| Show AY AN OGDEN MIX IS LOS ANGELES ATi GElES A more sober town than formerly ff warm arm words for ogden 0 den los ims AN aulls S cal nov 10 16 editor ot of THE STANDARD mayhap a letter from this much advertised city would be of interest to the people of the junction city the ride here from ogden is very malater ua later citing e and the enaud pace at which the train mores moves from sacramento here Is trying in these days of fly ere era at nearly every station south of bakersfield a wait of five to ten minutes was necessary in order to keep down to the scheduled time but all things have an end eo so we finally reached the city of oranges business seems to be improving houses are in more demand than since the colla collapse e of the boom real estate transfers rho show w that something is being done in that line abando abandoned ned street car lines are being started up tip again more land in the county I 1 is undergoing improvement than is for or some years various fruit olive and walnut trees aro are being set out in great numbers A trip to glendale eight milea miles fro from M tha the city gave me some idea a as a to the values of improved land although prices are unreliable as it 11 seem 8 to depend wholly up upon whether bother t the he owner wants to sell ell one place of ten acres three fourths of it being mccu occupied led with bearing fruit trees of all an T descriptions eser eions fair house and barn was held lo 10 for r upon inquiry I 1 could not learn that the owner bad had got more than worth of fruit from tho the pa place ce although he had bad hired some help and nd devoted most of his own time to caring for the trees that seems but a poor return for a years work and interest on that amount at another part of the valley aa as good a place was offered at GOO As soon as it became noised about that a probable buyer was in the neighborhood instruction and advice as to what was required and what was wee not no freely forthcoming from the natives snap bargains bargain sin in this or that locality were awaiting the lucky finder in such numerous instances that a hasty retreat was made to tho the train but eoa even there the orange fiend told me how many thousand dollars could be rotten gotten from an acre of oranges angea or etc bat but I 1 have not met the man who could prove tha the assertion made by so many in men 0 who have bays the figures at their to ly oa end and rattle thorn them off aa as gl glibly lb as an auctioneer the only industry that is in not boomed is the dairying and poultry business and that ought to pay with 11 1 I 1 I aw wirily I 1 1 5 V I 1 beet best butter forty five cents and eggs tb thirty rt Y the year around A rido ido on tho the templo temple street cable line which terminates three miles west up in the foot bills hills convinces one that it was built during the ex cite mentI for two miles the line runs through farms firms which are staked out with little white sign boards at the corner with high so bounding und and picturesque names of streets the conductor said lots were staked to the ocean twelve mile distant one thousand dollars will buy a good reel benco lot good location within fifteen minutes walk ot of the plaza busness ties property Is to from five hundred to fifteen hundred dollars pe per r toot foot there are a good many empty business bu ainess places I 1 no buildings going up strawberries in the market are twenty cents er quart sweet corn ten cents a so ozen zen sweet potatoes one cent per pa pound and all vegetables cheap I 1 have not seen many of the native nati e spaniards they seem to be nearly crowded out the age of this city is considerable being located ia in 1769 and some of the old surrounding the plaza look as if they were constructed ted as early as that the growth grow th of this part of the state will ba stead steady IT as there are no to ti speak 0 of but agriculture the tho los angeles river is is even smaller than the ogden river but has cut a channel lar large enough for the mississippi from the the e the bed of which gravel is obtained for the streets eastern people are commencing to flock instill ing up the vacant rooms at the hotels and empty bouses houses about town the weather theris is very warm and pleasant not much rain as ye yet t one hears considerable anxiety e expressed x about tho the union pacific branch ranch in course of construction from ogden and all hope it will bo be completed thus ensuring cheaper fuel so that manufactories manu factories can be established ogden seems to be regarded as the coming city of the intermountain inter mountain region by the business men and in that opinion no doubt all of your readers will coincide 0 B GOODELL |
