The Grenada gazette., 1888-04-28

a letter in the ClariOn-LedRer from
Los Angles signed =. i. Il. II.
made Los Angles the paradise o
I America. That il very good fol
those that have the cash aud car
spend the time on the beach in tht
summer and somewhere else during
the rainy seasons; or those that have
some corner lots in some neW dddi-
ton. | notice he says so and so Ger
be done, provided, 80 and 40 is done
| fear p. b. F. has some of those cor
| ncr lots which are getting very
weighty and he wants some more
tenerdfoots to ease him down, or he
does not know anything what he is
talking about, just out here on visit
and writes what those tell him that
have been here the twelve months.
are the prospects good for new com
ers? | will say no. There is q good
easy living here for any one who
will come with enough of the Eagle
Birds to buya good, we'll improved
farm, for which he will have to pay
from six hundred to one thousand
dollars per acre, or go in the chicken
business. Without this 1t is harder
for u farmer to make a living here
than it is for one back there on King
Cotton; the same amount of money
invested in something back there
will pay better. The woman here
makes two.thirds Of the living on
the farm off her chickens, for which
the merchants pay her six to eight
dollars dozen; eggs twenty to forty
cents per dozen: and butter twenty
to sixty cents per pound. The con-
sumer pays for chickens seventy-five
cents to one dollar and twenty cents
II riece dressed; eggs twenty to fifty
per dozen; butter thirty to eighty
cents per pound; take this away
from the farmer without his well i'm
proved farm, and what will become
Of him (echo answers whatI You
pay more for fruit and oranges. Not
one have | got that was sweet. |
will say this country is II paradise rs
also il the South to the Northern
man from his country Of billiards.
and cyclones. If the people of
the glorious country, the south, could
for ten years be as close in every re-
spect ~ the northerners, have no
servants, do all their own work, no
matter what it is AS far rs they do,
you would he the richest people on
the globe. All then, what would be- /
come of the poor darkey: So | will
say to my friends and readers Of your
paper, you have rs good country in
climate and everything else, and II
you will only do there as you would |
have to do out here, you are in the
best of the tws. And to the ladies,
should you come to this country you ,
mad just a~ well make up your mind, /
unless you have millions to draw
rom, TO do your own work, washing
etc, and when you send
your children to school their class
md playmates may be with some
little off in color. Outside Of Il pri-
,ate house for your meals, you can't
'at with any satisfaction, for fear
'olne one will take Il seat by you
hat would make things little dis
lgreeable. 4 person who knows and
viii for few moments stop and
hink about the labOring man of this
country can hut feel very sorry for
,im. you will meet and pass them
IN the road every day, with all their
worldly possessions strapped across
heir backs. He will not fail to stop
'ou and ask If you know where he
ould get a job of work. They are
lot tranips, but men who would
work II they could yet 1t. Wells
inally he gets work, when night
ONES he will be shown to his room
It the barn or hay pie, If it IL on n
arge rancho he will have to make
|own his bed Of straw on the mother
arth under 4 wagon as a protection
rom the fogs. This Is the supposed
reatn,ent or Accommodations the dar.
icy gets In the South. Los Angeles
ounty Is abont one-fourth US large
$ the state of Mississippi. Now
icturc that vast country In your
minds eye. without any trees, q range
{ mountains on one side, about
llrec small running streams running
Trough it, about 0ne-six Of the land {
Il cultivation, u little moist spot
ere and there, with several houses,
town every two TO five miles, farm
ng country enough to support one
Durth of the towns and the balance
which il growing fine crop Of white
takes called town lots, with the ex.
option Of u few large ranches, some
cry near a. large as Grenada coun-
y owned by men who stole
hem from the poor man and the
which 10 u few months