Milford chronicle., 1920-06-25
MRS. CANNON N cALIFORNIA

The following letter from Mrs. Roy
Cannon of West Second street. North
Milford who is visiting friends in
California was received last week, by
Mrs. Pauline Townsend Hanley. 1t
is the second letter and it will be in
teresting to many who are not famil-
lar with the great state of California,
which stretches for many hundreds of
miles along the Pacific Ocean, and has
almost every climate within its linn
its.-Editor.
Chino, California,
June 1st. 1920
Dear pauline:-
Since writing my last letter to YOU.
| have had little intimate insight as
to how the people live in the Chino
Valley-a blooming paradise. where
everything grows in luxurious splend-
or.
would like to say to my farmer
friends in Delaware-that here the
farmers can cut eight crops Of alfalfa
each year from the same field. They
are engaged in making hay in the
winter. in the spring. in the summer
and i'm the fall both ON the hill-sides
and in the valleys.
Most of the prosperous ranches have
their own pumping stations. which are
operated by electricity, and this sys-
tom affords largely the water for ir-
rigatiOn on the small ranches.
have had my first lesson i'm irri-
cation, and it surely was entertaining,
as well as instructive to me. l have
often wondered how the work prog
reSsed after the water was turned on.
It requires the attention and work of
one man. or more. according to the
size of the ranch, to walk along the
trenches where the water is running.
IL closer up the gopher holes, and
keeI the water in the trench where di
rected.
The gophers are menace to the
successful operation of an irrigated
ranch in California. The claim is
made that the water which run downs
the holes is wasted, so far as irriga
tiOn of the crop is concerned. The
gophers resembles the MOLE the blind
turnover in Delaware fields, and they
do their burrowing mostly in the night
time. They heap up huge piles Of dirt,
the crops or orchards,
and cause destruction of most every
thing within radius of the gophers Op-
eratiOns.
Horned toads and Lizards are
plentiful. and the children play with
them-but l do not, and that is GER
tainty. Every time l see one of these
reptiles simply remove myself
from that particular place. / usually
walk with cane, or stick in such 10
calitieS.
l am very glad that I have been able /.
to pass a part of my time on a small .
ranch. and by SO doing have been en- I
abled to learn much more about real .
California life. than | could have pos .
sihly done without this experience. I
The rural life is so different here. In .
he fruit growing sections, the land is .
laid off mostly i'm ten acre ranches, /
with, pretty avenues running in each
direction. The roads are from twenty
i've to thirty feet in width, with main
avenues macadamiZed.
We can walk about twenty steps
from our home. and get bus To
INV point i'm California. Improved
and sells as high as $1,000 per acre.
md unimproved land frequently brings
400 per acre. This applies to the or
.nge belt especially. and ten acre
orange ranch in lower California is
;ome nice little place. and means a
lice little bunch of money.
Sunday we went to Ganesha Park
ust out from Pomona and the park
$ noted for the many kinds Of beau
iful trees found there. You can stand
II your tracks and see perhaps twen-
V different kinds Of trees, and all 4
,eautiful specimens.
! am especially fond of the pepper
rees." and / wish l could bring home
everal of them to Delaware. our ave
ne has Il row of eucalyptus trees its
ntire length. and they add a beauty
-hich is soothing to look upon.
/ have not as yet got my mountain {
limb. The folks are trying to make
ie get cold feet" about it, but l am ,
ding to do the trip. Brother has even :
ried the rattle snake story on me, but ,
hat hasn't weakened me one bit. | :
m going to stand pat on that noun 3
hin climbing trip.
l am going to Los Angeles this week
Or some time. and will probably see +
ONE Milford and Delaware folks r
lere. d
! recently saw, while on trip one +,
f the homes Of Mary Pickford. She 4
nd her husband. Douglas Fairbanks, +
re having some publicity in the n
)urts. and it is yet undecided to which :
IAN she is legally tied to. n
The newspapers in California sure g
re the home life" of almost every +
ody. and I do not feel kindly to them.
certainly prefer the Philadelphia il
ecord for many reasons, to the pa g
ars Of California. I:
There is supposed to be a shortage q
Z gasoline. and people are kicking n
bout the advance in price here. 1t h
selling now for p cents per gallon, ii
lille coal oil sells for II cents per $
lllon. That beats the price in Milford s
Y a biz margin. o
1 hope 10 write you IL my next LET ii
r something entirely different. / am "
iioying every minute of my stay here 81
nd must now say good bye, from II
Lille G.. Cannon cl
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