The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-01-29
California Letter.

oiNCS, we tdlitSJ Vi WHICH are GOV
cred with snow. 1t contains tire,
thriving towns, San Bernardino, tn,
county seat, Cotton and Riverside
The first is unfavorably situated
FIR much greater growth. 1t is The
present terminus Of the Cal. S. r
r. hut the road will be extended
northward across the mountain anC
it will extend the line several miles
to go by San Bernardino and make
the ascent to the pass in the noun
tain considerably sleeper. 1t il
thought the company will go direct
from Cotton leaving that venerable
town several miles to the right. The
inhabitan Is are indignant at the
prospect, bnt the railroad compa
mics have no heart to be touched
with sympathy for the disappoint
ment OF small towns that ''get left
along their lines. This road cross
es the S. p. road at right angles al
Cotton and it Is believed = union
depot will be built here. In conse
quence property has advanced con
siderably IN price. Capitalists are
investing freely and there is a gen
eral feeling that Cotton will soon
be on boom. 1t is the main ship
ping point of both Bernardino and
! Riverside, the former three miles
distant and the latter seven.
Stages and freight wagons run reg
ularly 10 both towns. Cotton also
has sandy soil which never gets
muddy, and is considered the
healthiest town of Southern Cali
fornia. All these things make it
the coming city of the valley. Col
ton would be worth Thousand dol
lars per acre if it was in orange
groves. The owners ask $50 to $500
per acre. You then have to set out
trees, build houses, dig a well,
build wind mill, or buy water
privileges from the water company
for irrigation and cultivate for sew
eral years before you receive any
income. All this takes little
more capital, patience and perse-
verance than the average man has
in stock. They pay well after they
come into bearing and a man has =
competency who owns one. Yet
every body wants to sell-never
saw the like of lots, land, hoHses,
groves and vineyards for sale. Ev-
erything at fabulous prices, how
ever.
Riverside is composed chiefly of
capitalists from the east. They
have planted vineyards and groves,
built houses under their "own vine
and fig tree" merchants, man
ufacturers, lawyers and doctors
spend their minutes nursing their
govt and rheumatism. They have
made it almost like fairy-land.
Your eyes never beheld anything
more enchanting than Arlington
Avenue. On each side are beauti-
full trees in full foliage, planted at
regular intervals. Behind them are
handsome residences of all styles OF
architecture, surrounded by shrub
berry and growing cedar fences,
trimmed in all conceivable shapes
Orange groves skirt the yard on
both sides and run back to various
distances, containing all varieties OF
fruit grown here--lemons, lines,
figs, pomegranates, peaches, pears,
persimmons, apricets, grapes, dc.
This avenue is eight miles long and
a delightful road. One enhancing
scene after another presents itself
to the admiring eyes of a stranger
and he wonders how much more
beautiful the Garden of Eden
could have been.
Arrowhead Hot Springs, ten
miles from Cotton, deserve mention.
These are sulphur springs of differ
ent degrees of temperature--the
highest 2I0o and the lowest 1900 f.
Iu the first an egg boils soft in 4
minutes and hard in six. Potatoes
cook in 81 minutes. From my
door ten miles off l can see the ho-
tel on the mountain side 1000 feet
above the valley and 1000 above
the sea. 1t furnishes good accom-
modations for 10 or II dollars q
week. The baths are in hot steam
from the springs or in hot mud.
The mud baths are said to be most
efficacious. You lie down on lay
er Of mud as hot as you can bear
and then they pile on mud until
you are covered about a foot deep
in it, and there you lie and sweat
twenty minutes or more according
as you are robust or delicate. When
you get up the mud slips from you
like lard from a hot skillet. You
are then carried through a cold Oh
tepid bath, rubbed, scrubbed and
reclothed. A retired stone manu-
facturer staying there awhile
showed me around and explained
things to me. He reminded me
more of one of the Cherybee broth
ers in a novel by Dickens than any
man l have ever seen. He had tn
keL a couple Of mud baths and they
had loosened him up, united the
knots in his joints, swollen his alb
dominal muscles two inches, raised
his circulation 10 degrees and left
him feeling young again. l expect
to go and spend awhile there when
the weather gets warmer. In
health / am about as was when /
left home except that [ have not
much congh now. Am feeling bet
ter than usual for two or three days,
but it may not be permanent. Mr..
.Westmoreland is better than be-
fore he had pneumonia, much to
the joy of his friends. Ed. Har-
we'll is all right and Capt. Topp
and Joe Hardy are mining at Cali
co. John Campbell and family are
devouring California GRUB at a
fearful rate. 1 only am ''puny.
GEO. W. CAMPBELL,
| Cotton. Cal. ian. 9Th. 1885.