Mower County transcript., 1906-04-11
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6. H.= =Ceats Writes Of C0ndi dition!
There Chilly Gather There
During the Winter Clim. .s
ate the BRigg gest Asset
Boom in and Prices. i y.
LONG BEACH, C.AL.,.s.
5.1.4G MARCH 81, 1905. 4: !.

.g u, .3se sE5= &C. LONG BEACH, CAL,
s.s SIS sss.5s MARCH 81 19O6
DEAR, FRIENDS: sz 5,..szz:s 5 1s>.s
/ am happy to say that we are both.
real well and have enjoyed it here fairly
we'll when the sun shines but we have
had much more cloudy, rainy weather
in the past two months than sunshine.
When it is cloudy, the salt damp air
from the ocean chills to the bone and /
fire is necessary for comfort. think
Long Beach or any Of the other coast
towns are much better summer resorts
than winter. ! -, -. III ll-4s q. r.
Long Beach is growing rapidly.
Over. a thousand residences are under
now and many business
blocks from three to six stories
high are going up. I like Long Beach
but / like Los Angeles better. Yet
there are many redeeming features in
Long Beach, one beng that there is
not a saloon in the city. Eta pig shows
up he gets it in the snout quickly and
he is gone. Another thing, all classes
work harmonious!y for the good of
Long Beach, bankers, newspaper men,
business men, laboring men all pull to-:
gether for the good Of the CITY,. When
see what united effort has accomplish.
ed, not only in Long Beach but in
many other towns in southern Cali:
fornla, it is marvellous and wonder if
Austin people will ever wake up and
get together in reaf harmony and al
pull together for the good Of all. ANPs5
tin people are sb1fnd Is their owniI1ter.
est, so itsseems to me, for we have more
natural advantages here than California
has. All they claim for southern Cali
fornia is climate. This brings tourists
and people here live off of them, linn
ate. does not change materially while
tourist travel may. While Austin has
not a southern California climate I
claim that we have as good eight
months in the year as could be found
anywhere and far superior to most
other localities and could we lay aside
all petty strife and work for the COM
mon good and the interest sof all I be-
lieve we would surprise ourselves at
the progress we would make. We are
not dependent in Minnesota wholly on
climate for business and sustenance. =.
: There is a boom on, here in real es-
tate and prices are advancing all the
time. You ask them what :is there
here to sustain these inflated prices and
keep them up and they: invariably tell
you the climate which brings tourists
and the tourists money does it. Should
these not continue to come here what
then? This is a good country for
wealthy people but people Of limited
means can do better elsewhere. Many
say that it does not cost more to 1--we
here than it does in the east but from
experience [ know that everything is
much . higher. Even oranges and
lemons cost as mach here as in Austin.
I paid thirty cents per dozen for second
grade oranges yesterday and they asked
thirty five cents for first grade.
We have not visited many places
that we intended to on accountsef the
inciement weather. We were up to
=, Ms nne'es "a a s;s aanahtar Mrvn, = ,eu -
tion. Della has g nice home. We
visited the daGerent parks with them.
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