The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-03-23

Letter From an Old Sedalian
Concerning San Diego as
an Abiding Place.

from OH IrlenGS ana acquaintance III
and about Sedalia tor information re-
garding San Diego, ask the favor of
answering them through the BAzoo.
The healthfulness of the climate here
cannot well be overstated. I suppose
there is no better climate in the world,
and perhaps there is not its equal. In
saying this | do not write to he un-
derstoOd that San Diego is a paradise,
and that there are no unpleasant
features, for there are, but to those
very features We owe our incompar-
able SAM airy advantages. Neither
would L convey the impression that
all who come here for health are
cured. Perhaps the greater portion
of those who come for that purpose
fail to p. rmanently recover. Compar-
atively few people realize their con-
dition in time, and hence come
too late. | refer especially to
those who are suffering from
lung troubles. Those who come in
the last stages of consumption may,
under these bright skies and in this
invigorating air, lengthen their lives
BY few weeks or months, but the
decrease will not release It's tenacious
hold. Those in whom the trouble is
even well established, but who still
are vigorous, have an even chance for
a lie heightened by many months;
perhaps years. 1t is those who feel
THE PREMoNITORY SYMPTOMS
or who by inheritance or otherwise
have reason to apprehend danger
who may by coming to other climate
be permanently cured. The system
built up impregnable to the disease !;
long life insured which without the
change would have been very brief.
Probably my own case is about as
strong a one in point as any. As my
friends are aware L wss ser
iously afflicted with lung trouble
before l started for California.
Many thought it too late and
| had much doubt myself
whether could hope for any benefit.
/ began to recover as soon rs l ar
rived here and have gained steadily
until / now feel almost entirely free
from any trouble and am able to en-
gage in light business. | am very
certain that to the climate of southern
California, ana to the intelligent, I'M
firing care of devoted wife / owe the
fact that | am alive to-day but still
my health is the price of eternal vigi-
strong and robust as once was.
San Diego is a most delightful place
to make home, aside from Its climate
Its situation is as
BEAUTIFUL AS THAT OF VENICE.
Behind lie the mountains, now capped
with snow. In front the broad ex-
Panse of sea upon which the ships of
the world are sailing to and from this
magnificent harbor. San Diego is
now the Pacific terminus of the A.,
L. d s. Fe system of railroads. The
Central and Southern Pacific railroad
monopoly had bOasted that no other
line should come to this coast and for
many years maintained its position
TO the great detriment of San Diego,
whose harbor, (the only one south of
San Francisco was constant men,
ace to Los Angeles and other points in
which the monopoly was especially In
terested. But the AtchisOn is here
and to stay and, as aresult, San Diego
has started upon an era of remarkable
progress. The population of the place
has doubled in the past eighteen |
1t is now about 5000. In
the same time property has advanced |
from one to two hundred per cent.
The prospect IS that both population
and values will double in the next
year. Los Angeles is now several
lines larger than San Diego. In few
Tears this will be the larger and
more important place. All through
he dreary eastern winter we have
been having warm, sunny days in
only by short spells of
Amy weather, which seem mostly
ike April showers. The country is
covered with green grass, and bios
oms of every hue. In yards and
rounds, roses, geraniums, Gala lilies
nd all the tender hot house flowers
nd shrubs bloom among the orange
nd lemon trees and blossoms fruit.
Now a word in answer to some in
uiries about farming in this country.
n this respect one will find much
Inference between the Pacific coast :
nd the great country comprising the
middle states.
THIS Is NOT A FARMING COUNTRY,
Though there sections where the I
nest of grain may be raised. The I