Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-02-18

and third party offers a splendid,
equipped three and half-story -four
ing mill, all in running order, with tn,
best water-power in the county. Two
dwelling houses, warehouses and II
acres Of fine land costing nearly $40.
900 for $4,000. This real estate boom
partakes more Of
A SPECULATIVE CRAZE
Than a real desire 10 buv and settle
Yet the transfers during the last wear
amounted to nearly sos, 900. 900, and
there are some as fine buildings be-
ing erected at present in this city as
can be found most anywhere on the
Coast. The influx OF SO many from
the East added to the $4,000 perma-
nent residents makes this a busy,
bustliDg city, and the hotel accommo-
dations seem inadequate to the task OF
browning for so many. They all claim
to be Of the first class, but the truth
of the matter is strangers generally
pronounce them execrable. II our
friend Jackson, of the Jackson House,
should drop into some Of the caravan
saries in this city he would concur
with most old Eurekans here that one
day at the Jackson House is better
than week here.
In the Spring the greater portion OF
the new corners, having return tickets,
will depart for their Eastern homes,
while, perhaps, fifteen per cent OF the
number will have purchased homes
and become permanent residents
Still they pour ia as fast as the trains
can bring them, an even thousand
coming in one day last week.
One popularity Of the Eastern peo-
pie, or, in fact, those from other sec
tions as well, is that their
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
OF Southern California is very favora-
BILE; after a few weeks it is generally
just the other way. In the course of
three months their objections have
tendency TO gradually wear away, and
3hey take more kindly to the situa-
tion. II they stay here two or three
years they very often become infatu-
ated with the climate, and their
praises are most always entirely over
drawn and unreasonable; hence the
exaggerated accounts OF correspond
ents in the Eastern press. True,
sudden transition from the rigid
blasts Of Dakota TO this climate must
be acceptable. yet, when one gets ac-
cliiRated here he feels the cold nearly
as much as they would in a much
colder climate than this. They sell
CLIMATE FIRST
In this particular part OF our mundane
sphere; health second, and land last
on the list. Health in the Winter
season is a misnomer. People are
very much troubled with bronchial
affections and rheumatic pains more
30 than they would be in a clear, dry
This is most always fatal to
those afflicted or tainted Nth con-
and many papers are be-
ginning TO acknowledge the fact, al
ready too well proven to require dem
The natural sanitarium for
these complaints is not the coast and
logs of California, but the dry, brac-
ing air of Nevada or Arizona, or the
foothills Of the Sierra Nevadas, far
away from the humid conditions pre-
vailing near the sea. The time is
probably not far distant when the
searcher after health will eagerly seek
the health-giving, invigorating air and
cloudless skies of such places as Reno,
Eureka or other towns
Nevada in search OF the
health for which the coast counties OF
California are obviously not suitable.
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