SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

Evening Star, Issue 3996, 15 December 1875, Page 3

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

[By Blundeubuss.] (Forjirst part sec Supplement.) CONNECTIONS BY RAIL, AND STAGE From San Francisco there are four wellconducted linea of transit. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company's JiDe of steamerr, the Goodall, .Nelson, and Perkins, which touch at our port every other day. The S.P.R.R., and Coast Stage* Line, and 3.P.R.R., and Telegraph Stage Line. Stages on tho two last named routes icave the railroad connection with .San Francisco at Ba'sersfield daily, and make the distance to i v an Fernando by daylight. The overland passage from San Francisco occupies thirty-six hours, and by steamer about fifty hours. The faro by stage, exclusive of accommodation on the line, is about 25d01. The fare by steamer, iv eluding everything, is 12dol. 30c, or L2 10-5. SAN BERNARDINO COUKTV Is the most extensive countyin the State, ' and lie 3 to the east and south-east of this county, containing over ten milioa seres, its northern and eastern limits abound in minerals. The valley of San B rnardino is sixty miles in 'length, and th.rty mile 3 in breadth, well watered b/ meuutain streams an 1 offering great advantages to the immigrant. In the centre of this fertile basin is the town of f?an Bernardino, which has au elegant site ; and with its broad streets, abundance of ftuit aid shade trees, its artesian wells, and streams of water coursng along their channels is aire to meet with the

admiration of a visitor. Over 100 artesian wells have been bored within a radius of five miles from the centre of the town, their depth averaging from sixty to 200 feet. The town ha 3 a population of between three and fonr thousand. A handsome court-house has just been completed, and many other tine buildings are in course of construction. The country i 3 well timbered, and fuel i 3 cheap Unimproved land, with privileges of irrigation, ranges from 25d0l to 50dol per acre. , The average yield to the aero in 20,0001bs potatoes, fifty to seventy bushels of wheat, fifty to seventy bushels barley, and from fifty to 100 bushels of corn. RATE OF WAGES. Good mechanics ard paid from 3.50d0l to i> fiOdol per day; laborers receive from 1 iiOdol to 2.50d0l per day ; farm hands from 20.10 l to 40dol per mouth, with board ; servants, male and female, 3 dol per month. Out-door labor can ba employed nearly all the year round, there being scarcely any broken time at all. CLASS OF PEOPLE KEQUIREI>.

Careful and industrious people with 3mall means do well in this counti y. Men without means find it as difficult to make a footing here or elsewhere. The country is undoubtedly a superior one for all purposes, and the climate in general superior to any I have ever seen, but neither c imate nor country will Bustaia life of itself without bt-ing made tributary t > the wants of man and manipulated by industry and perasve r.-ince. 1 have given a fair and g n ral outHue of the southern section of C difomia,

and unless I absorb the whole of your paper I must draw my observations to a close. She whole of this remarkable coiuilry is but in its infancy, and forms an inexhaustible Eupply to the milii'-ns of jover-crowded people in the East as to the over-populated countries of Europe. All nationalittes blond their former differences in their subservience to the star spangled banner, and unite in forming a more cosmopolitan element than is to be fourd anywhere on the earth, some being a little too cosmopolitan for select notions. The so-called laboring classes of other countries scarcely exist in Southern California, there being so many chances for an intelligent man to rise ; few, but the most ignorant and indifferent workers, remain in that position, but as a class they are the worstrl have met, and the above reason is the c;»use. Move anou.