Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1892 — CALIFORNIA HOMES. [ARTICLE]

CALIFORNIA HOMES.

A considerable portion of California is admirably adapted by nature for comfortable homes. There is, perhaps, no place in the world where a family, of moderate means to begin with, and of industrious habits, r ean live so easily, enjoying not only the ’comforts but even the luxuries of life. % Instead of being, aa many-sup-pose, a place where only the wealthy can enjoy life, it is peculiarly adapted to homes of thrifty people who SOTtheir daily bread, and while One without means would undoubtedly find it j, very di&cult to get a start, a man with a small capital can very soon surround himself with luxuries that only the wealth? can enjoy elsewhere. A small tract of land, 10 or, at most, 20 acres is enough, which can be purchased at a reasonable price if outside of a “boom” district. With intelligence and industry used in planting and cultivating it," an income is certain. It should be part orchard and part vineyard. While the trees and vines are being brought into bearing, enough to materially contribute to the maintenance of the family can be grown between the trees, and if the neighborhood has been well selected, every member of the family able and willing to work can find pleasant and remunerative labor in orchards and vineyards near by, and minister 'to the support of the family while acquiring the knowledge and skill necessary to the handling of their own crop. The third year a considerable return may be expected from the vineyard and from a part of the orchard. As the work has all been done within the family, this will be nearly all net income. The next year and thereafter there will be work enough and* returns enough on the home place. • Costly buildings are not necessary, for the climate li such that in much of the State life in the open air is entirely pleasant ior. three hundred days in the year. In the Coast Range of mountains, between San Francisco and Monterey, are many such homes. At first they were made on the valley land on either sid#of the range. Year after year they have crept up into the little valleys between the foot-hills, then on to the foot-hills, and in manv places clear to the summits, AH through they have found excellent soil, good, pure water, and everywhere an exceedingly healthful climate. Nestled in these little valleys are some of the most delightful places in the world. So mild is the climate that fuschias and geraniums grow all winter, and the family garden is planted in the fall, yielding good crops of peas, potatoes and any semi-hardy vegetables in February. There is plenty of land, equally productive, now in the market and at low prices, and persons looking for a locution for a comfortable home should not fail to visit this promising region. The Santa Cruz Division of the Southern Pacific Company’s Pacific System taps this range of mountains near the southern extremity, its two long tunnels passing under the main range. For further information as to this locality and how it is reached, call upon or address the following named officers of the Southern Pacific Company: E. Hawley, Ass’t. General Traffic Manager, No. 343 Broadwav, New York, N. Y. * E. E. Currier, New England Agent, No. 192 Washington St,, Boston, Mass.' W. G. Neimyer, General Western Agent. No. 204 So. Clark St., Chicago, 111. W. C. Watson, General Passenger Atlantic . System.JNew OrT. H. Goodman, Goneral Passenger Agent, Pacific System, San Francisco, Cal.