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Show DRIFTING SOUTH. Los Angeles Greasers Orarges San Gabriel The uld Mission Mis-sion Eulalie Percez Cactus. Etc., Etc. Editors Htrald: Loe Angelea ie a very pretty city of about 18,000 inhabitant, well built in the new part, but worn out and liildL.Lutt-d ii: the old. Wherever tbe g reaser b take up their abode ll is i Bquallid and wretcbed iooking. A1 kind of fiiBgus has settled upon tse original inhabitants of California, represented re-presented by the Mexicans vani Indians. In-dians. The car ol progress moves at the rate of a mile in a century with them. Their houses are wrotchtd apologies, rarely possessing a window on the street, and many of tbe door-sills door-sills are worn into deep ruts by long ueage; Spanish Bigus are over their stores, and an altogether foreign look to everything. The white children speak both English and Spanish in the same neighborhood. With all tbe drawbacks to our Mexicans, they cling tenaciously to tbe Catholic failb, for I found the cathedral filled with these eame devout representatives of an anti-progressive race. Loe Angeles boasts some fine buildings. The city proper is lively and doine a fair business. The stores, hotels and schools are first class. It ia only eighteen miles to the ocean at Santa Monica. Steamboats run from there to San Francisco. The valley iu which the cil; is located is tairly watered. Tbe crops everywhere look splendid, The orange groves are loaded down with delicious fruit. Date palms, desert palms and other tropical tropi-cal foliage combine to make evpry-thing evpry-thing attractive to the lover of nature. The culture of the eucalyptus ia encouraged en-couraged everywhere. Its foliage is singularly beautiful. It is the quickest quick-est growing hard wood known, and tbriveB well iu dry places, and particularly partic-ularly bo in marshy land, where it poBseeses the property of absorbing ab-sorbing malaria, and rendering render-ing unhealthy places habitable. I thought when I got to Loa Angeles orauges would be cheauer than at San Francisco, but judge of my surprise ivhen I found them at 5U cents per dozen, when they could be bought, on the streets of San Francisco at 25 cents for the same quantity, though possibly not so large about tB logical a condition of trade as refuaiDg '2o cents for butter iu Sanpete, hauling it to Salt Lake and selling the same- butter at 20 cents. Ban Gubriol is ucxt in order about ten miles south of Los Angelea. It is a great sanitarium, tbe climate being very agreeable and Iree Irom eudden changes. Orange culture is , the main bumuess and some of the buest fruit grows here. While st Lob Angeles a kind of mould has Battled upon the trees the orchards are free, from it at Sin Gabriel. The old settlers are all doing well with oranges, but in a lew years this industry will be overdone. Lemons aro not worth raising, being only worth 75 cents per 100. Limes are left to rot on the ground. Ttii last lruit is a Mexican lemon arfd grows on a busb. Nothing is more beautiful to look upon than an orange tree, lor while you can pluck ripe fruit, tbe Bame tree is in bloom lor another crop, and iu tact the blotsom, the hall-grown fruit and the fully ripe, are aeun ot tbe same time on tbe cams tree. The dark green enamelled enam-elled leavod are ia tine contrast with other trees and arealwayB in full leaf, j To sum up, iu the language of an' old negro, "It is de boBa fruit trees." Ban Gabriel boasts an old mission established in 1771, and when I visited it it was like putting me back to that date. About seven or eight old ladies were present, one of whom lit up some of the caudles on the altar, and went through the necessary prayers. The iuterior was like an old box. Some wretched pictures hung on tbn waiU. Tbe windows were plain white muslin, without with-out ?ash. The altar piece consisted ab nearly as I could see of a wretched pointing with relieves representing Peter and some of the apostles. Some person apologized for their looks but said that those ancient worthies were soon to have a bran new coat of varnish, and were to be regilded for which no doubt Peter and the rest will be much obliged. By all means varnish tbe saints. The buiidioK ia 180 fret looe aud about thirty feet high, without ornament. The cracks in the walls are full of ; live weeds; a iow of pepper trees is planted on tho aide walks. The bells id use were brought lrom Mexico and wheo they rioz them for prayers tho efiect ia very musical and agreeable. Old Eulalie Perez aged 139 yeara lives at Ban Gabriel. Bhe iB an excellent ex-cellent advertisement for tbe county. I uwy some of her grandchildren that looked old enough to die. People stty that the old lady's hair is turninc diirk, and her eyesight is getting better bet-ter every day. Mrs. Perez is said to be the oldent known woman living. And while suoh as she oan live so long in San Gabriel, there is hope for the many consumptives and worn out people that resort lor health to then locality. The whole elope from the base o( the mountains ia one vast garden. I Immenne hedges of cactus are seen planted many many years ago. I think they are called Euphorbia very broad leaves, and stems eighteen inches in diameter in some localities. This Beems a highly favored locality. Everything is green, fresh and beautiful beauti-ful at the beginning of March; still people grumble as much here hs they : do chtz nou.i. When I find a place where the people do not grumble I : wi l tell your readers. It may possibly be further south. C. R. SaVIQE. 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