p. 48 | Heavy Rains by James White

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 7, 1878

Heavy Rains.

By James White

CALIFORNIA has recently been visited with heavy rains, greatly to the joy of both farmers and miners. The past two dry years brought a depression in business, and a general gloom over the State. The change to the much desired rains will favorably effect all branches of business. The ground is perfectly saturated. The rains came gently at first and the ground drank it in as it fell, so the creeks and streams did not rise. But the rain finally came in torrents, swelling the creeks and streams, and sweeping the bridges and fences into the Pacific ocean. From our new home there were two roads to railroad connection, one by fording a creek, the other by passing over bridges. The past week the creek has risen to a depth of twenty feet, cutting off communication that way, and carrying off bridges the other way, obliging us to drive over the mountain and across one remaining bridge so doubtful that no person has ventured to ride across it for nearly a week. In a few days, however, if the rain subsides we shall be able to ford the creek, when we expect to return to Healdsburg.

J. W.