Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-10

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last year.
Mr., Rogers. of Pomona. weighed
and sold, in 1880, for $1,000 fifty tons
of grapes, the product of 5000 unir-
rigated 20 year old vines growing
on tract of 6 acres of land, the
nearest water being 20 feet below
the surface.
DR.. o. II. Cougar sold 21 tons OF
Muscat Of Alexandria grape, the
product of AZ acres of Pasadena
vineyard.
George Harter, OF the Cerritos
end of Downey valley, in 1881. de-
livered by wagon to l.. J. Rose at
Sunny Slope, at an expense of
$26.70, 13 tons and 700 pounds of
grapes, part of the crop OF sin
gle acre of vineyard, and received
from Mr.. L. J. Rose 1898 70 for the
same. Ia addition to the grapes
sold to Mr.. Rose, Mr.. Harter sold
the same year from the same acre
to other parties 1900 pounds in lots
of frem 200 to 400 pounds, making
IA tons sold by weigh ght from u single
acre.
have carefully selected the fore
| going cases out of many, because
they are representative of
"a class Of vineyard lands
all around the exterior
narrow.gauge belt. There are 100
square miles capable of yielding as
many tons of grapes per acre as the
Pomona vineyard of Mr.. Rogers,
that is one ten ton carload to the
acre, $40 carloads to the square
mile, and $4,000 ten ton carloads
to the 100 square miles.
| l.. J. Rose has increased his man.
ufacturing capacities to 1900 car
loads per season. j. de Barth
Sh0rb, in the same vicinity is rap.
idly snlarging his already extern
sive capacities. Other grape man
ufactarers on the parrow-gaugs
belt are also enlarging their manu-
featuring capacities.
A similarly selected 100 square
miles for others of the enumerated
products would show proportionally y
large capabilities of production and
increase of manufacturing. San
BernaIdinO county few years
ago annually sold about 1900
worth Of all kinds OF fruit; now
more than hundred thousand
dollars worth Of dried and canned
fruits alone.
The annual exports and i'm ports
Of the San Bernardino section of
the narrow.gauge belt amounts to
about 1000 car loads by rail and
about 200 car loads through New
port.
L. M. Holt, Esq, of the River
side Press and H0rticulturist, emu
merates the annual exports from
Riverside as folloYs: About 80
car loads of raisins, about 100
car loads of oranges, about 10 Car
loads of lemons aud LINES. The
considerable volume of exports of
other fruits, dried or canned, has
not been estimated.
A. Waite, ESQ.,, of the Santa
Ana Herald, enumerates about 600
Car loads of exports from Santa
Ana by rail, and 800 car loads
through Newport harbor.
Riverside and the settlements
around Santa Ana are only about
10 years cid. Their fruit trees aud
vines will average less than five
years old. The exports of such in.
fant pOmOcultural settlements
afford no adequate data of their ex.
ports when their fruit plantations
attain an average of 10 years of
age.
The climate and soil of the mar
rOw-gauge belt are such as to sus-
tain dense population.
| 81 In the infant rural settlemen
the tendency is to subdivision into
| 40, 30 aud 20-acre homesteads for
lucrative tiliage, and into Is, 10
and 5-acre homesteads for health,
pleasure and ornamental develop
ment.
The tendency OF the narrow
gauge belt is to seating vast pOmo-
cultural villages.
The narroW-gaugew would hasten
the expansion of pomocuIturai vii.
lagos and suburbs. The business
OF the Darrow-gauge railroad would
in continually accelerated ratio,
acquire the largely profitable quail.
tiles of the business of street rail-
ways.
The 1S0 miles of narrow-gauge
can be built and equipped for
about 81, 5000 A voluntary as
sessMsnt of So rs per acre on the
first class land that would be tribu-
tary to the narrow gauge would
build and equip it.
A commission of soil experts
could pick over the 1S0.Mile mar.
row gauge belt and find 100 square
miles that would yield as many
grapes as George Harter's 10 year
ola unirrigated acre vineyard from
which Mr.. Harter sold fourteen
tons of grapes by weight. Throw
off four tons per acre and the 100
square miles w0uld yield $4,000
tension car loads; throw off A 900
Car loads to provide against the
fatal delusions OF such generaliza.
tions This would be only about
three tons per acre on fourteen-ton
land, then count the remaining
$40 square miles of first class land
as provisioning grounds for the
Darrow-gauge population and as a
further guaranty against unforeseen
deficiencies in the already mer0i-
lessly scaled generalization. 1t
may be estimated that the 10000
ten-ton car loads would go as
freight an average of SO of tho 180
miles of narrew-gauge. AZ one
cent per ton per mile this would
yield an annual revenue of $780,
900, or little over six per cent on
the cost Of the road and equip
ments.
Travel and imports would pay
running expense, and leave a sur
plus to still further fortify what Is
without this an unimpeacheable
generalization and proof OF the
feasibility Of the proposed narrow.
gauge railroad.