Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-04
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,
AN ENTHUSIASTIC CORRESPONDENT
GfLLs ABOUT IT.
Pasadena-orange Croves-climate-w
Come There to Live-A Pretty Pict-
ure OF Rural Happiness.
Correspondence of the RECORD UNrcx.l

| Correspondence OF the RECORD UNION.
PASADENA, August l, 1882.
Our people have welcomed scores OF
Eastern tourists during the last few weeks,
with ard without their notebooks. We
have said little, endeavoring to put them
in the way of seeing correctly few things
which are especially noteworthy and char
acteristic of California. The Bosstown folk
were surprised that our settlement of Pasa.
dena looked so like an Eastern suburb.
Why not !? | said "all our people are
Eastern. Some have gone west by degrees
many are directly from New England.
Yonder lives Father Foote, long an officer
OF the Massachusetts horticultural Socie.
ty. His nearest neighbor is nephew of
Governor Talmadge, of New York. The
Eliiotis are from the neighborhood of Bos.
ton. California has drawn to herself the
ARDENT, ENERGETIC YOUTH
OF the older States, and you ought to be
| proud and glad in seeing what has been
wrought out here by your kinsfolk." Blu.
1t is from the States of the interior that
the greater portion of the immigration of
1882 has been derived. So many have now
visited southern California, that the biting
winds which sweep along the great lakes,
the dread of tornadoes and floods, the long
and severe winters inevitably suggest the
freshness and beauty which the new year
always brings TO US. Thirty Iowan fanli-
lies have prepared new homes in
this immediate neighborhood, which
they will occupy this fall. East
ern capitalists, who can afford to enjoy
the fruits OF pioneer enterprise, are buying
out the earlier settlers at high figure.
Thus Mr.. Hill, of Racine, Wis, will soon
take possession of the little farm well titled
of Colonel Banlberry twenty acres), while
the latter, having gone back some three
miles into the foothills, ia developing a
much finer property immediately adjoining
the estates of the brothers Woodbury.,
Iowa bankers, who have been changing
the bear and bee pastures into hundred
acre vineyards and orange orchards. Those
who sell ont do not leave, but as q rule
settle IN sight of their first ventnre and
small holdings, of from
ONE To FIVE ACRES
Are now in great demand by people who
do not need to raise oranges for living.
Though the whole region east of the rail-
road, from Los Angeles to Cotton, is filling
up very fast with most desirable class of
settlers, there Is only one San Gabriel val.
| ley, only enc Santa Monica. The latter is
now city of tents; the Sunday trains re-
mind one OF the weekly outpeuriDgs from
San Francisco to Oakland and Alameda.
and it is easy to see that in very few
| years the faverte canyon and beach will
become as attractive as Monterey All
who come to us with the consump.ive's per-
sistency of hope are not restored. Neither
Riverside nor Ojai can create a new
lung; but it is astonishing to see how
much longer one lung may be made to last,
and the
INCREASED COMFORT
| OF living which this climate secures to
asthmatics and those suffering from nerv.
Gus diseases. Two broken.down editors
have been transformed here into hale and
ruddy fruit-farmers and if Charles L
Elliot. who writes for the August North
american Reuieac such discouraging wall
| over the future of women, could see what
rational cut-of-door employment does for
our girls, and for the nervously exhausted
lady teachers, the extinction of the sex
would seem less probable to him. Our vis.
! ltors are not afraid to ask questions, and
| they find that while Southern California is
unequaied as resort for the rich, the OPEN
ings to prosperity and comfort are as nu-
merous here as in any part of the country
| Tor industrious young farmers and mechan-
les. La the city OF Los Angeles carpenters
and masons are IN great demand, and in all
| the new tracts, such as Redlands, Etiwan.
da, the Grafton property, a large number
of on.resldent proprietors wish to have
their places improved. This gives employ
ment TO settlers who are glad to earn ready
money. either by days work or by over.
seeing such places. Many OF the neat cot
tages in this vicinity have been thus
earned by those who bad barely money
enough to pay for their land and build
shelter for the first season.
THE REGULAR ExCURsIoNIsTs
Have been only small proportion of our
visitors. A charming family from In
dianapolis, who fingered long in Pasadena,
after winter in Ojai, have been two years
in the State, staying long enough to be
heartily regretted in the most delightful
| places. And at Glenwood of Riverside, at
Starkey's in San Bernardino, or the Sierra
| Madre Villa, you are sure to find chronic
| boarders who are rot invalids, held in
bonds only by the Charms of climate and
scenery. Camping, now in the mountains,
now on Catalina Island, where the excel.
lent sea-tishing proves great attraction,
life at Santa Monica beach, trips to Calico
and the nearer mines, any number and
quality of thermal springs, are the varied
enjoYments within days reach of River
side. Oar visitors do not find the reports
which have been pretty uniform for the
| last thirty years, concerning the product
iveness of this portion of the State, exag-
gerated. Oae of the earliest excursions of
the season was special one, aimed for the
settlement of a tract known as
THE AMERICAN COLONY
Near Wilmington. After the return of the
excursionists to the East, Professor George
M. Beard, of the party, gave lecture in
several large towns of Pennsylvania, sum-
ming up the results of his observations.
! He said, in effect, that be entered Paradise
! as Dante aforetime, through the Inferno,
to find country capable of supporting a
| vast population In comfort, of which no
adequate idea could be given in single
hour "rich beyond description in agri-
cultural, horticultural and mineral wealth
| In southern California the first discovery of
gold was made here ] immense stores
of petroleum and asphalt mines of tin and
| coal; here one can see the stately palm,
thegrowth of ahundred years. in the same in.
closure with the eucalypt, which reached an
equal hight in the game number of months ;
| snow. covered mountains and blooming
orange groveswere blended in one fascin.
ating picture. Room for all, and no
strikes" An earlier visitor aud reporter
was Mr.. Calkins, of the Burlington Hack.
eye; Father Clarkson, of the Des Moines
Tribune, who he's spent two winters in
Pasadena, has given equally favorable re-
ports in o series OF letters
VERY INTERESTING EXHIBIT
OF southern California fruits and other
products of 1881 was made by Mr.. Calkins
at the Capitol of Iowa during the last ses.
sion OF the Legislature. These are some OF
the influences which are directing hither
an unprecedented immigration of the very
bsst material for the upbuilding of young
mainly the substantial middle
class, with enough who have wealth, leisure
and culture to create a demand for the re.
fnements as well as the necessities CT life.
have not written of the impetus given
to mining interests in this section by the
recent developments at Calico, to which
many Eastern spectators are now at
traeted. Within the past three months .
town has sprung up on the rockiest,
aridest, forlornest scrap of the earth's
crust. very ant-hill of mining industry
and excitement. The Orc Grande is now
milling Calico ores. And while the streets
of Los Angeles are noisy with mining talk,
and even our steady Pasadenians are To-