Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-17
CALIFORNIA.
In Interesting letter FreM Les
Angeles Giving the Facts OF the
Situation There.
Tho Disagrsesble Onmare-The Uffortu'
mates Who go ThGre to Dis-&bout
Orange RasBinE-A Luxury.

Los ANGELES, CAL, Feb. l0.-The
California boom has its pleasant side as
we'll as the humorous and sad ssptc :s
Pleasant to those who bought reel estate
twelve months ago and have either sold
to the conhding easterner OF is happy in
being told that il is now worth such end
such an advance. The weather is delight.
ful on some dsys, aud one feels good
nalured and at peace with the world,
provided he be well. The humorous side
can be seen in the tenderfoot who bnYs
at the present prices Of real estate eX-
pecting ID unload ss pref! and
kicks loud ard long because IL
DON'T sell, and he sees su-
other payday rapidly approaching,
and the one who expects to fad flowers
and sunshine each day during the winter
months, ard is disguised TO find never
more than three consecutive bright warm
days within the past six weeks, when
with violent colds they crouch around the
play stOFss or oil stoves and berate the
NestheE climate and country.
The.Sad phase is to be seen in the con-
EsampsiFe woo comes to avoid the cold
and chapges of temperature Of the east.
They have left their evenly warmed
houses 1T home and come to who? To q
country wrere thu inhabitants are sCcus-
toned and Injured to an inside temper
4ture OF $50 or CO., and where the Their
mometer will stoW go or go in the sun
in the mi Idle OF the day and
run DIVA TO go or So at night
Many are the cases of-suddep deSth from
pneumonia that the papers speak Of ss
happening TO g coneumptiya who wSs
''too far gone before his arrival" II is
out OF the question fer one to keep COM
! fgFtsbiy warm during the cold and rainy
days, as tn stoves are small affairs and
l&Ae wood isaef the willow vSTiety cut
from boughs green as grass, sud costs
From SI3.to SIS cord. Coal has been
i4up tQzS1Dss ton, and scarce &C that. Think
sCt tUsfat 81 60 per buahel. Many come
there for rheumatism and find it, prompt
~, and OF very energetic breed. a
double suit Of heavy fsnpels Is quite the
proper thing for newcomers, as it will, in
manner, check the Impudent searching
Of the damp chill ocean breeze, and the
cold drGughts that arise from your
wheeling, suffering little stove.
IO1 the humorous side is
the case of man who buys fruit fsrm
or orchard expecting to make the phG-
nomensl profits quoted him. "Why, DR..
- has an orange orchard OF ten acres
thst PAYS him 5000 year" Tnyestiga-
lion proves this to be nearly true, but is
he one isolated case, stsading alone,
tlht the writer learned Of would bear ont
,j.esSssertion. There are plenty Of ctst s
lHaSEed you Il fac profits on oranges, but
Icareiul investigation dispels tae
illusion. The following are f. I
samples: met al old
| friend in Riverside who h&d been in TIC
country about two mouths, and Was ef-
ferVescipg with enthusiasm. "Rsisipg
oranges is the prettiest business in the
| world and pays, why, IL never pays less
than 10 per cent. =" ETC., etc.
"My brother came out here about seven
or teight years ago, and has mace q
great deal Of money. He bought
about fifteen acres and hi5
land only cost him about $50 an sore
when he bought about seven yesTs age,
.ud lie has IL set in orange trees and
wouldn't take $50 900 for it now. He
will get about $500 for his oranges this
year and $500 or $500 for his grapes"
"WelI, Lfst is, say S2400 iucome on 4
| $50, 900 Investment, or about per cert
to say nothing Of ones time for the year
| That 1s just the point. Your brother is
doing well on his original investment al
$50 tn acre, but the one wto
would buy now ct the price
asked, could only make good wages and
lose the earnings of his $1,000 or ne
could work year for nothing and his
money would earn s per cent. We csn
leo as we'll as that in Texas
hGo0d dag" Another case wts
It Tustir, where an old prlcJi.
cal farmer had @ ten-acre piece, had
hVed there six years, raised his own
trees, and the Improvements were ell the
fruit Of his hand. Price, $1,000 per &Crs.
Found him gathering oranges for the
market. "Why do you sell your plNct ?"
"Wen, wife and are getting old aud
thought we would quit work il we could
sell out" 'How many orange trees have
you in bearing on the placer"
"About 600, besides Sky five vsune
trees, forty apricot, twenty Eve English
wNlEuts and some twenty or twenty-five
apple"
"How many boxes do you gather from
one orange tres?"
"Well, there is one th.t will bring four
boxes q. 81 a box"
"Do thy net you 50 bCx2"
"No; it would be safer to
SAY net $l00 or S125; that would be
$500 6 tree and 600 trees at that rate
would DE S2400 co." "But dc the 600
trees average tha,2"
"Weu nc; hsd as we'll tell the truth
aud don't care TO make any false repesen-
tations. You must buy on your own judg-
meut.n
"Now While we sre talking plainly Mr..
G. will you answer few questions, not
lsked from curiosity but from desire to
get some accurate information?"
"Do you make your entire living from
this placer"
mo. Wife and are common people,
end it don't take much 10 keep US, sbout
$3.50 or $500 5 yesr, and the butter sud
eggs paid for all our groceries last yesr,
snd the fruit brought about $500. l
think il could have sold all my wind
falls and had no scale, that would have
got about $1,000 from oranges this year;
IS It is, don't believe l will get over
500"
"Do you mean net after all expenses
and your time are psid ior?"
"I meau that after 81 outside ex 9enses
are paid for, wife and doR'Ecount our
time anything"
The day was beautiful one. even for
California. TIE soft, warm breeze came
up from the ocean just right to temp 7
sun fhst vvou.6 otherwise have hepn DPr-