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area ot land for next season. We have also 

 fine laud for dairy and hog ranches. Of the 

 former we have two in active operation, and 

 a gentleman from Watsonville has lately pur- 

 chased land to the value of $6,000 cash for 

 the latter purpose. As we shall be able to 

 ship to San Francisco direct from our own 

 ■wharf, a large number of hogs will be raised 

 by different parties. 



Game is abundant — quail, deer, rabbits and 

 some wild duck. So is wild honey of the 

 purest and sweetest quality. A good deal of 

 building is going on, some residences being 

 large, substantial and tasteful. A neighbor 

 of mine has neai"ly completed a brick house 

 of good size. We have excellent lime, two 

 kilns supplying the demand. We have also 

 two brick-yards. We have two good schools, 

 attended by nearly one hundred children. 

 We have also Sunday school and preaching 

 regularly by our resident minister, J. W. 

 Webb, late pastor of the Christian Church at 

 Ukiah, formerly of Gilroy, and by Kev. T. D. 

 Lewis, of the M. E. Church, Santa Maria. 

 You will be glad to learn that the temperance 

 sentiment is sound and strong. Besides an 

 active Lodge of Good Templars, we have an 

 open-air temperance meeting in a lovely grove 

 near town on Sunday afternoons, with musi- 

 cal and literary exercises and speeches. We 

 are about to build a good schoolhouse in 

 town. And by the way, the town is a won- 

 derfully healthy infant for only seven months 

 old. It contains three general and one hard- 

 ware store, a butcher's, a bakery, two harness 

 shops and one printing and newspaper oflfice, 

 the Lumpoc Herald, a live temperance paper, 

 editor, W. W. Bronghtou, one of the stirring 

 men of the times, to whom, as much as to 

 any man, this colony owes its existence and 

 prosperity. We have a lirst-elass hotel, well- 

 conducted and thoroughly temperance, two 

 lively stables, a drug- store, post office, boot 

 makers, largo boarding-house, dress-makers, 

 laundry. Justice of the I'eace, Notary Public, 

 a good lawyer — A. E. Heacock, late County 

 Judge of Santa Cruz county — etc., etc. I en- 

 close an article with resolutions passed at our 

 first open temperance meeting. The Grange 

 also passed a strong and plain resolution fav- 

 oring temperance and the keeping out of sa- 

 loons. Families are coming in all the time, 

 and many others are writing with a view to 

 cominc. Now is the time for intending inir- 

 chasers, settlers or renters to come to be in 

 good time for cropping, which, in this south- 

 ern part of the State, is very early. You can 

 plow most of this valley almost any time of 

 the year, and rain is no hindrance except 

 when actually falling heavily. The Company 

 desire only good, sober, energetic men. No 

 one should come without some outfit or means 

 to get it, and at least some capital — a little 

 ready cash is so handy everywhere — although 

 the Company gives ten years in which to pay 

 uj). Hoping this will not be too long, I re- 

 main truly yours. J. P. Boss. 



P. S. I should add that while other places 

 are complaining so of the heat, we are having 

 the most pleasant summer possible, a cooi 

 breeze fanning us a part of every day anrt 

 most refreshing nights. 



Again I ^o-open my letter to say that last 

 night the ladies a noble band—and gentle- 

 men of Lompoc valley for five miles round, 

 some hundred strong, visited the drug store, 

 convinced that the stock of alcohol was too 

 great for the medicinal need of a healthy 

 temperance colony, and that it was being too 

 freely dispensed for the morals of the com- 

 munity. The liquor was aliout all poured out 

 before the jiarty left. Every store was then 

 visited but no liquor found. Each proprietor 

 freely prom-sed nut to keep oven 



' bittoi's. 



Liquor in the Temperance Colony. 



From a private letter from the above corres- 

 pondent we take the liberty of piiblishing be- 

 low what he says about a raid of the women 

 on a graduated liquor shop called a drug 

 store. By the way, similar troubles have oc- 

 curred in Greeley, Colorado, in that temper- 

 ance colony. It seems that the sale and use 

 of alcohol as medicine is the loophole where 

 the "devil" can generally crawl in unmo- 

 lested. When all temperance people learn to 

 discard alcohol as a medicine, and cease te 

 employ physicians who dare recommend or 

 prescribe the abomination, a healthier condi- 

 tion of affairs will exist : 



Lompoc has experienced a commotion. 

 You may have read notices of out-door tem- 

 perance meetings in the liecord. An old 

 wheel-horse in the temperance cause might 

 readily imagine that there was some secret 

 cause for these meetings. 



It had been whispered about that our drug- 

 gist{a physician) was taking advantage of 

 our by-law prohibiting the sale of intoxicat- 

 ing beverages, excepting upon the written pre- 

 scription of some physician. He could and 

 had, it was said, prescribed "whiskey 

 straight." So much for that. Many persons 

 attended these meetings and voted to discoun- 

 tenance the sale of liquor and uphold tem- 

 perance principles generally. Saturday last 

 " forbearance ceased to bo a virtue," the fol- 

 lowing facts, as near as I could learn, being 

 the cause. Mr. and Mrs. Swanton, of the 

 " Swanton House, " Pescadero, have an only 

 son who has contracted the habit and appe- 

 tite for strong drink to such a degree that he 

 had no longer any control over himself. His 

 parents, thinking to place him beyond temp- 

 tation, sent him and his young wife to Lom- 

 poc and set him up in business ; but he found 

 means, even here, of indulging his insane ap- 

 petite. This brought trouble to his wife, who 

 had previously left him on account of his 

 habit, and only consented to return when she 

 saw a chance to Uve with him in Lompoc free 

 from temptation — a miscarriage, spasms and 

 alarming symptoms generally ; but through 

 kind and skillful treatment she had so far re- 

 covered as to be free from spasms. During 

 this lull she told her physician that her great 

 suffering was caused by her husband's con- 

 duct ; that her pains were nothing in compar- 

 ison with that. She had prayed the Great 

 Father to remove her. The doctor went out 

 to talk to the husband, found him intoxicated, 

 after the talk they both returned to the sick- 

 room, and as soon as Mrs. Swanton saw the 

 condition of her husband she screamed, went 

 into a spasm and ilied. 



The body of this innocent victim of the 

 curse of intemperance was buried Sunday. 

 and on Monday the noble women of Lompoc 

 rose up in might, backed by the men, and 

 waited upon our dnir/fjist. They first called 

 upon the I'resident and officers of the Coiu- 

 )iauy, who headed the crowd and requested 

 the druggist to stop the sale of alcoholic 

 drinks. The druggist refused. The Presi- 

 dent, Judge Heacock, being a peace-officer, 

 retired, aud the women took the matter in 

 hand and proceeded to turn out all the licpior 

 they could find. They rolled out a baiTel of 

 whiskey and knocked the head in. Demi- 

 johus were turned upside down, bottles passed 

 out to the crowd and brokcai, ami soon the 

 lloor was swimming with the vile stuff. From 

 the drug-store they went to all the grocery 

 stores and requested the proprietors to de- 



sist from selling all liquors, including all pat- 

 ent bitters in vogue. Every storekeei)er prom- 

 ised, aud the ladies then paid their respects 

 to an Itahan, a former resideut of San Jose, 

 Mr. Moleuaiy, who keeps quite a quantity of 

 California wine. His place is one mile from 

 town. He also made satisfactory promises, 

 and the crowd dispersed. 



Yours, J. P. Ross. 



I think more of Lompoc than ever. 



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A Tip-top Letter from the Santa Cruz 

 Mouetains. 



Eds. Caiifoenia Agkiculhtbitt and Lite 

 Stock Joubnal: We are now reaping the pe- 

 cuniary benefits of one of the most favored 

 fruit-growing localities of favored Califor- 

 nia. We have not only an abundant crop, 

 but a ready market at highly remunerative 

 prices, with little to pay for freight or com- 

 missions to middle men. I said one of the 

 most favored — perhaps I might truly say the 

 most favored. For twenty years we have 

 seen no failure in good crops of apples, 

 peaches, plums, grapes and goosebenies, and 

 but one failure of cherries. This year, when 

 failure is so common, we can add to our list 

 apricots, almonds and currants. The late 

 rain is doing wonders for our last Spring's 

 planting of plums and prunes. I have never 

 seen a finer growth. From long experience, 

 we are making the growing of table grapes, 

 plums, prunes, peaches and late-keeping ap- 

 ples a specialty. To these I have added 

 the breeding of the Angora goat to utilize my 

 brush and tiudier land. They are thriving 

 finely, with but little care except in kidding 

 time. 



Our climate as a place of residence is well 

 attested by the number of persons from your 

 valley and other parts who seek to get a sniff' 

 at it during the Summer. 



I fear your report of the doings of the Ag- 

 ricultural Society will arouse as much of a 

 hornet's nest as did your attack on the whis 

 key ring. L. J. Bdekell. 



Mountain Home, August 15th, 1875. 



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A Pekmanent Whitewash. — Take half a 

 bushel of unslaked lime. Slake it with boil- 

 ing water, covering it during the process to 

 keep in the steam. Strain the liquid through 

 a fine seive and add to it a peck of salt previ- 

 ously well dissolved in warm water, three 

 pounds of ground rice boiled to a thin paste, 

 and stir in when bolUng hot half a pound of 

 powdered Spanish whiting and a pound of 

 clean glue which had been previously dis- 

 solved; add five gallons of hot water to the 

 mixture, stir it well and let it stand a few days 

 covered from the dirt. It should be put on 

 hot. 



Whitewash fob Indoobs. — The following 

 recipe for indoor whitewash has been thor- 

 oughly tried and said to answer the purpose 

 better than anything else yet tried. The 

 quantities are for a house of eight rooms, 

 aud we get it from an old number of the 

 Ainerioan Aqrwullarlst: 



"About 33 lbs. Paris white and one lb. 

 best white glue are needed. Dissolve the 

 glue in hot water. ,\lso make a thick wash 

 with Paris white aud hot water, and add the 

 dissolved glue and sufficient water to make 

 the wash of the proper consistency. As the 

 mass stitt'ens over night, warm or add hot 

 water to make it linqiid. The Paris white is 

 chalk cleansed from its impurities, and is only 

 a very pure whiting — better than is ordinarily 

 used for making putly. We use the Cooper 

 glue, which is (^onsiilere<l the best here, but 

 any good white gUi<> will answer. It costs 

 here 50 cents per pound at retail, aud the 

 Paris white three cents ]ier pound. Both ar- 

 ticles can be obtained in almost every city or 

 village." 



The above makes an excellent whitewash, 

 clean aud white and not easily rubbed off'. 

 Its first cost is more than lime wash, but it is 

 durable and for nice rooms it is far prefero- 

 Vle. 



