Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-02-09
And Still They Come.
Inquiries from Intending Immigrants
and Commentator for the Herald
and the Herald Pamphlet.

cards making inquiries concerning
Los Angeles and Southern California
has commenced, and from our mass
of correspondence we make the follow
ing selections. They show that the
"California fever' is still spreading,
and that many well-to-do men who
will make the best of citizens, have
their eyes turned towards this favored
section. A gentleman writing from
Kansas City, Mo-, says:
To tell the truth, our folks, with one
exception, have all got the California
fever as bad as | have. | wish you
would send me copy of your CHER
AID Review" for this year if you have
any of them left, as would like very
much to read the descriptions of the
surrounding country which it con-
tains. tried to get the reading of a
copy which was here, but found it i'm
possible, as every body had engaged q
could very easily get up colony of %
or 40 from Kansas City alone to go to
Los Angeles to settle if only had the
time to devote to it. / have already
talked to a great many who would
like to go if some one else were going.
Jno. s. Porter of Ottawa, Ills, sends
money for the HERALD Pamphlet and
the Weekly HERALD six months and
says, 'I expect to be in your city the
coming Summer"
And here is q letter from the Nut
meg State:
EDITOR HERALD:--Dedr Sir:-I re-
ceived your paper issued January 1st;
am very much pleased with your thor
Oughly honest way of dealing with
the public in giving both sides of the
question, or in other words, of giving
the views of different correspond
ents, with commendable show of
fairness. / am also aware of the diff
ficulty, and in many case the unwil-
lingneSs OF an editor to answer letters
unless they be of a strictly business
character. But to make long mat
ter short, am determined to see Los
| Angeles this year, and must ask you
to give me the information | want or
put me in correspondence with some
| steel worker, can forge hoes, rakes,
augurs, bits, chisels, gimlets, in fact,
almost any kind of edge tools, boring
implements, or agricultural tools, |
suppose there is very little, if any,
manufacturing in your section. |
commenced breeding fancy poultry
| several years since for amusement and
it has shaped itself into quite bus-
ness. lam now in possession of all
the leading varieties and have some of
the finest birds in the country. sup
pose 1 shall have to give it up if /
| come there, unless it is to breed for
eggs and market. Now / think you
will be entirely out of patience, and
must stop by saying, enclosed please
find money for the Pamphlet you issu-
ed about January 18th.
G. B. HoADLEY.
Naugatuck, Con-, Jan. %, 1876.
The following letter comes from
Portsmouth, N. H:
EDITOR HERALD: The enclosed item
cut from one Of our dailies and cred
tied to your paper has begotten in me
a desire to know more about your Sec
tion of California. Indeed, 1 have
settled attack of immigration fever,
and propose to visit your State for the
purpose of settlement some time be-
tween May and August. The ques-
tiOn is where or in what part of the
State? 1 am inclined to Northern
California, to engage in sheep farm
ing, but my friend Mr.. Winchester, of
the San Francisco firm of Main &
Winchester, advises me to go to Los
Angeles, either for sheep or fruit
farming. There are four families here
who wish to settle in California, the
heads all young men of some ability
and energy. but with small resources.
The climate here begets throat affec-
tions, and to escape that is the first
consideration; but after that comes
the question of business, and school
ing, and bread and butter. Anything
reliable about Southern California as
a climate and as a place for busi-
ness, more particularly as regards
sheep raising on modest scale, or
fruit farming, including the cost of
| suitable land, wages, market, the
| cost of buildings, in short, what one
could do, having family to support,
with three or four thousand dollars,
will be gratefully received and gladly
paid for in some way, should it lead
to home near Los Angeles.
Fraternally yours,
A. P. STEVENS.
| Portsmouth. n. H.. Jan. 22d.
Henry Bishop, of Bridgeport, Conn,
| writes:
I have read your HERALD Pamphlet
and feel convinced that it gives fair
showing of your delightful country.
Quite number of my friends, as well
as myself, expect to visit Los Angeles
in the Spring. Send me four copies of
the Pamphlet, which wish to distrib-
ute among my friends, and enclosed
find currency for the same.
| We have many other letters of the
same import, but cannot afford space
for publication.