The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-03
NEW IDEA At WRIGHTS,
A Summer School to Teach
Agriculture and Economics.
rs Some Eminent Lecturers.
A Camp Located in One of the Most
PICTURESQUE Regions of the
Scenic West.

WRIGHTS, CAL, June 2.-The Farmers
Encampment projected by Highland
| Grange, No. 303, Patrons of Huspandry,
and enthusiastically Endorsed and sup
| ported by the entire community at
Wrights Station, will. according TO every
omen, be great success from its very in
auguration. The scheme has met with
the favor of leading agrieulturists and bust
ness men throughout the State.
For summer camp the ground selected
and now being cleared for the purpose is
an ideal location. 1t is on the Ell Toyon
ranch, some four miles southeast of
Wrights Station, and is reached by we'll
made and well-kept road that pursues its
winding course up the mountains, through
most picturesque country, and affords
the traveller a yeritable panorama of de-
lightful views.
At Wrights one finds a community of
comfortable homes. There are no I'M
slightly cabins but everywhere is the APP
pearance of thrift. The houses are built
with an eye to architectural beauty.
and evidences of taste and culture
are to be found outside as well as inside
of these modern rural residences.
The traveller through this settlement
finds himself continuously giving express
sion to sentiments of pleasant surprise as
| new scenes unfold themselves to view in
| rapid succession, until, reaching the sum-
| nit on the Ell Toyon ranch, he beholds a
| prospect transcendent in its magnifcence.
The altitude here is 21OO feet. To the
southwest the waves of the mighty sea are
driving against the rocky shore their char
| lots of foam. The headland seen in the
distance is Lighthouse Point at Santa
| Cruz, extending out like an arm protecting
the bay from the charge of the wave bat.
| talions of the Pacific; and there. nine
| miles away, rise the white homes of the
city of the Holy Cross. The shoreline of
the bay spreads out like a painted map.
save for the hoary-haired breakers that
keep plunging necessarily in their vain
war against the land.
10 the left OF Santa Cruz, and a little re-
moved from the shore, is seen the VILLAGE
OF Sequel, and further on, Capitola, clean
ing her back up against the hills, with the
tip OF her toes in wave" Even Monterey
Point is plainly discernible, and one is al
most enraptured with the glorious picture
OF sea and bay and cities and mountains.
half framed by the sky above and half bv
the green wilderness of redwoods and oaks.
hrs, madrones and laurels, at the eazer,s
feet.
turning to the northeast, one beholds
the great Iona Prieta, 1000 feet high. only
three miles away. From that mountain
peak one may see the bay of San Francisco
ana the valleys to the north of it.
The camp ground is in grove on gen.
Tie NIL slope, facing the west, only a few
hundred yards from the summit.
1t were difficult TO enumerate all the al
vantages possessed by the rancho Ell Toyon
LOT such an encampment. Nature has
been lavish with her gifts here, and art
Is now devoting her efforts toward making
the paradise complete. The brush is be-
ing cleared from the camp ground, and
roads are being built and bridges con-
structed for the anticipated host of camp
ers. By the first of August scores and,
perhaps, hundreds of tents will be pitched
In that rest-inviting shade. Plenty ofpure
water from mountain springs is not the
least among the blessings OF this mountain
spot, and hard by are several natural sui
phur wells which are freely patronized for
! their health.aidiDg properties. Mountain