Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-05-03
PROSPEROUS CALIFORNIA.
A Trip Along the Coast TO SAN Fran
ciAcO and Back Through she san
Joaquin Valley.

Trip Along the Coast TO San Fran-
ciscO and Back Through the san
Joaquin Valley.
EDITORS HERALD-The Santa CARA
valley, in Ventura county, has mace eH,
traordinary progress since the advent o,
the railroad, two years ago. A oouhtiiu'
crop Of barley is ready now for the reaper
and thousands of acres have been plo"eu
and planted to corn and beans.
new toll road has just been con-
structed from Santa Barbara to Las Oil
vas, over the San Marcos Pass, and the
large six-hor 10 daily stage carries great
number of passengers over that very pic
turesoue route. The interior OF Santa
Barbara county as far as Santa Ynez and
Ballard's is still uncultivated, and owned
in large tracts only; it is q natural park
of green pastures, beautiful groves OF
heavy oak timber, and running streams.
Las OliSas, the new terminus OF the mar
row gauge railroad from San Luis Obispo
is pretty new town. Already number
of pretty houses have been built there
and orchards have been planted all
around the TOWNSHIP.
The Santa Maria valley is making
rapid strides, the sandy lands have all
been planted to eucalyptus trees. Their
effect as wind-break is already felt.
Arroyo Grande, famous for its rich
moist-iands, is losing its character as q
western country town, and with it's large
and tasty buildings assumes the air of a
city. At Steele's, just before reaching
San Luis Obispo, the mines of bitumin-
GUS lime rock show signs of great activ-
ity. Side-lines from the railroad have
been run to the hills and wagon roads
and bridges built in all directions from
the mines.
The stage line from San Luis has been
shortened to twelve miles to Santa Mar.
garita, known as Pat Murphy's Rauch.
With its wealth of mighty forest trees,
and streams of living water, this ranch
is great and beautiful natural park.
The coast line has only just been ex-
May 1st the freight trains will run there
regularly, as we'll as all passenger trains
from Fan Francisco.
Templeton, the new and beautiful town
hidden in grove of gigantic oak trees, is
very quiet now, being no longer the ter
minus of the railroad. New modern
residences and young orchards line the
road from there to Paso Robes Hot
Springs, where magnificent bathhouse
has lately been built, and a great hotel
is to be constructed this season.
The fine country between Paso Robes
through Cedelarde and along the Nacimi-
ento river to the coast, in spite of its
wonderful beauty and great mineral
wealth, is still vast pasture only, I'M
known to the tourist and the homeseeker.
From Paso Robles through San Miguel
as far as Soledad City, the country is
owned in large bodies only, and roamed
over by great bands of cattle. Further
north, large grain fields skirt the rail-
road. The new civilization of the West
has not touched this region yet. Orchards
and modern houses are not the order OF
the day, and the towns are decidedly
western" in aspect.
From Castroville north, a new order
OF things prevails. 1t is country of
rapid progress, of small farms and fruit
ranches, of modern houses, and every
inch of the rich, moist lands is in the
highest state of cultivation as Chinese
vegetable gardens.
San Francisco enjoys now period of
prosperity in business. The hotels are
we'll filled with tourists and city property
sells rapidly at high prices. One lot next
to the corner of Kearney and Market
streets was sold lately for 81 900 a front
foot. Excursions in connection with
sales of land have been organized for
MERGED, Fresno, Bakersfield and Ell
Versno.
The moist lands in the Sacramento
Valley, although the country is not
healthy, is selling in large bodies at 500
an acre. The crop of barley promises to
be very large this year. Speculative
buyers are offering $l4 ton for the new
crop, old barley sells for SO ton now.
The country from Oakland, along the
new railroad, skirting the bay, is rapidly
becoming great manufacturing country.
From Lathrop to Fresno, the country
that was, five years ago mostly unculh-
waited, now is great grain field. Fresno,
in its prosperity, begins to rival Los An
geles. Brick blocks inside the city, and
beautiful modern residences in the sub
urbs are built up, and the foothill slope
for hundred miles sonth of Fresno is O
great succession of beautiful orchards
and raisin vineyards.
The summer heat has set in already in
the great San Joaquin Valley, and makes
you long again for the cooling ocean
nephyrs that fan the air in Los Angeles
county.
The whole of the State of California
shows condition of prosperity and i'm
provement, not equslled in any other
State in the Union, development of re-
sources unknown elsewhere. And if Los
Angeles is quiet now, in sense, it is
only the short reaction after period of
too hasty advancement, such as prevailed
eighteen months ago. All signs unmis-
takeably point to great revival OF bust
ness activity in the fall of 1889.
THEODORE WIEsENDANaER.
Mount Olympus and santa Monica.
EDITORS HERALD-The bee-men and
woman are iubilant. The flowers are