. Peninsular California; some account of the climate, soil productions, and present condition chiefly of the northern half of Lower California. lterior intentions areunknown, and eight others who have bought land onour mesa with the view of settling and cultivating inthe autumn. Others farming at some distance havebespoken land on the town site to build upon for resi-dence. The chief attractions of our place are the healthful-ness and beauty of its location on the Pacific Ocean,fifty-four miles from Ensenada, its equable climate andinvigorating breezes, the natural protection of our land-ing m
. Peninsular California; some account of the climate, soil productions, and present condition chiefly of the northern half of Lower California. lterior intentions areunknown, and eight others who have bought land onour mesa with the view of settling and cultivating inthe autumn. Others farming at some distance havebespoken land on the town site to build upon for resi-dence. The chief attractions of our place are the healthful-ness and beauty of its location on the Pacific Ocean,fifty-four miles from Ensenada, its equable climate andinvigorating breezes, the natural protection of our land-ing making it the inlet and outlet for considerable backcountry business, the mineral wealth of the neighbor-hood, good soil, abundant fuel, cheap Indian labor, andwater abundant in quantity and unsurpassed in quality. One of our farmers has new potatoes fit to dig,while all have a growth more or less promising of hay,corn, and other farm and garden produce. Vines andfruit-trees have been set out by some, and others arenow at work at it. The Ensenada and San Quintin steamer calls oncea week. The Indians have long ago ceased to be troublesome;. NATURAL WEALTH, CLIMATE, SOIL, TIMBER, ETC. 41 they have almost totally disappeared, and the few whoremain are a docile laboring force. The Spanish rancheros of San Diego and Los An-geles counties knew the northern part of Lower Cali-fornia more intimately than any one else. Some of themhad relatives living in that country, and most of themhad travelled in it. I knew several of these in 1871-72,all of whom asserted to me positively that the northernpart of the Peninsula, as far down as below Eosario, sofar from being the desert it was commonly reputed tobe, was fertile, beautiful, fairly well watered, and asrich as Upper California. Their testimony, which wasunanimous and positive, first induced me to think ofowning property down there, and led me to study theregion in reports and other publications—very few innumber they are—and to visit
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