Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1882-01-21


lies, churches, etc., will only be inserted
n the HERALD as paid advertisements,
We reserve, for Places OF Worship, graf
Is directory, which Will appear every
sunday morning.
4 wrong POitey-Bsssor ChsRxe IL.
We find ourselves drifting,
through an uncalculated but al
most irrssistible impulse, into q
var OF recrimination with our San
Diego neighbors. There is no
sense in such q programme; and,
~ far as the HERALD il concern ned,
we here and now call peremptory
halt. II the several communities
which compose Southern Califor-
mia have . correct appreciation Of
their own Interests they will leave
al chickering's severely alone. We
have been disagresably surprised
ct the delight which our San Diego
ueiehbors take in the facts that.
the other day, vessel was wrec ksd
1t the Wilmington anchorage, and
that the rainfall thus far has been
slight in Los Angeles county.
There 10 something very silly 10
allowing such sentiments to find
public expression, aud we confess
that we are panied to find that
they exist amongst our Southern
nsighbors.
There can be no question of the
fact that the people of San Diego
are thoroughly imbued with the
idea that Angeleiios desire to hold
them bacF. Nothing could be
more absurd than this notion.
During = residence in this county
Of some seven years, we have fail.
ed to discover the slightest indica.
tion of hostility to the people Of
San Diego. On the contrary, we
have found q great deal of friendli.
ness here for all sections of South.
ern California. The editor of the
HERALD, for instance, who had al
eighteen months Journalistic ex.
perience in San Diego, has been,
year in and year out. specially
demonstrative in dwelling on the
climatic attractions of San Diego
He has been equally cor1ial and
friendly towards San Bernardino
county and the settlement of Riv'
erside. 1t has always seemed to Vi
that the true thing for any South
ern Californian to de is. first, to BE.
cure q desirable settler for his own
town or county, II he can; and,
failing that, to do his best to Sc
sure him for the section, at least,
whether 1t be San Diego, San Der
nardino or Santa Barbara.
The exultation Of San Diegsns al
the short rainfall at Los Angelo
thus far is q thing positively mex
plicable to US. Any one interested
in meteorological data can have
recourse to tables OF statistics
for this section, and he will
find that, taking period
of twenty years ct a time,
the rainfall of Los Angeles county
has been nearly twice that record.
ed for San Diego county. Conss'
quently, when he finds an undue
exultation over q chance rainfall
which places San Diego ahead Of
her uniformly much more highly
blessed neighbor, he is apt to
ascribe the eocentricity to q cloud.
burst, or something of that kind.
However they may be delighted
for the moment-and they have g
right to be SCAT their good for
tune In catching good rain, oul
Southern friends will find that, i
Los Angeles is utterly slighted il
her rainfall, San Diego will be des
tlned to grievous disappointment
in her expectations of crops. She
will be called upon to eat some
Dead Sea apples.
1t is, In truth, from all points oil
view, much better that we of the
newspaper guild should quit snarl-
1ng and contention, and cultivate
, sentiment of sectional amity
Certainly, Of the whole State OIL
Californis, Los Angeles county IL
the least vulnerable. Her irrigat'
Ing system, while not yet perfect
% far overshadows that of any
ether county in the State that Q
oApriee of the weather really
counts for nothing except as tt
hay, grass and grain. AS extern.
eive sections of our county are ir.
xigated; and as, on much of thii
irrigated land, six to eight crops o.
nutritious grasses can be raised
yearly, it is OF small importance
thai, once In five or six years, w
are liable to dry season. W.
have m immense expanse of the
richest lands under the sun, which
We can deluge with water, result.
Ing In tremendous crops Of corn
barley, grapes, oranges and thu
6tkor 6itrus fruits. With the OK
ooption Of the phenomenal colony
q Riverside, in San Bsrnardint