The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-08-19
ANYWAY, WE HAVE GOT
HIM STARTED AGAIN

Los Angeles, Calf, Aug. IL, 1920.
Mr.. Editor:
just received The Empire dated
Aug. 9Th, in which you have an item
much concerned and distressed over
the earthquakes of Los Angeles.
What you have to say in the item 1
do not know whether it is intended
for joke or piece of slander ON
the city.
There is much truth in your item
when you say they are chartering
more steamers to bring the people
from the Catilina Islands. This is
land resort belongs to Wrigley, the
4 chewing gum king, greatest advertis-
er in the world today. As resort he
has made it so attractive that he put
on two new steamers In the spring to
haul the people off and on to the Is
land. The place is so popular that
the extra steamers will not take care
of the crowds Mr.. Wrigley arrived
here from Chicago last Monday. See
ing the condition of affairs he imme-
diately ordered two new steamers of
1000 passenger capacity to be built,
costing million dollars, to be put On
the line to take care of the crowds.
So you see it is true as you state; he
is hauling the people off from the Is
land, but first must haul them onto
the Island before he can haul them
off. You also state the truth when
you say the people are leaving by
trains and autos. That is absolutely
true. The Salt Lake railroad, Santa
Fe and Southern Pacific have an
nounced, within the last ten days,
having to put on an extra train to
their schedule to care for the in
creased travel, as the incoming trains
public. Naturally the travel has in
creased going and coming. 1 showed
your item to Santa Fe conductor of
one of the overland trains this morn
ing, and he just ha, haed.
When Benjamin Franklin was about
to sign the Declaration of Indepen.
J dence, he said if the British ever
caught them, they would all hang to-
gether. So it is with the quakes oui
!, here, if one ever comes that is sc
disasterous as to destroy life we will
| all die together, but there is one
thing sure, we will never die out here
by the Colorado snow slides, the Kan
sas cyclone, the Illinois electrical
storm, or the slow death of the New
Jersey mosquito pest, for we have no
snow slides, cyclones, lightning or
mosquitoes.
In Fullerton, Orange Co, there is
Billy Irwin, who was a mail carrier
in Cripple Creek, and Frank Pierson,
who once lived in Crystal, Gunnison
county. Both of these gentlemen are
in the real estate business, and are
suffering with nervous prostration
because they cannot find houses
enough to house the new arrivals who
want to live there. If you are count
ing on coming out next winter, better
bring your blankets and camp under
a palm tree. Don't bring your angel
wings, because if you get bumped off
by quake, you go down instead of up.
1t used to be that climate was the
greatest asset of this country, but
Orange county, adjoining Los Angeles,
has variety of wealth producing as
sets. Orange groves that sell for
four and five thousand dollars an
acre. Oil wells that gush as much as
5000 barrels daily, yielding over $780,
600 month Any number of wells
within four miles of Fullerton flow
upwards of 1000 barrels daily.
There are five beet sugar factories
} in Orange county. All starting up
this week to produce millions OF
pounds of sugar the next three
months that will bring the price up
or down.
Two of these sugar factories are
owned by the Holly Sugar Co. Burt
Carleton of Cripple Creek and Colo
RADIO Springs, with his associates in
Colorado own the Holly Sugar Co.,
that operates two factories in the Ar
! kansas Valley, also the Grand juno
tion factory, and building a new one
! at Delta, Colorado. These Orange
county sugar factories are very sue
cessful. as it has been demonstrated
that the soil and climate are ideal for
the production of beets with the best
percentage of sugar. Burt Carlton
comes out from Colorado occasionally
to look over things and to take back
bag of sugar. Do not know what
he does with so much sugar, unless ne
makes home brew out of it to supply
the trade in Colorado Springs.
Talk about Catilina Island sinking