considered a second New York City. Fruit and petroleum are its chief natural resources. Put up at the Carrillo Hotel. Santa Barbara, Saturday Feb 12. This town of 37,000 people is 3/5 in Spanish Mission style of architecture. One and two story houses predominate and all in light bright colors - white yellow and orange in lighter tints. With the intro- duced plants of palms, palm trees, canes, we get the impression of foreign land - but Mexican hecause all is once light, but I suppose rather the twenty parts Spain. However all is rather appear- ance done in concrete and cement and care if is any of it in substantial stone. There is to be had decorated hard Mission sometime of a light yellowish color. One sees almost no effect of the last earthquake. Here and there one sees cracks along the sides of the arches that maybe of the earthquake or settling. The hotel seems suffered very little from [illegible]