A DUNEDINITE IN CALIFORNIA

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1743, 18 January 1888, Page 4

A DUNEDINITE IN CALIFORNIA

... _^ The followiag extracts from private btters written by an old resident of Danedln, now at Los Angeles m Call* fornla (-.ays the Dunedin "Star"), wilP no doubt be interesting to many of our readers : — Have had letters from Auckland, from wbioh I learn that place hes utterly gone to the dogs. When honest, hardworking people like— —came to the wall, the plaoe fl wrong. If twenty-four years of m dustry and no speculation result m this, It ll a good place <o clear out of. The Whole of New Zealand is Insolvent, but they have not the courage to own lt Lo . Angeles continues to grow ; Immigrants tie pouring ln by thousands, wuh all o»lifoTnis,".__ower do, and the whole of Mexico to settle op. I speak sober y When I say this o.untry will take centuries to settle. It is no mere boom, but ft national, if not universal movement to ■title tbe most fertile lands m the world Valuta m»y fluctuate ; there may be a oh«ek*~th-*"e is one now, and there was JS-Other ja.t after I oame here bat the advancing tide —though the waves flue* tttiW, »ises steadily. New Zealand towns hftve but one rise, and no more; then they stop and do not reoover. Here the check is only forji little while, »nd the ! next rite for overtops the former one. ; 1 speak. Within the mark when I say the rile m values sicca my Arrival is oneIhlrd since April last, and the winter _uih yet to oome. Ml tbe hotels are full, and people sleep m the c*r« m wbioh they oame, and go baok East for want uf wbere to lay tbeir heads ; and this thoueh the bulldint. of booses is immense. I think I am fairly correct In saying that 600 to 600 are beiug built every month. The Sunday after my arrival here I walked np to a pretty cite near the engine home of the cable ear Hue. T h*re were then three hon.ea built, and the price of lots was 1500 dola. There ate now forty-five firat-o a-s house- built, worth on the average 6000 HoU e»oh, aod the (.dee of lo's is 2500 dol to 3too «.01. Th'S is noi dove on brrrow-'d Dinner, as ail improvements are m New Zealand A TQortgage is rare, at d the m eres. 10 pr c*nt , clear of all taxes Tell th«s to somo of yonr moneyl.n iiog fr ends, und let them send their money ov*r here for investment Tbe shops are crowded now, and c-muot supply the;r <us!Om^rl_— all cash fist enough Trade o. all kinds is toomijg. Wa.ea are the hi-he6t tver paid ia tl c States, Tbe trades ai etr ke and dollar aft_r dollar is added to their wsjjes Carpenters, 4dol, masons sdol, hodmen 4dol, plas terera 7dol per day. and plenty of work. Next month two or three traius with excureioDi^ts will arrive daily. Thie mesne— one of Phillip's consist- of fifty oars divided into trams of ten cars, 'uch carrying 2500 people— that 100,000 are expected this winter, Und already the Chief of Police reports 100 to 200 sle. ping m the streets every night Debts are practically irrecoverable m this land oi freedom- Two thousand five hundred dollars worth of everything a man wants, from a beehive to a horse aod buggy, are exempt from execulioo, excepting for the debt incurred m buying the very thing, The creditor parts with his goods at hie peril; so bankruptcy is unknown— there is simply nose. There are still plenty of neglected parts, to which railways, cable and horee-tram lines are cow being built, which will look np m a year or two, and perhaps sooner. So if anyone likes to send tne a few pounds to put into lotß 1 will do my beßt for them, and will not buy any land without seeing it myself Los Angeles is still growing, though 1 think they have.lad out enough towr loti for a bit. I impose tbey have pul aboat 6000 aores oi the market m thii form m tbe last six months, which, ] think, will supply the legitimate demand for some time to oome. Still tbe demand is heavy, and tbe building going or enormous. Some idea of the activity it this trade may be gathered from the fso of tbe famines ln building materials which oonstantly arise. One day there Is nc cement— money won't buy it, for a wee. or ten days ; then nails run ont ; then lime* No* there Is no lumber itself, and it is a favor to get a load to keep tnfng. going. At least twenty houses are 1 nllt per day, snd all to no purpose, 'ihe demand for accon. m.datlon is farinexcesi of the supply Tnis is not speculation ; It is settlement Eastern cold has again set lv, and the streets are crowded with visitors— -a thousand a day often arriving ; and the prediction ,m that wt'hin five years th!* city will have 250.100 inb«bitante. Have now beeu here seven months •--and tbote ta_ dull ones — and bave certainly ae.u no check m the growth of the city ,_o far. The country is just m its infanny, and Inn-lnatlon can hardly cocc-ive the vast population it will topport. Iqu >te from fa«t night's p. per lying before me. "A Raisin Train " : Meade and Oo announce that a train of twenty. fire or thirty cars, loaded with raisins, will arrive In this city enrovte to New York from "Fr sho." This immeoae oon sign ment hes been sold at good pricfS, and the qaallty is declared to *-* 'quel to the best imported. Here ts an industry not three year* old employing, not like wool gf . win«, a few sh.pherds, but large nunuers of people to pi ..ut, care for, pLic ai.d pick tbe , r*}ißt> s, and an n limited market at the door. X?ot ooettmth of the ri.t-.i_is consumed m New York alone aro produced m -lie Srace, snd the soil and water era available for unlimited production — t'.ie g.me with nil othec fruit . and grains. What will the San Jnaqaim Valley (as rich _„ the Nile, 300 mllea long by hi •>), tbe Sau J-cioto Valley, the Salt River Valley m Ariz.ua, the vast valleys of Lower California produoe— «H equally favored ? Immigration will last a ren tery, and tl en there *ill be room. Let no one be •fraid to oome here who can do anything or who has capiat and enterprise .nonah f 3 till the foil aud not hang about tbe cities. All trad), are brisk. At the batcher's' the grocer's, the draper's, the ironmonger's, you havo to wait from ten minutes to balf an hour before you csn be served ; and cash, not credit, is the order of the day* Here you pay for a thing ot go without iV One thing alone ihould causa a Urge icfhr of "ppople from New Zealand— there aie no politics Stout, or VogeJ, or Sir Jobn u_.li might preach m vair. The c no try has no pollt cs ; n«v i hate I heard the nsme mention, d, nor the mmc of a senator epoj eiL_of, .. =,1 uoi_'t know the name of * ne ; and, except that tbo Goverc <._ died recently, i should hardly know thore wis ft Government. What dies a new country like New Z. aland or California want with politics ? A Magistrate and a policeman is ail that is wanted. My home la ab:>u< ready, and half-a-d< z_n trains daily pass my door where before the running of the trains not fifty people p_n_ed m the month. Thsre are now 1500 a week going through. J, go to town daily, do a ttle business (uot much), and await further developments Then, perhaps, 1 shall sell ont- and go to Ariz . na Who iaowit Hollo TVAY*a Pills.— Weakening weather.— The sultry summer days strain the nerves of the feehle and decrepit, and disease may eventuate unless Borne restorative, such as these purifying Pills, be found to correct the disordering tendency, Holloway's. .medicine gives potency to the nervous system, whioh is the source of all vital movements, and presides ver every aotion which maintains the growth and well-being of the body. No one oan over estimate the necessity of keeping the nerves . well strung, or the ease with which theße Pills accomplish that end. They are lbe most unfailing antidote, to indigestion, irregular circula ion, palpitation, .ick headache, and eostiveneaß, and bave therefore attained the irgeet «*lo sb_ highs*, reputation,