Merchants' Association review . The largest wine tun in theworld was shown at Asti. California leads inthe production of barley, and a combined har-vester was exhibited, getting in the crop. Three-quarters of tlie prunes jn-oduced inAmerica are grown in the Sacramento Valley,and when the prune orchards burst into flowerthe seas of bloom are a spectacle that is e(|uallednowhere else but in Ja])an. Some of theseorchards were pictured, in all their dedicatecolor and frail, fine beauty. Easterners are always interested in the bigthings of California and incredulous when toldof them. They are prett
Merchants' Association review . The largest wine tun in theworld was shown at Asti. California leads inthe production of barley, and a combined har-vester was exhibited, getting in the crop. Three-quarters of tlie prunes jn-oduced inAmerica are grown in the Sacramento Valley,and when the prune orchards burst into flowerthe seas of bloom are a spectacle that is e(|uallednowhere else but in Ja])an. Some of theseorchards were pictured, in all their dedicatecolor and frail, fine beauty. Easterners are always interested in the bigthings of California and incredulous when toldof them. They are pretty well educated in thematter of the Big Trees, but somewhat skepticaltill about the size of our merchantable Erwin is supplied with visual proof that lumljcr grows Jiere of a size unknown in thewildest lodge-night dreams of the Hoo-Hoos ofMichigan and Wisconsin. LOGGING TO SOME PURPOSE. He first sliowcd ten or a dozen ])eople sittingin the kerf of a Humboldt redwood, thenswitched over to Shasta County and, with mov-. NlGHT. mg pictures, showed two brawn3,wi)o4smenhewing at the bole of a sugar pine four -anda half feet through. They glanced up and ranback a few rods, and the majestic column beganslowly to topple and lean. Straight toward theaudience it seemed to come, faster and faster,until its head .struck the ground and was hiddenin the upflung clouds of dust and bark andbroken limbs. The trunk next apjjeared in sections, slungfrom great lindjers, like impossibly huge(^laker guns, which trundled them through theforest to the sawmill. Here a log about 34feet long was ciamjied to an iron carriage andpassed back and forth endways against a double-edged handsaw, which at every journey took offa slice of clear, sound Imnber over four feetwide. That is lumbering such as can not be seenanywhere else, and it is a safe prediction thatin the Eastern States, where a twelve-inchplank is almost a curiosity, pictures willarouse the strongest practical interest. Altogether
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