Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-01-09
Erroneous Inform alton.

The "Resources of California pub
lished in San Francisco, for the espe-
eial purpose of furnishing information
to the people who contemplate settling
In this State, prints in its issue of De-
cember 3lst, a four column extract
from a "Report on Immigrationn
issued in 1871.
Without pausing to comment on the
want LOT enterprise characl erizing a
professed newspaper, that will give as
fresh information, document that
has been in circulation over two years,
the statistical part of which must ne
eessarily have become entirely out of
date, we wish to call attention to the
character Of the informetion that is
given in regard to Los Angeles county,
and to ask what kind of dependence
can be placed on the statements of
publication that is so careless about
the truth of what it publishes.
In reply to the query, whether there
is any good land unoccupied, this IRE
portn says of Los Angeles county;
"Plenty of land unoccupied, but of
poor quality and subject to drought
1t is a we'll known fact that the
agricultural lands of Los Angeles
county are among the most productive
lands in the world, and that they are
no more subject to drought than any
other portion of Southern California.
Tulare county which by this report is
stated to have plenty of land that
only in some sections needs irrigation
Is just as subject to drought as Los An
geles.
In the Westminster colony, and
about Los Nietos in this county, corn
is raised year after year without irri-
CATION, and in the past season, which
by all is acknowledged to have been
an exceptionally dry one, corn has
produced from one hundred to one
hundred and thirty bushels to the
acre, without irrigation and with no.
thing more than ordinary cutiva-
ton.
A reference to the report Of the
Surveyor General of the State shows
that the yield of wheat per acre in
1872 was twenty-one bushels to the
acre, and of barley thirty bushels.
The yield of 1873 is a trifle larger,
wheat returning twenty-one and two
.ifths bushels per acre, and barley
about the same. The average yield OF
potatoes is five tons to the acre; sweet
potatoes yield an average of six tons,
and we know of instances where five
tons have been dug from half an acre,
without drop Of water, except what
fell from the clouds. We have in this
office sweet potatoes weighing nine
pound. each, and cluster of yams,
the product of single plant, weigh
ing nineteen pounds, all raised the
past season, without irrigation.
The Mutual Aid of December gives
the following instances of remarkable
growths in this county, and adds that
the list might be indefinitely ex-
tended
"On the farm of J. J. Welch, who
resides in Gospel Swamp, We found a
beet that weighed two hundred and
thirty pounds. In the front yard of
Mr.. Carter, who resides near the Col
lege-Los Nietos settlement-we saw
beet SO large that We dare not esti-
mate it's size. We regret since leav-
ing there that we did not measure it's
circumference.
At Mr.. Layman's, in Gospel Swamp,
we saw two PUMPKINS, one Of which
weighed POI pounds, and the other
els. These two specimens grew within
two rods of each other.
At one place, just west of Ahaheim,
we ate grapes from vine that grew
from cutting put out last Spring.
Mr.. Parker, who resides some two
miles east of Anaheim, showed us a
grape vine over eighteen feet in length,
which grew from a cutting put out
sixteen months previous.
On the ranch of B. d. Wilson, in the
San Gabriel Valley, we saw Como
orange tree, six years old next Spring
from the seed, that had over fifty
oranges; last year it produced over
twenty.
On the ranch of VIM. d. Faris at
Florence, are to be seen acacia trees
twenty feet high only eighteen months
from the seed; these trees have grown
without irrigation.
On another farm belonging to Mr..
Faris, near Los Neitos, an early June
apple tree gave one good crop of apples
last June, and another crop Of June
apples in November. The blossoms
for the second crop appeared on the
tree after the first crop had been gath
cred.
The Report also informs the immi-
grant that there are no small farms
for rent.
Attic proper season of the year there
isno difficulty in getting tracts of from
twenty to two hundred acres. In some
instances there are no buildings, but
1t Is seldom that farm with sufficient
accommodations for the settler cannot
be found.
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