Evening journal., 1897-03-06
WEALTH IN GOLD MINES
And Near Them a Town Has
Sprung Up in a Month.
ONE MANS DAILY PROFIT $4,000

AND YET MANY LOSE ALL THEY
HAVE, EVEN LIFE IN THE
GOLDEN STATE-CAIA LILIES
AND STRAWBERRIES - REV.
JEWELS INVITATION.
Rev. Isaac Jewell, well-known as a
leading spirit in the Wilmington Con-
ference, and late a prominent Whining
ton minister, now pastor at Santa Ana.
IN the Southern California Conference.
writes a graphic account of everyday
lie in California, which Is appended
in full:
This beautiful state is still worthy az
its name-"Golden State" .Fhst at this
time we have two sections of country
near us stirring our people very much
Randsburg, which is $50 miles from us
mas now population Of 1900. A few
weeks ago not a soul lived there. Gold
has been found there in large uuanti-
ties, hence the miners have flocked to
the place in large numbers. Many have
grown rich, and many have grown poor.
The Hornet mines. about fifty miles
from us, and which / have visited, are
very valuable, and the output OF gold
Is making the owners very rich. The
miners methods OF living do not par
ucularly admire in many OF those places
lit is rOughing it-with great en-
phasis on the term.
There is scarcely q night in the whole
year but We can sleep out of doors with
impunity, wrap ourselves in good
Navajo blanket, and all is well.
One young man from Chicago, a
William Rodgers, reached Los Angeles
four weeks ago with Sl.75 in his pocket
went to Randsburg two weeks ago. he
Is now worth in gold many thousands;
81 500 was his portion one day last
week. All are not faring 50 we'll how
ever, not by a long way.
This season our rainfall has been
glorious-something over fifteen inches
Our ranchers are 80 elated that they
can hardly retain themselves. Barley
In our valley is now two and a-half
feet high. and many Of our dairynen are
cutting 1t for their COWS.
The San Joaquin ranch, within two
miles OF our city, Is ten miles square.
owned by an English syndicate. AT this
season OF the year it is a beautiful
scene to see these miles Of barley and
oats. Ere long we hope to see 1t In
small farms, there being n plan on foot
to purchase this ranch and put IL into
small farms Of 500 and 1000 acres
each.
The orange crop is doing finely, both
In quantity and quality. Many of our
citizens here will net from 81 900 to $5,-
900 on their crop this year. The walnut
crop this season far exceeds anything
heretofore known. A five-aore ranch
Of walnnts means great wealth.
Our celery patch, OF 1000 acces. is
now yielding tons Of celery for Chicago.
Kansas City and many Eastern cities
1e ,f Tun. n dol 40
yOr We are shipping you peanuts by
the carload. Not long ago we shipped
East twenty-one carloads of beans at
one time. / am not sure, but have no
/ doubt, they went to Boston.
For the Industrious and careful man
there Is q good living in this country.
We have snow in the distance, some
| twenty miles away on the mountain
peaks, and strawberries of fine quality
in the valley, and the flowers are
blooming all the time. At the present
time we have 100 Gala lilies blooming
in our parsonage yard. The temDera-
ture this Winter has ranged from 40 de-
grees TO 60 degrees.
Methodism is cosmopolitan here to
an extent / have never seen before. 1t
requires a great deal of tact and pa
tience on part of the ministry to meet
all the demands of our church work.
But the M. r church stands to the
front, and Is doing a great work for
God and mankind. Our church build
ings are not very costly as a general
rgle, the enormous tax on church prop
erty in this state preventing us from
building fine churches, as we desire to
10 in many places.
have received a number of letters
from friends stating they hope to attend
the great Endeavor meeting in San
Francisco and would like to see me- 1t
p is a 4S4-mile trip from Los Angeles to
, San Francisco. ! would advise my
, friends to come by all means by the
Southern route via Southern Pacific
railroad and return by their Northern
route BY so doing they can make Los
Angeles their headquarters going, for a
few days. and radiate from that point,
taking in Southern California, then go
on to the convention. After the eonven-
y ton it will be on their way to take in
the northern part Of our state.
!. Having been through the state pretty
I. generally IL will be a pleasure for me TO
assist my old friends all l can. We are
: thirty miles south of Los Angeles, a
u beautiful city of some 5000 population,
j. with some twelve or fourteen trains to
e and from Los Angeles daily. This is a
/ great country. and in many particulars
e unlike any other that the sun shines
on. Yours truly,
lI