The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-04-14
Letter from Los Angeles.

Letter from Los Angeles.
Maine People in California. Los ANGLE.
Parks and the Beaches. A Bad Season
for Orange Growers.
Los ANGELES, CALF, March "a
1904. ! would like to correct some err.
rors in the notes taken from my letters
which you printed last week, lest the
California readers of The Journal think
have paid little attention to the geoq-
raphy of their State We did not cross
the Colorado desert on the way from
New Orleans, as stated. 1t was the
California desert to which l referred as
being in one place 263 feet below sea
level. This is salt desert, and at the
little town of Salton, where it is man.
ufactured for commerce, the heaps of
salt looked like Maine snow drifts.
In regard to the view from the high
land of San Diego l do not remember
seeing any islands. Coronado is on a
long neck of land which separates San
Diego bay from the ocean, and Point
Iona, on which is situated Fort Rose
Grams, separates it from False, or Mis-
sion bay on the north. The entrance
between Coronado and Point Iona be-
ing narrow it makes a beautiful and
perfectly safe harbor. Pacific Beach,
though within the city limits, is about
eight miles north of San Diego, proper,
and lies between Mission bay and the
Pacific ocean.
Since writing the letters from which
other Maine people who are known to
some of your readers; among whom
were the Rev. F. S. Forbes, formerly
of Brooks, now pastor of the Eastside
Congregational church of Los Angeles,
and George Simonton, a former resi-
dent of Camden. He is one of the old
est settlers here from Maine, and is one
of the leading spirits in the Pine Tree
State Association of this city. In the
tower of the Los Angeles county court
house. few days since, we met Mr..
and Mrs. H. j. Woods, who formerly
lived in Belfast. They have been in
Southern California about eighteen
months; the most of the time in San
Diego, which place they admire as
much as We do.
Los Angeles has fine system of pub
lie parks, and lately we have been ex-
ploring them. The largest one, Elysian
Park, is nearly twice the size of Cen
trail Park, n. y, l should think. As
yet it is largely unimproved, but many
groves have been planted of various
kinds of trees-palms, pines, peppers,
several varieties of eucalyptus. cedars,
oaks, naples: and others with which
we are not familiar 1t is on success
sion of high hills and affords beautiful
views of the city and mountains. There
are also large plots of Towering plants
which bloom the year around in this
climate, and boulevard bordered with
palms winds in and out among the
hills. Other very pretty breathing
spots are Eastlake, Westlake, Hollen-
beck, Griffith and Echo Parks. Ali but
one of these has an artificial lake and
variety of trees and flowers. Eastlake
has also very good menagerie. One
thing we have noticed in these parks
that is somewhat unusual. The only
prohibition is DO not pick the flow
ers.' We may walk on the grass and
feed the animals and birds all we wish.
We have spent several very enjoy
able days at the beaches in this vicin-
ity. We tried the surf-bathing at one
and found the water as warm as it is in
July at home. They claim that there
is only six degrees difference in the
temperature of the water summer and
winter.
We can hardly realize that Belfast
has been SO showed and frozen in, for
with the exception of a few evenings,
and one or two days, we have needed
no heat in our rooms.
This has been very bad season for
the orange growers of this State. There
was very large CROP but owing to the
extremely cold weather in the east the
large dealers have been unable to dis
pose of the usual quantity and the mar
ket price has been 50 low that the
growers, in many cases, have had net
loss OF ten to forty cents box. 1t
costs the grower about S125 box to
get the fruit to market. We can buy
fine oranges here for ten cents water
pail, containing from twenty five to
thirty. EVELYN FROST.
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