The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-11-25
INTERESTING LETTER
FROM MISS WEDDING
Is Spending the Winter in Cali
fornia and Thinks it a
Fine State.

Wedding of this city, to her brother,
Hon. R. r. Weddlng,of Terre Haute
Ind, will be found quite interesting
Miss Wedding is spending the win
ter with her grandmother at Lindsay
y California.
Dear Brother:-I forgot to mention
anything in my letter about writing
little to you concerning California. p
California is great; the first i'm
preston you get upon arriving Is
that California has been badly misrep
resented TO you; nearly everyone
who comes here says it looks TOO bar
rem for a land of fruit and flowers,
but when You drive out through the
country and see the beautiful orange
groves, lemon groves. grape vine
Wards and pomgranite orchards, you
are so fascinated that you don't no.
uce the absence OF Kentucky blue
grass. Anything that you put in the
ground can be grown by irrigation.
took a drive with some friends
| from here to Portorsyille last Sun
day; We saw some of the most
beautiful homes imaginable,-th
lawns looked more beautiful here
than anywhere, because they only
have grass where there is plenty of
water used. The houses are nearly
all built bungalow style, with bcauti-
full palm and orange trees in the
yard. While driving we made note
of the different kind of trees We had
seen, as we were all just from the
East. We saw lemon, pomgranite,
orange, peach, olive, almond, fig, pep
per tree, umbrella, different kinds of
palms, camphor trees and eucalyptus
These are just the trees We MOTTO
ed while driving from Ole town TO the
ether, and there were others of
California is the place for the labor
ing class Of people,-good carpenters
earn from 81 TO s. per day. There is
10 much work and SO many different
kinds of work in this town, which
is little larger than Hartford There
are thirtaen packing houses here;
there have TO be people to work on
the orange ranches, to gather the
oranges, TO make boxes for shipping
and to pack them,-hundreds of car
loads of oranges are shipped from
each of these packing houses every
season. There are no thunder storms
here, and it gets SO warm during the
summer months that a person can
hardly stand it. At that time, most
everyone goes to the coast, where he
can get the great ocean breeze.
Lindsay is near enough TO the
coast that nearly everyone can go.
i think the beauty of California lies
in the fact that people don't have
TO toll hard all summer and then
spend all they earn for clothing and
food in the winter. They can make
about three crops year here
this is in Tulare county in the
heart of the orange belt.
While We were in Los Angeles, We
would often go over TO Long Beach !
and San Pedro; one is a beautiful
summer resort and bathing beach, !
while the other is rapidly growing |
harbor. At Long Beach we would
walk out on the pier and watch boys |
fish for mackeral. The mackerpl
travel in schools and you could See
them just beneath the water so
thick that you could hardly drop a
stone into the water without hitting |
them The boys were fishing with !
hooks, and catch as many as five and |
six fish at time; however, don't take
this for a fish story.
Another thing about CALIFORNIA;
they have eXcellent schools here In 4
all the little towns | have visited
the school buildings were the most |
beautiful and most expensive buildings
III Lie NoNh, hhu eAi<hS AASNAS N-e'~
they are magnificent. Tho High !
School that l am attending Is just at |
the foot of the mountain. They tell |
me- that during the winter months |
you can see the snow on those peaks
farthest from town, just as we could
see it on the Tehachipi mountains
as We came from Los Angels but a
months ago. 1t seems TO me that
the pupils are more thorough in their
work here than any school l have
some to.
A man who just came here from
Washington told me that a person
could buy, certain number OF acres
OF land here for a ranch and raise
all kind OF fruit and make more than
q person cultivating twice as much