Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-07-12
GLORIOUS CALIFORNIA.
Mr.. w II. Farrell Interviewed in Re-
gard to His Visit to the Pacific
Coaat

gard to His Visit to the Pacific
Coast.
Mr.. W. IL. Farrell has returned from
California. whittier he went to spy out
the land. He comes back delighted
with his experience and pictures the Pa.
ciiic Coast in glowing colors as para
disc of beauty, fruitfulness and tempera,
ture. At his fruit store this morning he
was accosted by representative of the
Standard with:
Glow did you enjoy your trip to Cal
ifornia, and what did you see therer'
''Orange grovesl orange grovesl with
the air redolent with perfume which is
only found there. See herel'
Mr.. Farrell pointed out boxes Of large
oranges and SAID:
81 have car load of them Just re-
ceived. Try one and see how delicious
they are
"You We're pleased with the Pacific
Coast, then :"
$50 well pleased that | am going there
to live. The country, the people, the
climate, the city improvements, all be.
speak progress and high type of civil
cation. In San Francisco, for instance,
the public improv ements are fixed aud
substantial, cable cars, fixed grades and
macadamized streets, splendid public
bui dings, park three miles long open
ing on the sea-al these things combine
to make San Francisuo desirable to live
ill.,"
=" Aud California is famous for fruit!'
q" A most marvellous country in that
respect. They have all the temperate
zone fruits in great perfection and many
of the tropical fruits us we'll The TEN.
perature is So even the year round that
climatic disasters to fruit are unknown.
Moisture is obtained to great extent by
irrigation, aud there is where the trou-
BILE and expense of agriculture comes in.
Cloud-capped mountains covered with
snow furnish perpetual streams and this
water must be caught and distributed
over the land for the growing crops.
They have had an unusual amount of
rain this year which has lcssened the
necessities of irrigation.
That is one OF the things that makes
the Pacific coast paradise-the even
temperature, devoid OF sudden changes,
the dry atmosphere aud the bracing
qualities of the air, the ozone. There is
an entire absence of the oppressive quail
tiles in the atmosphere characteristic OF
the valleys in this part of the country.
| Sleep is refreshing, and one wakes in
the morning rested and feeling like a
new man. Here it is too often the case
.a.rhN Of 4
the morning finds one more weary than
when he retired.
"And the glorious climate of Caliior.
nia!"
@"The people," continued Mr.. Farrell,
"have an air of independence out there
that at first is slightly offensive to
strangers. After all there are solid rea
SOILS for that independence. Those old
forty-niners went out there and made
the country what it is, with the aid of
Mother Nature. They delved the gold
from the mines, built up the cities, and
made the fields blossom like the rose
For years they were isolated frtm the
East by distance aud almost insuperable
barriers. They grew into their indie
pendent ways, aud no people have bet.
ter right to them. Time aud contact
with the people who throng the great
avenues of travel aud commerce to and
from the Pacific Coast will tone down
this feeling"
Mr.. Farrell thinks that of all places
he has seen California is the most de.
lightful for home, and he proposes to
pass the remainder OF his days there
with his family. Leavenworth will serl.
ously regret their departure. In a resi-
dencs OF eighteen years here their bust
ness and social relations with the com.
munity have been Of the pleasantest -
LeaVeH,0orth, Kansas, EpeRiHg Standard