OCR Text |
Show Captain Codmam closes a leUor from Los Angeles on tbe agricultural resources of Southern Caliornm, m follows: California is looking to tho oust for her immigration, and puriinpj some vb" rsud ihoic letters may he thinking of turning their faces to the west iu search of a new homo. Other districts have their clainu as well as this state. I have already advocated those of Colorado and Utah, and have phiceil tho lutter chiully on I ho system of irrigation wh ich ia thoro carried on to tlio groalost perfection. J lereloforo, when writing from California, Califor-nia, I havo always considered that the uncertainty of the harvest was so great that Iho inducements for young men to emigrate tor eelllemont wero inadequate to tne risks before thorn. But things have wonderfully changed within the last four yenrj. Tho industrious Mormons Mor-mons havo tnught theso California Gentiles Gen-tiles a valuablo losfon by their example. It i by availing themselves of it even in a dogrco that they havo any crop at all this seison. I shall ondoavor to show in a subsequent letter to what extent the system of irrigation has been carried, a3 illustrated in some of its workings that wo have seen. |