The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-11
TALKS CALIFORNIA.
BRER HALL WRITES ABOUT ITS
ORANGE GROVES.
AND HITS Al FEW OF THEFRAUDs
All Lines of Work and business over
crowded Great Jealousy Every
where-How the Landshark
Gets in His Work.

LUIS ANUELEfo; OCtL., ICU. 20 1(131AAS
FRIEND HEAD Upon leaving Keno
sha | promised you l would write an
occasional letter to the TELEGRAPH
COURIER, but / find that it was
promise more easily made than full
filled. Here it is eight weeks since |
arrived in California, and this is the
first opportunity | have had to even
make an attempt at relating few OF
our experiences that is, anything that
could possibly be of interest to my old
readers. Many personal letters prom
ised to Kenosha friends remain un-
written, but they shall all be attended
to in due time.
have not taken q note or made
memorandum since left Kenosha and |
hardly know where to begin Or what
to write about. The monthly maya
gines and the boom literature sent out
from this state have been read by al
most every one in the east who reads
at all, so / shall not attempt to de-
scribe general conditions, but rather
give my impressions of what have
seen and heard, and in brief state what
my experience has taught me in rela-
ton to the means of gaining liveh-
hood and enjoying the same in this
great empire of the west; and right
here | will take occasion TO denounce
as they deserve, the many immigration
schemes, a majority of which are
fraudulent and deceptive, and which
are advertised extensively in the farm
ers' papers of the central and eastern
states. Your readers are doubtless ia
miliar with the " Fair Oaks" and other
schemes with which the papers were
| filled about a year ago, and which has
resulted so disastrously to all who we're
in7eigled into joining the immigrating
party.
The state board of trade has taken
action to stop these wholesale frauds
and has addressed a communication tC
the governor recommending the estab-
lishment of state commission Of inn
migration, the duty of which should he
TO protect the people of California and
persons intending to move into the
state against the results Of these fraud
ulent schemes. These lands, adVer-
tised in glowing terms to catch the un-
wary, are, without exception, desert
land in which no intelligent Californian
would invest, and the announcements
are addressed to foreign ignorance and
designed only for the attention of those
who lack information of the real cOndl
lions existing here.
The state has suffered incalculable
injury from the swindling operations OF
these land sharks and it is time the
authorities were taking cognizance OF
these advantages. California has nat
ural advantages unequalled by any
state in the Union, but so MANY mis-
representations have been circulated
abroad concerning the state that the
reputation of it's citizens for truth and
veracity has suffered thereby.
[ heard a pretty good thing the other
day along this line. The man telling
the story said that he was walking
down the street and saw a big fellow
beating a little fellow in a regular Cor
bett fashion, and the under man in the
fight was calling enough with all hi;
might. Said the man: g Why don't
you let the little fellow up, he says he
has enough" "'I know it," replied
the bruiser, but he is a native Cali.
! fornian and one can't believe a word be
says" Of course the tale is over
drawn, but it has moral just the
same.
Since our arrival in the state l have
visited, besides Los Angeles, Red
lands, Riverside, Pasadena, Santa
Maria, San Diego, Azusa, Monrovia
Duarte, Altadena, Mount Lowe, Comp
ton, Downey all more or less prosper
GUS in their respective lines of horticul
ture and other ranching," but al
showing the disastrous effects of tn,
'87 80 boom, and from which they hav,
not yet fully recovered. The peopl,
are, however, turning their attention
from real estate booming to legitimate
industry, with the result that every
year thousands of acres are being re
| deemed from the desert and made t.
blossom with the lemon and orange.
First in Importance among the pro
duets of this section comes the orange
There is a glamor about the COLDER
fruit which captivates most new arr
walls sometimes to the tune of 81 800 al
acre for an orange ranch. have haC
an attack of the ranching fever myself
and if ] knew the first thing about
horticulture | might yet be classeC
among the California "ranchers.n
/ Perhaps there are some of your read
ers who are looking forward to The
owning of an orange grove some day
and for their benefit / will give them