The morning call., 1891-04-05
IMMIGRATION
TO CALIFORNIA.
A New Method of Advertising
Products in the East.
The Experiment With Train Ticket Agents
Success Excursion Of Brewers.
Sketch of R. H. Pratt.

California on Wheels" the travelling ad-
vertisement for California products, has
been dIsmantled. and the exhibit will not
again visit the East. J. 3. Lauek. who had
charge dur ing the recent tour, says that he
is satisfied, that the immigration seed has
been well sown, and that the next two or
three years will result in rich harvest. The
gentleman has a scheme, suggested by talks
with Eastern people who want TO come to
California, but hesitate because Of the ex-
penses involved.
He says he is satisfied, judging from let
tiers he is now receiving constantly, that any
number Of Middle State folks are planning
TO crme this way, and need only little en-
enlargement TO come very soon. A Pitts
field (Mass.) man wrote to that effect only a
few weeks since. The scheme is for agents
or owners of large tracts of California land
colony traetS-tO advertise that every bona
fide purchaser and settler will have the cost
of his overland railroad ticket deducted
from the final payment he is to make on the
land. Let this favor apply, also, to all
members of II settlers family. 1t would be
a drawing argument and method that the
real estate men could well afford.
In speaking of the subject Of immigration
to California, w. Ii. Mills said yesterday:
people ought to begin TO realize we do not
want in California the same class Of lmmi-
grants that IS drawn 10 other Western States.
We cannot advocate the advantages of Cali
fUTnla for general farming; we soon Will
not have the land 10 spare for general farm
ing; we want specialists. The man who
comes here wants 5000 at least. not to buy
land only, for he can get land cheap enough,
but to put on the land after he gets it. There
is steady inquiry for California lands.
During March We sold $4,000 worth of land,
more than for many months before. 1t was
chiefly foOthill land, lying west OF the Ore
gon Route, between ROseYille and Redding.
AN EXCURSION OF BREWERS.
San Francisco, during the past few years.
has entertained successfully the Grand
Army of the Republic, the knights Tenn
plar, the national teachers, the American
hor.icultuTists. and now the United States
Brewers Association, $50 strong, will have
an excursion this way. Win them will
come delegates flom the New York Beer
brewers Board of Trade. They plan to
come west in grand style, leaving Cleye-
land, Ohio, in special train, May 22d, and
reaching here June Isl. The thirty-first an
nual convention Of the association will be
held in Cleveland Immediately preceding
this excursion tour The trip westward
win be by way of st. Louis, Kansas City,
Denver and salt Lake. Ten days will be
spent in California, various side trips being
made from this city. The party will then
g north on the Oregon Short Line. The
entire trip VIII cost each travelling brewer
500, exclusive OF the expenses lille here.
The Mclean Excursion Company If st.
Louis, an organization that is hopeful Of
rivaling the Raymond system, will have en-
tire charge of the tour. a; the head Of ar
engagements Tor the association are the fol
lowing New York brewers: Peter Doelger
Jr., A. Seharman, Charles Schultz, NJ. j.
Groth Jr, William a. Miles and L. Kaizen-
meyer.
r. II. PRATT.
The subject Of this sketch, r. II. Pratt, a
pioneer and veteran railroad man, was
born at Freeport, Me-, July "a, 1924. While
mere boy lie commenced going to sea, and
for ten years followed this life, rising to
the rank of captain. In 1S49 the young
sailor was won from his chosen profession
by the wonderful Stor es of California which
had reached tue Eastern shore, aud in 1886
he arrived IN San Francisco, coming around
Cape Horn.
In July, 1865, he entered the service OF
the Central Pacific Railroad Company as
Superintendent of the Dutch Flat and Don
ner Lake wagon-TOad. This position he
held for three years, and was then ap-