Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-05
From the Resources of California,


Los Angeles county embraces one
Of the largest unbroken tracts of fer
tile land in California. 1t has about
$4,000 acres under cultivation. It's
population is little over 10000. 1t
contains the following towns: Los An
geles city, with a population Of about
5000; Anaheim, 1900; Wilmington,
500; San Gabriel, 200; Ell Monte, 100;
Gallatin, 100; and Spadra, Santa Ana,
Westminster, Compton, San Fer
nando, Florence, Tustin City and San
Juan CapistranO, with about fifty
each. Each OF these places is nu-
cleus Of rich farming country.
EDUCATION.
Her educational interests rank high
er than any county in the State, SINH
larly located. She has forty-one school
districts outside of Los Angeles city,
with forty-five teachers-in the city
fifteen schools, making sixty public
schools in the county, besides the Will
son College at Wilmington and the
Los Nietos College. There are few Sc
lect schools in the city and county of
Los Angeles, which speaks well for
her public school system. The school
tax levy for 1874 is thirty cents on the
500. The average price paid to fe-
male teachers is seventy dollars per
month, only two teaching for fifty
dollars. The average price paid to
male teachers is ninety-five dollars;
the lowest is seventy dollars, and the
highest is the salary of DR.. w. II.
Lucky, the very efficient City Super
intendent and Principal Of the city
High School, s., 500 per year; the next
two highest receiving S125 per month
each. The county schools are spoken
highly of by the County Superintend-
ent, DIR. Peck, a live Yankee, fully up
to the times in educational matters
There are eight school houses in the
county which cost from 81 900 to ST.
200, three which cost $1,000 to $4,000,
and six which cost over $4,000 each.
The last named are in the city. The
High School building, occupying an
eminence entirely overlooking the city
and its beautiful surroundings, with
the furniture, cost S25, 900, and the lot
is valued ut $4,000, making this one
school property worth $4,000. We
have seldom found better organized
and more ably managed public schools
than the Los Angeles city schools. In
the city are seven church organiza-
tions, five church edifices, and two
soon to be erected, public library and
reading room. Eight new public
school buildings will be erected in this
county the present year.
AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES.
All the agricultural products grown
on this coast, can be produced in this
county in great luxuriance, including
Indian corn, a fact worthy of notice,
as many portions of this coast are not
adopted to the production of this great
staple of the central part of the United
States. One hundred and twenty
bushels to the acre, on whole fields,
have been produced here, throwing
into the shade the best bottom lands
of the Mississippi valley. This county
contains 100000 acres of corn land,
needing very little irrigation, and
100000 acres suitable for raising semi
tropical fruits. Much of this land can
be irrigated from flowing streams, the
rest by surface wells. The boring of
artesian wells is a great success all
through the county, striking water at
eighty to one hundred and forty feet,
except in the city, where, strange to
say, it is failure; but the city is well
supplied with excellent water from
the Los Angeles river, the supply of
which is almost inexhaustable. Many
Of the vineyards and much of the best
producing lands do not need irrigation
at all. This county is the great orange
bearing section Of the United States.
No more beautiful panoramic view is
is to be found, than from the hills i'm
mediately back and adjoining the city,
with the town Immediately at your
feet and the orange orchards and vine
yards, with many varieties of the
semi-tropical fruits sprinkled in,
stretching for miles before, while the
vision is lost gazing upon the grain
fields and herds on the grazing lands
beyond. The culture of cotton, also
of coffee, has been successfully tested
in this county. Further develop
ments are called for, and many varie-
as the water power is immense. The
ramie plant is a success here, and no
portion of the State produces beets
thousand dollars can be profitably in
mill, cotton and woolen mills, the
vi Wilhha thO
ramie, jute factory, etc.
Within twenty miles of Los Ange-
les city, in the mountains, and quite
easy Of access, is large belt of sugar
pine timber, with trees six or eight
feet in diameter, waiting for an in
vestment of capital to be developed.
This is of inestimable value in this
comparatively timberless section of
the State.
The undeveloped mineral resources
of this county are of no inconsiderable
Importance, and when connection is
made with the transcontinental rail-
road and railroad is built to the
Cerro Gordo and Inyo county mines,
an investment here in reduction and
refining works will pay largely. There
is one petroleum refinery established
here now, and paying well.
CLIMATE.
The following table will speak for
itself, and say more in small space
than we can find language to express,
showing the highest. lowest and mean
temperature in Los Angeles city for
1873. The table is complied from OBJ