Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-02-24
Pasadena, Cal.
To the Editor of the HERALD.

To the Editor of the HERALD.
A few words from an old towns
man about this much doomed coun-
try may be of interest to some of
your many readers. First of all it
is the finest town | have seen in this
country. 1t is situated ten miles
from Los Angeles, the seat of the
boom, fifteen miles from the ocean,
and three miles from the foot of the
Sierre Madre Mountains, which rise
up nine thousand feet, and whose
peaks are snow-capped the entire
year. Pasadena is great city, said
to have ten thousand people, and
lays high and dry some 500 feet
above the sea level. | have been
here twenty days only, and have
spent the greater part of the time in
studying this boom, and regret to
say find the boom off, and the
mask raised; and those honest peo-
pie who bought the most of the pro
perty that has changed hands at
boom prices are beginning to see
where they are. A party said yes
terday, eve are loaded to the
muzzle, and if you eastern parties do
not take this load from us before
you go home we are gone up com
munity." A man told me to-day
that he came here four months ago
and went into the real estate bust
ness with a first class man, who
made $4,000 last year in that bust
ness, and they have worked hard
with one Of the best lists in the city
but have not made a sale, and he
was then looking for some other
business. He further said that his
partner now thinks that instead of
making anything this year the bot
tom will drop out of what he made
last year. This whole country from
San Francisco to Mexico has all been
doomed. | asked man the price
of property, and he replied that pro
perty was dear two years ago at s.
front foot, and it is very cheap
now at 500 per foot, with no i'm
provements upon it, nor much near
it. This is about the ratio Of the
boom values all over this country,
and the press, pulpit and under
takers have all taken hold to hold
this together and unload it this win
ter on to the "tenderfoot." 1t was
the most complete scheme ever en-
tered into, and if accomplished
would have put this country into
hands where it would have matter
ed but little to the people here what
the next harvest might be. 1t will
fail. There is too much of it to be
"surshine and roses" boom. I can
buy more property than can pay
for at two thirds what it cost the
present owner. lie has put in one
third, and is now hunting for some
one to take it at what he owes for
it and save his paper from protest.
1t is a sad thing to find this state of
affairs, as thousands of honest PEG.
pie have lost their last dollar, and
could not have kept out of it, even
against the advice of all THEN
friends. The worst blow of all is
that people have wakel up to the
fact that California is the worst eli
mate in the world for Threats and
lungs during the rainy, foggy, damp
and chilly season, and they are dying
to the great surprise of everyone
A gentleman, who has resided in
this state thirty-two years told me
the climate was healthy ten months
bat that no one had any bushes,
here during the winter months, af
fiicted with lung troubles. | have
seen more strong men and womel
coughing hard from colds TAX el
here in my stay of less than tire,
weeks than in Minneapolis in fou
years.
The country here is beautiful; n,
) one can ride or drive through an
, of this western section and not b
captivated. Orange groves ar
everywhere laden with their golle
fruit. | can now easily sec no,
: Pulitzer of the New York Worl
: and Wood of the Times can com
here in their palace car attached t
vestibule train and have magnif
+ cent greatness at the Raymond,