The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-04-19
From the Emporia r publican.
N-aR.-R- M.rwA.


Emporia for this place have been a
reader of the Republican which is
always welcome to our home every
week, and it is matter of satisfaction
to me that so many improvements are
under way in one of the best cities in
Kansas.
have been interested too in your
California letters from parties visiting
this state, and the ideas some of them
have expressed ought to bring blush
of shame to their honest faces. Moth
ing is more absurd than a man who
thinks in a two weeks visit, or two
months at The most he can pass on the
whole business. AS well might we say
in Emporia they have no water, but
buy it by the barrel, simply because in
changing the machinery in the water
works such thing was done for a few
days. 1t is strange to me how
so many come here counting
favors and receiving them
from friends and strangers alike, APP
parently we'll pleased, certainly well
treated, then go home and slop over
with such gush. Ask your real estate
men there of what impOsitiOns they
have to deal with and then multiply
it by two, to get ours, to say nothing in
this line of the begging and stealing of
oranges from the orchards. The mat
ter of expenses at hotels cuts con-
siderable figure with such but does not
account in full for their disgruntled
condition. The fact is too many come
here expecting soft snap of one kind
or another, and instead they find peo-
pie here and there who are as smart
as they themselves. However, there
is satisfaction to any candid minded
person IN the fact that their own peo-
pie who know them fully well, know
also how to set down what they say,
be it for good or bad, when they tell
their pitiful tales.
The climate, the productions and
| even the people are as different one
place from another as can be imagined.
Now as to what know: My living
costs about one half more here than it
did in Emporia, the only remedy can
see is for each to produce as we'll as
consume. If he has not at least 81 ,O0O
cash with which to buy home, keep
a horse and cow and say couple dozen
chickens, then unless a skilled me-
chanic, he better stay where he is;
that's my advice now, time may change
so that wood butchers and half way
men of all kinds can make a living
without trying, but L doubt it.
My fuel this winter, was one cord OF
four foot wood costing $500, one quar-
ter or more of which is not yet used:
this was our sitting room, entirely
using gasoline for cooking purposes
The latter article costs from 1915 tt
$500 per case of ten gallons. This
with the cost of milk and eggs com
prise the highest articles we have tt
buy. Vegetables are cheap. We have
bought all winter good cabbages for g
nickel each and radishes, so all whC
like 'em can buy 'em. The orange.
and lemons growing on my lot have
been a great treat to my family. Al
present we are enjoying our own straw
berries, while our trees have for "a fac
orange and lemon buds, bios SONS anC
ripe fruit. The valley of East Sal
Bernardino is principally fruit culture
we raise good fruit and cheap. Tht
best peaches here sell for $3.50 PEI
dozen cans. Glass fruit jars costing
$1.25 per dozen are used, leaving tn,
cost of the fruit S1.25 per dozel
} quart cans. 1t is not necessary to sa,
more concerning the cost of living fol
am not advertising this state.
simply wish to correct fault in cor
respondents who would have people
believe that what is true of one place i
applicable to the whole state.
This place is at an elevation of so
} feet above the sea and its water RICH
is in the Great Bear Valley Reservoir
which is about eight miles long b.
: three or four wide and forty-eight fee
deep at the dam. Competent engin
GERS calculate that should it not rain 70
four years, a thing entirely improbable
/ we still should have sufficient waite
for all purposes. After flowing out @
] the resovoir to the valley beloy
J it is piped to the higes
3 point of every five and ten acre Ioi
! There is also domestic water unde
, pressure, with a reservoir, receivin
/ its water from the mountains, wher
3 it was melted from snow the day be
} fore. This reservoir also draws upol
' the Bear valley reservoir in case of ne
{ cessity. But the greatest feature @
all these points of good elevation i
Southern California is the matter O
health, and people will never ceas
coming whether they purchase or moi
Combining this climate with abou
three months of midsummer on tn
coast it is without doubt. nearly pei
! feet. The grand old mountains pre-
) tect one from cyclones, even prevent
: ing their formation, and the grea
ocean has its attractions also. and b
! these changes the summers are a
pleasant as the winters.
4 The east Will go on rails
: ing her dyspeptics and con
!, sumptives. who will come her
: where life is worth living and exist
r enee a pleasure. 1t viii not matter T.
many of them what an improved hom
place costs, and it behooves eyeryon
} coming here to improve something, i
; nothing more than their own morbi,
: condition, and they viii not be so fas
to offer themselves as candidates 70
premiums for the biggest fools in com
ing here. l.. w. CLARK.
] Sunday morning last, April 18th, a
the residence of his son in Cente
. township, in Lyon county, Rowell N
Stevens, aged "A years. The deceased
was born in 1914, in the state of New