Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-05-04


In the immediate neighborhood Of Ana.
helm he has two hundred and twenty
acres in vineyard; while, with the
Messrs. /. w. and |. M. Hellman and
J. G. Downey. he is an owner in the fa-
nous Cuoamonga ranch in San Bernar-
dino county--a ranch whose poit wines1
are now famous all over the civilizsd
world. Each Of the gentlemen naphed
owns fourth Of this vineyard.
The prosperity of Anaheim n based
upon the production of wines tand bran
dies OF great excellence. The Mission
grape has been the great staple with the
of that section. Mr..
Theodore Reiser said 70 us, II believe
in the Mission grapg. From II | can
make five differenf kinda of excellent
wine. white nd/red. OF what other
grape can as mylSh be said."
PROGRESS (br THE WINE Ispusrar.
But it Mould be great mistake to
suppose THAT the people Of Anaheim
have confined their attention to the
Mission grape. Mr.. Dreyfus, for in
sts,hce, has set out considerable vine.
yards in the Riesling, the Zlnfandel, the
Burger, the Black Hamburg and the
Queen Victoria. He has forever set at
rest the question as to whether or no
Los Angeles county can make good
claret The experienced faster Of the
Eagle Wine Vaults has written him that
the Zinfandcl made from the Anaheim
vines is the finest that has ever reached
San Francisco. The Rieslng which may
be quaffed by the favored visitor to Mr..
Dreyfus's wine cellars even surpasses,
in its delicate bouquet, the product OF
the vines of Sonoma. Strange to say,
from the Black Hamburg an excellent
white wine Is made. The Burger grape,
in the rich soil, and under the genial
sun of Southern California, eventuates
In capital light wine. The Queen
Victoria grape promises to develop
wine of exceptional merit The Ana.
heimers, though conservatives, are still,
as they have been from the start, expert
mentalists, and they are to-day probably
doing more than any other community
in California to develop oil the latent
| possibilities in viticulture and vini-
culture which exist in this State.
| Calling to their aid the expert.
ence of the old world, and never
disdaining to avail Themselves of the
latest results achieved in the new, Ana.
helm is really leading in the exploitation
of the viticultural and vinicultural pos
sibiities OF this coast.
THE TOWN Of ANAHEIM.
The town OF Anaheim proper consists
of probably thousand people. A CEN
sus of tho suburbs would, of course,
swell that figure very materially. II is
a handsome burg In the Planters
Hotel it has an excellent hostelry. 1t
has a bank and a number of stores
which do large and lucrative business.
A thorough regard for education is
shown in tho existence of large and
pretentious school edifice, which is one
Of the first things which attracts the
attention of the visitor. Anaheim also
boasts bank, Roman Catholic, Meth
odist, North and South, and Prcsby.
terian churches. Drunkenness and riot
are mover heard of there; and crime, il
it ever puts in its malign visage, has the
face of a stranger and gravitates there
from abroad. The excellent wines made
there guarantee good digestion, and
even dyspeptic is creature hard to
be found, Arcadian spot! One may
travel long before finding elsewhere on
the footstool the abode Of so much
happiness, peace and content. While
discussing this phase of the matter, it is
perhaps well that we should add, by
way of summary, that there is not tt-
day mortgage recorded against
single one of the original incorporators
of the company.
TEE FUTURE,
There are some exquisite places Nich
may be said to be finished. Anahe is
most emphatically an exquisite pls Ae,
but it is region which is as yet bntfa
its infancy. The superb homes Of th@
Messrs. Hartung, Reiser. and many 9th.
ers, are destined to be duplicated innu-
merably. Both the territory and the
water are there and the shining exam
Pile, which has already been set by the
Anaheimers, will be initiated for years
and years to come. Before many years
that portion of the waters of the Santa
Ana river accruing to Anaheim will be
piped in iron mains, instead of being dis
tributed through porous zanjas, the lat
ter system involving immense loss by
seepage andevaporation. Anaheim is des-
tined to embrace tive.fold the territory
which she covers now. Mr.. Dreyfus, in
response to a question asked by us, as to
the profits of vineyard, said that the
average yield of grapes was three
and half tons to the acre, and
the usual price was $50 per ton.
Here was gross return to the husband.
man of $40 to the acre. He added that,
when the vineyardist made his own
wines, and was able to hold them till
they were mature, this profit was
doubled. Lands which return Sl40 an
acre are bound to be steadily in demand;
and Anaheim, in consequence, is des.
tined to increase five.fold in population.
Even now, in addition to the old site,
two or three thousand acres are utilized.
By proper system of distributing the
water, and by winter irrigation, Ana.
helm can well hope, ultimately, to claim
population of five or six thousand
souls. There is nowhere more invit.
ing place for settlement than this. the
original OF all the colonies of Southern
California