Iron County register., 1888-04-19
From Selma, California.

Ed. Register-rhe amount of travel
that is setting toward California at
this time is marvellous. The rich and
poor's, the high and lows representa-
tves from all classes of society are to
be found with their faces turned toward
the Golden West, and their footsteps
are all directed toward a common goal,
and that goal is California. To this
favored land they are coming by thous-
ands and by thousands will they re-
main.
The reasons for this remarka BILE emil
grafton are many. 1t is an undeniable
fact that the winters in the states east
of the Rockey Mountains are becoming
harder and more vigorous year by
year. Cyclones and other electrical
phenomena are becoming more and
more frequent. In the NorthWestern
Eastern and Middle States six months
of the year, at the least calculation.
are months of alternate freezing and
thawing, of snow, hail and sleet, inter-
spersed with weather so cold as to rem
der life burden to the lucklass indi-
vidual whose business compeIs him to
face the stinging blasts. Billiards.
scud over the snow clad earth at the
rate of sixty miles an hour, whirling
the loose snow in binding sheets and
piling it up i'm great 1fsFfs everywhere
that an obstruction presents itself to
its mad career. To the poor the long
dreary winters of that section are
fraught with misery and suffering.
Work during the cold season is scarce
| ly t. be had, and even when obtained,
at wages so low as hardly to furnish
the barest necessities of life. To the
rich, with their large, welI-constructed
dwellings, supplied with every costly
convenience that the ingen uity of man
can conceive for excluding the cold.
the prospect of six mouths seige by
the bitter elements is far from being
pleasant one.
Much has been said and written in
the Eastern States concerning Califor-
MIA. Unqualified praise has been be-
SlOWeu upou Wis SIoliSoo- SAihIaSSs
That the statements of this latter class
are almost TOTALLY l!sbelieved is evil
denced by the cs,nstantlys increasing
streams of travel which save Califor-
MIA for an objective point; and to those
whose ideas of California are bounded
| by reason, the wonderful combination
of climate, soil and scenery, of business
opportunities, of religious and educa-
tional facilities will be found to exceed
the most sanguine descrip tions. They
will find land of warmth and sun
shine. of fruits and flowers, of peace
and plenty. In place of snow banks
and frozen ground they will fini green
fields and hillslopes.
They Will find plenty of land at
prices within the reach of all. They
will find a soil adapted to the luxurious
growth OF all the cereals, of the vine,
the olive, and of every variety of fruits
known to man, while horses, cattle
and sheep feed on the succulent grasses
of the hills and mountain sides with
out cent of expense or an hours extra
care.
The eye of man never rested upon a
/ more beautiful country than this cDun.
try surrounding Selma as it appears
| to-day. The whole of nature smiles
and laughs in the face of the beholder
aud promises one of the grandest harv-
ests ever reaped in this valley. One
cannot imagine anything much finer.
March Is, 1883. U. 5. ADAMS.