Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-17
Questions Answered.
From the New Italy


eral public. Some of these questions
seem simple to Californians, but the
eastern public want this information,
and must have it We take the ques-
tions promiscuously from bundle of
letters before US. THE NEW ITALY is
sent this month to every correspond
ent. Those who would get it regularly
should send us the subscription price,
one dollar in the currency of the coun-
try where they reside, or send us a
club of ten with five dollars.
@. What is the mean temperature
of Los Angeles in the Summer
months Also in the Winter months ?
A. In the Summer months the ther-
mometer varies from 500 to 90o, and in
Winter from $50 to 70o or 500 frosts
rarely occur here in Winter; we have
a tomato vine in our garden now in
blossom for the 1875 crop, the same
vine having yielded large crop of
fine tomatoes in 1874. In Summer the
heat increases as the distance increases
towards the interior. In Los Angeles
there are but very few hot days, and
the hot, sultry days Of the Atlantic
States are never known here.
Q. What is the prospect for house,
building?
A. Improvements are going on rap
idly, and carpenters have all they can
do, wages ranging from SO to SIS per
day.
@. What is good mechanics board
per week?
A. From So to Sc.
@. What is the price of land, say
ten acres Grrigated), near town, suita-
BILE for gardener or huxter?
A. From 800 to $500 per acre.
Q. Would good English gardener
make such tract pay?
A. The garden business is mostly
monopoliaed by Chinamen, but any
one who understands the business
can do well with such garden.
@. Are there many cottages and fine
dwellings whose grounds need beauti-
flying, and would landscape gardener
find steady employment
A. There is no place in the world
where there is better opportunity to
beautify homes with fine gardens than
in Los Angeles, and the people are be-
ginning to appreciate this fact. We
should judge the field for the land
scape gardener here to be good and
rapidly becoming better.
@. OF what are your sidewalks
made Z?
A. Partly of asphaltum Oregon
pine is now being used more than
heretofore.
q. Are your streets paved?
A. We have no Nicholson pavement
here. The principal streets of the
city are now being Macadamized with
q gravel cement, found in great
abundance within the city limits.
This cement is very cheap, and makes
hard, elastic road, comparatively
free from dust in Summer and free
from mud in Winter.
@. Do you fence stock or fence grow
ing crops?
A. Stock must be either fenced or
herded-it is generally herded. Farm
ers here are not required to fence their
farms, and even gardens and valuable
orchards are perfectly safe without be-
ing fenced. This is a large saving to
new beginners.
@. What is the currency of Califor-
MIA?
A. Gold. Greenbacks are bought
and sold like sheep, and the price va
ries just about as much.
@. Can young men get forty dollars
per month and board for farm work
A. Not often good l.elp can be had
for thirty dollars per month. Skilled
labor commands higher price.
A friend in Medini, Kansas, gives a
glowing account of his devastated
region of grass-hopper fame" and de-
sires to seek I" the portals of the Gold
en- State.' That's good; all such are
welcome here.
We are in receipt of letters daily
from persons who desire to trade prop
erty in the Atlantic States for property
in Southern California. To all such
we say, it can not be done. There is
no tidal wave of emigration on this
continent from west to east.
Elgin, Illinois, is doing its duty by
sending us large number of SUBJ
scribers, with the currency, for which
our friends there will accept our
thanks.
A Minnesota man writes us
@. Can the poisonous reptiles be
avoided somewhere
A. Yes, we think SO. The only
poisonous reptiles the people must
avoid are "snakes in the boots."
Keep sober and they won't bother
you.
@. How lear are the cars running to
Los Angeles on the railroad from San
| Francisco ?
A. The cars now run to Bakersfield,
in Kern county, about 175 miles from
Los Angeles. The railroad is now
nearly completed 25 miles further, and