Evening journal., 1895-06-06
FROM A RICH COUNTRY.
HOW CALIFORNIA APPEARS TO a
DELAWAREAN.

Her Mining Camps Look Like Wood
lawn Camp-mestlng over In Maryland
Except That the Tenters Drink some-
thing Stronger Than Pump water.
Special Correspondence Evening Journal.
PERRis, Cal June There Is
much to be said about Lower California,
and in fact, the whole Golden Gate
state. as seen by a Delawarean, and
description OF the great natural beauty
and attractiveness as It appeared to me
cannot fail to interest
There are three gold mines near u.s.
about three miles from this town-vlz.
The Good Hope, Little Maggie" and
"The Santa Rosa The last named
mine | visited yesterday. II is Of great
value and employing 8 large number Of
men. The appearance Of this mining
town puts me In mind Of Woodlawn
camp, in Cecil county, Md. On those
tremendous hill sides the clean and tasty
canvas tents are generally used By the
mlners as homes flike our Woodlawn
camp) These miners do most OF their
trading In our town; az a rule they are
not Protestant church going people,
and are very fond OF whiskey
rarely every see any paper currency
all silver and gold--no pennies The
i've cent piece is smallest coin value
seen in these parts At first | protested
against such monetary procedure In my
dealings but the merchants laughed and
said you'll get into line after a while
Dominic
As understand it, California as
state desires a bi metallic STANDARD Oar
-. a ali.
Wilmington blukers do paper money
The gold mania in Southern California Is
almost irrepressible.
Southern California is not q manufaet-
uring section and the mechanics who
come here to end work sre apt TO be
disappointed because there Is but little
manufacturing for skilled workmen, and
to a very great extent the same may be
said Of common day laborers In many
OF our cities common laborers find some
work, but have TO wait some time in
many instances before they secure work
Ia and around the city Of Los Angeles
for the past three years have been es
favorable to the working classes as
almost any section In our country.
Capitalists are needed here who will
invest their money and themselves fol
the development of this country By the
investment Of money, it means labor foi
men. Men, Of small means with pluck
and energy are succeeding finely, snC
will continue to succeed The futur,
greatness of Southern California will, II
the judgment Of many, be agriculture
holdings Of moderate size The mos
successful men that have met with since
have been here, are OF the latter class
Nlnety-nine ont Of every hundred with
this pluck, energy and good judgment,
believe will succeed. We nave a few
croakers and kickers, and some few
maligners here. Notwithstanding thes
lovers Of darkness the bulk OF Southern
Californians are walking in the sualight
Of success
Money in the Orange Crop.
Over two million dollars have bsei
received by our orange growers alread!
this year in this county, and we hav
about eight hundred carloads more b
ship East The lemons are now ripe AM
business Is good
The decidnous fruits such as tbs fig
/ plum, apricot, nectRrine, prune AM
/ peach, all bid fair to make full crop
The prune and olive are looked upon a
the staples Of our valley The Souther
California olive Is very fine. Whe
better known in the East / do not thin
the Italian olive will have many demands
The barley harvest Is over We had a
abundant crop In the past three year
this crop has bsen failure This yea
Providence has been very kind to us 4
giving US seasona BILE rain The whea
harvest Is fair but much more abundan
than it has been for years.
As health resort Southern California
cannot be excelled ia the opinion o
thousands. For pulmonary trouble, ha!
fever. and catarrhal trouble II is simply
marvellous to see how people improyl
under these sunlit skies and balmy RiI
The number of young men and youn
married couples coming here are YER
numerous not simply because OF health
but for travel, then they settle here
In our immediate vicinity we h ave
large number OF graduates from Easter
colleges
The public schools here are doin
splendid work The finest scBoC
houses ! ever saw in any state / hav
seen here. IL is matter OF generi
compliment on the part of travellers
What elegant school houses they hav
here. Yours truly
Isaac Jewell.