The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-07-27
key OF, California.

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Dear Pioneer Express:-
You may not understand my date line
but if you lived here you would. For all
time past, everything has been either B.
c. or A. d. In California ev< rythig is B..
Q. or A. Q. That is, before the quake or
after the quake. 1t all dates from that
time Just as it used to at home from the
time had the humps. However, that's
neither here nor there as it isn't the
quake l was going to write about.
We're trying to forget it. 1t was the
country in general and Los Gatos in par
ticular.
This is the SWEETEST location for a town
in California, and that is the same as say
ing the U. S., because this is the SWELL
est state in the United States. Los Gatos
is nestled among the foothills of the
finest valley that the sun shines on or
the rain rains on. This climate is per-
feet. They have just exactly enough
rain every year to do the business.
They can raise anything from apples to
honey. Go clear down the list and
they're produced here in profusion. It's
too high up for frost and too low for fog.
LIS the only genuine garden spot in Cal
itornia. There are Others but thew are
limitations.
That is what they tell me out here and
swaller all OF it. Pm going to be
like PAS old brindle COW thous
cough some of it up and chew it later
on and see whether it's so or not. All
jokes aside, this does seem to be about
the center of the universe though, for
went up on a mountain the other day
and it didn't seem to make any differ.
ence which way looked, heaven and
earth got together at about the same
distance from me.
This is strictly fruit growing valley.
The biggist prune ranch in the world is
just few miles from here. They don't
raise grain enough TO feed the chickens
with. There is some raised here but
it's all on the mountain sides. They
put it there SO they won't have to fence
it cause if a neighbours COW did happen
to stray into it she'd more than likely
tall of OF it into some other fellows farm
and break her neck before she could
stralghten up. Ifcows was like cats and
always landed right side up it would be
different, but they amt.
There was boy played mean trick
on me when first came. He showed
me away back in yard what he said
was popcorn tree that bore the corn
already popped. 1t looked good to me
and ] agreed to meet him that evening
about dusk when we were going 10
gather lot and make popcorn balls
to sell to the tourists. / was there but
he didn't show up and thinking perhaps
his NAV had kept him. / sneaked over
to the tree and reached up for q handful
and found they were just Almond bios
SONS. Just then heard horse laugh,
and piked tor home but I'll get even
with him yet. n {s
The last time wrote from Penryn
wood was plenty and cheap but il costs
money to make hot air here. Oak wood
costs y 9 cord aud i ism 1 III OK BY I :
long shot. They ought ii csll NJ joke
wood. 4 s'pose if youI bough & cord wood
yon might perhaps get y cord, 81 btit tie
minute mil you saw itsup The cord sits
identity Boss bought aGccsd o. stovs
wood The other ~ md hss gs NJ II
lnpt q three .tieys 90 81 4 r. 3 dont
Iknoy msci I. 4 @, a q n 81 y
l0f II Ysre nine ~ iueifysS
Hong. snd thats m illailll ios 6o