St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-06
HEALTH OR WEALTH.
Neither Can Be Pound Now in Cali
fornia.
THE BOOM IS BURsTED.
What a Minneapolis Man Learned-.-A
Calm, Fair Statement Of
the Case.

weight that carried so many people to
California during the fall and winter to
make fortunes on real estate. Every
report from the modern Eldorado is OF
the one tenor-the boom is busted. The
GLOBE is in receipt of a letter from j.
M. Bartlett, of Minneapolis, dated at
Pasadena, that is conclusive in itself.
Mr.. Bartlett is of the firm Of Marsh Il
Bartlett, than which none stand higher.
The letter is as follows:
There is such a contrast between the
cold winter climate of the Northern and
Eastern states and any of the many sec
tiOnS of mild climate of this and so
many other states, that one is quite apt
to be so carried away with the change
from the cold as to forget many import
ant things material in health and
comfort, without the important con-
sideration that it requires
full years residence to Judge of the eli
mate of any section Of our country.
While the winters are mild here, the
entire rainfall for the year is between
December and May. Two months OF
this time, from the middle of December
till the middle of February, partly ow-
ing to frequent rains and quite
DIS MUCH w lLc WliilCl ooooo,,
are damp and chilly, and will
of Minnesota winter. All agree that
the climate from February to June is
most delightful. AS the rainfall ceases
with April the dust is so thick by June
that the weather from then to the rainy
season in December is uncomfortable by
any one not welded to its deStinieS.
Everything not irrigated is dead and
dried up.
in roads not sprinkled is from
four inches to two feet deep
and on the fence and
buildings. No one but California
boomer can put these facts together
and make an all year climate that Will
at all compare favorably with the all
year climate of any of our northern
states. If this statement of climate is
fair, it must be for health or better IA
cilities for making money rapidly or
easily that induces people to come
here and be contented and happy
The certainty of failure Of most crops
without irrigation and the expense OF
irrigation where water can be had at
all removes the question OF comparison
with Western farming at once, except
those articles that cannot be grown III a
climate having cold winter, and there
is so much cheap land in states
with climate as favorable as this, where
land is in the market at IS an acre and
no irrigation required and less liable to
froSts, that farming successfully here is
out of the question. This brings us
down to the great question that induced
this great multitude to come here
this winter: The real estate boom
and the healthfulness of the eli
mate. AS to the realty boom, it only
needs the buZZardS to remove the car
Gus. 1t is dying hard. There is the
largest crop of stakes marking corner
lots that was ever planted to demOralize
and band of music, with free dinner,
tried to sell choice addition at San
Bernardino yesterday
NOT A PIECE WAS SOLD.
The same six CARS and horse and
driver are served up at ManrOnlc to-
day. The result will no doubt be the
same. One man said to-day he brought
all his money here and invested
it at the earnest solicitation of
his friends. He says: II will take 81 900
less than put in and throw my plug hat
in the street and go home with my head
bare if could get the balance OF my
money" The half has never been told.
| do not mean there is no good value
here and that there will not be
good towns and cities as the re-
suit of this boom. do mean
that these towns and cities on
paper will 90 back and be farm ranches
for the next hundred years. l am now
down to the question of health. A very
intelligent gentleman who has lived
here, and near here, eight years, and
has been close observer, as he says,
made the assertion that if twelve strong
boys, residents of the state, were put
into brick stores at twelve years old,
and given the same opportunities that
boys have in similar positions East,
ten of them would die before they be-
came eighteen years old, and the most
of them would die of consumption, Ow-
ing to the dampness of the climate. He
said further that 20 per cent more people
would be sound
WITH LUNG TROUBLES
to stay in Minnesota the entire year
than if they came here; said one church
in town near here buried seven per-
sons in one week who died of consump-
ton, and every one residents of the
state. This party is operating in corner
lots in Los Angeles and here,
ana Has Hlduo pie ouG VI
the boom, but is Disguised
with the lies told that induce invalds
to leave good homes to come here and
die. From my close observation l am
satisfied he puts the case mild. This
winter ends the health boom, and
physicians East who have sent their
patients here to die upon the
boom representations have none
too much time to put themselves right
with the living. The same conditions
that induce consumption on and near
the Atlantic coast exist here and are
made from the rains and fogs in winter.
There is damp ice house chill here
that l have never experienced before.
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