How They do it in America.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 35, 21 January 1899, Page 1

How They do it in America.

We take the following advertisement from the San Francisco Hotel Gazette. With ihe advantages enumerated, it will piobably pay many Waimate people better than taking up Waikakahi land, -out, although a matter of detail, it would be advisable to ascertain if the description

given contains only copper-rivetted facts. After giving details as to price and area of a scoro or so of farms for sale, varying from 10 acres to 900 acres, the vendor goes on to say : — They arc in California, 150 miles south of the Oregon line, in a valley five miles wide at east end and tapering to a point fifteen miles west through which a large creek flows ; on the trunk line railway connecting San Francisco and Portland. The market is good. Farm products always bring the highest price, Best natural roads in the world — never muddy. Near many gold mines. Elevation, 500 feet ; yearly rainfall 36 inches ; plenty of wood ; water is pure, soft and cold ; no alkali ; no chills, no lung trouble, no rheumatism ; seldom any snow eyer falls. Crops never fail. Coldest weather 24 degrees above zero — no cold winters, no sunstrokes ; no muddy streets ; no cyclones, hurricanes, or floods. No better climate can be found. The products are flowers of every kind, figs, peaches, pears, prunes, plums, cherries, almonds, walnuts, raisins, grapes of all varieties ; wheat, barley, rye, oats, hogs, sheep, chickens, etc. The best of society ; ' schools are ' first-class. Congregational, U. B. and Baptist Churches. The people are white, wide awake, generous — highest type of American citizenship. There ia no government or railroad land there ; no. farms for rent. We have an agent in the town to show these places free of charge, who will also furnish abstract with each sale shrtwino-

clear title, For circulars containing maps and full information address the proprietors of tli is paper.