Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-11-26
Easchiess Impudencs-An Unrivai'
ed section.

GU ort&AVDs
The more the late gratuitous
Hing OF the ArQonaut at Southern
3Alifornia is considered the more
Infamous it seems to be-or at
least as far as it applies to Los An
xoles county. We have lately CIV
81 great deal of attention to the
merits 5sssst:sss OF the several sections of
Calffornia, and it is really aston
nhing how our own county towers
op In the comparison. OF the three
smillion three hundred thousand
nores which compose Los Angeles
county at least five hundred thous.
8nd are the best lands on the Amer
ican continent. Scarcely anything
oan be mentioned in the whole
xange of the vegetation of the tenn
Derate and semi-tropical zones but
oan be raised here to perfection. In
addition. many distinctively trop-
i6al fruits are found to flourish in
Los Angeles county. Such jour
mails as the Argonaut would like
% pooh-pooh us as mere
oFange-grove enamored people,
pleased with aromatic bios
4 SONS and in love with
landscape gardening. When we
get down to the facts, however, we
0nd that Los Angeles county pro-
( duces more corn than all the rest Of
the State put together. This fact,
and our ability to Indefinitely null
tlpIy our corn production, ought to
convert the respectable beginnings
we have already made in raising
dne horned stock and hogs into a
colossal interest. The truth is that
Il wc make as much progress in the
next ten years in the growth of
corn, and in its stock accessories,
We shall become quite prosperous
from that source alone. This is
but one of our ordinary farm in-
terests. The raising of wheat in
Los Angeles county has of late re-
fceived q wonderful impetus. From
nothing it has attained proportions
which may fairly challenge the at
tention of the curious. All the in
& dIcations this year point to 6. re-
markable wheat yield. It is safe
10 say that it is amongst the prob
abilities that we shall produce
from half a million to three.quar-
ters Of a million bushels of this
cereal during the current season.
When these things are supplement-
cd by the facts that our orchardists
have already sold their next years
orange crop for S22 thousand, and
that our vineyards will be made.
quate to the supply,at high figures,
the grapes needed for the Eastern
demand for our wines and bran
dies, the situation in Los Angeles
county is such as to admit of lit.
tie natural exultation, without sub
jecting San Francisco journal to
= severe bouncing" for conceding
to US proper need of recognition.
The Argonaut critique on The Re-
sources was matchlessly impudent.
The fact is, and we say 1t unhesi-
tatingly, Los Angeles county is
the best place on the American
continent for an industrial or mon
eyed speculation. The thrifty, in
austrious man who comes into our
county now, and, upon proper in.
vestigation, buys lands which he
can pay for, reserving the means to
support himselfand family for three
years, until his vineyards and
stock raising operations are fairly
started, will make much money.
He must be able to avoid debt, be.
cause the heavy rates of interest of
California. especially if they are al
lowed to compound, will eat up any
producer on Gods footstool. 1t is
because of these things that, with n
consistency upon which the HER
AID prides itself, we have never
advised poor man to come to Los
Angeles. Perhaps we were wrong,
because we have known energetic
poor men achieve splendid results
here. But, right or wrong, we have
determined never to make this
Journal the agency OF cruel dis
appointment to any one. 1t is not
every one who knows how to ham
die himself in California. To
man Of moderate means, however,
1t does no harm TO pay visit, pre-
liminary to settling and purchas-
ing, to the most charming region
on the American continent. He
can thus see how it is for himself.
All the world over luxuries are
restricted to the people of at least
some means. A residence in
Southern California, from a cli-
y matte and investment standpoint,
is really luxury. We have here,
all through the year, the delicious
climate which Nice and Mentone
have for perhaps three months.
But for the capitalist there is the
prime attraction that, in a region
which always reacts with marvel
GUS rapidity, real estate values have
reached the "bed-rock" and are
upon the upward grade. There can