The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-09-29

Los ANdaLEs, Cal, Sept. II, 1888, :

the EXPRESS to my address here. 4l6 South
Main St., and yon will oblige me very much.
Perhaps you may want to hear something
about this country, so will tell you whatI
think of it after being here two weeks.
In the first place will say that ! like
Southern California very nuch, and Los
Angeles is good enough for me and here I
am going to stay, in this city Of the lost
angels, in the land of sunshine, the land Of
the fig the orange; where the wind blows
and the cactus grows.
Los Angeles is city of 65,O00 as happy
and as contented people as you will find on
the Pacific coast, and she is growing like a
green bay tree and is destined to be very
large place as she has no city near by Of
any consequence, so she is sure to be the
leading city of Southern California.
Los Angeles seems to stand and does
stand the hard times at the present better
than any city of her size in the United
States. AT a recent Clearinghouse report
Los Angeles showed an increase Of As per
cent in her financial business, which was
the only city in thu t. s. that showed any
increase at all, the balance showing falling
off in all the large cities, which is a feather
iE her cap during these panicy times The
question is, what is doing it2 From MY
observation of the resources of this county
| should say that it is the fruit business,
which, taking one year with another, pays
the farmer much better than anything else.
And if Oregon farmers are wise they will
pay more attention to raising fruit and not
give all their attention to wheat, which has
not paid hardly what it cost to put it in for
the last four or five years in Oregon. Cali
fornia stands at the head to-day in the fruit
business in the United States, buti q great
many varieties Oregon can and does beat
her. Among those | might mention is the
apple, which even the Californians will adj
nit that Oregon leads them, Bartlett pears,
prunes, and am sure on all kinds of ber-
ries; also the Royal Ann cherries On all
these Oregon cannot be beat, and the only
reason why Oregon fruit dealers and farmers
are not making money on their fruit is Just
because they do not sell any because they
have none to sell; whileCalifornia is getting
the reputation of being The great fruit rails
ing state because she raises the fluit and
does have il for sale.
The climate here in Los Angeles is lust
delightful at present-it could rot be better
if it was made to order.
The population of Los Angeles is made
up by eastern people almost entirely, and
comes as near being a strictly American
city as any place you can find To be sare
you will find great many Cinnamon here.
but they have judge here Judge Ross
who has the backbone to put tho Geary law
into effect, and here it was that the first
Chinese deportation has taken place, and
every day you can see the pigtails marched
through the streets on Ehcir way to San
Francisco to be shipped To China.
About the best known man in Oregon
among Californians generally is our own
and original governor Sylvester Pennoyer,
who, without doubt is truly very popular
with the laboring classes ana nong many
that do not labor, and with all the men /
have talked with | have never found any
person who has anything disrespectful to
say OF our governor, and on the other band