Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-13

sort occurred west of the Sierra Ne
vada. 1t so happens that the guam
tity of the crop of the country depends
upon the quantity of rain which falls
in Winter. Enough has already fallen
to insure an immense yield for the
present year, and if the price contin-
ues high in England the expectation
of wheat to that country will reach
the neighborhood of .S50,000,00 in
value. L do not know that L have
shown any man that he can make a
living in California, but / have tried
to show him that good many others
are doing it, and if he will only do as
they do, he will soon have money in
the bank. What do they do? Work.
What kind of work? Anything, every
thing. If no job offers at tape-mea-
surfing, bookkeeping, or other genteel
occupations, try driving pillow, herd
ing sheep, cleaning horses or digging
bitches. II you go there with the ex-
pectatiOn of making living without
work you'll find yourself in the condi-
ton of the party who writes for the
Rurdt Sun. TO follow this l propose
to write paper on the health of Cali
fornia, which should have come in the
place of this one.
p. S.-A gentleman writes ME from
Oxford, Mississippi, under date of Feb
ruary 9th, as follows: "Tf, in your
proposed article in next Sundays Ap-
peal, on California, you can devote one
paragraph to description Of the city
of San Diego, its location, population
and future business, together with the
quantity and price of lands in its i'm
mediate vicinity, you will confer q
favor on many readers of the appeal"
am afraid it will take more space to
answer the above intelligibly than the
Appeal would be willing 10 spare: l
go to the census report of 1870 and find
the following: Assessed value of
property for the county, $4,5OO,O0O
with county debt of $4,000. Ithas
10000 acres of improved land; its
farms are valued at seven hundred
and eighty thousand dollars, which
yielded productions valued at one hum
dred and sixty thousand dollars. 1t
has live stock valued at half million
| dollars, which are numbered as fol-
lows: 1887 horses; 723 mules; ,268
mich cows 16, 443 sheep; 1858 hogs
! and 839 oxen. 1t produced 80, 947 BUSH
els of wheat; $3.50 bushels of corn;
1915 bushels of barley. The popula-
ton of the county is 5, 1870, and of San
Diego city 2,4OO. l should estimate
the area of the county ut $1,000 square
miles; thai is to say it has an extent
| of $50 miles from east to west and 100
| miles from north to south. AS this
county was the first settled in CalifOr-
mia, you will naturally conclude that
the land must lack in fertility, as only
about q thousandth part of it has been
improved, and that with very light
productiOn-not enough to feed its
sparse population. The adjoining
county Of Los Angeles has two hun
bred and thirty -four thousand acres of
improved land, valued at four and a
quarter millions of dollars. Her live
stock is valued at twelve hundred
Thousand dollars-one item Of which
is two hundred and fifty thousand
sheep. San Joaquin (Wah-keen) is
the great agricultural county of the
State. Her annual productions are
valued at four and q half millions; the
lion four hundred thousand bushels of
wheat, and o million bushels of bar
ley. The farms in Alameda county
are valued at sixteen millions; Santa
Clara is valued at twelve millions,
whilst SOnoma and Solano each are
rated at ten millions. I cannot tell
anything about the price of lands near
San Diego, but l imagine they are not
held at very high rate.
&-k f. Z G. w. GIFT.
Memphis, Tenn, Feb. IA, 1874.