The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-02-28
A GOOD LAND.
One of the Earth's Garden Spots

9 One of the Earth's Garden Spot
Los ANGELES, CAL,
: February Goth, 1880.
Editor Herald:
Having received many letters an
= many inquiries as to toe climate ant
! productions of this county, as vel
as the qualities of soil, and the fsoili
ties for marketing the crops, and a
there is on the tapis great emigra
ton movement towards southern Cali
fornia and Mexico, l would say, BY
all means 60 to Los Angeles district
The City of the Angels lies in very
similar position to that of Salt Lake.
While the mountain ranges of the
Sierras are almost fifteen miles Gis.
tant, still there is one gentle slope
from their base to the ocean beach,
forty miles away. Through this large
and beautiful valley flow the rivers OF
Los Angeles, San Gabriel and Santa
Ana, which furnish abundance oil
water for the irrigation OF thousands
of acres of this rich valley land.
Along the mountain bsse you will
find many small streams flowing out
OF the canone, thst furnish abundance
of water to the many beautiful
plateaus of orange land and groves
OF oranges and extensive vineyards.
Along the San Gabriel ridge
may be found some OF the
richest groves on this continent.
You will also find many thrifty settle
ments, such as CulsmeIga. the
famous vineyard, the wine OF which
has worldwide reputation; then the
Azsusa settlement, with its broad
acres of rich farm land; the DuaTts.
with its grove after grove of the finest
young orange and lemon trees, break
ing down with the golden fruit. The
next place is that of E. ]. Baldwin,
of San Francisco, the most beautiful
of the beautiful ranches - the
"Sants Aneita" - with its $1,000
acres, thirty miles OF fences, race
course, deer park, spisries, lakes,
drives, etc., and handsome stables, in
which you find MANY of the fastest
trotters on the Pacific slope. To the
northwest of this ranch, you come TO
the Sierra Madre villa, the resort of
all pleasurG-seekers and sightseers.
From the balconies of this mountain
retreat you have one extended view
of forty miles to the ocean wave, and
on clear morning eau easily discern
the vessels in Wilmington harbor.
Just south is the San Gabriel Mission;
two miles west the famous Dunsmore
orange orchard of 100 acres, on the
borders OF the Furnishing colony
known as P5s4dera.
Crossing the Arroyo, another large
valley presents to the newcomer
ample opportunity for the develop
ment OF his genius as an orchardist.
La this range the most notable ranch |
is owned by Mr.. H. ]. Crow, who
located on this seemingly desert
slope only seven years ago, but to-day
presents the wonder of all orchards
100 scres thickly set with all semi
tropical trees known, with the long
avenues of eucslyptes. orange, lemon,
line, pomegrimate, fig, banana, etc.
iormed into one beautiful garden.
Going down the river, south CT
he city three miles you come to the
Los Angeles suburb, Vernon. This
district is the real orange belt Of Los
Angeles. Its soil is a heavy, rich
sandy loan and the trees OF this dis
.rict produce fruit at the age of 9
years. This is also the best watered
In Los Angeles, and COM
orises many fine places - among
which are the Cooperative Fruit
Orchards, ITO acres all planted out i'll
,rees many of which are bearing; the
8risuater and George DAlton'a famous
orange ranch, from an acre of
which he realized $3.50 for the
Iruit; the Mcdonald. Meade. Ogden,
Rodgers, Brewer, McQusid, McKinlay,
Luitweiler, Townsend, Robrick, CLARK,
ietchell, Geass and many other
thrifty, growing and most beautiful
places comprise Vernon, and with its
fine school building, long avenues of
sucslyptes and cypress trees, it's ex-
.ensIve vineyards, the second great
wealth of California, maks it the
most beautiful home.
Three miles south CT Vernon. run
ming twenty miles to the ocean, in a
belt of nearly 100 miles long, you
will find the farmers ranches. In
Ibis belt the soil is most generally
lamp, and artesian land, 80 that little
1r no irrigation is needed. This Il
where over 100 bushels of corn can be
raised to the acre; 300 TO 500 bushels
If potatoes; pumpkins weighing 200
10 800 pounds, and beats mot dead
1nes either grow to the immense
weight of so to 100 pounds. Lucerne,
oy the hundreds of acres, will stand
quitting eight times in a year. at an
average height of fifteen inches at
each cutting. Barley, for hay, yields
three to four toos per acre on this
and. Tnis srtesian belt is Tricky
settled, but there are thousands OF
acres of rich land yet seeking set-
Tiers, and fine opportunities are pre-
sonted for colonies in the Azsuss,
5tearnes and Artesia farming settle
ments, at-very reasonable rates
10 actual settlers, and at q
low rate to ca9h purchasers,
No one man needs over forty acres of
this rich land, for on all OF it you
can, with water, raise two crops each
gear. YOa can have new potatoes
every month IN the year; your straw
berries and green vegetables every
month from January to January; you |
need no barns, and Gs for houses any
she'll will do; plsstering is not neces-
sary the climate Is 80 uniformly |
warm that the year around the PEG |
pie live out of doors, under their vine.
clad erbors, excepting in the rainy |
season - January and February =
when they keep under shelter. The
weather is not changeable Ike 10 |
Salt Lake. You can work in the
hottest sun all day. and never hear of
a suustroke or prostration while the
nights are pleasant and cool, and IN
the morning every isrmer rises re-
freshed and rested, ready for square
days work. Lightning, thunder and
storms are unknown.
TRANSPORTATION.
Les Angeles is one of the best lC-