The Press., 1884-05-08
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LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA.
Pomona, Los Angeles Co.,, Cal, April 23, 's4. q u l.

LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA.
 Pomona Los Angeles Co.,, Cal, April 23, 's4.
 THE PRESS While in the city it was my privilege to visit Pasadena, seven miles out I found this place to be as beautiful as I had heard 1t described. It plainly tells of it's eight years growth in the hedges and orange groves. The great wealth of this villa is shown by the elegant residences which surpass those of the city. Readers, look up the long drive way lead ing to one of the mansions, if you please, and notice on the right the hedge is en- tirely of callas on the left the hedge IS bed two feet wide of full blown pinks, growing about two feet high. At tile en- trance of this driveway stand two century plants at the height of six feet. Rose ar- bors, pyramids of green, and beds of flow CTS of every hue deck the surroundings in perfect symmetry. Orange trees con- plete the remaining features of beauty to this specimen of @ home.
 On conspicuous hill overlooking the village the foundation is laid for the new Raymond hotel to be built at the cost ot the incest hotel in the state. Meals per day $3.
 | Pasadena school house cannot be com pared in excellence with that of Pomona perhaps 1t is because the janitor is not paid $240 year for taking care of it. | Wednesday evening multitude of peo- pie gathered in the First Baptist church, Los Angeles, to listen to Mrs. J. Ellen Foster of Iowa, on Temperance and Pro- hibition. They who know this temper ance worker know her power to hold all audience for over two hours. She was the first woman admitted to the bar in hel state. The Kansas City Evening Star says of her, after her lecture there "Nev- CT in Kansas City has finer speaker stood before our people. Possessed of mag nifcent frame and self-asserted, and elo- quent, she electrifes her audience by ar gument as lawyer, by pathos and logic as an orator." Miss Francis B. Willard says of her: ''There is no state in the north in which our cause is not to-day more powerful then it would have been but for her logic and eloquence." This famous woman was cordially greeted in Pomona last Tuesday evening, April 18th. The M. E. church would not hold the throng that came to hear her, and many the door. Temperance work is much needed in our midst, and may the doors of the fifteen saloons be closed at an early date.
 I will shorten this letter to give place in these columns for the notes written by Geo. l.. Toplif of Monson, Mass, on his way to California. We heartily welcome MT. Toplif, and can plainly see that he is favorably impressed with the country.
 Respectfully, EMMA. A. LEE. From MOnsOn to Les AngeIes-Noses
 by the way.
 Il We left the cold northeast winds ano lsnows of Monson April 10th at 5:16 D. m via. Springfield, Albany, Buffalo, Cleye s Hand, Indianapolis and St. Louis, arriyine at Kansas City April 12th, at $50 D. m' and left on the Arizona Express at 1OIO We passed with shiver the snow-cappeG hills of Berkshire and did not care to lin ger in the mud and water bound state New York except to see our friends. In Penn sylvania we saw one gang of man planting potatoes. In northern Ohio cattle were grazing, men were ploughing, and whea looking well.
 Indiana and Illinois showed signs O spring, nice fields of wheat and some un harvested corn. Missouri has very rict soil and enormous fields of wheat, and the Mississippi was spreading her phy yIacteries to an enormous extent.
 Day dawned hundred and fifty miles west of Kansas City, and the great rolli g prairie with its rich soil and apparently endless green fields of wheat were spread out before us, but after passing two hun dred miles farther west the soil grows poorer, the land less even, and at foul hundred miles west cultivation has ceased and the cowboy with his vast herds o cattle hold supreme control, and we pass miles and miles where the only signs o civilization are dugouts, mud houses, dogs and dirty children.
 At one of the stations some of the pas sengers stepped out upon the platform anc the wind lifted the hat of one of these with his ticket in the band, about FORTY FEET IN THE AIR, } and it was having a sail just as the trair started. A cowboy took in the situation ! put spurs to his horse, caught the hat o1 ) the fly, and delivered it to the owner or } the rear platform after the train had go under good headway.
 As we near the Colorads line the soi grows thinner, the cattle grow leaner, tn, dugouts smaller and the dogs more nu merous. Night closes in, we pass through the southeast corner of Colorado in the darkness, and morning finds us at the foo of the Rocky Mountains, where the grea eight wheeled mountain engine is attach ed, and as we go up the winding ways the sun rises and shines upon the distant snow clad peaks and they are transformed into mountains of silver.
 After long pull we pass through tho tunnel, and shoot out upon
 THE TABLE LANDS OF NEW MEXICO,
 where for long distance the only sign O. life are prairie dogs and coyotes, but far ther along we see vast herds of cattle anc : sheep ranging over the plains, thougt how they manage to live is mystery ) to all appearance the grass is as short ant 7 dead as it is in any eastern pasture where the snows have laid on all winter, and no green thing to be seen on the whole plain of some eighty miles in extent Many of the weaker minded of the cattle ) had given up in disgust and were lying [ along the road in all stages of desomposi ton, not even being divested of thei hides, and all things show state of shift lessness which am glad to know does no exist in the east.
 l Coming down from the table-lands W, 3 stop at Las Vegas, a very pretty Mexican v city, though the buildings are mostly on, story. Passing beyond we enter wilder , ness dotted with small growth of ceda 5 and yellow pine, with now and then al 7 adobe house and a few goats and donkeys and in our opinion if Uncle Sam hat known how poor the land was he neve