The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1888-05-16
California Letter.
Lordsburg, Cal, May 7, 1888.

ED TINES: I expected to fulfill my
promise of writing to the TINES long
before this, and if had probably I
would have written a more glowing
letter, but have seen more Of the
wonders and the beauties Of the
country now, and can perhaps give
a more settled opinion.
They call this season of the year
spring here, but I suppose it is be.
cause the country is settled by east
ern people and like customs, names
cling to them, and they call it spring
because it is that season 'back
east"
For to 60 into an orange or lemon
orchard and see the trees bended
with the beautiful yellow fruit, it
looks like fall to tender-foot. But
then the same trees are covered
with blossoms at the same time.
April is the month for picking
oranges and lemons, and we have
seen wagon loads of them in the
orchards ready for shipment.
We landed in California at Pasa-
dena, suburb it might be called, of
Los Angeles, the Pasadenians call
their town the paradise of the
world. And surely if lovely homes
and fine climate make a paradise
then Pasadena can lay claim to the
honor.
Pasadena has great many east
I ern people who have an abundance
of lucre, and they spend it lavishly
J in beautifying their homes. AS all
r kinds of tropical fruits and plants
grow here, it is an easy matter to
make a lovely place in a few years.
Roses bloom the year round, and in
E stead of picket fences, lawns are en-
" closed by roses and palm trees, that
is, some of them.
= Nature has made the climate fol
California, but man has greatly as
s sisted nature in making it beautiful
for without water, in many places
there are now beautiful orchards Of
tropical fruits, which would be a des
ert.
Much of the best land has beer
reclaimed from the desert by irriga
- ton, and the time is coming whel
the word desert will be entirel,
q. washed out of California by irriga
tion.
Southern California has over
doomed itself and at present is sui
Y fering from the effects of it. Blu
we have the country and it is goini
as as ahead steadily and surely, and
r. won't be long till the country vii
begin a more substantial growth
one that will last.
- Now let me say something abor
). this country as a field of forum
in The gold don't grow here on tree
or any more than it does in Bates coul
ty, and for a poor man Bates is E
IS. good place as this.
Iwould not advise any one
- come here to make living by IL
days work or expecting to find
soft job.
The soft jobs are all taken u
n but if fellow wants to try the rea
~ ties of life by carrying hod up
yer three-story building, or somethir
of that kind, he can get about 50
day. Ordinary laborers get 5
board can not be had for less tn,
. Sc a week, so there isn't much Il
to get rich on. Girls who want
go out as cooks, walters, etc, in b
tells or private families get goo
wages, they get s25 month and u
ward, and their board.
all. As for US we are well satisfied al
think we can do we'll.
dis One of the strangest to nj
easterner is who are going to live
the big hotels they are building
- this country. At our town, Lore
and burg, Los Angeles county, they s
are building hotel to cost S1OO,0'
f'''- There is but small town here, +
this hotel is to have all the latest i
provements of tirst-class city hot
One hotel in Pasadena paid abe
). $4,000 for groceries last winter a
We its receipts were S1,500.000.
and There is but one thing I reg