The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-03-21
FROM CALIFORNIA.

Los Angeles is certainly an ideal
city for tourists. There are more kinds
OF free entertainment, splendid parks,
as we'll as excursions by tally-hos, ali
day rides taking in twenty to thirty
miles Of country, with conductor to
explain things, all forsl. Then there
are cheap railroad and steamboat ex-
cursions, all we'll patronized and salts
factory, and, too, person can live
cheaper and better than in Minneap-
oils. The climate is like the old song,
Every word and every line
Was Dandy Jim, from Caroline
One excursion was up Mt. Love- a
wonderful ride up the mountains which
no one should miss. Another took in
Lucky Baldwin s rancho of SO, 900 acres.
We ate dinner with Lucky Baldwin.
After. dinner. he escorted our party
over portion of his rancho. He has
about 5000 acres in fruit,2, 900 acres
in one body in oranges, trees all bear
ing and the fruit being picked for
market. His private residence and
grounds are very beautiful. He is
very pleasant, chatty and agreeable
companion-makes you feel right at
home. He says, though, that Unlucky
is more appropriate name for him at
present. Coming back we went through
the old San Gabriel mission and the
old forts once used by the monks,
curious sight, together with miles of
cactus fence grown to corral and pro-
tect their cattle, being impossible for
man Or beast They showed US the
house where Helen Hunt Jackson Il
think that is the name) wrote era
MONA Another excursion was to
San Diego and while there Z took a :
run out to FL Cazon, Ell Ker Hone,
valley to see our townsman, John Ca
ter. found him pleasantly located on
the slope overlooking the valley with
a nicely furnished house and a nice
little wife, living as snug as bug in
rug. John has become very pious
since he left us and he is avery strong
temperance man and be is in earnest
about it, too. He is a very hardwork-
ing man like his father before him and
lis bound to get ahead if anybody does.
He has variety of fruit in bearing
and was selling oranges at 81 per hun
dred in picking boxes delivered at the
depot three miles away. That's about
four cents dozen for fine navels. We
bought them in Los Angeles, big ma
wells, for six cents a dozen.
San Diego is not a very lively city
compared with Los Angeles, but it has
a fine harbor and the Coronado hotel
and beach is worth a days travel to
see. The hotel is a city in itself and is
full and turns people away every day
for want Of room. The battleship
Iowa was anchored in front of the
hotel. All kinds of aristocracy from
all over the world is domiciled at the
Coronado Splendid fishing and surf
bathing there, with porpoises and
seals swimming around among the
bathers quite tame. In writing up this
country no two persons would get the
same impressions unless they travelled
the same road at the same time, there
is such variety of climate and scenery.
In coming back to Irvingto ton we came
on the old road from Fresno and things
looked entirely different from these on
the one we went down on. We saw
very little waste land coming back
from Fresno and when we first struck
the Santa Clara valley coming down
we thought it the prettiest place on
earth and the fruit just wonderful, but
since being down further south and