. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. area ot land for next season. We have also fine laud for dairy and hog ranches. Of the former we have two in active operation, and a gentleman from Watsonville has lately pur- chased land to the value of $6,000 cash for the latter purpose. As we shall be able to ship to San Francisco direct from our own â wharf, a large number of hogs will be raised by different parties. Game is abundantâquail, deer, rabbits and s
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. area ot land for next season. We have also fine laud for dairy and hog ranches. Of the former we have two in active operation, and a gentleman from Watsonville has lately pur- chased land to the value of $6,000 cash for the latter purpose. As we shall be able to ship to San Francisco direct from our own â wharf, a large number of hogs will be raised by different parties. Game is abundantâquail, deer, rabbits and some wild duck. So is wild honey of the purest and sweetest quality. A good deal of building is going on, some residences being large, substantial and tasteful. A neighbor of mine has neai"ly completed a brick house of good size. We have excellent lime, two kilns supplying the demand. We have also two brick-yards. We have two good schools, attended by nearly one hundred children. We have also Sunday school and preaching regularly by our resident minister, J. W. Webb, late pastor of the Christian Church at Ukiah, formerly of Gilroy, and by Kev. T. D. Lewis, of the M. E. Church, Santa Maria. You will be glad to learn that the temperance sentiment is sound and strong. Besides an active Lodge of Good Templars, we have an open-air temperance meeting in a lovely grove near town on Sunday afternoons, with musi- cal and literary exercises and speeches. We are about to build a good schoolhouse in town. And by the way, the town is a won- derfully healthy infant for only seven months old. It contains three general and one hard- ware store, a butcher's, a bakery, two harness shops and one printing and newspaper oflfice, the Lumpoc Herald, a live temperance paper, editor, W. W. Bronghtou, one of the stirring men of the times, to whom, as much as to any man, this colony owes its existence and prosperity. We have a lirst-elass hotel, well- conducted and thoroughly temperance, two lively
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