The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-08-11
To Live in is Famed Southern
California.
And TROPICAL FRUITS
Ahoupd-A Paradise for Beauty.
Pleasures OF a Trip Over tho Plains,
If You Have Nothing to Occupy
Your Time 1t is Monotonous-Irri.
CATION and Farming-A Street Car
Line on Which the Horses Ride.
sptetal corre.pOnaenee Of he Inlelliacnctr.

VINO starts to cross the continent de-
termined to live on the way, and pro-
vide himself with books and papers
and some means Of amusement, and
tries to make himself agreeable to his
fellow passengers, will enjoy the trip
from Chicago to California, but, like
the little boy who when questioned
about what he studied at school, "Do
you read2" "No." "Do you spell?"
"No" "Write?" NO." swell. then.
what do you dO2" ~ just wait for
school to let out'-the person who
gets on board his train and just waits
10 SEQ California will get very tired and
feel disgusted before he reaches it, for
there is a great deal Of Hamepess in
crossing the plains,
One Is atruck with wonder at behold,
ing the vast extent OF barren plain
which Uncle SANS domain contains,
f0rrhe will ride for many miles in Ari.
iona and New Mexico and Southeast
ern California and see only an oCca.
slonal village or railroad stations per-
haps twenty-five miles apart. But when
we sec in this land what has been ac-
complished by irrigation we feel that
these deserts may yet all be made to
bloom and bring forth fruit for man.
The Pomona Times, Southern Cali
tornia paper, said recentlyi
pretty soon there will be no more deserts.
Not many years ago the school Biographies
represented all the great inherior OF the CONT
nent the Great American Desert This geo:
graphical division Is unknown to the school
children OF to-day, States and territories cover
it, They embrace towns aud cities with all mod
ern improvements and cOnVentenCcs, Every
vegetable aRd grain and most all tho fruits and
llOwOrs are growing upon the desert In great pro-
fusion. Millions OF acres that were thought To
be wHterlesS and known to DO treeless, are now
CheckGred with canals and Wnter pipes and the
land Is being covered with trees ind flowers.
"Arizona Is u conspicuous example OF tho
whole. Twenty'threc years ago there was not Il
cultivated acre, except few by Indians, along
the 400 miles Of the ella river valley Tho broad
salt river valley was occupied by the coyotes
that half the yGlr around were almost starved 10
death, aud now II has almost tens OF thousands
OF successful tlllers Of the soil towns and cities
with weekly aud daily newspapers, schools OF
every grade, churches OF nearly I'LL dOnOmlnp.
tlOns-in short all the incidents OF civilization
Now capitalists are preparing TO reclaim the
Colorado desert In Riverside and sun Diego
counties, mud make II produce the earliest
fruits, and food for man and beast every day in
the year with flowers OF every hue always In
bloom. Tho same Is being done III other sec.
lions. What enables all this to bo done2 Irri-
cation. Development, storage and distribution
OF water"
Ono Of tho avantnges here 10 fine
water. In the canon the mountain
stream furnishes power for the electric
light plant. And these streams together
with artesian wells furnish water for
irrigation and puro ciear drinking
water. One OF these wells supplies
good water plentifuly at u depth OF
two to three hundred feet.
There is some interesting natural
scenery in this part OF Southern Cali
fornia. That observed in coming over
San Bernardino range OF the Sierra
Madre mountains is rugged, and has
some foliage, but the mountains here
are generally barren looking as COM
pared with the beautiful forest covered
Alleghenies in West Virginia. The val
leys are beautiful III the early spring,
when the grass on the uncultivated
parts is green and the fields OF growing
barley and Alfalfa present the same
bright color. But the barley is about
all harvested by the early part OF June,
and the grass is now dry and brown on
hill and in valley, and will remain SO
during the summer, except some low
lands that are moist. Most OF the bar
ley is cut by moving machines and
baled for hay. 1t is not allowed TO On
tirely ripen. Some Is cut by headers
and threshed. Alfalfa produces five or
six crops OF hay in one season.
In this part OF tho state tho natural
scenery of hill and valley does not APP
pear to us as beautiful as the broad
rolling hills OF tho Pan Handle in West
Virginia and Belmont aud Jefferson
counties in Ohio. But the cultivated
landscape in California is the thing OF
beauty. This is partly tho work Of ma
lure. She furnishes sunshine, bright,
warm and abundant. she.also supplies
the water clear sparkling and plentiful,
but much Of 1t must DO drilled for.
She furnishes numerous varieties OF
beautiful foliage, and it grows very
rapidly, il man does his part to develop
It'll. e., keeps the soil in condition aud
gives 1t plenty OF water. Oranges are
extensively cultivated in this part OF
the state. There were 100000 trees in
San Bernardino county bearing this
year, aud 100000 that are not yet old
enough to boar.
An orange tree filed with its ripe
golden fruit is ono OF the most beauti.
full sights wo have seen. An orchard of
them Is a great revelation to tender.
foot'-as eastern people are sometimes
called-whcn no first gazes at its
beauties, we may say in open mouthed
wonder, for ii he happens to be- with u
friend he is invited to open his mouth
and partako OF tho tempting fruit. The
friend usually sets him an example, as
we have met some ladies hero who can
cat dozen oranges at one sitting.
Tho quality Of oranges depends part
" on tho location aud partly on the
kind cultivated. Tho foothills produce
tho best fruit, aud the navel or Beedloss
oranges arc considered tho best. 1t is
worth whil0 to livein m orange country
to know how to select u good orange.
Apricots arc produced IN largo guam.
titles, also pruuos, olives and peaches.
Some English walnuts and lemons,
though lemons will flourish only in
some localities. Mono OF the fruits do
"a well In some places as others, but
places where lemons flourish seon rare
Many varltios Of shade trees are
grown. Ono OF tho most pronounced is
tho pepper tree. One OF the pretliest
the umbrella tree. II grows broad At
tho top like an umbrella, with thick
foliage, and Is beautiful In shape and
symmetry. Tho blossom is similar to
Tho liac. There are broad palms, nu.
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