Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-03


name. There il also a very large element
Of idle people. who will not work, and who
gather frequently and protest that too
many japanese are coming to this country.
and that Chinese labor is frequently SNUG
sled over the Mexican border. A citizen OF
Los Angeles, pointing out to the writer
bench on which sat six tough looking speci-
mems OF humanity, remarked: There is
type that is the curse OF this town. They
VIII not work so long as they can hold up
some one at night and steal a purse, yet
orange growers are offering big wages, and
they are unable to get enough help to pick
their oranges"
A brief visit to Ascot park. where seven
or eight running races are pulled off each
day, to the undoubted delectation OF the
gambling fraternity, revealed the fact that
very much the same looking lot of people
patronize this class Of sport In Los Angeles
that may be found on any of the tracks
in the eastern cities. There is "a united
effort being made by the newspapers OF the
city to do away with this species of gam
bling, and at recent democratic banquet
In the Angelus hotel ex-Mayor Carter Har-
rison, who was a guest. told how lie broke
up race track gambling in Chicago. II is
more than likely that a crusade will soon
be made upon the running horsemen in
Los Angeles, in which even IT is stated
they will retire TO Baldwin's ranch. where
that gentleman has maintained an excel
lent mile track for many years
Forestry OF the valley.
One thing that strikes the visitor to Los
Angeles-that is, a visitor like the writer,
who was familiar with this valley, as said
before, nearly thirty years ago-is the fact
that small effort seems to have been made
in the matter of forestry. Eucalyptus,
transplanted from Australia to California,
is the principal tree and is to be seen
everywhere. The Lombardy poplar is also
prevalent, but is tree that reaches it's
best development in a few years, and then
becomes anything but handsome. The live
oak is a native and there are some mag
nihcent specimens, but no effort appears
to have been made to propagate It,
Whether hardwood trees of the forest of
America can be made to grow successfully
in this part of California, the writer was
unable to learn from any person with
whom he talked. but it would seem as
though the effort should be made to in
troduce the elm, the maple, the ash the
oak. the hickory, the walnut and the but
ternut.
Since the settlement OF this valley the
introduction of water has made COM
plete change and 1t is believed that like
introduction of water on the plains which
lie between Los Angeles and Cheyenne
would work just marvellous a change as
the last twenty-five years has brought
about in this portion of California. As
one rides across the vast stretches covered
with sage brush and scrub cedar he can
not help but think that II the government
of the United States would Me as paternal
to the agricultural interests of America
in all branches as IT Is to the manufactur-
ing and shipping interests, a great reforma-
ton would be made in what is now classified
arid lands. IL the millions of dollars spent
by the government in the building, of war
ships, in the supposition that there will
some day be war to warrant such an ex-
pcnditure were devoted to the reclamation
OF the arid lands of the mountain districts.
certainly in the interest of peace. it would
be step which all good citizens of the
United States would heartily endorse
There is much food for study in this sub
ject, and as the president of the United
States is more or less familiar with from
tier life and Is also on record in the mat
ter of race suicide, ergo, he should be
anxious to father any project that would
this republic. Here on the uplands of
America is the spot it would seem, for i'm
proyement in the American race. Let the
president turn his mind in this direction.
We have made sufficient Improvement for
the present in the breeding of cattle and
horses; let the president himself start a
movement for the improvement of the
breeding of man. If one may believe only
small portion of the hue and cry put
forth by those who anticipate the yellow
peril. it would seem that a matter OF
safety to the future of this land rugged
type of man, fearless alike OF the yellow
or any other national peril, should be up
permost in the minds OF those who have
the care and welfare Of the nation in their
hands.
Redemption of Property.
The individual pioneer can accomplish
little If anything heresway. In such val