The Red Cloud chief., 1893-12-15
From The Golden state.

SAINT ANA CALIFORNIA.
| will try to write you our opinion
of Santa Ana and its surroundings.
We are now living in a large house
nearly n mile north Of town main
street. 1t is known as the Nicholson
property and is a very nice place.
We have good water from the arte-
sian wells at the city water works, and
there is a good we'll and plenty Of
water at the house but it is not ct for
drinking or cooking purposes. We
have the use Of a house and barn very
c%ommodious for nine dollars per month
with one dollar extra for city water.
There is a good concrete walk from
town to within one block Of the house,
and the street car line running to
Orange is within GO feet Of the house,
Houses here rent from $2 and upwards
according to the size and location and
land in proportion.
Mr.. Patmor rents IL acres includ-
ing two houses for 1925 per
year. He raises lemons, oranges,
pears, appricots and English walnu's
The same land:is valued from 500 to
$500 perhaps $500 per acre. 1t is
cheaper to rent than to buy land and
you want to be very careful what you
buy and work it yourself. The land
is very spotted, what will grow in one
place will not grow in another.
Orange land is valued at $500 per
acre, it costs $50 per acre to sare for
the same. Oranges are Soc, per box
and a drug on the market at that
price. There IS IN orange grove neal
by, and the owner said We could have
all we wanted to eat and l a pick
up nice large navel oranges that we're
over looked last spring which now lay
on the ground to rot. There are bush
els lying under trees.
Oranges, lemons, pears, prun,s, Ap.
pricots, olives ounces, 6gs, persimons,
dates, apples, bananas, strawberries,
peaches, blackberrics and nearly all
Kinds Of fruit grows here, in the sea.
son, but it has passed now. The rasin.
grape, which is the principal one
raised here sells from 81 to ST per
ton. Peanuts, hazelnuts and several
other kinds grow here. The English
walnut there are acres and a,res set
out, nice ones sell for 81 per hun dred
pounds. Vegetables Of all kinds,
Irish potatoes SOC, per bushel, sweet
potatoes l4c per pound, green peas
in pod DC per pound, a large cabbage
for Sc, two punches of celery &c.,
Hubbard squash 80. and other vsgsta-
blcs in proportion.
1t would not pay a white man to
raise garden for market as it is extern
sively done by Chinese who deliver
it at your door. The fish man comes
nearly every day with different kinds
Of fish; fresh fish &C., per To-, chick.
ems are 81 to 81 per dozen, eggs 35c
per doz, butter Boz, per pound, ham
smoked l5c., per pound, fresh mea,
the same as there, good COWS $35 tc
1925 for fine Jerseys, horses the same
as there, baled barley 81 per ton, a.
falfa So per ton, wood is high, stove
wood SO per cord, coal $40 per ton
carriages and wagons are higher here,
but are a better grade, -four 80 pei
hundred, sugar &C., per pound, honey
in comb &c., strained Topper pound
clothing cheaper here than there, har
nesses are cheaper, hardware and fur
ni,ure the same as there, Oregon rec
lumber $l5 to S22 per thousand, sorr
55,., per hundred, pumpkins 81 pei
ton, horses eat them as we'll as cattle
and they grow very large some weigh
|. over 200 pounds. Store business i.
over done more stores than customers
II is very pleasant and warm during
The day until four or five o'clock p. m
; then you want an o%verooat. The fos
, are nearly equal to a rain and remains
!. until 10 or IL o'clock q. m. There
. are great peat farms neal Santa Ana
valued at 81 600 per acres.
Mr.. Hartwell has a cousin Mr.
Bcady, who drives on a street Cal
). in Santa Ana. Father and mother
: have gone to Riverside and San Der
nardinO to see how they ike it there
. for it is too low and wet here for him
5 Father bought a good single harues,
horse and phaeton for 500 Of doctor