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The Pacific Slope

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
May
Year
1886
Copyright
Public Domain
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[Through theklndnessof D. M. Joulln. Bsq., f Uuiulilln, we aro permittod to copy the llowing letter written by htebrother, tjivint; ome Interetitlugfacts rclatlve to the l'aeitic oat.-ED.] San Berna rdino, Cal. Your letter reeeived - was forwarded ie from Los Angeles. I have gone out f tlie lliut business entirely and li:iv eased to be an Arkansas tiMveler. Jnt ov 1 am i the orange and lemon trade, ml have tuken quite nn interest in a t"ge vintage and wiuery. We turn out f all kinds, the best kind of' naive "Trape brandy, in fací, U's tlic most greeablti business in whicli I (ver enraged. Yesterday I drove up on tlie ïountalns to Arrow Head, place so callea rom a süde or spot of several acres on tie sideof ¦ mountiin that 10 miles awny ooksjut like an arrow luad, and at that lltance do larger tlian your hand. They aveaniee hotel and a hot spring, and while the mountaiu scenery is fine, tlie hermonieter is running from 74, 7S to 0 in the sli;ul; (January) and flies are lizzlng around us as in June in Alichgan. When we first carne here it was aininr. It rained all the time, filght and ay for eight to ten days. Rooms and eds were damp, with no fires, and I took 'lcl and liked to dled before it cleared p. It has not rained for several d;iys. 'he weather is beautiful, still I never ked hot weather as well as some. I have een longing for a good, first-class Arcansas blizzard, just to brace me up. We have met some very nice people from he east and trom everywhere. It is estiïated that at Les Angeles alone tliere ie 15,000 transient people, tourists, and very diiy brinffs railroad excursión tiains - carloads aftercarloafls. En route here we ran through Central Texa?, 8(Js miles, ïostly poor land, sage brush and catcus, ocks, nones, plaiiig and sand. Liked Ariona better still. Can do nothing vilhout irregation, and south Arizoua is oo hot for any one but a Greaser or Iuian. El Paso, Texas, on the line between 'e.xas and Old Mexico, and near tlie line f New Mexico, is a flourishinji tovn. We .-peni a day there very pleasantly, In oinpany with other tourUts. I crossed ver the Río Grande river into Old Mexco, visited Paso Del Norte, a town said 0 contüin 6,000 iuhabitants and 300 or 00 years old. We visited the old CatlieIrals, cali Gundoloupe, 3G0 years old. i'his old Spanish town, with its adobe wills, for over 300 yean bas been peopled vltli coming and jioing fienerations, wbo tere lived and died, not caring tor the Mitside world. I pnmtmtrl uic a Mexlcan sombrero, which I smiiggled acrOM lic Blo (rande by we&rlng it, and when 1 me a Spaniard I tipped my Bombrero to sixnor Mld bowing still lower to his signora. Uut in tipping my sombrero to slgnoretta, the black-eyed girls, thelr kiiidlinii, rojruisb eyes showcd I could not pass as a Mexican with thein. I will not yet say what 1 think of California. It is too toon tojudjfe. I fear the cllmate here too enervating for me, but can't teil yet. San Bernardino is .1 town of 5,000 Inhabitanls in a valley, lying aloug tlie toot ¦ 1 the San IJernardrio range of mountalns. Mount San Bernardino, Grey Back and Baldy rear their heads at au elevationof 10,12 and 13,000 feet above the level of the sea. This towu was first settled by the Morinoms.

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Ann Arbor Courier
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