The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-04-17
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"A Fair Trial" and an Execution, oil in
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VIRGINIA, Nevada, April G, 1877.
In my reference to the Central Califor-
MIA colony in letters in THE CLONE, pre-
sumo have done that institution an inius-
tice, carrying the impression that the en-
terprise was making too much money for
the proprietor and too little for the pur-
chasers. AT any rate, the articles in THE
GLOBE have called forth letter from MIR.
Kearney, the manager of the enterprise, q
part of which think it is but fair to give
to the reader The following is
WHAT MIR. KEARNEY SAYS:
81 would take exception to the reference
to the moral condition of the people of
California. Within the past ten years
California has gained in population by I'M
migration from all portions of the United
States, some 100000 to 300, 200, and as
many of these people are cultivated and
religiously inclined, they have so improved
the moral tone of the country that IL is
| very easy now to find communities in this
state which arc quite as favorable for the
proper education Of children as any of the
average towns in New England believe
with you that If the intending immigrants
would come to California in colonies they
could make better terms than if they came
singly, but it would be difficult to find To-
cations where they can with n moderate
amount of money construct canals to irri-
| gate their lands. The main canal alone
| which carries water to our colony has cost
| over 500, COO, and it has cost small for
tune to distribute the water over the land
after getting II there, to say nothing about
the 90 miles of avenues laid out, the 40
miles of trees on those avenues, the fence
of 10 miles and the 200 acres of VINEYARD
-(2 acres on each 90 acre FARM. No
average company of immigrants would
have the means 10 build the main canal
| alone"
WHAT CALIFORNIA SOIL CAN DO.
While l am far from advising every I'M
occupied man TO rush TO this coast to
swell the numbers who are here and out of
work, will say of California that the man
with small capital-say $1,000, or even
half that amount in ready cash, can find no
better place in all this broad nation Of ours
than California, whether he be q farmer,
mechanic or what not VIVA. has been
| done on forty acres at lone City, northeast
of San Francisco. in Amador county, is
thus given in the lone Valley Ne'oS;
| Thirty acres alfalfa produces two tons to
the acre and four crops year-24o tons
Five acres OF vegetable, six hundred fruit
| trees, apples, pears, plums, ETC.. turned
nnn oni ri; ocrs ~, ~
| strawberries. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 200
one acre OF vineyard. ..,...,,..,........... 10
one years income from forty acres. ..... 1918
The thirty acres of alfalfa takes in part Of the
| land upon which the six hundred fruit trees
are planted.
Irrigation ID seldom lesolted to as far
north as Amador county, and land is
cheaper there than further south. Good
fair land, | am informed, can be had among
the foothills Of northern California as low,
in some instances, as So 90 per acre. Al
falfa is selling as high as $50 per ton now,
but it must be good year when it yields
four two ton crops.
TEMPERANCE COLONY.
Though California has free rum aud
plenty Of dtunkards, it is not necessary for
an emigrant from Vermont to go where he
will miss and long for such quiet, orderly,
temperate society as he left among his ma
tive hills. We have all heard of the beau
tiful New Jersey colony Of Vineland, where
everything is SO lovely and peaceful that
only one editor has been shot within two
years, and where the effects of temperate
i habite is such that the man who was shot
uehed rules and doctors and lived for many
months with bullet in his brain Well.
| IN santa barbara county Is Lompoc, YER
liable counterpart of Vinelanc. 1t is only
two years and half eince Lompnc was a
| grazing ground for countless fl1cks of
sheep. A Company was formed, the site
OF the present town laid out in lots and of.
fered for sale, with the stipulation that nc
intoxicating liquors should lie sold on the
premises, and now there is community OF
three hundred families enjoying peace,
quiet and low taxes, and not saloon,
gambler, drunkard, loafer or lhorte Jockey
in the whole community. Ii is
LIKE VERMONT VILLAGE,
full of the hum of industry and thrift.
quiet, beautiful-in marked contrast with
the heat and hustle of city or the rowdy.
ish, boisterous disquiet of the average Pa.
cihc coast village. There are $50 school
children and three school houses are now
being built, two of which will cost 81, 500
each. A town house, to cost 81, 900, is
also in course Of construction. Adjoining
Lompoc has been founded another colony,
the New Vineland land and manufacturing
company having secured a track of 100
square miles, which they are selling in
homesteads. No person will be admitted
to the company except those DESTROYS of
| promoting temperance, and no land will be
sold to anyone but members, so this will be,
like Lompoc, a real temperance colony. A
public library has been endowed by the COM
pany to the extent of $4,000, and public
hall and school houses will be built another
summer. Do you think liquor will he
struggled into the colony? Let me tell you
little story. Some time ago it was sus-
pected that The chief drug store in Lompoc
was dispensing liquors on the sly. Now,
there was no law by which to punish him,
| but you know the people on this coost have
| long had the credit Of being
A LAW UNTO THEMSELVES.
when occasion required. The ladies of
Lompoc priced too highly the blessing of
temperate, happy homes, to have it thus
jeopardizei, so they took measures 10 be
sure that Mr.. Druggist was selling liquor,
and then one day two hundred ladies gave
him call. They didn't waste any time
praying and fooling around, as Mrs. Hayes
and those other women did in Ohio, but
went through that establishment in about
fifteen minutes and smashed every head ex
cept of the proprietor, which he had car
| ried out Of the back door. He hasn't been
suspected of selling any liquor since
This method of dealing with a refractory
citizen, without stopping to read Black
stone over his case, is still quite popular on
the coast, though not go much SO as il was
years ago. Ii is not long since dead men
were found in the morning hung up in con-
venient places in this city with a simnle