Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-02
THE GRAPE BRANDY BONANZA.
The Living spirit Well of q. Column
bus, Senior.

be good judge of the article) the pure
juice of the grape, doubly distilled and
refined into excellent brandy, and re-
turning with the empty pipes which
Foulke chartered two steamers
to bring down from San Fran
cisco. On arriving, we again in
quired of our old friend Foulke what
he was sdoing here. He replied with
an imperturable gravity worthy
Modoc chief, ooh, nothing" Then
we turned to Mayhem, who said he
was still looking at signs and had
found some that didn't fail, even in
dry weather. Then, undaunted by
these unkind replies from quarter so
little expected, we looked around for
ourselves and busy scene met our
eager gaze. Supervisor Foulke had
his various gangs hard at work. Judg-i
ing from the huge dirt piles, the sap
! per and miner corps are doing most
efficient work. Well, Foulke under
stands mining.
WE ONCE KNEW,
Some fifteen years ago, of his boring
into mountain thousand feet and
not getting much of find in his bore
either. So we don't believe he con-
siders this Los Angeles affair very
big bore, even though he is consoled
by spirits flowing like water.
His First Lieutenant, Mayhem, bad
charge of the gang of men pumping
the precious stuff in quantities suffi-
cient to warm the hearts and tune the
heads of thousands of lovers of yegood
brandy. Hall had hold of the nozzle
of a pipe attached to a hose leading
into our hay-mow discovery, squirting
the veritable grape brandy into innu-
merable pipes, and threatened to squirt
some at Us If we did not leave Judg-
ing from the quantities which Hall
kept squirting into the pipes, we have
arrived at the sapient conclusion that,
like 'ropsy, it must have growed there.
Our Christian friend Briefly was busy
as bee, gauging the pipes as they
were so rapidly turned from the great
spirit-well and hay-mow. Weinguired
for our gentlemany friend Wheeler,
and were Informed that he was doing
the clerical housekeeping the books
and keeping tally of the spirits at the
great warehouse on this side the river;
while the jolly laborers, impregnated
with the fumes of the brandy, were
singing a bacchanalian song, the cho-
rus of which is all we can remember,
for the fumes of the brandy effected
even us strangely Said chorus ran.
in somewhat this vein:
FEE, FO, FUN, L SMELL JOLLY GOOD
Next time we goover there we mean
TO take Good Templar along for
safety, and possibly We can give
clearer and more succinct account.
We distinctly remember, however, one
old lady who said she had four hun
dred dollars worth of grapes in those
pipes, and wanted three of them for
| her money. But FoulKe politely in
formed her they were Uncle Sans and
he could not give them to her, though
we thought he really wanted to all the
time.
|
ers who We're by turns running the
great pump, said they could not lower
the well but little, no matter how fast
they pumped; SO we begin to cOmpre-
hend the great favor which G. Column
bus did us when he first planted the
well, and our people (for there were
crowds of them there who saw the
same as WEI are beginning to think
the
GREAT GRAPE BRANDY BONANZA
OF semi-tropical California will yet
eclipse the Comstock or Panamint bo-
nanzas. We expect to see a joint
stock company organized to work this
great we'll, should it continue to hold
out on further prospecting; and already
we hear of parties organizing to pros
pect our glorious valley for similar
wells by artesian boring. We hope to
be treasurer of Foulke's original bo-
| nanZa, and consider our fortune made.
Distillery property in other parts of
| the Pacific coast, and even the great
Mississippi valley will soon be sacri-
feed at ruinous prices, for we care not
how cheap corn may be, or even if
they steal it, they can't compete with
living spirit wells, where the pure
grape brandy can be sucked in mex
haustable quantities from the lacteal
teats of good old mother earth--given
forth as kindly as the milk from the
mothers breast is given to her sucking
babe 1--WE are not alluding to the babes
in the woods now.
WE WONDER
Whether Uncle Jim Laidley had in
his pathetic eye vision of this great
discovery to be made when he said if
Sedgwick was made Collector land he
wanted to get there himself) spirits
would run uncontrolled; or the finan-
cier, Hellman, had dreamed of it when
he backed Tarbox up with the credit
of the bank. If somebody would only
strike honey we'll now, and succeed
in making the bread tree grow, there
would be no end to the great, glorious,
semi-tropical Los Angeles. Future
generations of the city of Angels will
build two grand monuments; one to
G. Columbus for planting the we'll, the
! other to Supervisor Fouike for discov-
| ing the same. We await further de-
velopments from this wonderful boz
nanza with breathless interest, and as
an independent detective, all on our
own hook, we mean to prosecute our
Investigations to the end without con-
sulting the mediums. fs faf ~
Board OF Supervisors. fa
The Board met in regular session