Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-01-29
OUR RIVERSIDE LETTER:
Progress in Our Charming ghbor-Intsrast-
ing Notes from Local Observer.

DEAR HERALD:-After so long
being silent 1t is almost as difficult
to open my mind and pen my ideas
as 1t seems to be for the many
clouds which are lowering around
to bless us with showers.
Perhaps the strongest evidence I
can furnish you as regards our ad-
vance in size and Importance is the
fact that circus remained here
three days during the past week
and no doubt when it folded Its tent
and departed from us it carried
away many hard earned quarter.
To-day in walking through our
streets our pathway is frightened
by the golden rinds of the tropics,
showing that we have arrived at
the point which for the past seven
years we have been aiming-be-
ginning to realize little from our
energies and Investments, and, al
though Jack Frost, somewhat jeal-
Gus of our many advantages, has
thrown his white robe around us
several times, yet his cold touch
was not our shroud, for, in the lam
gusge of the dying statesman, tive
still live" are yet hopeful and, in
fact, accept his visits as an incent-
i've which obstacles are apt to furn-
ish US. Only the youngest and
most tender of our trees have been
hurt. Those Of us who were here
fsur years ago, when that frosty
April nipped us SO hard, can recol.
lect the speedy recuperation, and
we have trees with hundreds of or
anges upon them which at that
time were nearly leveled to the
ground. There were many faint
hearted ones who Immediately
packed up and left to find their
Paradise in some moro sfavora BILE
location and probably are still look
ing. In fact I cannet help conclud.
ing that the good which comes
from the frosty ill-wind Is that we
have eliminated from us those who
are faint-hearted and lack energy,
so that our enterprise has not been
retarded by their presence and
lack of perseverance. I recollect
having said to one young man, in
bidding him goodbye, "There will
be fewer oranges on the market, by
this exodus, when our trees come
into bearing" Indeed, the new
comers who are with us, with such
proofs that we can point them to of
the little injury heretofore done,
have much the advantage of us,
who, in pioneering the enterprise,
did not know whether we would
ever be able to eat our own oranges
and make our raisins. And have
we not made raisins which, after
repeated efforts, have at last come
up on "top Of the heap" carrying
off all the prizes awarded for that
dried fruit at your Fair, several
months since?
| For the past year or two we, with
all other parts of this favored land,
have had the accessions to our
numbers somewhat diminished.
Yet we have no right to complsi1n~
for, even in these hard tiUf quite
a number of desirable -1eople have
.'t,! cast In the!E,tots tots with US, are
j l2Rl!.hg ILs residences and beau
tlfying their grounds. One meets
daily upon our streets, riding in
both well got up turnouts and
the homeIy rattle-te. bang of the
country, some who but q few
months ago were the among the
most fashionable Of New York
city. Wien our sharp corners Of
caste are worn off and we gradually
settle into that neighborly rela.
tionship which is sure to follow
sooner or later, it is to be hoped
that from SO many people of differ
ent tastes and desires that only
those attributes and qualities Of
mind and character which are the
most desirable shall be selected as
constituting our best society, and
} not those frivolous and external
shams which everybody sees
through and no true man or woman
desires, but which exist to such an
extent in our large Eastern cities.
Yours g. w GARCEJON