Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-04-25
Letter from Anaheim.


ated-spIendid Crop PrOspects-Fruit
and Vine Culture Proposed New
Wharf-May-Day Picnic
EDITOR HERALD:-Fully appreciat-
ing your efforts to make the HERALD
n paper which shall truly represent
the interests of all parts of the county,
/ have undertaken in a small way to
aid you in your laudablc enterprise,
by dropping you an occasional letter
from this part of the county. / be-
lieve with you that truthful repre-
sentation of the interests and advan-
tages of each section is the best way
to advance the growth of all. l de-
spise in n newspaper, as a man, that
narrow-minded seetionalism which
would pull down, had it the power,
every place but its own; that can see
no good beyond the little circle of its
own vision; and is so gangrened by
prejudice and selfishness that it can
feel no thrall of pleasure over the pros
perity of its neighbors.
NEVER BEFORE
Has there been such promise of album
dant crops in this section as now. The
acreage sown is greatly in excess of
former years, and the yield per acre,
Judging from present appearances,
will be at least one-third greater.
From statistics collected at the last
meeting of Anaheim Grange, the esti-
mated yield of the growing crops of
thirty-two members was placed at
10, 900 bushels. Some of the largest
grain-growers in the vicinity of Ana
helm are not members of the Grange,
and of course no report of their crops
has been made. 1t is estimated that
there will be harvested in the valley
of Santa Ana this year, million of
bushels of the three cereals-rye, corn
and barley. On account of the near
ness to the ocean, wheat is liable to
rust and but little is sown.
FRUIT AND VINE CULTURE
Are largely engaging the attention of
our farmers, particularly the culture
of the orange. Nearly every farmer
in the ghborhoot, this Spring, has
invested to the extent of his spare cash
in orange trees. AS result, around
almost every farm house is to be
found the nucleus Of an orange Or
chard. Dr. Hardin, on his lot west of
Anaheim, has set out fifteen acres in
orange trees. The Doctor has been
very successful in transferring his
trees from the nursery to the orchard.
In transplanting over a thousand
three-year-old trees, he did not lose
single tree. The trees were lifted from
the nursery by a machine called
tree-lifter, the invention of one of our
townsmen. 1t raises the tree neatly
and quickly, without displacing the
dirt from the roots. On an adjoining
lot to DR.. Hardin's, r. Heiman has
young orange orchard of ten acres.
Quite n number Of small orchards,
varying from fifty to five hundred
trees, have been planted this Spring.
Anaheim will, no doubt, in course of
time become as famous for orange Or
chards as she is now for her vineyards.
AMEETING OF THE CITIZENS
And farmers was held in Justice Bal
ley's Courtroom Wednesday evening,
April I'D, to take under consideration
the building of a wharf at the Bolsa
Ghetto Landing. Mr.. Olden stated
that by constructing a wharf seven
teen hundred feet in length, a depth of
seventeen feet of water at low tide
could be reached. The wharf can be
constructed for about $4,000. The
project was discussed by several gen.
llemen, and the unanimous opinion of
all assembled seemed to be to make
an attempt to carry it out. VIM. r.
Olden, John Fischer, Edward Evy
and Geo. c. Knox were appointed a
committee to prepare plan for the
organization of a joint stock company.
Another meeting is called for Monday
evening, at which the committee is to
report, and the scheme will be fully
discussed. The Bolsa Ghetto Landing
is about mile and half south of
Anaheim Landing, and about thirteen
miles distant from Anaheim.
THE PROJECT,
If carried out, will add greatly to the
prosperity of the southern portion of
the county. Under the present system
of lighterage it costs nearly as much
to take an article to or from the shore
to anchorage as it does from San Fran
cisco to the anchorage.
The four Oranges in this end of the
county have united in a May-day Gel
ebration. Grounds for the picnic have
been selected near Tustin city. A
good time is anticipated by all inter-
ested. Yours truly,
]. M. QUINN.
ANAHEIM, April oath.