ftself; erinoline is spreading!
‘teen days and fifteen hours from St.'
, Louis, the best ever made.
I shall write again when Chen {
ity offers. a
HORACE, i.