The National tribune., 1886-06-10
FROM CALIFORNIA.



Lady Gives Her Impressions Of the Golden state.
To THE EDITOR: Our party came with an
excursion in November over the Atehison,
Topeka & Santa Fe. viii not go into details
of the trip, except to say that excursionists had
better lay in their supplies Of eatables at Kan
sas City, as they pay much higher after leaving
there, and in most cases do not get so good If
you take time to 90 back some distance from
the depot at Las Vegas, n. NJ, you can get good
milk for 10 cents quart. After that we found
none till we reached Mojave and pretty thin
there. At Kansas City eat your last fresh oys-
ter You pay 81 can for them in most places
here, though l have heard of them at co cents
in Los Angeles
Do not expect paradise rs soon as you pass
the Needles and are in California. There are
many miles of desert yet between you and the
City of the Angels.
If your route takes you to Los Angeles, you
win be well repaid for stopping few days
there. You will get a good idea of Southern
California. and you will see many new and in
teresting things. The hotels are not up TO the
requirements of the place, but they lack in size
and elegance only. Meals are % cents, and are
good.
l can only tell you Of the towns / have
visited, commencing with Santa Ana, where /
spent my first six weeks, and spent them very
pleasantly. IL is an odd town. Many have
from one to ten acres of land around their
houses. It makes large town without a very
large population. The eucalyptus and pepper
trees give it very tropical look. The air is
laden with the odor of orange lime and lemon
blossoms. The roses are beautiful. Everything
grows luxuriantly. Bananas ripen there. Very
fine raisins are made there also. The climate
| is rather damp for oranges and lemons, and
they have not SO clean and bright look as
elsewhere.
There are three little towns near each other,
| Suisun, Orange and Santa Ana The climate in
Summer Is very cool and pleasant. It is not
very good for weak lungs or thr0ats and in
Autumn there are some cases of pneumonia. Is
IS only seven miles TO the ocean, so they get
the ocean fogs as well as the breezes There
are many nice people living there. and il the
climate suited my case do not think should
have cared to look farther. They have a GAR.
Post and Relief Corps. both iourishing. Land
generally sells at 500 an acre. and requires
irrigatiDg. The wells are surface water, which
means water obtained at depth of 20 to 40
feet. Whether yoa want to buy there or not,
1t will pay you to see the place. It is different
from any other California town have seen
People living in Pasadena claim they are but
one remove from Heaven. Some malicious
editor says they should be very near, as a great
many are larched from there into the un-
known 1t is not Pasadena that kills them !;
they come too late. 1t is pitiful to see people
coming when death is stamped on their fea-
| lures, and they should be in their quiet homes
surrounded by friends and home comforts, not
wearied with a long, tiresome journey, and
then put among strangers, that too often care
| only Tor their money, to endure home-sickness
and loneliness and waiting for delayed letters
and for health that never comes-cnly more
| speedy death The climate cannot give new
| lungs; as well expect it to raise the dead.
have wandered from Pasadena and 10 is too
beautiful place to be passed lightly over. I
| spent Christmas there, and on that day we had
| from fruit ranch we visited, tomatoes, straw
berries, blackberries and raspberries. They
were receiving no special care and were not
abundant. but we had some Of each.
| The avenues are handsome particularly Ma
rengo. The orange trees are cleaner than in
Santa Ana. Deciduous fruits grow well. Dur
ing the Summer viii be a good time to visit
there, as hotels and boarding-hOuses are lot so
full. There are some magnificent views and
was almost tempted to buy some land near the
| town that might feast my eyes upon its beauty
every day and all my life Why didn't l.?
Well, now. you see, I hadn't quite money
enough. All these views, and climate, and other
nice and useful things, including the land, cost
heap of money. and l could not see how
could make living of the land. Perhaps il
| can be done raising fruit, bat doubt 10. Peo-
pie that keep boarding houses ought to make
something, and there seems little danger of it
| being over done at present do not con-
slider the climate so good as at some other
places, and know one family living there that
| IS going 10 spend the Summer elsewhere for
their daughters health. But would say to
every one, see Pasadena when in California.
The remembrance of its beauties will always
DO pleasant to you. Land ia very high, but
many are making money buying and selling
again, and there will DO land there for good
while yet. 1t is not we'll for any one coming
newly to the country to buy till they have
looked aronnd. The next town looked at was
La Puente. 1t lies beautifully, but was not ad-
vanced enough TO tell what ID might become.
Lots were held high, and it already had a sa-
loon. i spent day and night at Pomona, q
pleasant little village, and boasting of hand.
some new hotel-the Polomares Land there
had reached 500 an acre out of town. It seems
TO be town of retired ministers Rents were
quite reasonable. 1t would not be amiss TO see
Pomona. Cotton is dry. dusty place Of rail-
road centers and desert winds. Live there il
you must but you had better 20 at least and
look at Riyerside.-LUCETTA N. SUYDAM, San
Jacinto, Cal.