Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-05

Times Republican,: have returned
from a three months vacation trip TO
southern California and l was most
exceedingly glad to get home. Yes, l
enjoyed the trip Immensely; in fact
every day Of it except when it rained.
Do want to live out there? No, at
least not yet. / am not able to say as
yet what my feelings would be We're
sick or past sixty, and able to retire
upon an assured income. 1t was de-
iisi1tfui TO be able to 80 about In an
automobile whenever and wherever
one wished to go over continuous
asphalt pavement thru the country up
the valley or down to the sea shore,
rain or shine, but that was due as
much to magnificent system Of paved
roads as 1t was to tropical climate.
The scenery was not SO beautiful TO
me as the rolling fields and natural
timber Of Iowa in the summer time but
the difference Is that the landscape in
southern California is green in the
winter months when ours Is dormant.
Nine months without rain soon seres
the hilIsides brown again, leaving
nothing green in southern California
but the irrigated groves and crops and
one will catch cold every bit as easily
in California wet season as he will in
an Iowa winter. The chances are
ninety nine to one, too, that his house
will not be as comfortably warmed as
in Iowa for the Californian thinks that
he can get along without much heat,
hence he actually suffers. The gas
heaters in the rooms burn up the air
until one must take headache il he
would keep warm and when one has
become acclimated he has learned to
|, put on extra clohing so as to take his
California climate without gas. A
Californian will admit that he nearly
froze up the first year he lived in
! California but then, he will explain,
| that he got used to it. A few Iowans
are building warm houses and heating
them with furnaces and on cold days
| it seems as tho all their neighbors had
suddenly decided to return their social
calls at the same time.
Take an Income With You.
| I said that would want an assured
income before buying one way ticket
to California for it seemed to me that
there are very few business oppor-
tunities out there compared to what is
open for every live man in the middle
western and eastern states. The citrus
{! fruit industry is not one in which to
get rich. Most of the small orange
and lemon groves are for sale. The
syndicate ranches which are large
enough to employ an expert horticul-
turist and to establish an eastern mar
ket for their product under a private
brand prosper but the small fellow is
seldom an expert horticulturist and
even in his associations has been un-
Ii A11~1 I'll. l. \
Gus market. When his oranges are
shipped he may receive SO cents per
box in return which will give him back
his cost. Very often he will receive 80
cents to 81 per box and then he makes
a good profit but sometimes he actually
has to put up for freight and yet
oranges must bring $3.50 per box tc
the consumer in the Mississippi valley
he has travelled four days on a pas
senger train thru the mountainous
wilderness or desert wastes which
must be traversed by the refrigerator
cars to get California fruit to market
I am told that this remoteness is wha,
saps the profit from the apple business
in the apple regions Of Oregon ant
Washington. However that be. thu
| impression / obtained from the prun'
valleys Of central California and tn
citrus orchards Of southern Californi;
i was that there is no big money to b.
, made in fruit culture. The orchards
| does not exhibit the evidences OF ac
[ cumulation in the kind Of houses h
: builds for his home as the stool
) farmer, dairy farmer and grain farme
. does in the agricultural states.
3 On the other hand any kind of a.
j. iorchard affords delightfully."- cleat
an interesting outdoor life for one VIII
: Loves nature and is looking merely 70
J, a home. II he is fortunate enough
4 ihave established small income BAG
in Iowa or the middle west enough