Los Angeles herald., 1892-04-17
A GOOD OPINION.
A Missouri Editors Views Of
Los Angeles.
He Is Stuck on Our Climate Of
Course,
And Our Products Awakes His ElO-
quence.
Business He Finds GOOd-The County
n Good One for All Classes
of People.

Business He Finds Good-The County
Good One for All Glasses
of People.
James B. Alien, editor OF the Boom
vile, Mo-, Advertiser, recently visited
Los Angeles, and wrote to his paper as
follows:
Los ANGELES, CAL, March 6, 1892
OF all seasons Of the year, perhaps, this
is the very best time to awake surprise
and wonder in the minds of people of
the eastern and middle states, by MAX
ing known to them the present condi-
tion of the climate and vegetation of
Southern California. In Missouri and
neighboring states, every one looks
upon the month of March as disturber
Of the peace; sort of whimsical, Gym
ical, clustering old fellow, who breaks
up whatever enjoyment winter may
bring, without substituting any of the
pleasures of spring. His name ie syn
oDym of disagreeableness. All dread
his approach and rejoice over his de-
parture. Altogether he ie an unwel-
come guest; bore that must be borne
with, yet despised. But when YOU have
concluded that March
''Is monster of such hideous mien,
That to be hated needs but be seen,'
visit Southern California and behold a
mild, gentle, smiling month, clothed in
verddre, bedecked with rare and beauti-
full flowers, and laden with tropical
fruits. The birds of summer sing among
the foliage the sun is warm, while q
cool breeze blows from the adjacent
ocean and tempers the air to delight
ful coolness; soft, blue haze envelops
the mountains, whose snow-capped
submits pierce the clouds and bathe
their noble brows in the glistening sun.
This sounds not merely poetic but
fanciful. However, this country beg
gars description, and the traveller who
leaves his far-off eastern home and
comes to this coast is prepared during
the journey to appreciate this favored
land to the extent it deserves. Kansas
at this season presents to the tourist the
picture of linitless, bleak and bare
plain; a large portion of Arizona, New
Mexico, Nevada and Utah is bar
rem waste, uninhabited and uninhabita-
BILE, and even in southeastern California
the great Mojave desert stretches to the
San Bernardino mountains, that on the
east shut out the great fruit-growing dis
trict of Southern California fl Iom the
of the world. Then, what revelation,
it seems of a goodly land, when, sweep
ing down from the mountain gorges into
the valley, the traveller beholds the
green fields, the orchards of orange, fig,
lemon, olive, etc., many heavy with
ripe fruit and all laid out and kept as a
garden
Some have said that Southern Cali
fornia is an artificial country; and,
doubtless. to great extent this is true,
for almost all OF the larger vegetation
has been transplanted from other lands.
yet all these have thrived 80 well here
that every species is luxuriant. Nature
has afforded climate and q soil we'll
adapted to raise in profusion all the
vegetation of the tropics, which need
but be planted to grow, thrive, blossom
and bear perennially. If this is what is
meant by artificiality, then, to great
extent, all countries are artificial, and
not generally attended either by any
thing near the returns that labor here
yields.
A poor mans paradise in this world is
hard to find, and as to the question of
this country being good place for him,
we would beg to answer as did the fer
ryman to the traveller, who wished to
enough to pay his fare. Said he: "Sir,
you may just as we'll stay where you
are, for you are as we'll off on one side
for person of limited means, yet with
enough to live on until he can realize
the returns from his orchards, Southern
Noltfnrnio ,1nAouhkaI
vantages OF everything that goes to make
than any other section of our great
country. The different industries here
are more or less crowded with workmen
and flushed with eastern capital, yet
there is no reason why a man who is
skillful in his vocation can't find good
field here for his labor. This country, q
of "boom, which, as usual, subverted
all laws and principles of true progress
and crippled to some extent the countrv's
best and highest interests. But hap
PLY she has outridden these fuctua-
tions, and a steady, progressive, stable
growth now charaeterizes her COM
mercial and industrial advancement.
To illustrate the fruits and vegetables
~ OAO OOun0lyS ONCA q. tAlS bodbOus Uc-
hold the table that is actually set before
the fastidious epicure. On the tables of
the dining room may be found any day
now--oranges, lemons, raisins, almonds,
English walnuts, lettuce, radishes, snap
beans, peas, new potatoes, tomatoes and
many other contemporary edibles, all
homegrown and fresh. Surely, such a
table in March ought to please Mis-
sourian!
In my next letter / will attempt to
describe some features, at least, OF the
city OF Los Angeles, the metropolis of
Southern California and the most pros
porous town on the Pacific coast.
Two Men Murdered.
OcALA, Fla, April 15.-Two men were
murdered tonight at or near Hornando,
Citrus county. Their names are Robert
Stevenson, paymaster of the Empire
State Phosphate company, and Mr..