The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-07-31
Los ANGELES
AND VICINITY.
Mr.. Guth Writes Entertainly Of
Los Angeles and its Sights.
A PARADISE FOR PLEASURE.
The Iowa Farmer Finds old Friends
The Chinese Quarters.
Electric Railway System

being basketed and shipped, the later
ones cured as raisins, while the rotten
or decayed fruit is pressed and
allowed to ferment for wines. The
enormous size of the parent stem is
appalling to an lowan. They average
generally six to eight inches
through, and about four feet high
with only few bearing short vines
these give bounteous yield of about
six tons per acre.
To see several thousands head of
cattle in one herd is no uncommon
sight in this section. Hunting geese
and ducks mus. be pleasure there,
judging from the number, just
imagine the multitude of these geese
swimming on a pond. almost obscuring
2 full vision of the water. They
were seemingly trying to fulfill the
hunters we'll known fable, who
claimed that he saw such large iocks
of geese. that they pushed the water
out on the banks. and were waddIing
in the mirey mud.
Throughout the Sacramento Valley
the farms are generally large with
thousands of acre of wheat in single
field. Gang plows are mostly used.
to turn the soil. horses or steam fur
nishing the necessary power Cities
and towns are seldom indeed compared
with those found IN other fertile val
leys. The large farms are solely re-
sponsible for this depopulated condi-
ton. This most assuredly contra
diets Roosevelts last message in
which he states. that large concerns
are essential and beneficial to man
kind. There are numerous bins or
elevators along side the right of way,
some long enough to load sixteen cars
at once.
At Oakland We took the largest
ferryboat in the world. 20 cross the
bay for San Francisco. The FIRE
swept city is sight to behold. with
its almost entire ruin in the whole
sale business district. with the Won
derful six million dollar city hall
practically destroyed. Noting the
bent shape of the massive steel
structures supporters. which resemble
croquet arch one realizes the in
tense heat which created these pecu-
liar formations The city is being
rebuilt as rapidly as teams can haul
the derbis away and building material
back One thing is certain they can
NOT build faster than teams can trans
port material. which will require sew
eral years to accomplish the work.
The newspapers are. continually
bowling about poor street ear service.
They rightly complain about the
crowded cars. in which people are
jammed like sardines in a can, with
running boards extending along on
both sides of the cars the entire
length and compelling passengers
to hang thereon to obtain ride. This
greatly inconvenience the conductor
in collecting fares. They do remark
able we'll to collect half of them.
| The streets being unreasonably mar
row. and with such an enormous team
traffic constantly blocking the streets.
the cars must go at walking pace
through the burnt district. this in
variably dissatisfies the tourist who
soon vacates Frisco. The native
Frisconian hanging on the cars will
not pay. Many have been arrested
but were released. and eNonerated by
the present judge. who condemned the
conducting of the present existing
affair. Some property holders
thought themselves financially ruined.
but some naked lots are worth more
than before the fire. Wages are
comparatively high. masons receiving
S.. per day. carpenters s. to So.
teamsters from Sd to So 50 and COM
mon laborers 50. so with eight hours
constituting IA days work.
Taking the coast line We passed
several oil fields. some were located
out in the ocean. The Southern Pac-
ictic engines burn crude oil. it being
worth so cents barrel, which con-
stitutes its cheapest fuel in the Pac-
life states.
We saw several huge tanks labeled
as high as $4,000 barrels capacity.
About fifteen miles north of Los An
geles at Sylamn is located the largest
lolive grove and factory on earth COM
prising 1000 acres. The Southern con-
tains practically all of the American
olives. which are now rapidly supers-
seding the inferior European product
THAT has held sway for so many years.
California olives and olive oil are far
superior to any on earth. and con-
noisseurs everywhere are now admit
ting it. The native product has a
sweet nutty flavor. while the foreign
oil is practically tasteless. A strange
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