Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-10

of seventeen miles and another to
Wilmington, twenty-one miles dis
tant. A line of railway passing
through San Francisco connects us
with all the principal Eastern cit
les. The Southern Pacific has four
branches ramifying through Los
Angeles county,0ne of them reach .
ing Yuma, aud likely to he entend
ed to the Rir Grande, where it will
meet the Texas Pacific.
Fourth-Los Angeles may be
reached from the East by the Union
aud Central Pacific Railways from
Omaha without u change of cars, if
desired. The Easterner, If he pre-
fers it, can stop at San Francisco
and take the Southern Coast
steamers to either of the ocean
ports of this county, Santa Monica
or Wilmington. Or he can embark
at New York on the Pacific Mail
steamers, going to San Francisco
via Panama, and coming down to
this county on the Coast steamers,
as before. In very few years
either the extension Eastward uf
the southern Pacific, or the exten-
sion Westward of the Texas. Pacif fic,
will enable him to choose another
line ots through transcontinental
railway travel.
Fifth-No man can truthfully
say aught but pleasant Things
of the climate of Los Angeles.
Without any exaggeration the eli
llHttl inf tllIl i -
that of Nice. 1t is one continna |
round of sunshine, aud sunshine
tempered by II braciug ocean breeze
which prevents it from being ener-
waiting. 1t is enough to say that
camelias aud tuberUses bloom in
the open air in mid-Winter, aud
that even the tropical banana ell
dures the utmost rigOrs of our WIN.
ters On rare occasions the mercury
has been known to descend at night
to 3i0 and 320 in Winter; but, gem
orally, at midday, it rauges from
7O' to $50. In the Summer, with
the exception of perhaps twenty
days, the general range is very
rarely higher than the latter figure.
The writer, in residence of six
years in Southern California, has
never found fire Necessary to his
comfort. The climate is undoubt.
edly instantaneOusly beneficial to
c0nsumptives in the first stages OF
the disease. Those very far gone, it
has beeh long ago ascertaiued, can
benefit by no climate. We know in
stances Of persons WHO have come
hprn HViIlr a tyh hn
idly regainiug u vigorous state of
health.
Sixth-The staples of daily life
are cheap here. Flour, meat, gro
ceries, milk, vegetables and game
are abundant and very low in price.
Female help Is comparatively dear.
So Is house rent, owing to the fact
that money commands In Los An
geles from two to three times as
much interest as it does in the
East. Building lots can be had
reasonable figures, however, aud
houses can be erected inexpen-
sively.
Seventh-A body of excellent
land, of two thousand acres in eX-
tent, can be easily obtained mere in
eligible locations. We cannot say
that lands aie cheap i'll Los Ange-
les county. They are tou valuable
to be cheap. With irrigation from
eight to twelve tons of excellent al
falfa hay can be raised on a single
acre during the year. Lands ad
mirab ly adapted for vineyards and
orange groves, on which every
thing conceivable can be raised,
from a potato to II banana, ought
not to be cheap. In addition, Los
Angeles county is traversed in
every direction by railways. Farms
supplied with irrigating facilities
can be had at from $50 to SIS per
acre.
Eighth-As to the drouth, about
every seventh year we have u
drOulh in California. In Los Ange-
les county we are comparatively in.
dependent of IL because we have 50
many facilities for irrigation. arte-
sian wells, etc. A great abundance
of everything was produced in this
county last year, notwithstanding
the drouth. Having had our peri.
odlcal Jrouth, the probability is
that we won't have another for six
years to come.