In the Mangas valley, about twenty miles…
source date: 1888
availability: public-domain

In the Mangas valley, about twenty miles from this city, James Metcalf owns 52 acres of fenced bottom land, and also several hundred acres on the low hills. He has over 1000 goats, mostly Angora, and 1500 sheep, grazing on the hills. He also has in the valley 600 bearing fruit trees, mostly apple, which yield fine fruit. He has 2500 grape vines, 600 of which will bear this year. The varieties are principally Isabella