Show A diw citizen al BEET FARMING phinese labor is employed the ands asphaltum mine ENQUIRES correspondence 1 SANTA cal may 25 1894 from san francisco we took ahe train south through the santa cura vaclev passing in sight of mt hamilton where the largest telescope in the world is located we will probably go abera if so I 1 will drop you a line in to it ve are in sight of the stanford university this balley ia a veritable garden patch for fifty miles and I 1 noticed that orchards were thoroughly cultivate td t d not a spear of arasa bor a weed allowed to remain in a hundred acres thereby giving the plants the entire benefit of the earth and sun eo different from our fields the next valley southwesterly ia the pajaro this is said to be the moat productive balley in the state it is here that claua hp has oae of his buiar mills the soil of this is a very rich black loam and does not need irrigation the most of the work on the beet farms is done with laborers at low wages BO yon can readily see with these advantages that it will be difficult for our people to compete how much more eo ath the lamer who produces sugar under much more favorable conditions unless we have some protection unless we have that our beet krower compete with the chinaman I 1 every democrat in the county could bo here and see tha hordes of weeding the beels at fifteen dollars a month and boarding and then think of placing their bons eons brothers or fathers in the field adlung side of them for the same wages and then I 1 anink they would go off and bide their beads in shame A little further L on ane south of the beautiful bay of the same name it waa the first ahue capital and the old frame building a story and a half high ia still standing and waa pointed out by cur guide with consider able pride it h here that Father juns i piro the first priest landed and the old church stilt stands to mark the spot of the first missionary work the first frame building in the state is aleo here the lumber babine been brought from australia last but not least tha great hotel del monta with its beautiful brounda tro unda are here situated bania cruz 13 situated directly north of monterey on the opposite opu osite side of the bar and ih a much more beautiful and fertile district got country within a latance da tance of seven miles one can get all the beauties and comforts of the aea valley and mountain with their varied climates and within this distance is found the most luxuriant garden ard field and forest with an even climate ahe round I 1 visited the yester dav from which waa obtained the material for the street paving in halt like and found that they have a vein 30 ft thick it is very rich and can be seen cropping out for miles A large quant icv is being shipped now but it is sand asphaltum and is not I 1 think as good aa our lima the bands on the absac near here will assay from 3 to 20 dollars in gold and are being worked from one shovel of band washed in the shovel I 1 saw about two hundred colors tut can not hear of any quartz ledges ane theory here is that it is washed UD from the sea J D J |