The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-03-02
ap1NCERNlSG CALIFORNIA.
N Clearheaded Dakotan Who
Has Been There.
ssgisters His Impression of the
@ Golden Slope.
Some Striking Comparisons
s With Dakota Resou1 ces.
Ip1Ton REPUBLICAN,: Returni,

3ANDITOR REPUBLICAN,: Returning
M sm orning from trip to California,
an delighted to find the weather so
als.and that the accounts of suffering
b md death from cold in our territory
thisswinter as reported in Los Angeles
Eother Pacific slope papers, were
( q so close to wicked libel,
SaS t the force of habit and their busi-
sses necessities alone can save them
rom heavy verdict, when the Great
@dge of right and truth gives them a
gh3Aring.
ssss often engage in reverie concerning
The ASP irations and animus of men, and
[ struck the California townsite
baDmer, [ could to my own satisfaction
discern distinct line of separation of
hesane from the insane, but, sir, the
fine shading of intellectual exertion is
sssosperfected IN that glorious climate
SSthat one gets dizzy in the contempla-
Non of 1t.
Brig ght-eyed men with broad white
gallant and graceful, with can
in every expression, will upon
Hight acquaintancei interest til eCselves
the newcomer and tell him where
how he can buy town lot today
ssnd double his money on it in thirty
nays.
They will tell him how he can buy
afuit land at $500 an acre and get q
return from his investment
;SsbY raising grapes and oranges and
snlfalfa.
their claims for California were
sS0t so often coupled with misrepre-
about the northwest, [
Duld not care SO much, but meaning
sE1irlY toward California, for the inter-
Sssslht Of dearer ones here, would like to
gtYe my impressions of that country.
leaving Kansas City via the Atchin-
ssson, Topeka g. Santa Feroute, eastern
Kansas abounds in fine cities, country
homes, fruit and shade trees, native
II grass, herds of stock and other eyi-
gSdences of thrift.
Beyond the center of Kansas the
sslspil grows lighter in color and weight
ss|1gan it shades off at the Colorado line
Unto dry, fine, light colored alluvium.
arren as a tin roof.
When you get into Colorado, the
changes to white and red
stone elevations, with valley Of
gravel between the elevations.
sS 4 ou may sleep now, till you get Ari-
for you can see nothing new.
lSMhere are some hills covered with
N1eraggy pine-through Arizona-then
}aHlose the eyes again till you get to Cal
|gsfornia.
ss had a belief that the valleys of
Sgalifornia were numerous and broad
sssFerdant and dotted with roaming herds,
sEapeach orchards and lovely houses. Ye
asgDds! 1t is a barren gravel bed, from
Spne side to the other on this route, eX-
sMeept where expensive irrigation and
ssAclose attention to business has secured
saSah grove of trees. And about the vine
yards and fruit orchards and alfalfa
sBbelts, the whole vegetation of Cal
sglfornia, south of the center of the state
3Would not out weigh the grass crop of
season in Dawson County.
ss l5ss went from Los Angeles to Santa
ANA; from Los Angeles to San Diego;
sIEBpia San Bernardino, Cotton ct alas
sSths lawyers say; to Pasadena and
Of the surrounding towns, and
saaSfrom the car windows | could not see
orchards ofevery kind to cover
mi ,sssR township.
sssasI mean to say that the cash returns
ssss fom all the products of this region
ssXhipped out Of the state would not pay
or one seasons grain crop in Dawson
Npunty at three dollars per ton; is my
Sgs9 Did you ask me what they live on? I
They take certain per cent
1.-THE money they receive from chumps
myself and they send it to Mil
Chicago, Portland. Denver
sslsSs@and Kansas City for bacon, ham, can
Saned goods, groceries, potatoes. poultry,
oil, wagon material and glass. and
vi ccin". in the course of time and the
Sessr!'; that bring the wares and pro-
ssSSducts nf other climes to California via
Diego. ballast out with sand, lack.
l:,Lurn freight.
ssa II any man of credit will say sin
cerely That he tasted in Los Angeles a
Saa nd potatoe or particle OF good but
Sas Ter that were produced in southern
FIJI California, will give him nice hard
ifsw ood stick found in Idaho after q
four days travel and search. You need
Enot turn your nose up at the signifi
acance of my offer, for hard wooG
\ Estick found in Idaho represents ter
r dollar gold piece, at fifty cents a day
labor done.
ssSS At a town lot sale near San Diego
sSSthey headed the eprocession with brass
ssss@band, next came string of expires!
containing cheap furniture de
Sgsss gned for use in hotel, to be erected
.8eight miles from the lots offered. AL
sSaIhe wagons were placarded in some
way to show where the furniture wa
SsROing and at the end of the procession