Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-09-12
4 Lovely Sea Side Rs.or,

HOTEL DEL CORONADO, Coronado Beach, Cal, Sept. 7.- EDITOR JouR- NAL MINER: This is indeed lovely sea side resort; with all it is adver- tised to be as a locality where those who suffer elsewhere from hay fever can live and enjoy life, free from its baleful effects.
 The seal the seal the open seal
 The blue, the fresh, the ever free"
 We not only have the blue ocean to observe and wonder at its power, out we have the steamers and other craft to watch as they pass m and of San Diego Channel around point Loma, in their course north. with their burden of human freight. will not attempt to describe the advantages of a sojourn at this hotel for l cannot find words to express all the meaning 1 wish to convey; SD numerous are the kind attentions the guests meet with at all times. will say however, that my family" has thus far escaped the painful yearly affliction ot hay fever not a symptom having as yet appeared tos mar our happiness and comfort.
 San Diego is we'll filled with tourists at present, among whom are Rev T. C. Hunt and family of Riverside. We listened to a elo quent sermon few Sundays ago from Mir. Hunt, which quite took us back to days long since passed in the city of Prescott, Arizona. We are constantly meeting friends from different parts of our Territory, among whom are Mir. and Mrs. N. B. Bowers, B. T. Riggs, Miss Lulu Kendall, l Kuhn, Mrs. Pentland and children, M. Masterson, William Gibson and numerous others-Mrs. Pedley Of South Riverside, formerly of Prescott, and Mrs. General Will son, of Tucson. are guests of Hotel Del Cor nado. We were surpassed and pleased to see so fine a district of country, just east of San Diego, during a delightful visit with Mrs. J. J. Williams and family at "La Bonita Ranch" at La Mesa. There is an ideal home such as one often reads about in books. The house stands upon slight eminence in the center of the tract, and com mands fine view of the ocean nine miles away, and of the mountains here abouts.
 4 broad drive way, bordered by | roses and shrubs, leads from the gate to the house, VhiGh is a typical southern one. Twenty-thres acres l are under cultivation. in not only | oFaPge and lemon trees, but alI | other kinds of large, and small | fruits. Among other improvements is a we'll equipped tennis court, and | also a charming little artifiC ial lake, with bath and b )at house soon to be built. l picnic was planned for us to Fl CajOn valley, and on the way there we rode through the ranch owned by Major Chase, which is one of the largest and longest under the trees were loaded with ripe fruit. We next visited the Bostonia ranch, which has its store )f merchandise and post office, aud s owned by Boston capitalists. Sixty acres are planted in orange lnd lemon trees and the remaining i00 acres in raising grapes and olive rees. On the 18th of this month '00 men commence picking and putting the grapes in the drying rays, We afterwards rode in the Iirection of Julien aud the Banner mining districts, ca the CHyanlaes through orchards filled with arious kinds of fruits. revealing 3 'ack country tributary to San Diego, uperior to anything l had hereto { ore conceived of
 MRs. T, J. BUTLER.