Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-09-30

Another NerN 1ntere>t-
ing Letter. ron Major
IL. 4. j

EDITOR OBSERVER
Dear Sr-Thinking that vour
readers might perhaps like 10 bear
something from this, the metropolis
o: the Pacific coast, / vii tonight
write o q tcw lines, trusting they
may be Of sufficient interest to JUSTIFY
your publishing them
This city is a wonderful ne, and
is, perhaps. the most cosmopolitan
IN the United States, bu, | wont say
anything upon the subject OF Il N
babitan,s, as | mail you to-day =
COPY Of Sundays Chronicle, which
has aa article about the differen:
kinds Of people living here.
There is great talk OF hard times,
lack Of money, men out OF work, &c,
and NJ doubt al! this is 80 to a graf
degree, bo, to a casual observer
things look f~ourishing the streets
are -througed day and night with
thousands: trains, boats aud street
cars are crowded all the time thea
tres aud restaurants are crowded
with people aud everything is seem
ingly prosperous. There are, how
ever. thousands OF vacant houses III
town; many men are being ted from
tree soup kitchens, and il matters do
not mend there will be trouble this
winter, as it will soon be time for
lhe raluy season to begin, and when
- no ~ ~ ~ q prnof n1anE viii no
thrown out OF employment who now
have work.
The past week | took a trip to
Stockton, San Jose, jacksonville and
Santa Cruz, and never saw anything
{ like the fruits Of all kinds the Santa
!, Clara valley, in which San Jose is
! located, is one OF the most celebra-
led fruit sections in the STATE it is
I a rich, black, a%lluvial soil, level as a
D billiard table and fairly covered
G with peach, pear, apricot, prune and
: apple trees IN fact the whole valley
is Ike one great orchard and vine
yard combined. To give YOU some
. idea of the magnitude OF this indus
h try, need only say that last week
X San Jose shipped East nearly three
0 million pounds Of fruit, fresh and
dried, and they are jus, beginning t
IS ge, we'll under way in drying. Frui'
D is very low now. and wine grape:
are actually selling tor less per tor
, than hay. Speaking of grapes: OF
. my way down here from Oregon
y passed through the celebrated vine
~ yard OF the late Senator Stanford
The place is in Tehama county j
Just this side of Red Bluff, iu tn,
Sacramento valley is called III
Vina ranch has ten thousand acre
in it, and of these four thousand ar
: set out in vines. This would max
a vineyard one mile wide by 81
long and a little over, and 1t is sal
TO be the largest in the world the,
usually make a million and a hal
gallons of wine a year.
is Now to 60 back to Santa Clar
- county. To show You how they d
things out here, | will state that du
ring the dry season, the county ha
II enough watering carts in constau
use, to sprinkle, outside OF Ih
= towns, two hundre3 miles of publ
h roads, every day, sufficiently to kee,
ID the dust wei! laid all the time. IIo,
Ii. is that for road working, compare,
ii with our system,
y The absorbing topic of converse
rs ton aud thought out in this COUNT,
now is the Chinese question and tn
&c people are getting stirred up am
10 excited about it, and ii the Gear
act is not enforced at once ther
| will be trouble in the camp tor som
one. | have been through Chin
TOWN on business several times all,
have seen a good deal of them. 70
know there are some thirty thousan,
OF them in this city, and neatly al
I'VE IN one quarter Of the town, an,
TIE way they do live is q curiosity
| have seen numbers Of shops. no
much larger than q fair sized good
box, IN which eight or ten lived
, ana ~ addition to It's human inhabi
i3nls the room would contain hun
drcds OF ducks, chickens and sees
: % the floor aud IN coops built u
Ike bunks against all the walls. Or
day last week the police ran on to
pace that takes the cake for filth
ness. There was such au awts
stencil for a book or more aroMT
that they were ordered to find GU
VIA caused II. They finally locate,
the smell 10 a store, but could fin,
nothing Tor some time, bu, after
"hl.c ~ OF them noticed q ira
door ID the floor ana demanded /
have II opened. This was refuse.
oui Wien tie police threatened /
break II III with an axe. they raise,
y aud saw q state OF thugs tia, va
enough 70 produce cholera or an,
= ,hin- else. They found a cells
ItAli feet, with 10 oueoinv say
s tLe Trap door, aud ia tn, undo,
-fo4ul Iaic fheIe uar. l.,.1