Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-03-21
AN ANGELEN0 ABROAD.
"There is No Place Like
Home"
THE HYPEBoREAN REGIONS.
With All Their Attractions, Graph
lcally Described-The Brilliant
Future of Los Angeles.

| hthAi VI AtVF Ah"r
A gentleman in this city has recently
received letter from prominent citi-
zsn OF this county who has been absent
for about year travelling in Europe,
the Eastern States and Canada. He
writes from the last namsd place. His
name is not allowed to be given. II it
were it would add positive emphasis to
every word he writes. lie is cool
headed man Of remarkably level jude.
ment, successful in all bis undertakings
and disposed 10 undervalue rather than
ovorstaie anything ia the future. He
writes u follows;
"My children have all been sick with
colds aud my daughter was 81 bad with
Inflammation OF the lungs that was for
several days so frightened that ! was
almost crazy. This Is the worst climate
in the world IL is 1000 per cent. worse
than when used to live here. People
20 out and catch cold, and in week are
ia their graves. Aud these people take
il all US "A matter of course. The teller
Of the Bank of Commerce, as strong
aud healthy as | am, paid me cheque
on Monday, and the next week was
buried. A young man, son Of u Toronto
millionaire = student at the same
school as my boys--went home with
cold, and in less than ten days was
dead. And 80 it goes, and people think
nothing Of it. II we had such sickness
in california people would think 1t an
epidemic and fly from the State. | am
afraid | cannot run the risk of staying
here another winter with my children.
Archie and Grace have been in the
house over month, and the doctor
says they cant go out until the warm
weather comes. ! got letter from
-, saying ----- --------- had asked
whether | wanted to sell the ranch.
You can aud will understand that l
want to sell now less than ! ever did.
want to get back rs soon as | can, and
make home at -----, aud could
not find SO good an investment for my
money as the ranch is, even ii | sold
for $40 an acre. I tell you / have seen
enough since / came here, and heard
enough, to convince me that the tide of
immigration from the Eastern States and
Canada will soon be imrense. Hard
times have kept and are keeping the
people here; but the tide is turning, and
better times are ahead, and every man
wants to sell out and 60 to California,
and rs soon as times get better you will
see fifty men where you see one now.
Dozens of the wealthiest people here
have told me they intend to 20 to Los
Angeles this summer or the next. | get
letters by the bushel and people call
here every day to ask about California.
Farmers will listen to my account OF the
county and all say the same--"Well,
lust as soon as / can sell out am going
there. am sick OF working Is hours n
day all summer to raise hay aud grain
and turnips enough to keep my cattle
alive in the winter" And this is u fact
IL takes all man can raise on 100
acre farm to keep his soul and body to-
gsther and feed his cattle during the six
winter months. Aud land that will do
no better than that they ask 500 to
$3.50 per acre for. The average Cana
dian and Eastern farmer doesn't make
IS per mouth over his board and ex-
penses. tell you. men who own prop.
erty near Los Angeles had better wait
for the big boom that is coming--and
coming right soon. You mark my
words. You think you have n boom
now Just wait until the winter OF
lSS7.S comes. can see no end to the
brilliant future of Los Angeles county.
When | left Toronto, l3 years ago, the
population was 10000. AT that time
cute Scotch merchant was advised to
buy some property just above where l
A. II -.
buy land out in the bush" 1t was then
a barren plain-to.day it is the center of
the best part of Toronto, and the
city has population of 10000.
When | see how this city has gone
ahead with the chances ii had, and then
compare the chances Los Angeles has,
cannot imagine her with population in
tan years time less than that Toronto
now has. If a man wants to appreciate
Los Angeles he must do as have done
witt the oil country, the Eastern
States and Canada, and compare the
condition of the different people, see
farmers working day in and day out
year after year TO exc out a scant living
in this climate, while at the expense of
less than half the labor in California he
can grow rich as the years roll on. They
all feel it when they are told about the
advantages of our golden State. If Cali
fornia would but spend little money to
let the eastern people know something
about the State, the return would be
many thousand fold. 1t is astonishing
how little is known here of the agricul-
tural resources of our State. Some peo-
pie have vague idea that California
has q very hot climate and hot winds all
the year round, that is good place to
grow oranges, out that growing oranges
does not pay, and that it is good place
for any oonsumptive who has courage
enough to run the every day risks of
being shot down in the streets by bull
let intended for somebody else. The
eastern idea of the typical Californian is
a man who wears a sombrero and buck
skin pants, and has two pistols in his
belt and one in his boot, and n bowie
knife down his back; and that il he asks
you to drink aguardiente straight and
you don't Immediately comply he turns
his whole arsenal loose ON you; and that
he does the same to any one who jostles
him on the street, so that there are al
ways more or less bullets in the air in
every California town. This is no fancy
sketch. AT lea It half of the people who
come to see me want to know if a
mans life is safe in California, and
have Just the idea of Californian
| heve sketehed. | wish you would get
the Board of Trade to send me some
ILLUSTRATED HERALDs and pamphlets.
| could use them to do world of good
to Los Angeles. The papers here don't
want to publish any thing about Califor-
, Lit L.. tha xuaolfhu fnnrOn-
tonian who was in Los Angeles two win
ters ago, took a great deal of pains to
get statistics and information that all
people here are anxious to get, and he
wrote very long and able letter to the
lending Toronto paper asking them to
publish it, and requesting them ii they
would not publish 1t to keep the manu-
script until he returned here, which he
was then on the point of doing. The
editor not only refused to publish the
letter. but took good care to destroy 1T,
so that when MIR. Cawthra came here he
was unable to re-write it, as he hadkept
no copy and bad no memorandum of his
statistics. Florida has an agent here
and thousands go to that land of fevers
and humbug, who, if properly informed.
would 90 TO California for the winter.
In the city of New York found a great
ignorance of the capabllit es of our
State, except on the wine question.
They are all alive there to the fact that
we will soon supply all the Union with
wine; but as to the agricultural re-
sources of the country but few knew
anything.
am afraid my letter is already too
long for you to read, perhaps you will
never get this far in it, so | will stop. !