The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-01-24
WESTERN RAMBLINGS.
! Special Correspondence TO The Bulletin:
Los ANGELos, CAL, Jan. II, 1884.

perate and tropical, is known rs Semi
Tropic California. 1t has about $50 miles
OF sea coast with an average of 40 miles in
width. This city is the commercial centre
Of Southern California II would be diff
cult to find another region of country on
the globe whose natural resources are 81
varied and the advantages 30 great. 1t is
this that has given such wonderful pros
perity to the country, There are three
things that soon attract the attention of
new corners. They are the wild salubrous
climate, the wonderful predictions Of the
soil and the beauty of the scenery. In
speaking of its first, we notice from the sig
nal service record that the average tenn
psrature of winter for six years, was 80 de-
grses, for summer, 81 degrees. The aver
age difference between winter and summer
is but Is degrees. The temperature seldom
gets to the freezing point in winter or to
100 IN summer. The cool sea breeze in
summer gives an evennsss TO the tempela-
tnre. There lie really neither winter nor
summer here, but year in and year out is
one continual season similar to the Indian
summer Of the eastern states. Spring, sum
mer and winter are so much alike-blend-
ing so gradually and imperceptibly into
aorh ntbar that ha,Hlu raali1a
what season of the year it is without re-
sort to memory We have heard many new
coners give expression to their astonish-
nent in tones rather ludicrous. Flowers
bloom In profusion all the year, and as an
evidences that but little cold weather is ex-
perienced, We see sub tropical plants grow
ing outdoors in the yards and hodges, such
as heliotropes. fuchsias, horlpondios, gera-
NUNS and French roses, that bud and
bloom all through the year. We have seen
hedges of geraniums six or eight feet high
and roses climbing around second story
windows. Tom stoes bear all the year, and
for two and three years on the same vines.
Castor beans continue to grew aud bloom
from year to year until the stocks get to be
as much as six inches in diameter. Sorg,
hum continues TO grow from the same
stock for years. Ripe strawberries are gath
cred every month IN the year. All kinds
Of garden vegetables grow all the year, and
are sold fresh from the gardens every day.
Spring chickens" is a missn name here, for
they are raised all the year round, and to
distinguish the young fowl from the Old in
market they are called "friars.'
The lawns, fields and bluffs are the
grsenest in the winter months, and more
hay 10 fed in the summer when the earth IL
dry aud psrchsd than in the winter.
Thousands OF invslids come here expecting
bsneti. from tie mild climate. Many ale
benefited, but NUMBERS come here to die
or such lie the result Not long since new
| conner had noticed three funeral professions
passing through the streets in one day; IN
establishment he said: "My God! what
dees all this meant | came here tor my
health" Said bystander: at means the
eastern people live as long as they can
cast, then come here to die A change OF
climate may do much tor invalids, but it
cannot restore the dead to life--especialiy
when the vitality Of life has been almost
entirely destroyed by drug medication or
wrong living.
As to the fertility of the soil, II is re.
msrkable, especially when brought under a
state OF cultivation by irrigation. In Ger
tain localities the land is especially adapted
to alfalfa, and it is cut from six to seven
times during the year, producing one to
two tons per acre each cutting; the hay
sells readily for $40 to $l3 per ton loose
On these same lands barley is sowed, most
ly for hay. Pumpkins and squashes are
raised 80 beautifully that they are, with
many, the principal feed for cattle and
hogs. Irish ana sweet potatoes are a staple
crop with those who engage in farming,
and they grow to wonderful size. There
10 sweet potato now on exhibition al
the Times office in this city, that weighs
SAX pouhds; We have seen it and handled
it, otherwise We could not have believed
such q monster Pot to existed. Vegetables
Of every description grow readily and pro.
duce prodigious crops. The upland called
mesa, is the land usually sowu to wheat
The level aud low lands usually are put
into vineyards, orchards aud groves, and
when properly cared for soon becomes val.
liable. The large tracts of land are being
sub.divided into five, ten and twenty acre
lots and sold to settlers for fruit raising
purposes; in this way the country is settling
up very thickly. Til ose lands within five
miles of the city sell, u improved, for 500
to $500 per acre; when improved and SGT IN
trees or vines and have Eve to elk years
cultivation with OOOd dWallinv and nice