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Palermo, Butte Co., Cal.,
Sept. 16th, 1889
Welland Tribune, Welland Co., Ont:
Dear Editor- The date on the wrapper of my paper tells me my subscription has expired. Myself and family would miss our welcome TRIBUNE more than any of our papers-the home news, as well as otherwise. Although thousands of miles from our native land, the TRIBUNE seems to bring it so much nearer once a week. We read carefully the news from Niagara Falls South. If the correspondent will write me I will send him something that will interest him.
Dear Editor- Perhaps a few words might interest some friends in Welland. We arrived here on the 8th of December last, from North Dakota, it being very fine weather, and wearing our fur coats there. We have not needed our coats or seen the ground white with snow or frozen here; the mountains, in the far distance, white for months, while here, in foothills and valleys, orange groves laden with their golden colored luscious fruits ripening in our mid-winter. Such fine oranges I never saw before-hundreds, and even as high as 2500 on one tree at once-a more beautiful sight a Wellander never saw.
Nearly all kinds of tropical fruit grow here, and all kinds of deciduous fruits do very finely here. The past has been a bountiful harvest and a very prosperous year in this state.
Our climate is far milder than dear Ontario; in fact, one can choose a locality to suit the climate one might wish to live in-dry and healthy, very fine for persons afflicted with any pulmonary disease. This is, in fact, the place where one can enjoy life in its fullest degree. Our colony planted only about 250,000 trees last spring, and not half planted yet-mostly orange trees.
Now, editor, if this will be acceptable to your readers, and they would like to hear something of this country, I shall be pleased to correspond and give them all the information I can. I will close this and enclose $1.00 for subscription.
Very truly yours,
B.F. Corwin
Welland Tribune
15 November 1889
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