Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-10
I..QulRING LETTERS.
Queries by Eastern Correspondents They
Want to Know, You Know-General An
swers
Hwers.

queries Dy Eastern Uorrespondents-Ihey
Want to Know, You Know-General An
swers.
The editor of this journal fire.
quently receives letters Of inquiry
from the East respecting the gen.
eral features Of this city, county
and section. We of course find IL
impossible to return an individual
answer to these notes. In the alb
sence of exciting local matters we
will reproduce two of them this
morning and give, as far as in us
lies, satisfactory answers:
APHILADELPHIA LETTER.
PHILADELPHIA, March, 2, '7S.
MIR. Jos. ID. LYNCH: DEAR SIR
l had the pile ASSURE of seeing an issue
of your paper recently, in which,
editorially, you seemed to desire
immigration. Although L do not
belong to the class thus encouraged,
namely, tilers of the soil, am in
duced to write, however, and in
qure of you if there is an opportu-
nifty for such as myself to mako
living for family IN Los Angeles.
| am an engineer by profession.
but have been engaged during the
last twelve years as salesman of
cigars, jellies, etc. Blu u'iness is at
such very low state here, that
am resolved to sell my effects and
try another locality. My thoughts
have turned to Southern California
on account of the reported health
fulness of the climate. If you will
be kind enough to write to me and
answer u few questions you will
greatly oblige me. Fist, do you
think that | can obtain u situation
either as engineer or salesman U
prefer the latter shortly upon al
irving in Los Angeles? speak
both Spanish and Engllsh.) How
do prices of living aud rents COM
pare with those paid for labor? Are
houses plentiful and can you give
me some idea of rents? Are there
Methodist or other Protestant
churches
do not know any one in Los
Angeles, and have taken this LID
erty without claim upon you, rely
ing upon your supposed Kindness to
answer me conscientiously. If you
can spare the time TO make inqui-
ries and answer early you will OBJ
lige greatly. Please send a copy of
the DAILY HERALD to the address
heading this sheet. ] am very re-
spectfully yours truly,
LUIS j. FERNANDEZ.
AN INDIANA LETTER.
EDITOR HERALD Dear Sir:
VIII you be kind enough to give
me some information about your
country? or if you cannot, will you
hand this to some reliable person
that will do 50? have been read
ing In our papers some letters of u
Mr.. w. II. Toler of your county,
which have been read with much
Interest, and wish to know more
about the Country, as many of our
people wish to hunt fora more gen.
ial climate and leave this cold, fro
Zen country.
We have had very bad accounts
of the drouth and its consequent
distress among the people there,
and would like to know all about
it. Will you tell me all particu-
larsp What river is Los Angeles |
onp Do steamboats, run there?
How do you get there, by railroad
or steamboat? " hat is the popu-
lation of Los Angeles? Have you
good schools and churches? Could
about 2000 acres of good farming
land be bought on some navigable
stream, in Il body, for a colony? If
so, what price and terms? Is it u
good stock country? Is there any
cholera among the hogs" Do the
lands in the river bottoms over
flow? What are good farming
lands worth? Is it good climate
for the curing OF pulmonary com.
plants? Is it u healthy country?
viii you give me such other iDfOr-
nation that might be interesting?
We have had severe, cold
winter here, and our people are
wautlrg to find some other country
where 1t Is not SO cold, aud the ac-
counts from your climate are looked
upon with the greatest favor.
Respectfully yours,
NJ. II. PERRY.
Perryville, Ind, March l, 1878.
We shall pay little attention to
the order of these interrQgatious,
but shall answer them in SUBJ
stance.
First-It is impossible for us TO
say whether an Engineer or mer-
chant in any department would
succeed here. We have goodly
number of merchants in all lines of
business aud respectable corps of
Engineers. Los Angeles is fully
supplied with lawyers, doctors,
clerks and persons who make their
living other than by the sweat of
their brow. What this county
needs is intelligent men of capital
who can introduce manufacturing
industries, such as do not require
cheap fuel, which we have not got
and men of small means who UNI
derstand and love farming. 1t is
not a place, first and last, in our
opinion, for Il man without at least
u small capital.
Second-As near as we can judge,
the city of Los Angeles is place of
about sixteen thousand people.
The county probably contains
thirty five thousand souls. We do
not consider it extravagant to as
sumo that the former will contain