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Show FredWright Writes back To Tell Cache County Friends All About Wonders and Beauties of New Home. A week or morcago.G. Fred Wright, merchant of Ilyrum.left that burg for California with the intention of inak. Ing that slate his future home. Ho writes that he Is located at I-ast Auburn Au-burn and the tone of the following letter which he cry kindly sends for publication leads to the belief that he Is satisfied Mr Wright writes: AunuiiN.Cal, April d'OO. Kditmu Lou AN UlU'UIILlCAN A number of my friends asked me to write them on my arrival here and glc an account of what I sec. As they are readers of your valuable paper, pa-per, 1 will post them all at once b) writing to )ou I bought a ticket to San Pianclseo but stopped oil here, arriving on the 2nd day of April I am located In Aubuin, the capital of 1'laccr county It Is about 1 100 feet above sea level, so you can sec 1 am safe as far as tidal waves aic concerned. Auburn must have been the place the poets dreamed about when they wiotc their masterpieces master-pieces The town In and of itself, does not amount to much; It Is a simple, sim-ple, quiet little country village mattered mat-tered all over crcallon.dhlded by hills and separated byhollows.but linked together to-gether by cement sidewalks and good hard roads. What the people' lack in push they make up In hospitality They arc kind to strangers and generous gener-ous to a faul' There Is a chance vO make money hero In some branches, with small capital. Most of the Kast-I Kast-I ci n capital has gone to the southern part of the state, and In my Judgment ii has made a mistake If the south I part of the state can show up more ! natural resources than this part then It must curtain)) be tine Needs Canning Factory. Tht llrst man who puts In a canning factory in this locality will make a fortune for-tune In short order. The fruit grown here Is of most delicious llavoi and grows in abundance Ttieic are just as lino oranges and lemons on the trees now as I have ever sampled, and the acres and acres of olive trces.pears and a dozen other kinds of fruit that I don't know how to spell, bear me out in Die assertion that the llrst canning factory has something far ahead of a gold mine. Cheap Land. There are thousands of acres of line lind hi) ing Idle, valued at from $10 to $.10 per acre. It Is rolling hills, covered cov-ered with green grass, and alfalfa is selling at $15 per ton Did )Ou ever : hear of such a thing? What little when and oats they do raise around hero Is cut Just before It ripens and Is sold for hay and cut on the llnest kind of dry farm land The people here could be four-handed, but they go at tilings slnglc-liandcd-they only look at one thing at a time and thev all look at the sams thing. There is a good opportunity here for a creamery and a condensed milk factory. The people have ample time to take care of cow sand liay along witli the fruit Wonderful Country. As I entered this state and count), the railroad guide stated the elevation eleva-tion was about feOOO feet above sea level, and Its seems as If we dropped straight down The train ahead of us did drop straight down, for I saw ltl)lng by the side of the rails with the trucks scattered around and ttic coaches completely done up. It was a wreck and the wrecking cievv were stralghtlng up the muss It .was a pleasant diop for me, howevo, for coming out of twenty-three feet of snow 1 had the privilege of looking upon the most picturesque sights 1 ever saw In all my travels. 1 have seen the Isle of Mann with Its garb of green foliage, 'is big rolling hills and small ravines, its Mowers and narrow guage railroad twenty miles in length; I have seen green old Ireland with Its shamrock and Its likes (and the Illatney stone) and 1 have seen Wales and Its many goats, Imgland and Its green ti II Is, flowers and Ileitis, and old Scotland wltn its lakes, its grows of pines. Its llrths and its tliK - hut in all my seeing I never saw i.iu scenery, the grandi-m and the beauties in nature that I saw In my short ride from the northwestern part of 1'laccr county to the city of Auburn. The sights are simply beyond dcscilp- tlon The mountal.is arc very nigged and tower up to Die sky, light Into the very clouds, and capped with snow and braced by the green hills covered with majestic pines, and the blue hollows receiving the water falls one sight burst upon another as the train wound round and round until we were let down to the lipe oranges and lemons and blossoming orchards with all their sweet fragrance the palms and lovely gardens, green lawns and I hedges A happy people, thrifty and prosperous, witli beautiful homes, excellent ex-cellent schools and public buildings, I churches, etc. I can only say of this place, as the song says of the beautiful beauti-ful city, "Not half hasever been told." l'lease send ray paper to East Auburn, California, and oblige Yours truly, (iKOltOK F. WuiniiT. |