Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-01-01

pasturage in this part of the country.
This rancho has been hitherto used
for stock purposes, but will be now cut
up and put on the market. That 1t
will be speedily settled up can scarce
ly be question.
RIVERSIDE.
We give the following from our cor
respondent at this settlement:
EDITOR HERALD:-Five years ago
River side was an unfolded germ-a
treeless waste; the water which now
threads the streets was five miles
away,-between were almost super
human labors-fiumes and fills which
would cost several small fortunes; but
the men who saw our bright future
were men of energy; the work was
begun and carried ON in spite of the
shrugs of the faithless. And to-day
we are in the enjoyment of small in
stallments of our reward, for are we
not eating our own apples, pears,
peaches, lemons, lines, grape, &C., DC?
Are not strangers amazed at our Won
drous growths and quick returns? and
does not this speak stronger than any
written words in favor of our produc-
tive soil? The health-givipg powers
of our climate are attested by many
of us, more or less invalids, being ca
pable of working in the open air al
most every day of the year, and not
feeling as we might feel in other
places, drones in the worlds great
hive. In spite of prophecies to the
contrary, we begin to feel that we are
success. Those who were wont to
speak against us now are met by facts
which qualify their words. We have
at Riverside three dry goods stores
within brick buildings, drug store,
a hardware establishment, tin shop,
harness shop, barber shop, meat stall,
blacksmith forge and carriage shop,
printing office, express, post and tele-
tSldbll IlobCit
church edifice and school houses, Chi
nese wash house, furniture warerooms,
and carpenter shops. These are in the
mile square laid out for the town prop
er. Some 80 two-and-a-half acre blocks
are well set out to fruit. Many of
them have buildings erected, and the
occupants are enjoying their early
different kinds of fruits from trees and
vines which have become productive
wonderfully quick. Our farmers on a
large scale have, outside of these town
blocks, their ten, twenty, thirty and
forty acres, covered in many instances
with orange, lemon, lime, walnut and
other trees vigorous and promising,
with vineyards already bringing hand
some returns to the owner. There is
Il thriftiness about some Of these
places which would adorn any New
England settlement, and gladden. the
heart of many far away parent to
see his son following closely in his
early taught methods. We have rep
resentatives of almost all branches of
religion, and hold tenaciously, ID on
ly the old puritan stock can, to our be-
liefs. heard to-day of a gentleman
who borrowed the musket of oneNof
our Riverside clergymen and failed b
make it shoot upon the Sabbath. The
gun was returned promptly with the
remark that he ought to have known
better than expect "a minister's gun to
shoot upon the Sabbath. We have
regular church services Of different
denominations, with Sabbath-schools,
&C., as we'll attended by as large por-
ton of the five hundred inhabitants
as anywhere else. But I must say u
word about our water privileges. The
entire system of irrigation for all the
lands of the Santa Ana valley is un-
der one organization. The colonies
extend from the Santa Ana river up
on the South bank of which the town
of Riverside is located, to the Temes-
cal Creek, some eighteen miles. The
irrigable land of the colonies, below
the present canals, is about twelve
thousand acres, and is controlled by
two large canals. The Riverside canal
is eighteen miles long, seven to eight
feet wide at the bottom, and fifteen to
twenty feet at the top; has grade of
four feet to the mile and capacity
for 3500inches of water, and cost $7O,-
600. The new canal of the "Riverside
Land and Irrigating Company now
nearly completed, is thirty feet lower
than the upper canal; will be sixteen
miles long, six to nine feet wide at
the bottom, and fifteen to twenty feet
at the top; has a grade of four feet to
the mile, and has cost so far $50, 900.
Nearly one mile of this canal has been
cut through granite from four to fif-
teen feet deep and ten feet wide. This
canal has capacity for $500 inches of
water. The two canals will furnish
more water than can possibly be used
on the 10000 acres of irrigable land.
The company propose to furnish five
inch stream for every twenty acres of
land sold by it, and will, by its per-
fected system, give to every twenty
acre lot twenty inches of water every
fourth day, forty inches every eighth
day, or eighty inches every sixteenth
day. The purchaser of land can buy
an interest in the canals, so that when
all the land is sold the owners of the
land are the owners of all it's water
and water rights connected with them.
Three thousand inches of water will
give continuous five inch stream for
every twenty acres, or eighty inches
every sixteenth day. Last September