Nevada County picayune., 1888-02-29
Letter From Indiana.
CRoTRER,vILLE INDIANA. Feb. {
 18th. lSSS.

postal order for two dollars for your paper. Excuse my tardiness. ad- mirc both the moral and political tone of the PItArrNE. As the press is one of the principal moulders of the morals and politics of the nation. love to see it sound.
 That Emigration Bureau. is a move in the right direction. If the grand natural resources of Arkansas were generally known. she would advance in wealth and population. equally with Kansas and California. These States have been boomed too highly. There will soon he a re-ac- ton. believe Arkansas is prcfera- blc to either of them. all things con sidered. Yet land in Arkansas is worth only fourth as much.
 enclose letter from a wealthy neighbor of mine. now on q free eN- curSion to California with 500 stock men and horticulturists. The letter speaks for itself. The State and the railroads will get ten fold morc l than they will be out. People are like sheep. when one starts more will follow.
 ! We are having cold wave. .mcrcu- " l5 degrees above zero.
 Yours very respectfully. THouA> CoNwAy. SANTA CErz. Cal. Jan. 3l. lSSS. EDITOR CoMMEH,IAL:-In reading the papers l learn that there has been great deal of cold weather in the northeast. especially in New York and Pennsylvania, and not sum- mer weather in Indiana.
 We are here to-day in the midst of weather similar to our May weather in Indiana. am perfectly delight 1 ed with California, and if was not as we'll situated in Indiana as am. would certainly cast my lot here.- We are having grand time. Every place we stop at we are ban qAetcd. and driven all over the coun- try free of charge.
 We think in Indiana we have some large orchards and vineyards. but they sink into insigniIicancc beside the orchards and vineyards of Cali fornia. have seen one orchard and vineyard combined of three thousand acres. and il is no uncom- mon thing to see them of four and five hundred acres. \ man with ten or twenty acres is not considered much of horticulturist.
 The ground is broken up. here. in the following manner: Six and eight horses to one set of gang blows, and sometimes you will see six and eight teams of this size in one field. each turning up strip of ground from twenty to thirty feet through. When cutting wheat they work from twen- ty-Iive to thirty horses to one ma chine, but this machine cuts and threshes the wheat as it goes, and at the rate of thirry acres per day.
 Every town. large or small. if not booming. is trying 'o get up q boom. Lots are laid out from two to four miles around the different towns and such fabulous prices as they do asl, for them. At san Jose a lot twenty five hv one hundred and fifty feet, three miles from the court house and not building within half mile. will be priced at from two to four hundred dollars.
 In Los Angelec was shown va cant lot, one hundred by two hun dred feet, which parties had leased for ten years and agreed to pay one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. put a five story building on it. and leave the buildings on with out pay for them. Every room that was under contract for rent as soon as ready for occupancy.
 Farm lands around Santa Anna, san Jose or Los Angeles. is worth from one hundred to one thousand dollars per acre. Some of our party are making investments at these pri- ces.
 To-day we will visit some of the , big Red Wood trees. and then we go to Oakland where we are to be cn- tertained by the Board of Trade of that city.
 Tuesday we start on fine excur' sion given by the southern Pacific R. R.. in which we visit St. Helena Sacramento, Marysyille. Redding and back to san Francisco. stopping at each place from five to ten hours The company furnish Us sleeping coaches. SO that we will be out noth.