Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-03-09
NOTES OF TRAVEL.
Los Angeles to San Fran
cisco and Back.
THE COUNTRY BLossoMING'
wild Flowers Of Thousand Hues'
Broad Grain Fields Full
of Promise.

OF ff0fllse.
There Is no land in the whole wide
world where one can take ride OF 900
miles and traverse such rich and beau
tiful region as that between Los Ange-
les and San Francisco presented last
week-the first week in March, month
proverbial everywhere for its bleak and
disagreeable weather.
Leaving San Francisco on Sunday
afternoon last, bright and warm sun
shine spread over the whole landscape
lying round the bay, which was as
smooth as sea of glass. This was all
the more grateful owing to the fact 'na'
the whole preceding week had been very
cloudy and cold. To the denizen OF the
sunny south big overcoat bad been .
close.clinging friend at all moments oil
the day or night.
To the people Of the Bay City there
was not much in the industrial and
financial situation to warm the inner
man against the chill attacks oil the
weather from without. Even the cut
rates by rail for passengers and freight
did not tend greatly to make the
v;nter of their discomfort" any sort of a
ssolorious summer" The question was
not at all satisfactory as so whether the
low rates obtaining for passengers would
not take away as many people as il
would bring out. A great many
people out of business were TAX
ing advantage of the low fares
to get back east. The passenger offices
were crowded all the week and the
scenes around each departing train beg
CARED description. The freight war
was as bad, apparently. Merchants
were ordering large shipments out from
the east. In conversation with gen.
tleman on one OF the ferries it was
learned that in some lines men were or
dering out goods enough to supply their
trade fer three years to come. Now re-
marked the speaker: These are not
the only men who are doing this. II is
general. The effect will be to glut the
market. These goods are mostly bought
on time, When the bills fall due, they
will still be on the shelves and there
will be o cash in the tills to meet these
obligations, The result will be series
of1lpnro,ion sales on account OF the
q !. and a general slaughter OF
fabraoa Then again this glut OF eastern
made goods must cripple seriously the
struggling manufacturing interests OF
this city. They were fighting their way
slong as best they could under the dis
advantages Of very sickly existence
and this threatens to give good many
Of them the coup de grace. tell You
these low fares are not all they appear
on first blush to us here"
ExcRLLSe NATURE"
Seemed to be doing all she could to
brighten the prospect on all hands. The
hills near the bay were clad in living |
green from their submits to the very |
waters edge. Getting further along
down the San joaquin valley, the
writer has passed over its entire |
length many times, and at all seasons OF
the year never saw at any time SO rich
a promise of golden harvest as is now
apparent throughout the entire extent
oil that great plain. There never has
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the plant has never looked SO healthy.
The teams were still at work as late
as yesterday breaking up the sod to
receive the seed. The crop almost uni
versally going into the ground is, OF
course, wheat. There is nothing risked |
in the statement that 1886 will pile up |
the greatest wheat harvest in the history |
of the State. Some we'll informed men |
put its total yield at probably 5000. 900 |
bushels. SO hattcring is the outlook at
this time that grain bags and freights by |
ships are both advanced materially in |
price.
OF all this brilliant prospect, ii is not |
ocal pride, but the caimest con-
vietion, sn outgrowth of careful
observation, which prompts the remark |
that the brightest color has been laid On
by Natures lavish hand this side Of the |
Soledad Pass. There are no fields north |
so far advanced, so luxuriant in their
promise as those that stretch from the |
Newhall ranch to the city of Los An |
geIes. Even further north, as far as the |
Tehachepi Pass, the grain fields are re-
markably healthy. Many large fields |
spread over the mountain slopes up in |
the Pass, and this side along by Ante
lope Valley the foothills are covered |
with promising fields Of grain.
THE WILD FLOWERS
That cover hillside and plain justify |
California in laying claim to be the |
home Of the goddess of the Aowery
kingdom. There are acres red as fire
with the beautiful California poppy
the escholtzia of the botanists. Thous-
ands Of anemones cover the ground,
with blue Of heavens own hue. The
large cactus is now in bloom, bearing
large, heavy racimes Of white flowers
Some Of the stems have a dozen
flowers on them, each flower
is about six to ten inches long,
and the large ones measure perhaps six
inches around at the largest end. The
juniper bushes are also covered thick
with blue berries, while along running
watercourses and in other damp places
lupins grow to a size and luxurianee
that would astonish anyone not familiar
with the flower in California. These
plants Of ''larkspur' grow to height of
two or three feet and spread to circum-
ference OF twice that extent. The ra-
cine sof royal purple flowers are often
foot long. Besides these there are thou
sands Of Others quite as strikingly beau
tiful.
IN THE WAY OF PROGRESS.
Where the Stanislaus river is crossed
by the railroad, and where that stream
forms the boundary line between the
counties OF Stanislaus and San Joaquin,
the Supervisors tried to build "a fine
bridge over the stream. A man named
Murphy, who owns the land on the
south side Of the stream, used to run
ferry across it at this point. In order to
obstruct the bridge he has placed a
house right in its way and here he keeps
the bridge at bay, in manner not at all
as patriotic as Horatio kept the foe at
bay on the bridge at Rome
'In the brave days Of old"
At Lathrop the ruins of the burnt ho-
tel still shoulder and nothing has been
done so far towards its rebuilding. 1t is
said the company will soon replace the
structure destroyed by much finer
one. The travelling public will be glad
OF this, ms the hotel at Lathrop always
set good meal, and where dinner is
now obtained, on the way up and down,
there are not the same facilities for min
istering satisfactorily to the wants Of
the inner man.
At Berenda the new branch Of the
s. p. TO the Yosemite is seen running off
towards the mountains. II is being
built with that despatch which charac.
terizes all the efforts of this vigorous
corporation. The track is being laid at
the rate Of mile day 1t will open
mp a rich country to settlement, and is
but beginning in one place OF what
will soon be done all through the San
Joaquin valley. These spnrs must be
bfilr out through this opulent valley to
bring in its products to the trunk lines,
Il is the opinion Of all observers that a