Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-23

gently up to the cactus-dotted hills in
the background. This young cOmmu-
nifty shame our older one with their
handsome school-hou built of brick at
a cost of $4,000. A company of enter
prising gentlemen have constructed a
ditch and reservoir, and the town rejoices
in water-works fully adequate to the
supply of the place. (The lack OF Ice
is the only serious Inconvenience l have
experienced here. 1t is hard to content
ones self with the half tepid water OF
these parts.) The same character OF
trees which one finds in Santa Barbara
are planted here; and as there, the to-
mato-vine grows and bears perpetually,
the cabbage grows to be tree, and the
cotton plant exhibits the same peculiar
disregard of seasons, by becoming
sapling and yielding its boils from
stock which lives from year to year. As
YOU look toward the respondent glories
of the setting sun (and the sun sets here
in q blaze of magnitcence rs in the
tropics you see, stretched between
YOUR vision and the flaming west three
ancient full-grown date palms-without
date of existence or of commerce-for
they who planted them are forgotten,
and the trio being of one sex bear no
fruit. They bring you to thoughtful
ness of the Torrid Zone: and you hail
them as beautiful incidents of the scene
and rs n grateful finish to the landscape
already heightened to the standard of
provincial Spanish picturesqueness by
the snow white tower of the quaint and
curious church of San Buenaventura-
the patron saint of the mariners good
luck. The settlement shows about half
as many houses as Carson: and here as
in Santa Barbara, the adobe with Its
whitewashed walls and its roof OF tiles
stands ueighbor to the wooden cottage
and the brick store-house OF the Amerl-
can invader The streets are good and
the air is always fine and bracing; and
from the abrupt and somewhat inhos-
pi;able hill behind the town one looks
out upon the now sullen and omlnous
and now sparkling and promising sea,
and hears the beating of its surges with
out ceasing and forever. There is a
sense of stability and healthful growth
that l do most cordially ike, about the
place. I have seen much of the back
country where the farmers are, and the
sheep ranges, and see the rapidly de-
veloping resources Of the place: L see
what there is to justify town here, and
it is ample and full of encouragement.
Just round the corner of the principal
business street and turn up into Ventura
Avenue and you are within the San
Buenaventura River Valley. As you
ride up you face the north or northwest
by north; and you find yourself on
| broad, level road with beautiful gardens
| and orchards on either hand and on
either hand a range of lofty mountains
which shelter this charming valley from
the high winds which sometimes prevail
here. There is good deal of Paradise
about this small, weather-protected val
lev, The land is fertile. the soil deep,
abundant water for irrigation is at hand,
ANYTHING that grows in any zone Will
grow, land is comparatively cheap, the
climate is unsurpassed and unsurpassa-
bic for salubrity and Inoderateness; and
when come to dwell in this Southern
| country it will be in the lower part of
| this lovely intervale that l shall dispose
myself to rechne under my own vine
and flo tree. l saw peach trees and al
mond trees and fig trees and the beautI-
full tree which bears the fragrant and nu-
tritious English Walnut growing and
bearing in great profusion; and a hand
somer orchard than that of Mr.. Chlllson
| (once a Washoe engineer and mill
wright is not to be seen anywhere. Pur-
sue this road as it winds amongst giant
trees festooned with the verdure of
hanging vines and you get up upon the
noble plains and amidst the park-lke
forests of live-oak and black walnut
the almost unequalled wheat lands and
the health restoring air and attitudes of
the famous Ojai Giant. I have been
there and will tell you about it in another
letter-which l will try to write before
surrender myself to the Incidence pro-
voking Injuries of Los Angeles and the
Monte. NJ.
Mrs. Laura Cuppy Smith is mar