The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-04
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and Sunshine.
Your FIRST impression of California
win not be fayorable: The real estate
agents with all their cheek did not try
to subdivide the country Immediately
west of the Needles. As your train
moves over the MoJoue desert you are
Disguised with the scenes of utter des-
OlatiOn and you fall asleep to dream of
dusty and prohibition and the ragged
edge of hard times. at the break of
day you awake amid rugged mountains.
the cold air chills you when you open
your window and as your tram sudden
~ changes from toll to caution, you
sleep again while you are carefully car
ried down three thousand feet of grade
and when you again awake in the ear
ly morning wood of dewy green, of
birds and bees and flowers and sun
shine and the soft sweet breath of
spring welcomes you to San Bernardo
no and to Southern California.
San Bernardino with her street cars.
/ Electric light and new tangled ways
must blush when asked for her pede-
gree. Her dad was the man who used
| to have to rush out in the weather at
midnight for doctor some twenty odd
times year. Something like forty
years ago Brigham Young sent band
of saints from Salt Lake City to settle
at San BernandinO. There is some of
the stock living here yet but as they
have long since given up poligamy no
body cares whether they are mormons
or not.
You will soon comprehend that this
is not new country. A new era in
an old country would better redresent
the condition of Southern California.
You will see frequent evidence of the
old with the new. In the misty past
the bold Spaniard met the noble red
maiden gathering grasshOpers in the
grease wood and their two hearts beat
as one and the result Of the union was
stand off, later on few white men
strayed from civilization and traded
their energy for the easy slip shod life
of the Mexican and the result of the
new combination was an elegant stand
off.
IOuee heard a colored minister in
the Indian Territory say to his cOngre-
cation that it was easier to make mig
gers out of white men than it was to
make white men out of niggers. The
white men who married Mexicans be-
came Mexican as rule. You may be
spooDy on "Romonia" but when you
have had mexican neighborS for a sea-
son or two you will put the book away
!, along with your first love letter and a
few other relics that did not pan out.
1t was only when the white men came
in force that the country tell in the
ranks of advancing civilization. You
can spend a day or two prOftably in
and around San Bernadino. The num-
erOus orchards and the great number
of artician wells will be of much inter
est. Some of these wells are said to
have flow of fifty inches. IAN inch
of water is the amount that will flow
through an inch Operature with four
inch pressure). There are convenient
, trains both on the Santa Fe system
and on the motor road running out of
town in all directions. The motor
road runs from San Bernardino to Col
ton to East Riverside and to Riverside
J The motor road is kind of cross be-
tween a railroad and a street car sys
TEN. 1t is the chronic kickers idea
of accommodation. 1t will let you on Of
off anywhere and if you are too latC
for one train you will be in very good
time for the next. 1t is a regular Cal
ifornia pet. If it is small you viii
find that is by no means slow. It of
ten has the cheek to banter its bis
Deighbor for race. In my next will
take you down to Riverside in the
heart of the orange country and show
you how the fruit is grown and packed
for shipment across the continent.
do not think Riverside Is maturity an.
better for growing the orange thai
manv other localities, but it has beef
, done in a more SYSTEMATIC way thai
| anywhere else and the results ar
: therefore better. QUILP.