The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-02-19
JOHN T. KERR ON THE WING.

ertS, sand hills, canonS, and
mountains until we crossed Tex
az, Oklahoma, New Mexico and
Arizona. We did not see any very
picturesque scenery, unless it
was the snow on the mountains,
until we arrived at Red Lands,
California, our first stop. There
we saw the large orange, lemon
and grape fruit groves, with
acres after acres, rows after
rows, of the bright yellow fruit,
that looks like bank Of gold in
the sunlight, and as sweet as
honey from tie comb, when ta-
ken from the trees with our own
hands. The eastern oranges are
not to be compared with them
for iuiciness and flavor but they
are just as high in price. We
went through the packing houses
and saw them sort and pack the
oranges, lemons and grape fruit
and fill car after car of them to
ship east to Chicago, New York
and st. Louis.
The streets, or avenues as they
call them here, are lined up on
both sides by encallpus, pepper,
and olive trees; but the Mammoth
palm, three feet in diameter at
the ground, and twenty feet high
with a top fifty to sixty in cir
cumference, and leaves six to
eight feet wide. The palm is plac.
ed about seventy-f7e feet apart,
opposite each other, on roads or
avenues; and Gala lilies, roses,
and heliotropes in profusion-rows
after rows-and banks after
banks. With the thermometer
at eighty degrees January 9TH,
we took a carriage and went
through the famous Smiley
Height Park with o'er thousand
acres of every tropical fruit, plant
and flower. We saw Century
plant twenty feet long that had
just bloomed, and is now dying.
The top of the height is 200 feet
above the level of the sea. We
then went to Riverside and spent
day. 1t is about the same as
Red Lands, but not so beautiful
but a great grape, orange and
lemon district. The United States
Indian school, is located on Mag
nolia avenue, on Arlington height
On January Sth, my birthday, we
arrived at Los Angeles at noon
and came out to Long Beach at .
=. NJ. and saw the Pacific for the
first time in my life. We gather
ed SHE'LL, of many kinds until we
had so many that we are tired OF
shells and want to fish, and take
ocean launch rides and watch the
waves beat against the shore. II
is truly lovely to see the dashins
of the waves.
Every day is like the month o.
June here, January 23rd we wen
on an excursion, sixteen miles
out on the ocean to the new Gov
ernment Breakwater at San Pc
dro Harbor. The Breakwatel
is three miles long and the water
is 20 feet deep and they are fill
ing it up with rock at the bottom
1t will be thirty feet wide, anC
tapers TO eight feet at the top
and the contract price is three
million dollars. They put thous
ands of carloads of stone in ant
it seems like only drop in tn
bucket 1t seems to be an end
less job.
We will take an ocean steame
next week for the Catalina is
lands, thirty miles out in Uh
ocean, at which time we expec
to be rocking on the pillows, an
feeding the fish by heaving u
Jonah. We expect to stay owe
there two or three days. Their
are large fish over there-the TT
ma We will take glass bottor
boat so we can see what is in tn
bowels of the ocean. They say
is wonderful to behold land whe
we return we are going to Mour
Lowe the highest point of whic
is 5000 feet above the level of I'll
sea They go up 5000 feet by til
great cable incline TO Echo Moul
tain at an angle Of about forty d
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