The Arizona sentinel., 1897-08-07
LOlTERING N CALIFORNIA.
An Eastern Editor Describes 6 Long
 Journey Behind a Horse.
Written for the SENTINEL.

Written for the SENTINEL.
 Pve been six months in Califor- mia, and have had my note book constantly in hand. I have dis covered SO much that is interesting and striking, and novel and singu- lar, and l&dicroue, and some things that are praiseworthy, that deter mined to write you. have east ern ideae, you know, thoroughly riveted, and am viewing everything from an eastern standpoint and through eastern goggles.
 In order to see what there is of real worth in California, and to enable me to gape at it until ready to move ou, purchased a horse and carriage, and started out ri ght. How selfish, thought I, now that I am so we'll fitted to see and listen and take observations, and pump the dear people, and scribble re- suits in my daily diary, that I do not send resume to the SENTINEL for publication,
 So this is my apology for ad- dressing you. Six months now in the State, and 800 miles have I ridden in my own carriage during the past sixty days.
 Ispent some time in the San Joaquin valley, the largest valley in the State, and the home of proba- ply the finest pears, prunes, peaches and apricots in the State. I also rode over many other sections directly opposite in point of fertil- ity; l looked off Mt. Hamilton from my own carriage seat, and Old Ocean has rinsed the dust off the wheels of my vehicle as drove along the beach at various points. It is Califernia's hot-bed. Here the mercury rses from 112 to 120 degrees during the summer months.
 Every eastern person has heard a great deal of the wild flowers in California. Ljourneyed across the plains 9 miles to see the wonders that arc presented each spring. Wherever water is put on the soil and the land intelligently titled there are always satisfactory re- suits. 1 was greatly surprised at the wonderful, the unprecedented growth of fruit trees, grass and alfalfa, IS well as many Towering plants; but after I had ridden two hours in 8 southeasterlY direction, had left grain fields and orchards hehind me, and was in the midest of a desert which was literally afiame with biossoming wild flowers. The spring rains and sunshine had brought them out in profusion, and there before me was the wild poppy, the lupine, the cammas, the wild chrysanthemum, the sand lily and baby blue eyes, not in small clus- ters, nor in acre tracts, but in whole sections. in square mile blocks, a wealth If blue and red and yellow and purple as far as the eye could discern. The earth was literally matted. Such sight never before had I seen.
 I have now been in the State long enough to note that every thing smac&s of business here. It is the ardent desire of every Cali fornian to do nothing on a small scale. This is strikingly demon strated in the liberal roadways, extensive ranches, great cattle herds, prodlgious orchards, the thousand-acre grain-fields. the big salaries paid State and County o. fcers, and the many schemes for advertising the States resources. I came to California last winter on a visit to friends at Bakersfield the pearl city of the San Joaquin Valley. This, the largest valley in the State. extends more than 400 miles in northerly direction, the town of Bakersfield being situated about 30 miles from the southern border. One day Senator Smith of Kern county, said to me: "Why don't you get horse and carriage