Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-10-04
FROM PACIFIC COAST.
MIR. P. B. Day Sr., Enjoying
Western Trip. Writes Inter-
estingly of Journey and of
California.
Los GATos, CAL,
Sept. 81, 1916.

Los GATos, CAL,
Sept. 81, 1916.
Dear Mr.. Minis:
According to promise I will give
you some data in regard to my
Western trip, San Francisco being
the terminal point. Leaving Au-
gusta on tie 3Oth of August (nuon)
passing through Atlanta, my first
stop was New Orleans, only for
thirty minutes. Travelling through
the best cotton section of Louisiana
at night, I can not tell YOU anything
about this crop. But l was told
that it was considerably off from al
average crop. In the cane belt was
large acreage, all under irrigation
and to me it looked good. Corn
crop very poor. Now and then big
fields of rice, some of it had been
harvested with binder and shocked.
Did not see any cotton crops in
Texas as we passed this belt also at
night.
Travelling near one thousand
miles through Texas, and five hun
dred and sixty miles through Colo
RADIO, the greater part of this on the
railroad is a vast desert, AID torrid.
I was .old that this section was
principally cattle ranches, but the
stock must have been in the back
ground as very few were in sight.
Next morning found ourselves in
Cal :.ornia, ia t 10 p. m., on the
goth of Sep: :i::Lsr, after continu-
nur .iue of $500 miles we reached
Los Angels (called city of Angels.)
From New Orleans crude petroleum
oil is used to generate steam in
place Of coal, and except for oil ard
water practically no stops were
made. II requires from six to
Hsigt sssia
these huge engines. And the read
bad was so smooth that at times
you could scarcely tell that the
train was moving. Los Angels with
population of from 600 to 100000,
and adjacent towns is said to be
the most favored spot of California.
At Huntington Park, little viii
lage near Los Angeles, live Mr.. and
Mrs. lie Sueur, (Miss Katie Sulli-
van, formerly of Edgefeld.) 1t had
been many years since I had seen
her, but / recognized her at once
aud you can imagine my feelings to
meet some one that I really knew
so far from home, and she looking
50 much y.ounger than | expected to
find her, and enjoying the best of
health-for on leaving Atlanta
abc-t eleven .,ears ago in miserably
poor health. you can readily see
that the climate here is simply
grand. 1t was my first acquaint-
ence with her devoted husband of
seventy-fve years, one of the old
fashioned Southern gentleman. Of
course l accepted their hospitality
and by their aid I was enabled to
visit many beautiful and interesting
points, that perhaps l might have
overlooked. I was particularly i'm
pressed with Long Beach and Pasa-
dena, each of these places support
ing a population of 40 to 10000.
These places including Hollywood
are beautifed with handsome homes
and gardens of millionairs from all
over the United States. The ho-
tells at these places are as luxurious
as you will find in New York city,
G am told.) It's safe to remark here
that southern California is blessed
with the finest climate in the world.
And while the oranges grow here
profusely and l saw many we'll
kept groves, the lack of moisture
underground (unless by irrigation)
and the dryness of the climate, the
foliage as we'll as the fruit did not
appear to be as luxurious as those
l have seen in Florida. The grape
fruit of California is not nearly as
finely favored as that grown in
Florida, while the lemons are sup
nosed tn he finer favored. From
Los Angeles, ride of about four
hours, I went to San Diego, going
through country dotted with truck
farms, alfalfa, walnuts and tre-
mendous area growing lima beans
that were being threshed. San
Diego is beautiful spot, a good
harbor, dry climate, bathing in the
surf lndulged in all through the
wear. The ocean here is as blue as
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