The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06

the regioi,S for which IL was Intended
for five years, and not foreseeing the
water famine Of the past three years, the
people decided that waste pipes should
be put in, and this was done not allow
ing the reservoirs to contain but a small
part of what it would when full. There
has been almost no rain since and the
Sweet Water Dam reservoirs are almost
empty.
The present water supply ofSan Deigo
and Chulavista is pumped from the river
at various places ana is a muddy look
ing liquid. When served at hotels and
restaurants in San Deigo it would never
be taken for water unless you had pre-
viously tasted it.
The water Chulavista is now irrigating
its lemon groves with Is rather brackish
and if used indefinitely would perma-
nently injure the trees
We reached Chulavista soon in the
afternoon. This is the lemon belt of
San Diego county and here are many
fine homes surrounded by orange and
and lemon groves.
We had expected to see some friends
here but found upon inquiry that they
were camping among the Smith noun
tains.
We reached San Diego about O'Clock
in the evening and pitched our tent in
vacant lot next to school house. In
the evening we enjoyed free concert
by the band and retired after enjoying
repast of hot tamoles.
! In the morning, Thursday, Aug. Is,
we crossed the ferry and took the car to
the Coronado Hotel and the tented city.
The Coronado Hotel with its 1000 rooms
and covering many acres of ground is
too we'll known to mention, but the tent
ed city is not so well known. Its streets
are as hard and smooth as floors, and it
is laid out as any other city with streets
and alleys. The tents are all commodi-
ons, contain floors which are covered
with mating and are very comfortably
furnished.
Water is piped 80 as to be convenient
and tank of ice water for drinking is
free for all.
There is fine place for sea bathing,
large hall where free band concerts
are given nightly and dancing is also a
feature of these entertainments.
Our time being limited we were re-
luctantly obliged after dinner to say
good by to San Diego and Coronado and
their many attractions.
Early in the evening we reached Del
Mari which is very prettily situated on
a bluff overlooking the sea. Large bath
houses are situated on the beach below
the bluff. This town is monument to
the boom which struck southern Califor-
MIA about thirteen years ago. Though
a small place,it is laid out with evenness
of palms and cypress and geranium
hedges with nice board sidewalks on
nearly every street. Here is fine ten
mis- court evidently unused and num-
Der of vacant houses. On the highest
point is fine school house whose ap.
pearance would be a credit to a much
larger place.
Early in the morning we resumed our
journey and rode for twenty.eight miles
on the beach. just before we reached
B Oceanside thetide became quite high and
we took the road.
4 Before five O'Clock we reached San
Mateo where We again pitched our tent.
We camped under a clump of sycamore
trees, and found spring of good water
E We had tine grass carpet and wild
4 roses bloomed in profusion about us
r A few rods to the south of us the wave.
] of the ocean gently rolled and soothec
j, us to slumber. We would fain hav,
!, stayed here few days had no
). anxieties about home urged us thither
d ward. So early in the morning w
n packed up for the last time.
a A few miles from San Mateo, we pass
IS ed through San Juan and soon afte
It through Capistrano. By 4 o'clock il
|. the evening we were home again, an,
d found everything all right and every
e body glad to see us.
BERTHA LILLE