Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-23

vsllds, and incidentally mentioned the
real estate craz2.
was warned while there thst If Wro e
home giving my impressions, and if those
impressions did not suit the "ripg" en-
gagged in the booming business, 1 would
be severely attacked. That warning did
not hinder ne from writing to the Tfit-
uDe In candid, unnbiasec msnner.
Now comes the Los Angeles Tribune of
January 81, ia which is al abusive and
discourteous notwithstanding me for the
lett wrote you. That attack is jqst
like dozens 1 saw in the local papers
Wails WAS there. The papers are all in
the ring" OF boomers, whose Limitations
Of the GLORIOUS climate" are paid for at
so much line. They are all subsidized.
But they are sowing the wird, snd will
reap the WhirlWind, as they Will find
when the thousands they have helped to
sWindle shall realizeithe full depth Of
their depravity. The letter you publish
to-day, taken from the New York Herald,
was truthful statement of the situstion,
and it will call down on the writer's head
the most dire ana hemssi.nd abuse. The
Los Angeles editorial de-ls in such cpl
thets as ''liar" and "crank," but does
not bring forward 8 single proof that l
misstated the character Of the climate or
the senselessness Of the "boom."
Now, want to say that l remained IN
California several weeks sitter l wrote my
letter, and 1 saw nothing to make me
change my statements as whole.
l did, however, make one misstate-
ment. 1 said there was no "mslaris"
there. found it otherwise. Ultil q
year or two ego there WAS but little
msIaria in California, but Of late it has
become wors than Florida. ssy
Florida because the Californians are par
ticularly jealous Of Florida, and always
Set their state up against the latter. l
talked confdentiAlly with numerous
physicians and druggists, and they would
not publicly say what they told me.
found that nearly every valley and the
seRcosst had become malarious. Taey
thought it was caused by tne digging of
railroads, Of ,rrigating bitches, the lay
ing out of Settles" Gil over the country,
etc. 1t is well known that the New En-
gland coast states are Suffering in tie
same manner, and from nearly the same
causes. Now as TO the climate. For
several years the Californiaus have lauded
their glorious "Winter climate" Thou
sands Of physicians have believed in:
those statements and have sent tens Ct
thousands Of inValids and delicate per-
soAs there to avoid the severe winters
Of our northern states. 1t hiss
been a fatal mistake. l grant that this
Is the severest winter ever known in
California; but the testimony Of invslids
as to previous winters satisfies me that
those who have gone to California eX
pecting q mild, warm winter have been
sadly disappointed.
The mean empereture for inValids to
be comfortable in is 10 Fahrenheit. Now
the mean temperature of South Carolina
In winter for the last ten years has been
So Fahrenheit. To the natives, or those
who have been acclimsted, this may not
be an uncomfortable temperature, but to
northern invalids 1t is seriously unc0m-
Portable, and even dangerous, because
the houses are not built for winter COM
fort, and only few hotels are now
built for such comfort. They point
to their fruit as proof that the
climate Of California is seml-tropical. All
the fruits grown in California will grow
well in temperature of co. Fahrenheit If
1t is uniform. But If 8 sudden changeoc.
ours, as it did in Florida in 1865 and this
winter in California, it means death to aIE
those fruits. -
have another word to say about Chi
fornis. When the early missions we're
founded in that state there were 20 Or
anges, grapes or other similar fruits
growing there. 1t WAS practically as
much Of desert as Arizona now is. Oaly
when they introduced extensive, unremiE-
ting irrigation could they grow anything.
II is the same to-day. Destroy all the irri-
eating processes in California and the
main portions OF the state would revert
to Its desert condition. AS proof OF this
I saw maDy orange groves and vineyards
where the land had been sold for specula-
tive purposes. Irrigation had been sus-
pended, and the trees and vines were yell
low and dying. Except curing the few
months Of rain, the land has 10 be sat-
urAted with water every five or ten days
or trees and vegetation Of all kinds will
die. How would an Illinois farmer or
Florida orange-groWer like such state
OF things? Agriculture or fruit-growing
Is then one constant battle with the enc
my, artdity. And yet they call 1t the
"glorious garden of the world"
have another charge 10 make against
the boomers and lisrs of that state. They
are guilty OF crime sgainst humanity.
While In Los Angeles, Pasadena, and
other places, 1 saw hundreds OF families
irving TO live in tents or frail board struc-
lures. Many OF these people were in
vslids. 1 saw them lowering around the
stoves In their tents, only fit for trop
ic.I climate. They raid: 1--WE were told
we could live in the open sir the year
round; we came and found no accommo-
dssions, no rooms or houses to let, or no.
tel accommodations except at exor JigAnt
prices; we were compelled to do as we
do" These people were accustomed ct
home to good houses and warm fires. TIE
sickness and discomfort among them we're
great. They came there lured by false
representations. viii not such system
attic policy Of lying react against coun-
TYP
went to California full OF similar illu-
sions. The disillusion WAS very painful.
have no grudge against that state.
have no desire to write II down. l want
physicians, and inyalids, and ell others to
know the truth. Florida is paying dearly
for the policy of lies which once cursed
that state. Yet the lying of the people OF
Florida were very white lies compared
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