Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-04-05
ALETTER FROM THE CHANGERS.
A bid fora paper mill--who will sta

A bid fora paper mill--who will start
it?
The following letter illustrates the
manner in which newspaper working
in harmony with the people, can as
sist in developing our resources. In
our recent article we said: "a paper
mill would pay well. Rye and barley
straw can be had for say 81 or S. per
ton. The countries of Los Angeles.
San Diego, San Bernardino and Inyo;
also, Arizona, would be the market"
The Changers will give straw enough
to run mill for half year, to aid the
matter on:
EDITORS HERALD = GENTLEMEN !:
Knowing the interest you take in any
thing that will advance the prosperity
| of this section of the country, | send
you few items for publication for the
information of Sister Oranges and the
public generally.
presented resolution at one of the
meetings of the District Council, and
it was adopted, to the effect that the
Masters of the vatious Oranges see
what encouragement their members
would give towards starting a paper
mill in this vicinity. The following
is the preamblei subscribed to by the
members of Enterprise, No. SO. A
great want of this southern portion of
California is manufacturing interest.
There are many productions now
grown or that can be grown to advan-
tage, that with proper facilities for
turning the raw material into manu-
featured goods would add largely to
the prosperity of the community.
Manufacturing establishments would
furnish demand for many of the
farmers products as raw material to
work upon. The hands employed con-
sumo produce and the articles made
would find a market here and keep the
money in the place that now pays for
goods made elsewhere. A very inn
portant article and one of which the
consumption is large and universal is
paper, and there is no mandatory of
it nearer than Santa Cruz. The mate
rial needed to be worked into paper
exists or can be produced in any guam
titles. With a view to encourage
some person or company to start a
paper factory in this vicinity, we the
undersigned members of Enterprise
Grange, No. SO, Los Angeles county,
make the following proposition
In the event of any paper factory
being started within twelve miles of
our respective ranches, pledge our
selves, and will give security if re-
quired, to furnish the articles set
against our names at the factory and
as free gift to the owner OF the same,
and Will render all other assistance we
can and encourage Others to do the
same.u
This was presented to the Grange at
our last meeting, and from nine men,
bers there is pledged over twenty tons
of straw and quantity of flax fibre.
and we shall probably promise two or
three times this amount as our men,
bers become acquainted with the OBJ
ject. If the Oranges in this part of
the county do as well in proportion,
we think we can collectively offer
quite an inducement to some manufac-
turer to make a beginning. This is
growing section of country, and as the
railroad extends East the market is
almost beundless. Manufactures are
what we want. Many one has been
begun in the older States on small
scale and with few hands and grown
with the country, till they are now
mammoth establishments and the
owners wealthy men. There is no
better place to begin than here and
now.
Besides q paper mill in this section,
we need a rope and cordage factory, as
flax and hemp can be grown here.
The sugar used here should be made
from the beets that are so easily raised
here. 1
Perhaps, Messrs. Editors, you can
enlarge on these points better than l
have done.
A few words more to brother
Changers. We have been isolated
from our large markets, and the only
company that carried freights and
passengers had monopoly and
charged high for both. There is now
opposition, and fares and freight is at
a reasonable tigure-a very important
item to farmers.
Patronize the opposition line
If we have ANYTHING to sell that we