Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-07-27


"A Crswl Ono no Longer Secs -Angelonos
in the Golden Gate.
DEAR HERALD: Having reached
the conclusion that a paseo Of a
few days would be good thing,
and knowing how wont San Fran
.cisco is to be breezy and anything
but semi.tropical in July, it oc-
CURED to the undersigned that a
cooler place for slight vacation
could not be discovered than the
city itself. The way the schedule
Is arranged, the passenger from
Los Angeles gets fairly across the
desert, is refreshed by comforta-
BILE meal at the Mojave hotel OF
that old Angelefio, E. H. Boyd,
before "dewy evs' has settled into
incorporating night. Millions
phrase, take it, is unique in its
ap plication to the Mejave desert.
Yet, all things taken together, it
was by no means very warm, al
though dew is a visitation the
cacti family Of that arid plain are
never able to be thankful for. The
r.ute taken by the railway de-
prives the traveller of that weird
and parti-colored view of the desert
which was indescribably fascinat-
Ing In the old stage days. 1t is
much to be regretted that the line
o. the Southern Pacific Railway
In fact, of nons of our railways
except the Santa Monica branch
Is calculated to give the stranger
thorough impression of either the
beauties or the possibilities of Los
Angeles county. He who makes
trip to Yuma sees absolutely moth
Ing of the wealth or exquisite cul-
tivation OF the Mission San Ga
briel. He who goes down to Santa
Ana is in equal ignorance Of the
beauty and fertility of the Los
Nietos valley, Anaheim, Gospel
Swamp, Orange, Westminster and
other sections not surpassed in
their line on tue continent.
tits hardly necessary to say that
travel now is at very low ebb.
There We're only, all told, about a
dozen occupants of the sleeper, in
elusive of your correspondent. For
six weeks past this story has been
daily told.
FAT LAND.
The first bushes of the sun found
Us traversing the richest grain sec.
tion on the American continent.
As far as the eye could reach, on
both sides Of the track, the fields
were golden with grain, either in
process of being reaped or threshed,
or yellow from the countless mil
lions OF stalks from which the
grain had been cut by the header.
The spectacle would have aston
ished Psnnsylvauia or New York
farmer, with his fifty CT one hun
dred acre farm economically put in
diversified crops, and who Is cou-
teut Ia go out with reap
and NOW his grain himself, with |
the assistance OF u hired man or
two during the busiest part of the
season. Everywhere were four
horse teams, four beiug employed
to head the wheat and four to haul
the wagon which accompanies the
header and receives tho grain.
Every where could be seen i'm
mense stacks on those portions of
the fields which had been treated
by the header, and near these
stacks would be u movable engine,
busily threshlng out the wheat.
As near as 1 could count them in
my rapid flight, one of these stacks
would generally yield a couple of
hundred sacks of wheat. Iu every
corner OF the immense Sacramento
and San Joaquin valleys, teams are
ut work, either completing the
or hauling it to points of
shipment.
The only break in a landscape
such as l have described was when
an occasional struggling and rustic
town, or town neat and preten-
tious, like Merced, came into view,
or when a thick growth of live
oaks aud cotton-woods, across the
yellow plain, marked the progress
of some river, like the Tuolumne.
I can we'll believe the statement of
tho late Isaac FriedlandeI's last
grain circular, that the present
wheat and barley crop Is the larg-
sst ever raised in California. When
and the proc ,eds passed
TO the credit of our farmers, the
pail OF hard times ought to be pret.
~ effsctually broFen.
THE 0RUMBLING ROLE.
On the principle that it Is dark
est just before day, San Francisco
should become very prosperous
We are disposed to grum-
BILE q little In Los Angeles occa-
Iisually, but the refrain of hard
Times which one encounters here Is
absolutely appalling.