Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-09-29
Pasa dena improvements.
NUMBER EIGHT.

NUMBER EIGHT.
EDITOR HERALD: More than q
month has elapsed since writing
the last of this serial of letters not.
ing the industrial progress and i'm
provement of our beautiful and
prosperous settlement of Pasadena.
My absence from the colony for
some time delayed my securing the
statistics of all the improved places
necessary for my purpose, but
these have now been obtained and
this number will complete the
brief place notes and the statistical
statements of the number of fruit
trees and vines now growing in the
orchards and vineyards of Pasade-
na. AT another time these statis-
| tics will be arranged into a table,
for the convenience Of future refer.
ence, which will show at a glance
the number of trees of each kind
and vines that every settler has on
his place.
Beginning where 1 left off, on
Oak avenue, at the north end, the
first place is that of l.. III. MicLner,
from Iowa; he has been here two
years; has ten acres; orange trees,
455 budded and 20 Seeding; 25 Lis
bon lemon, 200 peach, 100 apple, 25
pear, SO apricot, 10 plum, 10 fig, l5
ounce, s walnut and $50 Muscat
vines bearing.
David Townsend, from Iowa, has
been in the colony 3 years; has 20
acres improved; orange trees, $50
seeding, $40 butded; 50 lemon, 140
peach, so apple, pear, 90 apricot,
y walnut, 6 ounce. Mr.. Townsend
has also about One.fourth of an
acre of Strawberries, Monarch of
the West variety, from which he
sold this year $l35 worth of berries.
He built this summer a handsome
cottage costing about $1,000.
A. .. Bristol, from Wisconsin,
has Is acres. His house was the
first built in the colony. His Or
chard contains 400 budded orange
trees, 100 Eureka lemon, 475 peach,
$50 apple, 80 pear, 6 apricot, 10
plum, s fig and 6 cherry trees, 75O
Muscat vines bearing and 500 cut
tiDgs planted this year.
lyirpar frcr,, TIt;nni, I,,
acres and has lived here four years.
His orchard has $50 seeding and
800 budded orange trees, $50 lemon,
400 peach, 100 apple, 90 apricot, 20
pear, nectarine, 6 plum, G fig, 6
almond, 10 walnut and 20 ounce
trees, and 400 vines, twenty varie.
ties, all bearing.
Miss Persis M. Stowell, of San
Francisco, has Is acres, recently
bought of Newell Mathews, i'm
proved, for $4,000. The place has
75 Seeding and 625 budded orange
trees, so peach, 800 apple, 80 april
cot, 10 nectarine, 10 pear, ounce,
fig and walnut trees and 450
Muscat vines bearing. The house
cost $500.
S. Dunton, from Iowa, has 10l
acres. He has lived 3 years In the
colony. His orchard has 40 seed
ling and $50 budded orange trees,
so Lisbon lemon, 10 lime, 125
peach, 100 apple. 2 pear, 4 plum, 4
tig trees and $50 bearing vines.
Charles Legge came from Iowa 4
years ago and has 20 acres in Or
chard and vineyard. The orchard
contains 800 Seeding and 200 bud
ded trees, 100 lemon, $50 lime, 40
peach, 80 apple, 20 pear, IL apricot,
s Squince, ~ nectarine, SO walnut,
10 fig, 10 cherry and 10 pomegran-
ate trees, and 35 Muscat vines and
70 of other varieties, all bearing
w. g. Mosher, from San Fran
cisco, has fifteen acres. He
was one of the first settlers
in the colony. His orchard mum.
bers 200 orange trees, 400 peach, $50
apple, 30 plum, so ounce, 40 Zig, 20
lime, 30 apricot, 90 olive, Is walnut
and 100 pomegranate trees aud 1000
Muscat vines.
b. +. Ball came from Iowa one
year ago and has improved Is acres.
He has built II handsome brick
cottage that cost about $500. the
orchard has 80 Seeding and 265
budded orange trees, 100 peach, 100
apple. % pear, 90 plum, II apricot,
6 nectarine, 6 fig and 6 walnut trees
and 1900 Muscat vines.
Il On the corner of Colorado aud
Live Oak avenue, Mills Bros, from
Canada, own Is acres, all in orch
ard, which contains 1880 budiei
orange trees, 200 lemon, 500 peach,
SO apple, 50 pear, 80 apricot, 80
ounce anu II plum trees; also II
small vineyard OF 500 Muscat
grapes. The place has been i'm
proved two veers.
A. X. McQuilling, from Illinois,
was one of the first settlers and
owns 10 acres. His splendid orch
ard has in it So seeding and 225
budded orange trees, 40 lemon, $50
peach, 140 apple, 20 apricot, 80 nee
tarine, 10 pear, 10 fig, 4 plum, 10
almond and 5 cherry trees and 25O
bearing vines of different kinds.
J. II. Baker, from Indiana, one
of the pioneers, has 10 acres on
Live Oak avenue, on which are
growing 140 Seeding, $50 budded
orange trees, rs lemon, $50 peach,
100 apple, 30 pear, l5 apricot and 20
nectarine trees.
Z. G. Wooster, from Massachu-
setts, has been in the settlement 4
years, owns 10 acres all improved.