Book/Printed Material A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California.
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Image 1 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. A START IN LIFE. A Journey Across America. FRUIT FARMING IN CALIFORNIA. BY C. F. DOWSETT, Author of “Striking Events in Irish History,” etc., etc. LONDON: DOWSETT & Co., 3, LINCOLN'S INN...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 2 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California.- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 3 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. Walter R. Skinner. A START IN LIFE. A Journey Across America. FRUIT FARMING IN CALIFORNIA. 18 819 BY CHARLIE FINCH DOWSETT, Author of “Striking Events in Irish History,” etc., etc. LC LONDON:...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 4 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. A START IN LIFE. E168 .D75 240518 17 Plans, Maps, Views, Books, Samples of Fruits, Soils, etc., etc., of Land at Merced, in California, may be seen at the Offices of MESSRS....- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 5 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. Walter Skinner CONTENTS. A Suggestion to Persons Seeking a Start in Life 5 Special Advantages 8 Comparison and Warning 10 Across America— London to Chicago 17 Chicago to San Francisco 29 San...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 6 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California.- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 7 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. A Start in Life. I HAVE entitled this little book “A Start in Life,” because it conveys information which would enable any person possessing a small capital, with some industry, patience, and...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 8 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 6 advantage as Agent for the sale of the lands at Merced, in California, that I refer to, and I meet it with this statement: Let the objector consider his prospects of...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 9 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 7 I admit that I shall receive a personal benefit by persons settling at Merced, in California; but—I say this with great confidence—if, after an intelligent consideration of other places, any person,...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 10 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 8 various other places of Fruit culture settlement, and inspect them, reaching Merced last, as the nearest to the great centre of San Francisco. A careful comparison of the various fields of...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 11 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 9 line, and to a Town, with commercial, professional, educational, social and religious advantages. 3. Instruction in Fruit culture gratis by a specialist, who is paid by my clients to instruct settlers...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 12 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 10 8. Two-thirds of the purchase-money may remain on mortgage. 9. Merced is only 14 days from London. 10. A liberal competence may be secured by a reasonably industrious settler. 11. Merced...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 13 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 11 this country for sale have not a permanent water supply; are too hot; are swept by winds; are at a considerable distance from a railway station; have a poor, sandy soil,...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 14 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 12 A Start in Life. To ensure the stability of a building the foundation ought to be substantial, so in like manner a good start in life goes a great way towards...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 15 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 13 lot of but few out of the millions of our species—but I do claim to be able to offer to men willing to live a steady industrious life, the opportunity of...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 16 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 14 more congenial than the one I offer at Merced, in California, and which is described herein. Residence near to a young town, which will probably increase rapidly in value, and which...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 17 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 15 “British Colony” from London, I may say that on November 22nd, 1890, I left Liverpool in the Cunard steamer “Etruria,” which reached New York on the following Saturday evening, just too...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 18 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 16 made, in favourable circumstances, in say 12 to 13 days, but we may safely put it at 14 days. I went by the Northern Prairies and Rocky Mountains, and returned by...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 19 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 17 Across America. LONDON TO CHICAGO. Travelling in generations past was an important event in one's life, but now a journey across an ocean and a continent is a very commonplace affair....- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 20 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 18 while in Australia I visited Melbourne, Sydney, Geelong, King George's Sound, besides various in. land towns and gold fields, including Bendigo, Castlemaine, Tarrangower, Fryer's Creek, Forest Creek, Campbell's Creek, Tarradale, Maryborough,...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 21 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 19 in reading up the country, learning from old settlers, and making notes of what I saw, some of which I have found room for in the following pages. On November 22nd,...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 22 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 20 as a consequence the decks were like lagoons; but presently we had run through it, or it had run away from us, or had expended its energy, and we were in...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 23 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 21 27th, 475; 28th, 480; 29th, 471; distance to Sandy Hook Lighthouse, 130 miles; so that the run totals up to 3,042, and with the 20 miles added, 3,062 miles. I had...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 24 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 22 the vehicles go underneath them, and the passengers in the train look straight into the first-floor windows of the houses on the other side. There is an immense development of electricity...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 25 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 23 the privilege of using the sleeping car during the day. The sleeping cars are divided into squares capable of seating four persons, but the space is accorded to two only, as...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 26 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 24 the train is a handsome dining saloon, with kitchen attached, where you can order as good a dinner as you could obtain at an hotel. The cars are also fitted liberally...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 27 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 25 are received and posted on the bulletin boards three times a day, and the weather reports are also posted. The whole of the train is thoroughly well heated by steam pipes,...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 28 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 26 had obtained throughout the history of the United States with the Indians, we should never have heard of any “Indian Difficulty.” Penn presented the city with a charter in 1701. The...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 29 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 27 towns, all having a prosperous kind of appearance, and described as “one of the richest agricultural districts in America,” we ran into Harrisburg, which is the capital of Pennsylvania, and situate...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 30 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 28 wharves, etc. On arrival (December 2nd) we drive through the city from the Pennsylvania to the North-Western terminus. Chicago is 912 miles from New York: it is the greatest city in...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 31 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 29 boot and shoe and tannery manufactures. In driving through I noticed one long street, to the right and left of the street I was traversing, thickly occupied with tradesmen's carts, backed...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 32 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 30 by whichever train I went, it would make no difference as to the time I left Omaha, and consequently no difference to the time I should arrive at San Francisco, so...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 33 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 31 but we arrived some half-hour late. Council Bluffs Station is four miles from Omaha Station, but the towns adjoin. The former has a population of over 35,000, and the latter of...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 34 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 32 Omaha, we proceeded west. The river was frozen at its sides, and presented no attractions worth notice. On we go through hundreds of fields of maize, always called “corn” in America;...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 35 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 33 snow, the grand range of the Rocky Mountains. Soon after leaving Cheyenne, we commence the ascent of the Rockies—not, of course, the actual summit range itself, but the foot hills and...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 36 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 34 We pass the ranch of William Cody, who, by virtue of his being a Senator of the State of Nebraska, is called Honourable, but who was known in London, a short...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 37 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 35 The distant mountain scenery at times is very grand, and everywhere snow-capped. The air is very pure and keen. I much enjoyed the society of two fellow travellers over this part...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 38 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 36 with red paint on their faces, which was put on to show sympathy with, and, if necessary, take part with other tribes of Indians, then commencing a “war” with the United...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 39 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 37 on many large ranches no food is given them. I urged that it would pay to have stock-yards and give food during the snow time, and Mr. Byrne said that he...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891
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Image 40 of A start in life; a journey across America; fruit farming in California. 38 great tracts of country, and then again shutting all in to the circumference of their gigantic heads, interspersed with the brilliance of rich gold, tingeing some tops and revealing dark recesses,...- Contributor: Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
- Date: 1891