St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-17
SOMETHING FROM SAN DIEGO.
A Part of California with Which the
Residents are "Much in Love-"

Residents "Much Lover
Correspondence of the CALEDoNIAN.l
Everything out here betokens en-
terprise. Great improvements have
been made within the past two
years. The country back from the
coast is said to developing at more
rapid rate. From one valley alone,
called CajOn, it is estimated that $50
carloads of raisins will be shipped
the present season.
AS an indication that Southern
California is not dependent on the
fruit industry alone for income,
a reliable paper reports that the
counties of San Diego, Los Angeles,
San Bernadino and Orange produced
in one year, for shi pment to the East,
$4,000 carloads of potatoes, worth
at least 5000 a car here; total of
$4,SOO,OO0
San Diego is a beautiful little city
of $1,000 inhabitants, overlooking
harbOr of the same name The
largest ocean steamers can anchor
here with ease. The city market is
we'll supplied with fish, meat and
vegetables. Fruit is very cheap and
abundant. Aprlcots, pears, peaches,
plums, figs, ounces and olives grow
finely. Raisin grapes are thought to
grow to greater perfection a few
miles from the coast. Orange
orchards begin to yield a profit
about eight years after planting
Olives are said to be the most profit
able crop, oranges and lemons the
next, and grapes the third in i'm
portance.
The people of San Diego are so
much in love with their abode that
they say they expect to live and die
here. 1t has been observed that
''some of them will not admit that
death and dissolution are possible
here, and therefore experience no
remorse of conscience after pricing
their real estate at ten times its
marketable value
From all accounts, the country in
land, about a hundred miles from
San Diego, is more picturesque and
the atmosphere less humid. Los
Angeles, Pasadena and Riverside are
all about thousand feet above the
sea level, and are said to abound
In flower gardens where the rose, the
heliotrope and the fuchsia blossom
out OF doors every day in the year
But California is a big country All
kinds of climate may be enjoyed. To
experience its variety, all one has to
do IS to take car and go to an alti-
tude of 400 feet at San Jacinto,
or to Strawberry valley, where the
atmosphere is redolent with the
fragrance of the pine forests at an
altitude of 5000 feet External sun
shine, everlasting flower gardens,
never fading verdure," are all to
be had (Californians say in this
marvellous country.
1 noticed yesterday large vesse
unloading coal from Australia. Or
her return, her cargo to England
will be $4,000 bushels of wheat
Coal is expensive here, the soft kline
from Australia being $14.OO ton
The hard coal from Pennsylvania
sells at $1,000 per ton.
Vessels of the largest tonnage cal
enter the San Diego harbor, which i
one of the finest on the Pacific coast
Here, if one remembers, the Chilea
steamer "Itata" found refuge at tn
time of the Balmaceda disturbances
This bay was first discovered by
Spainard named Cabrillo in 1912
Indians lived here and missionarie
were sent to evangelize them. Set
tiers from Spain, Mexico, and late
from the United States and England
came and obtained grants of Ian,
from the Mexican government A
that was paid for land up to recen
date was little over a dollar a
acre. Most of the country was cor