Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1879-10-29
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While there are or, every hand
rumors of the building of new
transcontinental railways, and the
vitaiizing of old ones, Los Angeles
may possess her soul In patience In
the knowledge that a railway below
the snow belt Is certainty Of the
near future, and that she will get
the benefit Of 1t when it is built.
Whether the road shall prove to
be one or many, or a combination
OF many, it will not be
long until the commerce of
the world will be fully,
and beneficially to Los Angeles,
represented in the two or three de-
grees of north latitude which inter-
vene betw cen this place and the
Mexican line.
Such phase Of the railway stu
alton Is admirably adapted to turn
lug our attention to local develop
ments. And to do them Justice our
producers are and have been doing
this. Two great movements have
gone steadily forward during the
past year-the extension of our
vineyards and Of our wheat fields.
To-day every one who owns lands
suitable for growing the vine is
busily engaged planting grapes.
Not only Is he determined to ex-
tend the area of his vineyards, but
he is setting out varieties of foreign
grapes calculated to make fine and
valuable light wines. This move.
ment Is not confined to our large
vIgnerons, like the Messrs. L. ].
Rose and J. de Barth Shorb, but
extends throughout the whole
county. Small vineyards as we'll as
large are being planted in the
grapes which experience has shown
to make the finest quality of wine.
1t is only fair to say that very
great progress has been made in
the cultivation of wheat in Los
Angeles county during the past
two years. Three years ago nearly
every barrel of flour consumed in
Los Angeles city and county was
imported from abroad. 1t is the
note of o fine advance to be able to
say now. Is we are, that this year
Los Angeles will not only make all
the -four consumed In her own linn
Its but will be able to export con-
siderable quantity besides. Think
Of the amount Of accumulated cap
ital there would now be in Los An
gelss county from this single
source II we could have said
a. much during the last ten years?
During that period we have i'm
ported hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth of -four alone every
year.
or course, during the past four or
five years, nearly o million orange
trees have been planted. They will
come into bearing by the hundred
thousand about the time our trans
continental railway shall make the
connection East, thus giving us a
new, large and reliable market.
The fact that the Los Angeles or.
nnge may be allowed to hang on
the tree through the entire summer
and even into the fall will enable
ne to command the orange market
Of the East at time when the
Louisiana and Florida oranges will
have been consumed.
In review of the real progress
made in Los Angeles county, 1t
would not be right to omit mention
of the work which has been done
In developing our oils wells. We
have received information OF the
passage Of o very large sum of
money as a consideration for the
transfer OF San FeEsa;aayado oil terri
tory to San Fran cisco parties.
While there hasN~een nothing os-
tentatious in the movements of |
our ell men. the petroleum interest |
is upon the point of making a |
startling advance before q twelve
month shall have passed. The I'M
precedentedly low prices of oil in the
East for a great while past has rem
dered 1t inexpedient to push the
development of our oil wells be-
yond certain point. But the re.
finery at Newhall has been kept
steadily busy, and IL has turned
ont grade of oil of such q superior
character that 1t is rapidly pushing
the Eastern staple out Of the mar
kst. There is every probability
that arrangements will shortly be
made which will leave the Califor-
MIA oil producers In possession of
the oil market Of the Pacific Coast.
Then production may be looked for
on q very large scale. Such men
AZ Mr.. Lloyd Tevis, and other capt.
talists Of note In San Francisco,
have been persistently acquiring
rights to extensive oil territories in
this county.
The facts we have enumerated,
together with many others which
could be added, show that we are
making substantial progress in Los