Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-08
FRESNO.
A Beau tiful City and Fine SURE
rounding Territory.

rounding Territory.
DEAR HERALD-we left Hanford last Sat-
urday night by team. expecting to connect
at Goshen with the north bound Southern
Pacific train, but on arriving at the land of
| Goshen we found that there had been a
wreck below and the train was indefinitely
| late and would not be along until the next
| morning. We hied us TO the lone hotel of
the burg, and awakened the proprietor. Mr..
Smith, a most urbane gentleman, but who
was compelled to inform us that he had not
| bed unoccupied. Being very sleepy
hunted out the parlor and finding an invit-
ing sofa thereon enconsed myself and was
just closing my tired eyes when the land
| lord walked in and said that an officer had
| just arrived with an insane lady and he
| would have to put her and escort in the
parlor. Not relishing this company to any
great extent returned to the Office (?) and
Jacobs and myself turned in on top of
hard looking and hard feeling old billiard
table, leaving Patton up entertaining
crowd of delayed passengers in a manner
that made me blush at his mendacity, got
up at daybreak and took stroll of several
miles around Goshen. The country Is very
fine and is mostly sown to grain About
=
rolled into
THE CITY OF FRESNO.
This is a most delightful and ambitious
city of nearly 5000 Inhabitants, is the county
seat of Fresno county and Is situated ABOUT
200 miles from San Francisco. was i'm
pressed with the general air OF prosperity
the substantiability of its business blocks,
the elegance of its stores, restaurants, no
tells, etc. and the beauty OF It's ed residences,
every side aud there are many little vineclad
homes where poet might dream his life
away, Fresno Is certainly -, city
be- Der 'oi'0bsii of bells / heard sSmmoning the
faithful to worship. The First Baptist
Church is specially beautiful and unique
little structure. When Monday morning
came the city was in rush and hustle of
activity, and one could gain an idea of the
large amount of business done here. In
the afternoon drive was taken behind Mr..
K. d. Terry's span OF trotting horses. aud
good deal of country was traversed. The
route chosen led among the vineyards sur
rounding the town. and while it is hardly to
be expected that one from Los Angeles will
go into ecstacies over vineyards, must
say that was more than astonished at the
wonderful development saw in this line.
Five hundred and 800 acre vineyards are
common; the. vines look thrifty, and the
fruit is superb. 1t is stated that many tons
of these grapes were shipped to Los Ange-
les last year to be made into wine. Wines |
made from Fresno grapes are excellent in |
quality. and this is an industry which is in.
creasing in Importance every day: One of
the handsOmest and most profitable vine |
yards is that of the Eggers Bros, which con- |
tains 800 acres, and is about three miles |
from town. These gentlemen have large |
winery and distillery, and their products
Barton vineyards and wineries are also |
magnificent places. Fresno beats the world |
on raisins, and Mr.. A. b. Butler has the |
largest and most complete raisin vineyard
II to lac frItf nj
AS for the climate, the writer can v0uch for
the following extract:
The climate OF Fresno county is healthful |
and equable. The so-calied rainy season
generally in December and ending In Janu-
arJ, with light showers in March and April.
But rain of any sort is very seldom expert
enced after the last named month. The
reaches more than 2So, aud that only once
or twice in the year. At all times of the
year bouquet of flowers may be plucked
in the gardens, growing in the open air
at Christmas time. The heat during the
hottest weather is not oppressive, owing to
The extreme dryness and purity of the at
mosphere. Farmers work in the harvest
field in the warmest weather without being
thereby. Such thing as
has never been known in Fresno
county. The air is SO dry that the perspira-
lion Is quickly evaporated, keeping the
body cool during the hottest hours Of the
day.
% invigorating is the climate that the
may work every day 10 the
year If need be There are but two seasons
the so-called rainy and the most empha'-
ically dry. ] he former isvery much Ike
April and May weather in the East, and the
latter corresponds with August and Sep
tember, with the rains left out. We have
no sudden changes-always light. cooling
wind blowing; no billiards, cyclonts or
n n Torn toa
mers are warm and pleasant; the atmos-
phere Is dry, hence the heat is not Oppress-
i've, as in the East. In short, the climate is
vastly superior to any other portion OF the
to the mildness of the climate, very ordi-
nary buildings can be made use of as
dwellings, and shed with three sides is all
that l. necessary for horses and cattle.
The summer days are warm, but always
with a refreshing breeze. The
evenings and nights are always cool and
delightful. Even the heat of the day in
this dry atmosphere is far less oppressive
and debilitating than much lower tenn
perature in any of the Eastern States, and 1t
Is well known that the hotter and dryer the
weather is, the better our plants will grow
II they have rich, warm soil beneath them,
reaching down to and including moisture.
Fresno has glorious future before it, and
now t! at lands are comparatively cheaper,
people should avail themselves of the .op
portunity to purchase: 1t Will be onl o lev
years until lands in Fresno will command
as high prices as prevail in Los Angeles.
We had the pleasure nf meeting Messrs
Foote, Tarpey and Goucher here, and the
meeting was grand one. After the meet
ing the w hole -souled citizens rendered us a
banquet at the Grand Central Hotel, which
was a most enjoyable affair. Fresno has
two splendid Democratic dallies, the Erpos-
itor and Democrat. great deal of our sur
plus immigration will turn towards this
magnificent region this year.
On the wing, Sept. 9th, J. d. L.