The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-10-27
A California Paradise.

A resident Of the San Bernardina
Valley, California, sends the following
glowing account Of that locality TO the
Philadelphia Press:
Tea sweetened with pure, white,
strained honey. thick cream and bread,
milk, eggs, Hubbard squash, ham,
pomegranste, black Hamburg grapes,
flamme de Tokay grapes, Muscat OF
Alexandria grapes, green figs, and
peaches. Cost of breakfast, ID cents
for man and wife. Oye city thousands
who swelter in summer and live from
hand 10 mouth, come and live like us.
We have two acres of Gillian clover,
which can feed three cows and two
horses. am laying in winter wood
for kitchen and parlor and study stoves
at a cost of 81, and will keep the kitch-
en- stove going for one year. Three
acres in raisin grapes will yield an in
come of 81, 200, and will occupy but a
few days of attendance. The cost of
preparing ground, etc, for plants is
about Sl2 per acre. The cost Of good
land, with water, is 800 per acre. Wa
ter is the most important and costly
item. The garden produces during
summer aud winter. Clover natures
in five months, sends its roots 20 feet
down, yields eight crops per annum, is
pastured during the winter, and outlives
the age of man. Fine grape
vines yield well the third year
from planting. Fig, almond, april
cot, peach, plum and nectarine trees
bear fruit in the third year. Who
need starve when such a prolific para
disc can be found as this beautiful val
ley in Southern California? The eli
mate is almost rs regular as n good
chronometer. | can tell the morning
hour Of half-past o'clock by the move,
ment of the air. AL the day long, I'M
ill 6 p. m, tanning ocean breeze blows
from the southwest during the summer
heat. After p. M. lighted candle
does not flicker in the open air. At'9
p. n. a breeze from the northwestern
mountains comes down, cool and sooth-
ing-so much SO that sleeping is an ac-
tive industry No sober man rises Ian
guishingly and yawning for more sleep;
ne is wide awake and himself at once.
The cool and balmy morning air is la
den with perfume from gardens and
semi-tropical trees, whose every leaf
delights the olfactory nerves, and makes
us more contented with our lot than
any city fop that treads Partisan tapes
try. The danger here is, where life is
so abundantly ministered unto by gen
erous nature, that heaven is not half
thought of. During the heat Of sum-
mer can ride but Is miles and camp
or board on one of our mountains,
where hot water was poured down
the pumps on July mornings in
order 10 make the kettle boil Think
of that for Southern California last Ju-
ly, when you Philadelphians were rising
from your breakfast tables exhausted
with heat | live i'm valley so beauti-
full that TO be known il must be seen.
Mountains rise on almost every side, and
are distant enough TO be clothed in
azure, and high enough to be glorious
and grand. There are places in this
valley which to pulmonary invalids
should be named the "planes of saliva
ton" There are conditions material
" affecting inyalids which vary within
three miles or less. They arise from
the character of soils and localities
where water flows To the east or west
Winds blow during summer from the
southwest, and il il passes over a dry
land there can not be found greater Sc
curity from fevcrs or pulmonary dis
eases. Along our coast fogs prevail SO
much that oranges and lemons are en-
crusted with a saline fungus of black |
color. 1t crews upon the fruit in solid
patches Where fogs prevail asthma,
etc, prevail. give an
other cautionary advice to invalids !
who come 90 our interior valleys; avoid /
soil called "adobe," for il is continu- /
ally decomposing. Ny place is not for I
sale; it can not be bought. | thank 4
God every day that He graciously \
brought me from the unkind Eastern .
climate TO this valley. Italy is good /
enough for a rain-battered Englishman,
but give me this virgin land, this eli
mate, where grape-vines grow 80 feet
IN season, and neighbor gathers two
tons of grapes from one vine annually; /
whose lime and orange-trees yield 1900 4
lines and 5000 oranges each; where
white, transparent honey can be bought .
Tor cents per pound, and where man
is faulty IL he does not have both milk
and honey without cost and where ex-
pensive barns are not needed, and F.
horses and cattle are prospecting in the
open air, and where rain has its APP
pointed time, and known 10 man.