Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-05-17
LETTER FROM ANAHEIM.
a BeautifuI Sight-MiIss of Vine
yards-A GrowI at StanfOrl-Talk Of
NarrOw-Gauge Railroad - The
Gran.ers Flourish.

BeautifuI Sight-MiIes of Vine-
yards-A GrowI at StanfOrl-TaIk Of
II Narrow-Gauge Railroad - The
Gran.ers Flourish.
EDITOR HERALD: One of the most
pleasing features of our landscape is
the bright, green foliage Of its hun
dreds of acres of vineyards. The vines,
set in long, straight parallel rows, in
terlacing and twining their branches
together, wear robe of green that
completely covers the ground. Later
in the season, when the hills and val
leys have donned their dusty coats of
brown, the contrast between the bright
hues Of our vineyards, and the sombre
ness of the plains around is more no.
ticeable. There can be no more re-
freshing sight to the weary traveller,
after u long ride over dusty ard sun
scorched plains, than the luxuriant
verdure of
OUR LITTLE GASES.
A large area of land has been planted
with vines this Spring. One of our
nurserymen, Mr.. Clark, has imported
from Napa and Sonoma, over one hun
dred thousand cuttings, principally of
the raisin grape. The foreign vari-
cites are entirely superseding the Old
Mission grape. In Il few years the
growing and curing of raisins will
form one Of our principal industries.
Many of our farmers are making the
experiment of growing vines without
irrigation, and the only drawback to
complete success seems to be the ire
pressible gopher
WESTMINSTER.
Not long since l took drive through
Westminster. The colony is flourish
ing like that oft quoted "green bay
tree" It's waving fields of grain and
flowing wells delight the visitors, and
are no doubt, well spring of pleas
ure to the colonists. They boast of
SO artesian wells, with flow vary
ing from one to five inches. The col
Onists will not petition for vote upon
the Local Option Law. They have q
local prohibition law which secures
the same purpose. One Of the cOndi-
tiOns in the sale of land, in the colony
tract, is that the purchaser shall not
make, vend, or sell Intoxicating
drinks. Artesian water, of which
they have superabundance, forms
the principle beverage of the colonist.
A devOtee of Bacchus in Westminster
would find himself very much in the
condition of Coleride's Ancient Mari
ncr,
"Water, water everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink"
The Grange movement is quite pop
ular in our portion Of the county. We
have five Oranges in the Santa Ana
valley, with total membership Of
over 400. No chance for monopolies
here. 1t must be the fear of the
Changers that deters Stanford & Co.
from completing the Los Nietos branch
of his railroad to Anaheim. Our men,
Dry runs back two years, and we re-
call how anxious Stanford was that we
should have railroad. Indeed, had
we insisted upon it he would have
promised every man and woman of us
A PRIVATE RAILROAD OF OUR OWN
to connect with the main trunk of the
Southern Pacific, but that was in the
good old days of subsidy. Long ere
these Changers rose up to vex the
righteous souls of Railroad magnates.
2 If Stanford can not give us a railread,
as per agreement, wonder if he couldn't
be persuaded to bottle up a locomotive
whistle and send it to us by ox-team.
1t is true we have paid dear for the
whistle, but for all that, we do not like
to lose both money and whistle.
There is some talk ola narrow gauge
railroad from the landing to
Anaheim. 1t takes money to build
railroads, and money with us is a
scarce article. Talk, however, is
cheap, but the demand for it merely
nominal We have SO many new en-
terprises on hand that some of them
will have to wait until our purses are
more plethOric. l have always re-
garded the pioneers of a country as the
true martyrs to progress. They are
compelled to invest large share Of
their money and then labor for the
benefit of posterity, and ungrateful
posterity generally votes them fools
and old fogies for their pains. Thus
saith the MoLINERo.
ANAHEIM, May 10th.