Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-07-26

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Right Man, Right Plac,, Right Capital,
Ri. .ht Product, Right Area, Right Result,
All Right-Csses Cited Clusters Of Solid
Facts.
EDITOR HERALD: In your edi-
torial leader of the 22d inst, "Al-
ways Darkest Just Before Dawn"
assigning to the very present the
adjacency of the darkest hours and
the dawn, l easily identify the
spirit of new departure that awaits
the smitiDg of the rock 10 break
forth "a living fountain of financial
salvation. Twice in my life | set
tied as far away from the habitat
of the Iron Horse as Daniel
Boone was wont to hang his rifle
beyond the haunts of civilization.
Twice 1 have struggled with cut
off region, and in one case COM
manded the volunteers that were
necessary to make it possible to
build a railway. Twice 1 have en-
dured the horrors OF the just-belore-
day darkest hour and watched it
turning to railway dawn. But u
deeper financial night than the
present never darkened the edge of
a more auspicious break o'day.
Think of it One hundred thous-
and dollar estates shrinking within
the limits of the most sagaciously
margined mortgage. This night,
too, think of the impending dawn
coming of three transcontinent8l
railways now plowing their way
through our frontier, an empire of
native silver and gold. Think how
soon these railways will join piers
with bridges of boats that will turn
the Pacific Ocean into lake, an
island world into sugar estates,
Australia into our customer, Asia
into neighbor, aud Los Angeles
into the gate-city of the commerce
of a planet where the riches of the
Indies will pass by our doors, for
the possession of which the civil
lied nations have schemed, Colum.
bus strove, aud the ages of Europe
have been dreaming. These and
hundred other magnificent facts
are coming as a volley upon New
Italy. Where on the American
continent are converging moiety
of equally potential influences
Eastern people inquire how I
reconcile our financial sorrows and
agricultural disappointments and
disasters with my hopeful newspa-
per correspondence. They are
more than anxious to accept my
propositions as verities, especially
those that relate to schemes of inn
migration. l propose, briefly, to
explain. l do not deny that nu-
merous and severe disappointments
have pursued our agriculturists. 1
even admit that loss upon the
whole rather than profit has attend
ed the efforts OF a majority of South
California farmers during the last
three years. But the failures fol-
lowed as necessary consequences
upon some one or more of the fol-
lowing causes: Iucautious mex
perieuce; the right place but the
wrong kind of product; the right
kind of product but the wrong
place; or both right and the wrong
man; or both wrong and yet the
right man; insuiliciency of capital;
or, finally, every condition of sue
cess defeated by attempting too
mulch.
Without indulging n any further
distractions l shall now introduce
a few actual cases that are go con-
veniently accessible that every cit
izen of Los Angeles county and
every immigrant who may come
here may go upon the spot and find
precisely the state of facts given be-
low. And the given cases are only
a few of the many that are equally
conclusive.
l select Riverside as the exponen-
tial case for the fruit belt. The
growing of citrus fruits, grapes,
raisin- making, and other pomolog-
ical enterprises there have survived
the stage experimental and are ac-
knowledged successes. Personal
observations there convince me
that Riverside is entering upon
career of enduring prosperity. And
with respect To the amount Of pro-
duction, markets, profit and pros
poets, al extensive mingling with
the people of Riverside failed to
disclose q single case of despond-
ency. | do not propose to enter
into particulars, because the larg-
est yields of the most merchanta-
BILE California fruits are well
known. l simply add that River
side is fully up to the highest
standards of excellence in all re-
spects. But L shall enter some-
what into details in the following
cases because they illustrate pur-
suit in its infancy and without gen.
orally acknowledged standards of
reference or comparison.
First, then, is the case of Judge
VenabIe of Los Nietos. This gem
tleman is we'll known as a farmer
and still more widely known as at
one time member of the Legis-
lature. Judge Venable and his
partner, Mr.. Cheney, have dairy.
Among the facts established in
their experience are the tollowing:
Forty acres of alfalfa will maintain
eighty cows in high milk yielding
state. AT eight cents a pound, the
present extremely low price of
cheese, the gross income is thirty.
two cents per COW per day, sixty
four cents per acre per day, one
hundred and ninety-two dollars per
acre for three hundred days out of
the year. The offal of the dairy
and the increase of cattle will pay
the expense of milking and max
ing the cheese. But these results
require good stock and wise man
agement. 1t is easy to figure up
the income from forty acres. Judge
Venable's opinion is that dairying
is by far the most profitable use to
which alfalfa can be devoted. He
thinks the alfalfa land will gradu-