There are the fruit and market gardens whose products have a Brobdignagian character.

There are the immense stores of wine from California vineyards that are already competing with those of France and Germany.

There are--I may as well stop now, since I cannot tell half the story in the limits of this chapter.
[Footnote B: I made many notes with a view to publishing two or three chapters upon California.

I have relinquished this design, partly on account of the un-Siberian character of the Golden State, and partly because much that I had written is covered by the excellent book "Beyond the Mississippi," by Albert D.Richardson, my friend and associate for several years.

The particulars of his death by assassination are familiar to many readers.] [Illustration: CHINESE DINNER.] During my stay in California, I visited the principal gold, copper, and quicksilver mines in the state, not omitting the famous or infamous Mariposa tract.