Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1880-11-07
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&eW under way In Tennessee in
- shape Of an English colony, at
<he head Of which 10 the noted
s author OF Tom Brown of Rugby"
\ y u very encouraging to note that |
Ne. Hughes has given the United
fntes the preference over Canada,
ustsalia and other regions to
which British emigration has
16fKely tended hitherto. The |
61ovsmsnts of Mr.. Hughes and his
snolonists have drawn attention to |
NE fact that the farming popula- |
/ Mon Of England are in most dis.
opptented frame of mind and are
1 toAdy 70 emigrate in large mum.
bot6. Enormous MS the wealth Of
xpgland IL, and Incredible as her
8coomulations have grown to be in
ne course Of centuries, the agricul-
enral classes are steadily retro.
0sadlng. Let the farmer work ever
I - hard, he finds himself, at the
= oHd Of the year, however he may
n have stinted his family and him.
1 oelf, without sufficient money to
i6oet the demands Of his landlord.
xt b : sad commentary upon the
glory Of old Eng land that her cakes
0nd ale and rare old roast beef will
& ~ longer 60 round, but 1t IL true,
Nevertheless.
Tho success or failure of the
Rugby colony will have q very
treat Influence on the movements
a. Engsish farmers. It IL not the
NeRy poor farmers who accom-
Danted Mr.. Hughes. On the con.
!'EfArys many OF them are quite we'll
U ~ Do. What drives them to this
desperate step OF severing their re-
lation with the soil on which their
onoestors hsvs lived for countless
sDenerations ls, they see their mod
1T little competencies slowly but
Il e1rely slipping away from them
6 matters little that they have &C.
eumulAted from $4,000 to $40, 900.
1f tho farm goes steadily behind,
and they see poverty staring them
!: a the face Ia FROM five to ten years.
This lie class Of immigration
which is peculiarly desirable for
9opthern California. Special paina
should be taken to make the profits
of Los Angeles vineyards known
n England and Europe generally.
~ compared with the arduous and
1nremitting labors of the farm Ell
- : section like Tennessee, life as
= vineyardist here is Paradisiacal.
What are those profits?
In the language of truth and So
berness, there b competency to
any man who comes to Los Ange-
le2 county, selects with judgment
twenty acres of land, and plants it
Il O. the vine. He will have to walt
four years for a return; but, when
a comes, 1t will come in heaped
measure filed full aud 10 wing DER.
1f he has selected his Crane stocks
3udiciously. he can rely upon net.
L ting SIS per acre from his vineyard,
4 at anything like the present pricss,
and the figures are not likely to be
less In the coming years. He has
3 only to 20 little further, and make
!, his own wine, to double his profit.
Why should English immigra-
tton be monopulized by the South
ern States, when colony settled
Fear Los Angeles could achieve a
miracle Of production both from a
pecuniary aud horticultural
\ stAndpoint? Let US suppose the case
A Of : colony. like that originated by
Mr.. Hughes, with money enough
& TO buy the Laguna ranch. Such an
association could also erect distill-
cries, and all the other appliances
tor making wines and brandies,
and 1t could afford to hire the most
ekillfuI vignerons to manage all
Il details of business which, oil
c0urse. would be now to it's mem.
bers at first. 1t is no exaggsra-
tIon, 1t IL the retrenched truth, to
say that, at the end Of four years,
the ownership OF twenty acre
plot, in such colony, by an indus
trl0us man who would not be
q, afraid to put a little "elbow
grease into the venture, would be
b equivalent to a guarantee Of COM
{ fort for life.
Then it should not be forgotten
that the labor of the vineyard is OF
: most delightful description. 1t is
Hight, fascinating and ennobling.
Such life would be literal real
nation Of that scriptural picture OF
human bliss in which q man site
! down under his own vine and tIe
tree, with no one to make him
I afraid. AS compared with the
7 profits Of farming in any portion OF
the United States, such Sou ther q
california experiment would re-
j 3nrn four dollars to one. There
IRE to-day few sections of the
United States In which any man
9 an rely upon netting $40 to the
sore from ordinary farming Of the
ooreals.