The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-04-06
George E. Traub Writes Of His
Trip to California.
GOOD POINTS FOR THIS CITY
People in Riverside Believe in Pat.
ronizIns Home Industries; John
Fischer Resigns Position.

the circle in California. He is having
good time and seeing all there is
worth seeing, according TO the follow
ING letter which he kindly wrote to The
Free Press:
San Diego, Cal, March 23.-After be-
ing carried over the ties for ninety-siX
hours we were finally dumped off at
San Diego, the supposed garden spot of
California. OF course we did not arrive
here in a blizzard as conditions We're
when we left Minnesota, but i'm a eli
mate that is boosted to be as nearly
equal to the finest on the globe. Ac-
cording to government records from 1872
To 1904 there were, on an average only
six days in year when it was above
eighty degrees or below forty. The av
erage change in temperature from day
to day is only about two degrees. Since
arriving we have encountered more or
less rains, with cool evenings, though
pleasant to be out any time.
We took rooms at The Langham and
in taking possession of the dresser, we
discovered, to our surprise, copy of
The Mankato Free Press, dated June
2Sth, 1905. Being little on the in
quisitive order an investigation was
made at once and it was found that Mr..
and Mrs. John Klein occupied these
rooms last year, which accounted for
the appearance of the paper still undis
turbed in this room. Both Mr.. and Mrs.
and are taking all the comforts of life.
They are located this year, just across
the hallway from us in the same
building.
We also visited Riverside for several
days, which is known as the greatest
orange belt in California 1t was here
that the famous Washington navel or
seedless orange originated. The two
parent trees from which sprang all the
navel oranges are shown among the cur
iosities of the place.
Riverside, with a population of H.
600 souls, is no doubt one of the pref
test places on the Pacific coast 1t has
half million dollar hotel, paved
streets, beautiful driveways, in fact ev-
erything that makes place pleasing to
tho ic in bo r,,iIcf Of 900
acre orchard, with two paved avenues
running through it, each ten miles in
length, fianked all the way by palms,
pepper and other tropical trees. It's
revenue from its orange and lemon or
chards are nearly 100000 yearly.
Many hundreds of people are daily en-
ployed in the fruit packing houses. In
these places the highest class of Am
erican labor can be seen. 1t is almost
written law of Riverside that no out
side labor shall be employed as long
as there is any resident of the town out
of employment. Women wrap the tissue
paper around the golden fruit, while
their father, brother, or as the case
may be, sorts, grades, and removes the
fruit. 1t is beneath no one in Riverside
to work The result is that the banks
are filled with gold and Riverside coun-
ty is the richest per capita of any coun-
ty in the United States. 1t is strict
~ a "patronize home trade" town-all
for one and one for all. If only Manka-
to could be more on this order. how
much more beneficial would it be for
ALL
Riverside is on the water wagon
strictly-no drinking except water
while at Cotton, seven miles from here
and with population of 5000, the IL
cense is only 5000 per month. Here
is where Dr. Daniels, formerly of st. Pc
ter, is nicely located.
Professor John Fischer, formerly of
Mankato, who held good position as
director of the Riverside government
Indian band, rendered his resignation
last month and is at present in Los
Angeles.
In Riverside county is where one gets
an idea of what oil has done for road
ways. The oiled roads are clean, hard
as asphalt and dustless. The people
here believe that every dollar spent for
good roads, brings two back, and right
they are. Too bad that we haven't
more people in Blue Earth county that
think the same way.
Redlands and San Bernardino are also
very interesting as well as good bust
ness places. Its oranges has made this
section famous. Redlands boasts of
having thirty millionaires living there.
You can reach all of these places by
electric lines as we'll as by rail.
We also spent several hours in Los
Angels, but the place is too large for
comfort or sight seeing. AT present
there is a big boom on and everything
is thriving. Last week Mr.. and Mrs.