The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-09

tands the expense and pays a mngnil.
:ent profit, Other orc, assaying SIS q
on, IL thrown over the dump. This can
20 milled for S., and the company pro.
roses to put IL q mill at once, and there
re millions Of dollars III sight. A fine
'tream Of water goes with the prop.
'iy.
At Minneapolis Mr.. Scott met Benia.
min Mead and his daughter, formerly
prominent people IN Belmont county,
'ctoss the river. At Seattle, Wash, he
not ex.Justice "Bill" Phillips and his
tlle is agent for 4 summer re-.
'ort, aud Is doing well. AT Los Angeles
40 saw Mr.. W. L. Hughes, who seemed
be rs prosperous Is he could wish,
At Pasadena he found Mr.. Jacob Grier
n his hardware store.
AT Roses ranch, adjoining that OF
Baldwin, near Pasadena, CAL,
MIR. Scott recognized all tho glassware
about tho place aa the product Of the
OF which he is President. Rose
has what is referred to rs "a little patch
Of grapes" In which there are 5000
acres. This II but a sample Of the way
they do things in California. Mr.. Scott
was exceedingly enthusiastic about the
fruit on tho Pacific coast. In Washing.
ton, Oregon and California, he saw
cherries as big "a West Virginia plums,
and too luscious to describe. In Cali.
he measured one OF the peaches,
taken at random, audit was l0f inches
in circumference. The grapes weigh
is to 20 pounds to the bunch. The way
grow, he says, cannot be exagger.
ated. On Mr.. kleinielter's ranch, near
kiveraide, there arc 9! acres in alfalfa
(%clover.) The white clover heads are az
large US red clover here. From this q
acres over two tons to the acre Is mown
at each cutting, and the marvel Of it is
that the hay is cut eight times q year.
Mr.. kleinlelter also has an orange
grove, which yields him about $3.50 an
acre per aunum. Hops produce i'm.
mense crops with no care.
The cities OF the Northwest, Mr., Scott
says, are marvels Of growth. Seattle, in
age but an infant, has q population as
as Wheeling or perhaps a little
The buildings now going up
arc far ahead Of anything Wheeling has.
Horse cars are unknown, all the street
being cable or electric. The fires, he
saye, are now recognized to have been a
blessing in disguise.
Seattle, by the way, has q hill some
what like Wheeling hill, but II anything
She does not talk about cutting
it down. Cable cars are run up one side
and down the other, and tho hillside
terraced. Streets wind about the face,
and the result is a much handsomer city
than il the hill were graded down.
These terraces are fashionable resi-
aence localities, the level parts Of town
abandoned to business. Astoria
another growing town, and Mr.. Scott
prophesies, q coming metropolis OF the
North.West Portland, though a fine
and thriving city, he' thinks is bound
70 waue. 1t has tho finest hotel, in his
opinion, in the United S,atea-the Port
and. The rooms are all outside rooms.
The Chinese own one Of the best blocks
u Portland, right in the heart Of the
;ity, audit cannot be bought. Portland
aas q Chinese millionaire. Mr.. Scott
Chinese are a much elandered
people. They are given a good name all
llong the coast. u
AS to the climate, he says that while
le was reading in thee as.ern dispatches
o the papers that the weather was the
hottest Tor years, he wore light oyercoat
md Mrs. Scott a fur sack in tho evening,
40 and Mrs. Scott were taken out in
steam ting to the new government yes-
'el, San Francisco, and shown over it.
Nh. Scott, with all his enthusiastic
praise for that section, saw also i,a dis
He thinks West Virginia
will do, and the farmers here need mob
o west to better their circumstances.
10 expatiated so warmly on the min
erals and timber OF this State, her fine
Iir, fine scenery, good water aud her
'ther attractions, that Mrs. Scott was
ed to remark that she never knew be-
ore what a great State she lived in.
The big yields Of fine products in Cal.
fornia are not made without labor and
Expense. Water is scarce. It is neces.
AIRY to irrigate the land every five
weeks, aud to fertilize it twice a year.
The orchards are cultivated Just as corn
8 here. Every five weeks they are
The boom Southern California
njoyed several years ago is regretted by
he people there, Lands then richly
productive were cut up and sold in lots
0 eastern people, and now lie idle.
Property which then sold readily for
$500 could now readily be bought for
500. The boom has collapsed, and the
'eople realize that it did harm, and not
God.
"And what about politics out there?"
he reporter asked, after q long and in
creating talk.
"Mr. Clarkson went all over that
not long before I did" said Mr..
'cott, land he won the people. Every
7here the talk was about him, First.
'eu can rest assured that neither party
an win in '02 unless its candidate is for
ither the present oliver bill or free coin.
go. They demand this out there.
after all the talk l heard, l am pre.
jared TO predict that the ticket in iS92
rill be Blaine and Clarkson. II not,
OH mark this-Mr. Clarkson will have
s much to do with nsming the ticket as
ny n man. He is considered by the
Festern people as a great big man, and
think they are right. He understands
hem and appreciates their needa and
GantH. ~ Blaine is also considered IA a
man than ever before, since that
title spat with Great Britain. His re.
iprocity views are also popular there.
and Clarkson would sweep that
ountry-and it would be a strong ticket
too"
1- "rhe Upper Ohio yalley.'
MessrS. Brant 4 Fuller have received
he first copics OF their LARGE work. in two |