Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-10
THE AMERICAN ITALY.
A Short Review of the Evolution O
Southern California.

Southern California.
Southern California has rapidly
passed through varied experiences, and
has not yet had a fair chance to show
the world what it is Ithad it's perioT
of romance, of pastoral life, of lawless
adventure, of crazy speculation. alb
within hundred years. and it is JUST
now entering upon its per! Cd of solid,
civilized development. A certain lights
of roma nee is cast upon this coast by
the Spanish voyagers of the sixteenth
century, but its history begins with the
esta blishment of the chain OF Francis
can missions, the first of which waH
founded by the great Father Junipero
Sierra at San Diego in 1869. The fathers
brought with them the vine and the
olive, reduced the savage Indians to
industrial pursuits and opened the wav
for that ranchero and adobe civilization
which, down to the coming of the
American, in about 1910, made in this
region the most picturesque life that
our continent has ever seen. Follow
ing this is period of desperate ada
venture and revolution, of pioneer State1
building; and then the advent of the
restless, the cranky, the invalid, the
fanatic, from every other State in tha
Union. The first experimenters inl
making homes seem to have fancie6s
that they had come to a ready-mada
elysium-the idle mans heaven. Thew
seem to have brought with them littles
knowledge of agriculture or horticultureI
were ignorant Of the cond tions Of success
in this Qni1 q nd c1i to nd 1af+ hol; ,B
the good indus trial maxims of the EastI
The result was period Of chance ex-
pertinent, one in which extravagant ex4
pectation and boasting to some extents
took the place of industry. The imagi4
nation was heated by the novelty of
such varied and rapid productiveness-l
Mems minds were infamed by the APP
parently limitless possibilities. Thes
invalid and the speculator thronged thes
trans-continental roads leading hither-i
In this condition the frenzy of 1851
was inevitable. I saw something Of it
in the winter Of 1887. The scenes then
daily and commonplace now read like
the widest freaks of the Imagination.
The bubble collasped,as suddenly as i'd
expanded. Many were ruined, and Left
the country. More we're merely ruined
in their great expectations. The spec5
ulation was in town lots. When it subj
sided it left the climate as it was, thes
fertility as it was, and the value of ara-3
BILE land not reduced. Marvellous as thes
boom was, | think the present recupera-;
ton is still more wonderful. In 1890, tot
be sure, I miss the hustle of the cities,l
and the creating of towns in week un-s
der the hammer of the auctioneer Buts
in all the cities, and most of the vil-f
lagos, there has been growth in subj
stantial buildings, and in the neces-s
stiles of civic life-good sewers
age, water, supply and generaIs
organization; while the country, as thes
acreage of vines and oranges, wheat andf
barley, grain and corn, and the ship-s
ments by rail testify has i'm proved mores
than at any other period, and commerces
is beginning to feel the impulse of al
genuine prosperity, based upon the i'm
telligent cultivation of the ground.
School-houses have multiplied; librariesi
have been founded; many ''hoom''
hotels, built in order to soil city lots in
the sage brush, have been turned into
schools and colleges. Dudley
Warner, in Harper's Magazine.
1t is the opinion of local authorities
that nothing can save the beautiful
birds of India from complete destruc-
ton, but prohibitive tax upon the ex-
port of their skins and feathers
"A law has been promulgated at Har~
danger, in Norway, to the effect that nce
girl shall be eligible for the marriage
state until she is proficient in spinning
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