The Newtown bee., 1891-10-23

millions of wealth waiting for energetic
hands TO bring them to the light. Along
these valleys lie thousands of acres of
the most fertile soil to be cleared and
made to produce cereals or fruit. What
mind can comprehend the vastness of
the future production of this wonder
land. Judging from the past, in the
next 80 years it will be an empire of it
self, producing everything requisite for
the support and comfort OF man, warm
ing him, clothing him, producing for
him the luxuries as well as the necessi-
ties of life. Here in this favored land
and climate one can enjoy the ''corn,
wine and oil' of life in abundance. The
flags of every nation can be seen floating
over the waters of the Columbia river
and Puget sound and the broad bay of
San Francisco, bound out loaded with
lumber and coal and wheat and salmon
and fruit and wine for far distant ports.
On its thousand miles of coast, every
thing is produced. Nothing has been
tried which has not proved a success.
And yet it has scarcely made a be-
ginning. | tell no gilded story when [
speak thus highly and enthusiastically
of this favored land. Many people in
your town have seen it and will bear tes-
timony that | do not or cannot overesti-
mate it. In the yards and along the
streets in the cities of Oakland, Alameda
and San Jose, | saw varieties of tropical
vegetation growing too numerous to
mention. HeliOtrope and fuschia, so
teuder in New England, growing trailed
up by the side of buildings 80 feet high,
continually in bloom. All the variety of
most beautiful roses, which in the East
must be nursed in the hot house and only
trusted out for few weeks, in the Sum-
mer, bloom here, perpetually, on trees
four to six feet high and nearly the
size of ones wrist.
To one who has been accustomed to
the narrow views of the New England
people, it is a great change to turn the
microscope and look through the other
end, as one must look when one looks as
these people here do. The further | adj
vanced toward the West, the smaller
the great wheat section of Manitoba,
saw thousands and thousands of acres of
wheat ripe for the reaper. That PROV
ince has % millions of bushels more
than she needs. On arriving where
could look out on the blue Pacific,
turned my face toward the East and old
Connecticut seemed to me like the point
which, mathematically defined has Meth
er length, breadth nor thickness.
My communication seems to me to be
getting long. Let my excuse for writ
ing it be that | am intensely pleased
with this Western empire and that | am
anxious to have my friends know some
thing of its greatness. There is nothing
picayune about this country. One will
seldom see bank note and never a cent.
Coin is the only medium of circulation.
One word more before | close this COM
munication. L wish to make mention of
the peculiar effect this clima has up
on the human race. The air seems to be
filled with ozone or electricity to such
an extent that the young retain their
youth and those who have passed that
period recall it. The women are fresher
in color and better developed than they
are in the East. | saw more pretty girls
in California than | eyer saw before or
ever expect to see again j. M. Tur-
ney, Portland, Oregon. October y, 1891.