Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-01-21
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Il Il vvsneersaa merry.

oSnS ens 0osnass Chspser Of 81
{.s vRSneersaa esery.
H6fG q no doubt but that II has
) great disappointment to our
- that, some time during the
4ont winter, We have not been
oe1od . through transcontinen-
~ 1oileoad, below the snow belt,
6nnootlne N with the Eastern
1n1Ga Had this been conceded to
i ! - ~ ohaaii, In Los Angeles to.
~, ~ congrAtulating ourselv es
H1on The advent Of unnumbered
rooplo who deslred, for once In
1koIf llves, to look upon an orange
/ 3Eove, and upon other innumerable
34aElets who would like to see ho W
= lools to look upon men who stood
Up1es their own vines and fig
tuoes, With no one to make them
o(tA1d. AZ . matter Of fact, we
have the most poetical and sug-
1 Gootlve three million odd acres on
~ American footstool. The sta.
tletles show that, from three ports
- Italy alone, twenty million dol
losR Worth Of oranges have been
eoxtnd IN single year. A mill
H. oeange trees ct least are now
etniag Into bearing In Los Ange.
r. county. with an incalculable
1cS1oue resulting from their ma
tn1tty. But that is only the ini.
VI TO the full thronging chapters
- our development. Los Angeles
ouuntys having passed into intelli-
oet handss win prove to be. in the
YkS i've years. the finest farming
nootien on the American continent.
Or wheat yield is becoming some.
c1tng TO marvel at. Six or seven
yooea ago the man who thought he
6ould raise wheat In Los Angeles
ooanty, outside OF certain restrict.
a oreas, Was laughed at. Yet we
Aave. In that brief time, attained
~ ability to produce at least four
1iiees the dour our own people, by
i onY possibility. can consume. But
I Nhat ID wheat, or what are the po-
Il eAtss rye, barley. pomegranate,
ellves lime, lemon or orange,
~ what Los Angeles county
oan produce In her growing
vlneyards ? This year we come to
The front with = clear total of al
least one million dollars revenue
Arlelng from our wines and bran
dies alone, with only 5713 acres IL
yielding vineyard, at that. The
atoA % planted ought TO be 100, ,OO(
eoees. The arithmetical ratio is al
xeady In play with regard to tn.
doVel0pment Of this overshadow
Ing intefeat, and there is danger O
the geometrical ratio shortly re
placing 1t. Vineyards are being
~ ont right and left In Los Ange
lse 00unty. and still the Frencl
vineyards are surrendering them
eolvss TO the remorseless phyllox
eea, and the vineyards on the pow
egty stricken soils on the French
Ard German sides Of the Rhin,
rive forth faint gasps Of exhaus
severed the real possibilities of Cal.
ifofnia. Within twenty yslrs from
to-day there will be manufactured
u this State. wines which will
rival the 6chlose. Johannisbergel
os the Metternich estates, which
will make the Tokay of Hungary
pale its Intellectual convivial fires
and which will cause the Widow
Cticquot to endure a nervous shiver
We are already producing ligh
wines In this State, aud in Lo'
Angeles county at that, which
make those Of the Rhine trembl'
eoe their supremacy. The por
wines, which have SO long delight
- the palates 0f aristocratic Eng
land, are threatened by thos,
made st the Cucamonga ranch ant
~ those Of Koenig and others a
Anahetm. Arpad Haraszthy il
tnrning out champagnes which dt
credit to his long years of instruc
tlon at Epernay and other centers
cf the champagne production ir
france. And yet all this vari ETY.
Of production lie In its infancy, and
our own county can equal and ever
eurpass the best of what has been
done elsewhere In California. All
the while. Los Angeles county
eight years ago, was q mere sheer
and cattle range. Nowhere else on
Qod's footstool have such varied
and phenomenal advancements, in
manifold and valuable productions,
4 been chronicled as In Los Angeles
oounty, during the period we have
xeviewed. And the end Is not only
~ yet, but we have in truth
eeefcely seen the beginning.