The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-10-29

'sthe worst pill in the box" 1 saw a
good deal of it and l must confess
that / would hardly take the State
and live in it for it! Here and there
by bringing water from the mountains
20 or 80 miles, they succeed, in max
! ing a few GASES, but they are so sur
rounded and cut off by
THOSE AWFUL DESERTS
that could not endure it to live there
l could not get accustomed to look
upon the barren waste without shud-
der. Many poor traveller has been
Host in these grim and awful deserts
and famished before the days of rail
roads. One can have no conception
of their solitude and barrenness with
out seeing them.
After this 600 or 700 miles we
reach the Sierra Nevada range of
mountains, which is picturesque
region, and for 100 miles or more we
are winding in about these mountain
gorges until, at last we emerge into
the Sacramento Valley, California.
Then all becomes changed like magic.
Grain fields take the place of deserts.
Fruit orchards and live oak trees
abound instead of sage brush. We
whisk down this long and beautiful
valley and see on either side of US
TOWNS, VILLAGES, VINEYARDS,
orchards Of peaches pear, plum, april
cot, cherry trees loaded with fruits.
This continues until we reach the
ocean near San Francisco. Then it
becomes cold and barren again. In
June we found a winter coat com
Portable there think it is the mean
est climate on the face of the earth.
Your can hardly stand on your feet
for the wind. The city is built on
sand bills and has the most uninvit-
ing immediate surroundings conceiv-
able: not bush or tree grows natu-
rally, Artifcially they do get some
to grow. Great fields of pure yellow
sand lie about the city, but none of
grain or grass. By dint of much ex-
pense and labor they have succeeded
in starting fine park by first MAX
ing the soil. But the bay of San
Francisco and the
GOLDEN GATE
which opens into it and is the pass
age way to the ocean as well as the
Pacific ocean itself, are grand and
beautiful indeed. The city of San
Francisco is also a marvel. How
they could build such city in such
place is more than one can describe
Inaccessible! Have TO ferry Z miles
to get to it from the, north. Hilly?
Hills so steep that you can hardly
walk along the streets! Some places
the streets are actually as steep as
the roof Of a house! Street cars are
run by wire cables kept in motion by
machinery instead Of horses. The
driver let's go the cable when he wants
to stop and catches it again when he
wishes to 60. Many of the buildings
are as fine as are to be seen in the
world. On the whole the city is we'll
built and fine looking. When you
get into the Chinese quarters, you
ChAhA y w oiO
ALMOST IN ANOTHER WORLD.
Everything is different from US. Chi
nese swarm by the thousand. They
work for nothing and get rich; spend
nothing in this country, except for
rents, and bring board and clothing
from China. They are patient, indus
trious and long suffering, and min
gle with the whites only to labor for
them.
l also went into the southern part
of the State into the wonderful fruit
region, and can say ! never knew
or imagined to what perfection fruit
can be brought until l saw it there.
There is no failure in crops; raise al
most everything-apples, plums, april
cots, pears, peaches cherries, almonds,
walnuts, figs, oranges, grapes, any
thing in the way of fruits or flowers
in the greatest abundance. But they
tend their fruit orchards more care
fully than corn field. Not spear
of grass grows in them. saw many
of the fruits ripe on the trees: Cher
ries as large as walnuts and trees SO
covered that you could hardly see
the twigs; 200 to 500 pounds on a
tree! The same with other fruits.
IT is PERFECTLY MARVELLOUS,
and more than can be described. But
everything but the irrigated places
are dry as bone. Sky always clear
in summer, sun always bright; dust
always plenty; niglHs always cool.
Rains about as with you Tin your
summers and during the winter it
never freezes or SHOWS. Plants bloom
out of doors in February; in fact all
winter. It is a
BEAUTIFUL LAZY MANS CoUNTRY.
Land for fruit raising has grown
high priced-from 500 to $1,000 per
acre, in accordance with improve
ments; generally $500 to $1,000 per
acre. Farms are rarely larger than
10 to 40 acres
I visited Evans Dent at San
Jose (San Hosa, pronounced He
has a fine place of 10 acres and
wouldn't take $4,000 for it!-Raises
fruits, cherries apricots, pears, al
monds, plums, prunes, peaches, and
is going into it more heavily. Had
just bought 20 acres in one farm and
40fin another. He was away from
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