Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-01-09
AN EUREKAN'S TRAMP
uE GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF SOME
OF HIs TRAVELS.

Sscrasnea:0's Had CIimate-Seek.
ing Government Land Among the
FOothilis-Very DuiI Times I'm San
F~ranciscO-B Better state of Affairs
Farther Soush-CalicO District.
SAN BERNARDISo, CAL, Jan. 4, 1885.
EDITOR SENTINEL: 1t has been four
months since | shook the dust Of Eureka
from my feet, and since then / nave been
quite q wanderer. l have been seeking
for a place to make money as many of us
did at the Base Range three, four and five
years ago. AS yet | have o struck the
promised land, and the probabilities are l
shall have to do considerable travelling yet
before | do Thinking it might be OF
interest to some Of the SENTrSEL's readers
| will speak Of some OF the towns l have
visited and Of what / have seen.
When l came to California / first stopped
in Sacramento. / found the city building
up quite rapidly-in fact, a great many
improvements going on. For a while I
thought seriously OF settling there, but
upon remaining for q month or longer
discovered that many were complaining OF
throat troubles and many general weak
nesses hat are common in o ma~larious
section. That settled it; no Sacramento
for me.
l went off into Eldorado county, as l
saw 80 much in the papers concerning pub
lie lands to be had there, and of its posi-
| bilities for the successful raising of
orchards and vineyards. Did you ever
search for government lGnd2 II not, my
advice is, never attempt to do so alone in q
section where such land is close to civiliza-
ton. | found in Eldorado county what
might be justly termed az improvident
people. They enjoy an excellent climate,
but it has q tendency to make them lazy.
Their homes are, to q great extent, with
out gardens or ~shrubbery Of any kind.
About all they think OF is raising cattle,
sheep, goats, etc. Many of those following
these pursuits own from 100 to 5000
acres of land, and il you depend upon them
TO tell you where you can get government
land, or give you any information concern
ing the same, you are going to get badly
left. Most all the school, railroad and
government lands there, though, are either
covered with chspparel or else billy and
unfit, for some reason or other, for Guilt
walton. Good lands, though, can be
bought for $40 an acre near Single
Springs, the terminus Of the railroad lead
ing from Sacramento towards Placerville,
on which orchards and vineyards can be
| grown successfully without much if any
| irrigation.
1 then went to San Francisco. / stayed
there scarcely 3 fortnight, when | could
see that it was no place for q nan Of lin
- -. a. fo. Ero--ks~. - A-ar
done, aud business ia dull. The city is, so
to speak, under q cloud. With goods in
bulk delivered in Oregon from the East by
the Northern Pacific at the same cost as in
| San Francisco, aud the same TO be said Of
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road ! n
connection with Los Angeles, San Fran :
cisco is robbed of nearly all ihe trade OF
Oregon, Washington Territory, Montana,
Idaho, Arizonia and the southern part OF
| California that she so many years enjoyed.
The Clearing House statement just made,
which shows a falling off of $50, 900 900 in
the business OF San Francisco during 1884
from what it was in 1888, tells the whole
story.
then started on a trip down the San
joaquin Valley. and / felt that | was get
ting nearer TO that which | was in search
Of. I found business in Bakersfield,
Tulare, Fresno and certain other towns
there quite good. In some Of these towns
I found dance houses and gambling sa-
loons-wEich, / suppose you know, are
evidences Of q rather prosperous state oil
affairs.
vending my way further south landed,
first, In Los Angeles, and found there
quite q busy city Of some IS 900 people
Business men, though, say they are not
getting the trade they we're a year ago.
Property OF all kinds is high, and yet
there is 8 great deal Of il changing hands.
There Is no doubt in my mind but that,
though il may suffer a backset, Los An
geles will from now on be q good city. The
class OF immigrants who have settled there
abours, and all over this belt OF country,
il, to q vast extent, q moneyed people, who
are not entirely dependent on their crops.
Business ia good, and property Is held at
high figures here in San Bernardino, as II
il In Pomona, Riverside, Pasadena, and
all these towns. A great many Nevadans
are settled hereabouts, and while they are
not getting wealthy, yet they are generally
making a good living. Not far from San
B%erpardino are q number OF promising
mining sections, with Calico in the lead.
This mining section was discovered some
ten years ago, but it was comparatively
recent that it sprung into prominence.
The camp has a population OF some 500,
and many OF its mines are producing good
ore. The general formation Is syenite,
though there are wide belts and ridges OF
white and red sandstone, streaked with
ore. Generally the ores are free chlorides
and easily worked, though In a few places
" black metal, F" as the miners call 1t, or
sulphurets, are found. One mine alone
has shipped 500, 900 during the past ten
montbs' Adioe, G.. H. r.
Two distinguished Departures.
The two twin brothers, ex-Commissioner
Dav. Baily, and present Register OF the
Land Office Fred Hinckley, left this morn
ing for Carson City and the Bay. They
look so much alike that 1t Is hard TO tell
"t'other from which," but we think If Ell
Their has the advantage it's Dav. He says he
likes 10 travel with Fred, and run with him
generally, but when there is blow out p"
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