St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-06

of large executive and business capac-
ity, and it is the development OF the
concession he secured some years ago
for the development of lands the COM
pany was organized to undertake. There
are other concessions granted to MIR.
Huller which the international COM
pany will operate soon. Mr.. WelleS,
who is a finc-looking man, good type
of the American business man of large
affairs, told me that his company had
invested
SEVEN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
in its colonization enterprise in lower
California. and had now got its property
into shape for settlement on a large
scale. Already they have built up a
thriving little city at EnSenada bay and
are colonizing people from different
parts of Europe and of the United
States on the fine fruit-growing and
agricultural lands which they own.
Many Swedes are coming to lower Cali
fornia, attracted thither by the fine
climate, which permits of eut-of-door
life the year round, and they make
excellent colonistS. Germans are
also coming in, and the Eng
lish colOnistS are OF an exception
ally well educated and prosperous
class. A large number of young Eng
lishmen. with a few thousand pounds
each, are taking up lands, and VIII
utilize their capital i'll cattle raising,
fruit growing, etc. Some OF the cons
pany's best lands lie only few hours
ride south of San Diego, and there are,
besides. plenty of good lands in the IN
terror valleys just being opened. A
number of newspapers are published IN
the colony. and one, the Lower Call
i, lad
esting news and facts regarding life i'll
the peninsula. A railway will soon
connect Ensenada with San Diego, cities
which are now in steamship communl-
alton with each other.
1t is luxury, not easily to be put in
words. to be able to pass a winter with
out seeing snow except on distant
mountain tops; to be able to remain as
many hours as one pleaseS on horse
back in January, and to drink in the
magnetism of the suns rays, under a
turou0is sky in midwinter. Snow is
all right, and SO is cold, but it is the
thawing and humidity that break up the
constitutions of New Englanders. A
clear HudSon'S bay sort of cold, cold
that keeps the snow firm all winter, is
healthy, for am not one of those who
depreciate the tonic value OF cold; but
half-and-half climate is quite another
sort of thing. Let the climate be either
cold or warm, and stay SO, and the
nerves are not shattered. If you want
to see what the high air OF the Mexican
plateau does for men, come aud look at
the stalwart hacendados, at the wiry
athletic Indians, who will tire out
horse walking, at the brOad-cheSted
little children who never know of Group
or hl,t
as young oaks. The one writer who
has put the most truth about the Next
can climate into book is DR.. Felix Os-
valid in his ''Summerland Sketches"
WEIGH may be recommended to persons
seeking information. 1t is fasclnat-
ing book, enthusiastic, captivating, but
true. Oswald found
Ills IDEAL CLIMATE IN MEXICO.
and he has never ceased to praise 1t:
Invalds should keep out of the city OF
Mexico till it is thoroughly drained. A
visit of a few weeks will do them no
harm, but other cities like Guadalajara,
Aguascalientes, Puebla, ETC., are better.
Do not go to sojourn any time at Guiana
juato. which is badly drained city,
nor to Zacatecas. Plenty of delightful
little towns can be found, and intending
tourists had best study good guide
book. preferably, think, that OF
Nj. Janvier, who has made per
sonal study of every place he de-
describes. Janvier is accurate and SEN
sible in his advice, and his book is
written without any desire to pull any
one, or to lift into notice innkeepers or
restaurateurs. 1t is quite as good to
come to Mexico for the health as to go
to the Riviera, and more novel. The
delicious insouciance of small-toWn life
here, the dreaminess of the summary
winter days, the sun, the eternal blue
of the skies, the witchery of tropical
scenery, the charm of the courteous
Mexican people-all this Constitutes the
charm of winter in this enchanted
land. +. r. GUERNSEY.