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LOS CERRITOS RANCHO. 
Tbo sea-side bus n fasci¬ 
nation about it that has 
been increased by practical 
experience by those who 
make it a summer resort, 
ami by others who mnkc it 
it winter resort; and lastly, 
by the practical mini who 
builds bis home by the sen 
a home where IliO sum¬ 
mers and winters are of 
ft delightfully r<|liable cli¬ 
mate on uni south Pacific 
Const of Southern Cali¬ 
fornia, San Diego, Santa 
Monica, San liuonaven- 
tnra, Santa JWbara, and 
Monterey are living exam¬ 
ples nl wind a home beside 
the sea can be made. 
The A iiio h'/ih'] Colony, 
shown in the accompanying 
map, is probably the best 
located site on the entire 
Pacific < 'coat for a settle¬ 
ment. The lnrntinu is very 
beautiful, overlooking the 
harbor, bay, ami ocean 
towards tin- smith, with 
the Catalina Islands in 
plain view twenty miles out 
to sea ; protected from the 
winds on the north. east 
and west, with a constant 
and delightful breeze from 
the south, Coming temp¬ 
ered with mildness /ruin 
across (lie gnat expanse 
of waters. H bn* a very 
advantageous Inention, hav¬ 
ing Wilmington, tlm'prin 
eipul shipping port in Sou- 
thi rn Ciilifuruia, only three 
mih .s uwny connected bv 
a good wagon-road 
The Soul hern Pacific 
Railroad, atari itig from tin 
faftiue point, gives I he ship 
por a convenient market, 
w ith all the advantages oi 
competition. The location 
n> not excelled fur a hl<LU«> 
merit and town. 
I VKK AhJi WA'tl ll 
The Colony tract con¬ 
tains 10.00(1 acres, mostly 
of a rich crawly loam soil, 
‘‘vay acre of which can In: 
cultivated and mode exceedingly piodnc 
'diiisli 
live. The incsti is of a light reddish wundv 
hmm that works easily, is vrunn and very 
produel .vc produce# fxcollt nl grain of nil 
kinds. 'I lie wheat crop |;iown on some six 
hundred acres of this mesii land yielded 
an uveiagc of thirty bushels ja r acre this 
year Tins land is npiallv good for all 
kind# of fruits, and especially iho viuo. 
On this tract is to be located ft village 
ntaj tin beach, and the remainder of the 
tract is to bo divided into lots running f> 
111, 21). m mid *0 aerts . re h. and to *old 
at price* varying from #15 to #211 p,, 
: pay me ijls to bo made in three annual in- 
| stallincnls, l-'or further particulftis, .-el 
dress W. li. Will more A Co., this city In 
I "in next issue a full pro-poet und plan of 
tbo colony will be given, together with a 
map of Ibe county, village plat, nud other 
engravinga, 
FULTON WELLS 
T huvo much plenum m bearing t.s|i 
monv to the very favorable opinion I leu. 
bn hied of lb. Iilllnll hydropathic I- 
tablislunwul. Tho sulphurous waters which 
abound Imre, an nnaly — of who b 1 have 
before me, are very valuable, .specially in 
• as, u ,,f ehiot.io dy-p.-| ,io, thouniatnuu, 
gout, and skin di*i .s.-s, while the np- 
pliane. * for their n-o in the shape of h*lh*, 
etc., aie moot convenient, tit# diiunte i# 
delightful, and the coim/eit* ,.f the boo-c, 
""dir lie able UvAdAgimeut of l>r. and 
'li- Pulton, umUi a Moiourn here w«»t 
pleasant and bntn tiei«J ton I], lmt < »p. - .ally 
fo thou in •vaich of health 
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Edinburgh, I ndou, l.i.giar.d 
