Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-03-04
northern EDITORS Appreciation.

yan, OF the St. Helena Otdrs ho ID
Young gentleman who adorns the pro- |
fession by his ability as writer and by |
the integrity OF his personal character.
When he returned to his home in Napa
Valley, he gave very detailed account
of his trip, and concluded his article with
the following appreciative summary OF
the impressions made upon him by what
he had seen here:
Now for Southern California and her
people. To be candid, at the outset we
admit that We left here with q slight
amount of prejudice existing in our
mind and wrong impression OF the
country and people, all Of which has
been removed. We found beautiful
and attractive country, with very large
area under high state OF cultivation,
populated by thrifty, industrious and
hospitable class of people. The boom is
bursted, and has been for some time,
but the people are not; they seem to
possess an indomitable will and an un-
usual amount of public spirit and enter
prise. 1t is remarkable to see how well
they have managed to recover from the
effects of the collapse of the boom. Not
withstanding the fact that times are dull
there, the go-ahesd and progressive spirit
manifested on all sides is worthy of COM
mendation and praise; they are class
of people who will not down. There is
only one objection that we can raise, and
that is that the people of certain districts
have allowed themselves to become in
oculsted with the fanatical idea of Pro-
hibition; but if We are to judge by the
sentiment as expressed in our presence,
there is a strong feeling of an adverse
nature springing up on all sides.
IL is very productive and beautiful
country, especially the orange districts.
We of the North cannot consistently lay
claim to being successful competitors of
the South in this industry until we enter
the market on much more extensive
scale than we have up to the present
date. Southern California is the home
of the orange. The acreage devoted to
orange and lemon culture in the south
ern counties is estimated to be 10000
These acres, not all in full bear
ing, produced in 1889 over and
above home consumption, 1885,
100 900 boxes of lemons, making about
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While this is the main industry, they
have various others of an extensive and
profitable nature.
Another thing noticeable. and very
commendable, is the harmonious man
ner in which the residents of the differ
ent sections pull together. You do not
hear the people of one section decrying
an adjoining section; they work together
and in unison. They stand shoulder to
shoulder and with mighty effort push
on the wheel of advancement and pro-
gress, and never relax in their efforts /;
nothing daunts them.
We have often heard of their hospi-
tality and on our trip had it forcibly
dem onstrated as fact.
The people of Southern California have
much to be proud of; they have accom-
plithed many praiseworthy feats. The
wonderful development of the soil
brought about by their very complete
system of irrigation, is the most conspic-
uous. Their local railway communica-
ton, in the shape of motor lines, is an
other, and again comes their accommo-
dations, in the way of frst-class hotels.
A sort of metropolitan air pervades even
the smaller towns.
We might go on indefinitely with
words of praise for Southern California
without exaggerating in the least, but
time and space forbid. In conclusion,
we would state that we have a very
kindly feeling for the Southern portion
of the State and its enterprising people.
DR.. w. B. H. Dodson, editor of the
Red Bluff Sentinel, another visiting
editor, in an address before the associa-
tion at its Riverside meeting, said that
he ashamed to acknowledge that he
had lived in this State for forty years and
had never before visited this part of the
S ate. He had come here with prejudice,
he would return home with admiration
at the wonderful country he had beheld.
He had been imbued with the idea that
all the glowing accounts he had read in
our papers of the marvellous pro-
ductions Of this section Of the
State were not mere exaggerations, but
lies; but now, having with his own eyes
seen the luxuriance, the magnificent pic
turesqueness, the mstchless beauty Of
our region, and reveled in the joyous
balm of our delicious climate, he was
free to confess that half had not been
told, and that the glowing pictures
which he had treated as spocryphal fell
far short of the grand reality of what he
had seen and felt. Like the unbeliever
who entered the temple to scof and
went away to pray, he would return to
his home to tell his people that Southern
California was the brightest jewel in the
States diadem.
Mr.. Fred. X. Krauth, of the Alameda
Encinal, another editorial visitor, who
had not been here for ten years, returned
to his home to tell his readers of the
wonderful changes and marvellous pro-
gress our section had made in that time.
He says in his paper that he found not
"bursted boom" and a downcast people,
but growth, energy, increase of wealth,
hourishing towns, rapidly growing
cities, and country in which
the richest productions of the soil
give evidence of vast and exhaust
less resources that are at the basis |
Of prosperity which neither the re-
action of speculative mutations nor the |
ietraction of hostile sections can arrest |
" mar.
A blaze of light upon the facts of our
situation is being shed in Northern Cali
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