The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-02
CALIFORNIA LETTER.
Les ANGELES, Cal, March % '91.

Del Coronado and on my return went
over to Redondo Beach for short stay.
California just now is beginning to look
it's best.
Vegetation is we'll advanced and the
odor of orange blossoms is waited to the
denizens Of that cline on every breeze.
Hedges of roses and whole fields Of callas
and peoples make beautiful the scenes
on every hand. The orange crop this
year will amount to over 1000 cars Of
about GOO boxes to the car and they are
mostly ready for shipment. Oranges in
Los Angeles cost as much in the stores as
they do in Chicago, and apples are much
higher. Lemons are ripening and will be
big crop this year. The editor brought
home one sample Of oranges grown on q.
Van Wits place in Ontario. It may be
seen at Hale & Bronson's store. 1t is Of
the Washington Navel (seedless) variety
and while a good sized orange is by no
means an exceptional. In fact it would
not do for exhibition out there. Mr.. Van
Vie brought it along with a basket Of
them to the editor as he was leaving and
it alone survived the journey. The rest
went the usual way Mr.. Van VIE is
very enthusiastic over California and
thinks there is no place on this planet
quite equal to the San Gabriel Valley,
and for climate, comfort and health am
inclined to agree with him. Mrs Van
Vie and the rest Of the family enjoy bet
ter health there than they ever knew be-
| fore. The scenery in the San Gabriel and
Santa Ana valleys is simply beautiful.
The air is so pure one can see immense
distances on a clear day. The mountains
are all around you and never fail in their
charms Distances are very deceiving.
Standing IN the road at Mr.. Van Wie's
and looking at the foot hills at the north
one would Judge them to be from mile
and half to three miles off and is as
usual ''of" himself It is nearly nine
miles up the avenue. cold Badly" San
Bernardin0 and San Jacinto peaks
crowned with eternal SHOWS keep their
solemn watch over the valley on the
north One can stand in the yard at Mr..
Van Wie's and see the blue waters Of the
Pacific forty miles distant to the west and
San Jacinto pronounced San Hacinto)
mountain eighty miles to the east and
across the valley to Chino and other
towns and ranches spread out like pan
Drama. The land slopes but gradually
down to the river and although it is diff
cult sometimes to tell whether you are go,
ing on a level OF on an incline when you
go toward the mountains, yet when you
turn around and look back you see you
have been ascending quite a sharp grade
and have grand view spread out before
Won. One could talk hours about the
different points of interest in the valley,
but space will not permit The largest
beet sugar factory in the world is in
course Of erection at Chino just across
the valley from Ontario. The Pacific
Clay Mfg. Co. at South Riverside is q
prosperous enterprise manned almost en-
tirely by Wisconsin men. They have a
fine plant and turn out an immense
amount of sewer pipe, water pipe tile,
fuming and other clay products and paid
a handsome dividend this year. The Of
fcers Of the company are: President, r.
G. Durant; Vice President, L. S. Porter ;
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formerly of De Pere, Wis; Superintend-
ent of sales, G. B. Hewitt, and Superin-
tendent, D. A. Sovereign, with S. H.
| Bailey as engineer. | met the directors of
the company at their Office ia Los An
geles on my return and as they were just
adjourning for dinner after a meeting
at which they had declared a
handsome dividend they in
vited the printer to accompany
them Mr.. Geo. Baldwin was one Of
them and after dinner we went over to
the Citrus fair for a couple Of hours l
saw more oranges and lemons there than
[ expect to see again soon. There were
towers, and street cars and ships and min
ature landscapes and public buildings
built of oranges 1t will be shown in
Chicago this month and VIII be worth
seeing. After my trip around through
the valleys | returned here and after a
short run down to San Pedro. the port Of
Los Angeles, took the Pacific steamer
Corona" for Frisco. The Corona
does not bear any remarkable
resemblance to the Puritan or ''Pil-
grim on the New York and Fall River
line but it was a comfortable boat and
after two days and nights on the Pacific
we ran into the Golden Gate one terribly
foggy morning and tied up. We stopped
for couple of hours at Santa Barbara,
one of the loveliest places on the coast and
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