Upon seeing no one near, I lifted my grip from the car door and started down town in search of a lodging place. I found a nice place at No. 128 E. First street, and the following day I got a job with the S. P. Railroad Company, trucking freight at 20 cents per hour.
Los Angeles is probably the greatest fruit market in the world. Oranges, grapes, peaches and apricots are among the principal fruits raised.
During the orange season you can buy oranges for ten cents per dozen. A careful estimate places the number of oranges grown in California every year at 900,000,000. All fruit is cheap. The finest kind of malaga grapes can be purchased on the streets of Los Angeles for 2½ cents per pound. You can live on fruit there over six months in the year.
The winters there are no ways as cold as in North Carolina.
The rainfall is scarcely ten inches a year, making it possible for the laboring man to work out doors every working day in the year.
Laborers get $1.75 to $2.50 per day, and are always in demand.
There are numerous restaurants in Los Angeles that set out a good, substantial meal for ten cents.
San Pedro is the port of entry for Los Angeles.
With the exception of Chicago, Los Angeles contains more employment bureaus than any other city in the United States.