The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-02-03
SENDS WORD
TO FRIENDS
I. A. MCFARLIN WRITES
FROM NEW HOME IN
SAN JOSE CAL.
Well Known Marshall County
People are Happy on the Pa
cific Coast.
San Jose, Cal, Jan. p, 191

from our nome IN lnNana. W1ft
and | take this way to let ou1
friends know how we are getting
along. out here on the Pacific
slope.
We are alive and well, and ex.
cept from being away from oul
children and friends in Marshal
county, we are happy. San Jose
pronounced San Hosay) is the
county seat OF Santa Clara valley
said by great travellers to be one
of the three best valleys in the
world, andoif fine climate, won
derfufly rich and productive soil
Densely populated with a fine
class of people, with beautiful
homes surrounded by flowers
palm trees and orchards. With
roads, splendid roads, watered
every rod.of them, once and Otter
twice a day for nine months in a
year at a cost of 100000 a year
makes a great valley then we are
in one shore.
The inner coast range ol
mountains with Mt. Hamilton or
which is situated the great lick
Observatory bounds the valley
on the east. For a few days now
snow has covered the tops and il
looks beautiful with the sun
shining on it. The Santa Cruze
mountains are on the west, COW
cred or has been, by great Red
Wood trees. We drove over these
mountains and back three times
on our way to Capitola, water
ing place on the Pacific Ocean,
during the summer. We are now
having the wet season have had
so far ten inches of rain. 1t will
rain awhile then sun comes out
warm like an Indian May day.
Old Californians say it has been
the coldest winter they even had
here. Several mornings the ice
was one third of an inch thick on
exposed water, and YOU should
have seen the natives shiver. De-
cember Is the coldest month, and
1t never gets very warm IN the
summer, nights always cool. Nc
corn climate. but good to live in
The soil is a washed insedment
soil twenty-five feet deep, land
has to be irrigated. They get the
water to irrigate with out OF the
wells sixty feet deep, can pump
fifteen hundred gallons minute
out of a ten inch well, and can
keep it up for months at time
The supply seems to be mex
haustfble, but is not as. cool and
refreshing in the summer as In
diana drinking water. Nearly all
the land is in fruit trees. Prunes,
AprfcotS, cherries. peaches, APP
pies, English walnuts and al
monds. Nearly every one has a
few Oranges and Lemons, in the
yards, but it is not a good place
for them. soils seems to be too
heavy, and perhaps nights too
cold.
a few pieces of ground not
in fruit produces wonderful
crops. A twenty acre field next to
mine produced more than three
hundred tons OF hay, cut, baled.
and sold in two years. Two years
ago crop sold for $25 per tom
last year $16 a ton.
Some very expensive homes
are owned here, and by San
Francisco people, who summer
here.
As you may support taxes are
high. about So an acre. but most
people pay them cheerfully, they
can see what they are getting
for them.
We have had the pleasure oi
entertaining all our children and
Mr.. and Mrs. John Listenfelt oI
lnwood and was in hopes that
more of>our friends would come
and make us a visit.
1t is a pleasure to entertain
friends where there is so much to
show them.
This is a great educational cen.
ter. California State Normal Uni
versity of Pacific, Leland Stan
ford University and the Catholic
people have two very large
schools in San Jose and Santa
Clara. three miles apart.
People here are great boom
ers they are now raising $4,000
to pay the expense of Rose Car
nival in April. They expect peo-
pie from ali over the country here
to see t. But wife and | will not
be here in April. We are ready
to come home. and are only wait
ing for your cold weather to act
a little decent. 1t seems strange
when we hear how it is so cold
and snowy there, when it is SC
warm with the flowers in bloom
here
With Best Wishes until we sec
you.
Mr.. and Mrs. !. \. McFarlin
No Money for Machines.
Whitley county has decided
that it mas no money for voting
,,,achiuaS and the Dropocition r.