West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1892-06-23

'"'"S ''V ioVulS loT guests, with
seating capacity in the dining room
FOR 1000. The building is in the
shape Of hollow square, with a
beautiful interior court, filled with
tropical luxuriauce of plants aud
fl2wers, whose beauty and fragrance
charm the eye and intoxicate the
senses. There is an iron pier ex.
tending a thousand feet out over
the rollers of the Pacific, making II
delightful promenade by moonlight.
The finest museum west of PhIla-
delphia is located OH the grounds of
the hotel and contains 10, 00o speci-
mems Of natural curiositios.
One of the cariosities of Corona.
DO, to us. was an Ostrich Farm,
where they have quite number of
ostrichcs and Australian Emus.
This is a new industry for Califor-
MIA, but bids fair to be big sue.
cess. There arc elegantly arranged
bath rooms, where YOU can get warm
and cold salt water plungcs and
swimming under glass roof in
water pumped fresh from the ocean
and flowing constantly. Surf bath
ing may be INDUCED in the year
around. The temperature during
the summer is ten degrees cooler
than at Naples. Rome, Nice or
Florence, and eight degrees warmer
during the winter months. Hay
fever is unknown, and no other
climate in the world equals Coron-
ado for consumptiyes. The AIR is
so dry and the temperature almost
unchangeablc, varying but little
from winter to summer.
San Diego county has an area OF
O,O00, 900 acres or about twice the
size Of Massachusetts,. Good lands
alc high and no cheap land to be
obtained. The price ranges from
$50 to $3.50 al acre, but an acre
Will produce so much more than In
the East that II family can make a
good living on few acres and save
money besides, providing the land
Is kept under II high state of cult
vation. Ten acres of olive and
citrus bearing fruits will yield more
profit than the best 100 acre farm
IN this country. OF all the crops
OF the American semi.trOp;cs, the
olive IS the most profitable. The
tree Is grown from cuttings,
and will bear in three years
and continue for o full
century. IL reaches its Full
yiSor at'eIght years, and will pro-
ducc net income of from 5000 to
200 per acre. Next i'm profit are
the citrus fruits, oranges ard lem.
ons. Each pay from $500 to $1,000
per acre after the fourth year.
Lemon cultivation is only just be-
coming succcss-thc great trouble
heretofore has been TO cure them
properly. They have to undergo a
sweating process before they are fit
for market, and tho correct modus
operandi has been n secret till late
years. Grapes at four years will
pay 5000 per acre. Figs at five
years, $3.50 to $3.50. Aprlcots,
peaches and nectarincs about the
same. Strawberries pay from 800
to 5000 per acre the second year
from planting. Fruits and vcgeta-
blcs grow the year around, but to
secure good results irrigation is
necessary, and this makes the sandy
soil blossom forth like the rose.
The winter temperature is generally
about 700 and very rarely below Coz,
and in summer rarely passes so.
The sun shines over three hundred
days in the year, and perpetual sum
mer reigns supreme. The nights
arc cool and you may sleep under a
blanket in summer, yet never make
fire the whole winter long. The
hotel was considerably crowded with
all Of our party, (about GOO) in adj
dition to their regular guests, and
when we were all dumped in on
them, IT made quite a jam and took
q long time to register and get COIN
fortabIy quarJ1red. The grounds
around the hotel are a perfect para
disc Of flowers, tropical plants and
trees, fountains, walks, drives and
promenadcs. Here we met Judge
Brown from Charleston, this State,