Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-03-25
Our ElwelI Townsman Writes That
Busch. the Famous Brewer
Makes His Home
IN A PROHIBITION COMMUNITY
No Drunks In Pasadena But Plenty OF
Them in Los Angeles. Few
Miles Away.
Pasadena, CAL, Feb. s5, 1908

HdSdueudl Odls roD. co, i'Oos
Mr. w I. Pitt and Wife:
Seville Center. Mich.
Dear Friends:
Hear is hoping you are well and
enjoying life among the fine old snow
banks of Gratiot county. can assure
you il makes me shiver sometimes
when / get the winter news from
home. Sixthirty this evening our
thermometer registered g. AT noon to-
day it stood at s5. l sat out in the
front yard and went to sleep this after
noon and dreamed of the old friends
back In Seville and Sumner and won
dered what they we're doing this fine
hot day. and when / awoke my hair
was curley from the effects of the sun
shine. l am pleased to learn that
Gratiot county is to try for prohibition
at the coming election. If every
voter in Gratiot could live here few
months before voting on this important
question. believe ninety percent of
them would vote in favor of local op-
tion.
There are no saloons in this city,
$1,000 population. l have been here
two and one half months, have been
in nearly every crook and corner of
the city. but have not seen a drunken
Angeles half dozen times and have
seen a dozen drunken men there stag
gering along the streets. There are
lots of saloons in Los Angeles and
more crimes are committed there every
day than are committed here in a
month. There are electric cars run
ing from Los Angeles to Pasadena
about every five minutes. 1t takes
about half or three quarters of an
hour to make the trip, so we cannot
expect to have a perfectly clean dry"
city as long as the few old will have
its" that live here can get it in Los
Angeles. but thanks to the intelligent
business men and the old line prohi-
Sitionists of Los Angeles, they are
trying hard to drive the saloons out
of that citv They will vote against
license at the spring election.
Mr.. Pitt / called on Lawyer Willet
last week. He was pleased to hear
from you and asked me TO tell you he
wanted TO be remembered. He thinks
this is the only place for man to
live and really enjoy life. If had a
whole lot of nv old friends around me
/ believe | would think that way too.
Clsrissa, Hal, Dorothy and l went
down to the ocean beach Saturday, the
22nd inst. 1t looked odd to see doz-
ems of bathers in swimming this time
of the year. l did not go in, saw
shark swimming around near the
wharf. and would rather take my
chances with the land sharks than
the ocean sharks.
Farmers are planting gardens and
potatoes now. They have about fin
ished sowing wheat. oats and barley.
They sow their grain during the rainy
season and it nearly natures before
the ground gets too dry for the grain
TO grow.
If the ground drys OF { too soon to
ripen the barley it is cut and baled
and sold as barley hay. and retails at
$l4 to SIS per ton here. Most all the
oats grown near here is cut before it
gets entirely ripe and is baled and sold
ne rnf han - ~ A. 1.
they have here and retails from $16
to $40 per ton. Alfalfa is very good
crop TO grow in some sections. Ii has
has to be cut five 10 seven times year
and yields ton per acre each cutting
At present alfalfa is retailing at SIG
TO $40 per ton. This whole southern
California county seems TO be in need
of more farmers to grow the general
run of farm products.
You see nearly all land has to be
irrigated TO raise all kinds of crops
successfully and so many have put
their whole time and attention to fruit
growing as soon as water was assured
them, that diversified farming has
been so neglected Before irrigation
is established the principal crops are
wheat OF barley Irrigated land is
valued very high 5000 up to $4,000 per
acre, according to location and soil.
North and south has very little If any
effect on frost. Oranges and lemons
are grown in the valleys where there
II laest danger of frost. Ten miles
south of here is quite frost belt and
scarcely an orange tree to be seen. A
little to the south and east the orange:
arc all right and they are success.
nearly FIVE hundred miles north. But
the best are in the Redlands and River.
side districts about fifty to sixty mile,
east and south of here. The mountain,
and ocean breezes are the real climate
makers.
We want to go to the Cataline Is.