Show maw TH california conj E boll of his Plea trip hon J E booth returned home on saturday last from the coast after an absence of about ten days and in response to questions answered substantially 1 I left here on the after the result of the carson contest was known there was little of on the train except abe fight it vaa surprising to learn the number of man whose judgment agreed with the result but who had bat money on jim it stormed rained or snowed a good deal of the way till near but from there it was pleasant except for a cold ocean brecio in the afternoons when near the coast friday and saturday were spent in eeling in and about san francisco but the golden gate point golden gate park sutro heights cliff aceal rocks etc have been so often and well described it is scarcely it now sunday morning I 1 left frisco for southern california if sailors language were at ones tongues end there would bo some pleasure in describing the U S S oregon lying in the bay the contrast was never so forcia bly presented to my mind between the old men of war as described in books and the sight of that man of war oregon I 1 douht it the british and french fleets at trafalgar combined could haye withstood sach a ship as the oregon properly moaned and equipped port costa ia the great wheat ship pica point and it is a pleasant sight to a mountain raised boy to see those ocean vessels steam and sailing floating gracefully on the water ane steamboat on which the trains are carried across the biyer irom ana to benicia ia a wonder of strength and the dexterity with which she is handled in taking on and off trains is a marvel alter turning to the right from port the san joaqhin valley up and it is a lovely place but hot in the summer extensive farces and fruit g ia carried on through it there is much more to see than to tell in tha ride to los angeles the loup ia a great piece of engineering gi but does not surpass the aloupon the tin tic branch of the R G W loa city of tha angellia ang elsia probably the eat city in some respects iu america iggy have the wherewith to make it by a vast profitable fruit growing population the matro polia of that regionald regio nand an unequalled unequal led climata ara causes that naturally tend to results as are seen there the city council just ie jecter two miles of paving ba causa it did not quits conform to the of tho contract if some cities in utah had dole likewise there might have beau either belter streets and side walks or more money in the aboud sixty miles adouth east is san bernard ino a placa full 0 memories to the early of utah there does no seem to be the thrift in athla city that eherd is in and about riverside highland redlands Rea lands and Mess sno places by at highland I 1 calk d on a relative mr randolf heoley a cousin friend orange he is very pleasantly located on a twenty acre farm mostly oranges and I 1 lake it from his surroundings and a few ahinga ho said as to kimsell in a modost way that he is doing a good business and orange farming in the orange belt ia profitable I 1 was surprised however to learn that the orange beit is EO limited A newspaper is the occasion for emotion and sentiment so I 1 will not tell ot that part of my birot picking and eating an orange 1 I paio some tit to the irrigation and found it requires about the same amount of there that it does here but tasy are much more economical in i usa their canals are cemented and many of their lesser also even ditches are composed of wooden troughs and while the system is expensive it is a saving of water which is money 0 o them and also a saying of laor in cleaning out ditches if we adopted abo way they have we bould need no more law suits about wa er until we get much more land under cultivation than we now have I 1 stayed off at sacrament i for twelve hours und met acme missionaries and also some friends who are state officers I 1 waa much interested in a large relief man of the state they hava in the capitol building on a scale of four miles io the inch and g scale of one mile to the inch such a one of utah would be of great assistance to the state board of equalization |