The Press., 1888-08-23
LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA.

AS 1t may be Of interest to some to know the English definition of some of>tha Cali fornia names, will write few 0f them Alameda-A grove with elms.
 Almaden-The mine
 Alverado-The white roa1. Del Mar-Of the sea.
 Del Norte-Of the north.
 Eldorado-The golden.
 Elmonte-The wood.
 LObos-The wolves.
 Monte Vista-Mountain view.
 Mariposa-The butterfly. '
 Merced-Mercy. ..l7. sPajaro-The bird.
 Rio Vista-River view.
 Sacramento-Sacred mind
 Corral-A yard or pen.
 Salinas-Place of salt.
 San Andreas-St. Andrew.
 San Buenaventura-St. Good Fortune
 San Diego-St. James,
 San Joaqdin-St. Joachim.
 San Jose-St. Joseph.
 San Lorenzo-St. Lawrence.
 San Luis Obispo-St. Luis, the bishop. r San Mateo-St Matthew.
 San Pablo-St. Paul.
 San Pedro-St. Peter.
 Santa Clara-St. Clara.
 Santa Cruz-Holy cross.
 Sonoma-Valley of the moon.
 Coronado-Crowned
 Coyote-A kind of wolfe.
 Fl Cajune-The box.
 Amador-The lover.
 Placer-Gold diggings.
 Elsinore-Home of Hamlet.
 Fresno-Ash trees.
 Los Angeies-The angels.
 Los Gator-The cats
 Los. .Robles The oaks.
 Los Vegas-The plains.
 Los Casitas-Little homes.
 Modoc-Hostile Indians.
 Monterey-The kings mountain.
 Santa Fe-Holy faith.
 Santa Oatalina-St. Catherine.
 Santa Ana-St. Ann.
 Santa Anita-St. Nancy.
 Santa Monica-St. Monica.
 Santa Jenoveva-St. Genevieve.
 San Gabriel-St. Gabriel.
 Tia Juana-Aunt Jennie.
 Vallejo-Big valley.
 Yosemite-A large grizzly bear.
 It is said the Jesuit Fathers, who were the first missionaries in thls country named most of the towns and rivers after the names of the various saints, hence the almost innumerable number of the names of places beginning with San or Santa.
 The boom is thing of thepast, and il is good thing for the mass of the people that it is so. as every one is now getting back to legitimate business, and we can al ready see marked improvement in build ing and cultivating the land. Prices are firm for land and business property Orange land, with water right and unculti Vated, is held at four to six hundred dol lars an acre.. o. B. White has fine blocl nearly completed for the Peoples Bank, a a cost of $40, ,000. A new post-ofice hai been built of pressed brick, 25x80 feet and the office occupies the whole room or the lower floor. There are 960 bronz. lock boxes, four delivery windows, fou letter boxes, and two for papers and othel bundles. All of the equipments wtr, made in and shipped from Chicago, and il is said to be the finest office in Southern California. Six years ago the office wal kept in the corner of a small drug store and boot box was arranged with ten cal boxes in one side of it, which answered al purposes at that time. The Oxhart bricl National Bank has plans completed for tn, finest three-story block of all, which vii be built the coming winter. Plans are be ing drawn for two more brick blocks, tC be built in the near future.
 An addition to the winery has been bull .at cost of $20, 900, and it now has a ca .pacity of 555, ,OO0 gallons, and it will bt filled in three months. The cannery handled 5OO,0OO pounds of aprieots, and i now taking in the peach crop, which Ii very much larger. The grape crop neve was so large as this year, and it is esti mated that the raisin crop will reacl ], ,50O, 900 boxes.
 The railroads are doing a very larg business. Some idea of the traffic may b gathered from the fact that 13, OOU rounc trip tickets were sold by the Southern Pa cifc R. R. company on the last Sunday il July to go from Los Angeles to Sant' Monica Beach, and there was nothing un usual going on there either. It is sixteel miles from Los Angeles, and is the princi pie Sunday resort for the city, people an' the strangers who may chance to be there The highest number sold on any previou Sunday was 12,0OO. The fare for tn round trip is 75 cts. This is the time O year when the sick and the well, the slacl and the lazy, go to the beach, the spring and the canons for change of air and cooler breeze, to reeuperate their waste' energies, and to see and be- seen there fore, nearly half of the people are away, O have been, or are going. expect to leave Pomona for the eas about the middle of August for a visit il Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Yorl state, and shall probably take some notc by the way, (which will send to Tn Press) if see anything that is worth writ ing about. G. l.. ToPLFF.
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