Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-03-31
Questions from Abroad Answered.

Letters are constantly received by
persons in this county making numer-
Gus inquiries about Los Angeles. For
the benefit Of such we furnish the fol-
lowing information:
Los Angeles county contains over
200, 900 acres of corn land, needing very
little irrigation, 100000 acres suitable
for raising all semi-tropical fruits.
This can be irrigated partly by run
ming streams, the rest by windmills
from surface wells. Population of the
county over $4,000; Los Angeles city
5000, Wilmington 1000, Anaheim
1900, Gallatin 100, Ell Monte 100,
Compton $50, Florence so, San Gabriel
200 Spadra so, San Fernando so.
There is fair proportion of profess
sional men, of laborers and of me-
chanics. No department is over
crowded. The population of the
county is increasing at the rate of
some 1000 to 1900 per year. The city
is increasing about 1000 to 1900 per
year. Although any one branch may
be full to-day, in six months the
growth of the community will make
room for more. In this city we are
well supplied with public schools and
school buildings. One college, one
seminary, five churches, and two
churches soon to be erected. This is
the county seat, all the county records
are here, also the county officers. One
District Court, in session most of the
time, one County Court, two Justices
of the Peace, and one Mayors court.
Four large hotels and demand for
more. One Public Library, to be sup
ported hereafter by small tax on
city property. The reading-room is
well supplied with Pacific coast and
Eastern journals and magazines.
Quite large number of volumes are
already collected, embracing every
variety of matter. Reading-rooms are
open to visitors and travellers. The
climate is mild the year round;
orange trees in bloom from January
to June; ripe strawberries to be had
every month of the year. Geraniums,
heliotropes, fuschias and other deli
cate plants bloom out in the open air
all the year round. Grain is sown from
November to March-earlier sown the
better. Wild clover and grasses grow
on the bottom land one and two feet
high; on the table land about twelve
or eighteen inches high. understands
in the wells from four to ten and
thirty feet from the surface. Soil is
clay and loan both mixed with
enough sand to make warm, fertile
soil, easy to cultivate. One wooden
mill, and waterpower enough to run
at least a dozen more. There is wool
enough produced in the county and
adjacent thereto to supply all the mills
that can be run. Clothing and mer-
chandise generally twenty per cent
higher here than in the New York
market. Provisions about the same
cost as in the East.
One street railroad now in process of
construction; another contemplated.
Three daily newspapers in the city; six
weeklies published in city and county.
Parties coming here to settle need not
bring any heavy or bulky goods, as
most things sold here are brought out
by cheap freight and are sold for less
than emigrants can bring them out
for. Readymade clothing may be
brought with advantage, as it gener-
ally can come as baggage. Four rail-
roads run out from this place: South
twenty miles to Wilmington harbor;
southeast twenty-five miles to Ana
helm; east thirty-five miles to Spadra;
north twenty miles to Mission San
Fernando. All of these belong to the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company,
and are part of the great Southern
trans-continental railroad. Two other
roads are contemplated from this city:
one to Shortly landing, twelve miles
west of the city; the other to Cerro
Gordo, one hundred and eighty miles.
This last road will tap one of the rich
est mining regions in the world. One
mine produces more bullion than
eighty large ten-mule teams can trans
port to this place. The furnace actu-
ally closed down because such large
amount of bullion had accumulated on
their hands. a sa.+as#
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