The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-11-17

cred as It is with these tropical groves,
and with vineyards and orchards, is worth
all the way from 500 to $1,000
per acre. And all because Of having
obtained q supply Of water by daming
mountain streams or springs and convey.
ing their water few miles in pipes and
bitches 10 the lands laid out for settlement.
A stranger going to the Pasadena settle.
ment to-day can scarcely credit the state
ment that the arcadian and ideal scene
there presented, looking as il you had come
down into one OF the sunniest and green.
est valleys OF Italy, was in 1873 Q tract OF
land as sere and uninviting as the heathers
OF Scotland. But such Is the historical
fact. In that year $500 acres, constituting
part OF wha. Is now Pasadena, were
bought ior S25, 600, or less than s. per acre,
lying within seven miles OF this place.
To-day that 8, 700 acres would sell with the
improvements upon them easily and
quickly for two million dollars. And all
because an artificial supply Of water was
obtained. And this is only one case Of
several here in Los Angeles county that !
could specify. ! could name Orange, Tus.
tin and Santa Anna that ] have visited since
visiting Pasadena and San Gabriel, all
within thirty milesoi here.
GRANGE GROVES AND vTEEYARDL
At San Gabriel I especially visited the
orange groves, vineyard and winery Of J.
L. Rose, Esq, q Bavarian, who began in q
small way as an experimental!st in 1861,
/ on land that at that day had very little
commercial value. He has to-day 1900
orange and lemon trees, and a vineyard Of
800 acres, winehoIse wherein are stored
100000 gallons Of wine and brandy, and
his profits last year were 100000. made
notes enough Of my conversation with his
son as he conducted me through the
winery and explained to me all the various
processes OF manufacture, and OF the grow
Ing and marketing OF oranges and lemons,
for quite letter OF itself, but perhaps the
details would hardly interest the general
reader and will content myself with the
wholesale statement which have furnish
ed you in regard 10 his magnificent place.
He has warehouse in Chicago, another
in New York and a third in Boston for the
exclusive sale Of his wines and brandies.
He adopts this course not only to secure
the profits OF the seller but also es a pre-
caution against the adulteration OF bis
brands. Nearly all OF the vineyardists
and wine makers OF California have suffer.
ed In the East from the adulteration Of
their wines. Here on this coast the wine
Is for the most part pure. It Is too cheap
10 justify much manipulation. Besides,
the retailers, hotels, restaurants, &c, buy
largely from first hands 10 guard against
adulteration. /.
Speaking ef cheap wines, the use Of
them at meals Is becoming almost as COM
mon, especially at dinner, in California as
in France. A pint bottle OF claretis sold
Tor % ce1ts,sRnd at many restaurants in
San Francisco you get fair lunch and q
bottle OF claret for 40 TO so cents. should
have mentioned in one OF my San Fran.
cisco letters that the city has more restau.
rants in proportion toits population than
any city in the United States, not except
ing New Orleans. 1t has seemed to me at
times as II one half the people took their
meals in restaurants. 1t is Partisan sort
Of a city in that respect.
l could tell you about other orange
groves and vineyards in addition to the
one named. There are vineyards Of 1000
acres in this country. The San Gabriel
wine country has one Of 800 acres. These
very large vineyards, however, are the ex-
cepiion and not the rule. Pasadena,
Orange, Tustin, Santa Ann, ETC., are mostly
cut up into FIVE aud ten acre plots, laid
out like town, their villas (within gun
shot OF each other) being situated on the
edge or in the midst OF grove OF orange
trees or with grove on one side OF the
house and vineyard on the other.
No descriptive powers OF mine can carry
to your readers an accurate pen picture OF
the ideal loveliness Of these valleys and
their surroundings. Going out from Los
Angeles entered the San Gabriel valley
and looked upon the scene OF both natural
and cultivated beauty outspread before me
with some oil the admiration, | fancy, Il q!
thei Israelites must have beheld the well
watered plains OF theIJordan after their
march, through the wilderness.
"a PARADISE Rk6AISED.
It was in the evening and the sun was
gliding the tops OF the Serre Madre noun
taips with his last rays, the evening breeze
was softly blowing, and the dark green Of
the orange groves looked like an .oasis In
the desert l thought that II this scene
was not a reproduction OF the original gar
den OF Eden it might well stand for the
model OF Paradise regained.h
Los Angeles county, which is county
Of about 10, 900 square miles, can, as have
said, present several such localities,
although perhaps none quite equal to Pas
adena in the wealth, intelligence and cul.
ture OF the people who live in the villas l
have described. There is there upon the
mountain slope-a little nearer to the
mountain than the embowered villas oil
Pasadena-one Of the most charming
hotels on the Pacific Coast, the Sierra
Madre Villa" hotel, as 1t Is called, which
has climate peculiarly its own, although
90 close to orange groves further down the
slope. 1t is noted winter resort for
invalid people OF wealth from the East,
who come here to sun themselves upon the
spacious porticoes and inhale the periumed
zephyrs Of the tropical fruits and flowers Of
the valley. While it Is winter on the
peaks OF the Sierras, above the hotel, 1t Is
genial summer all around in the valley be.
low. This Is the popularity OF California,
that You can have at any season OF the year
almost any climate you desire within the
range Of q few miles.
Frank pixley, the editor ottheSan Fran
cisco ArgOnaut, said that after the Creator
had made the rest Of the world and had
gathered the experience Of all His efforts,
| lie said 10 Himself, / will now illustrate
the crowning glory OF my labors with the
production ot a perfect spot, and thus 1t
was, for such purpose He made California.
And this is, substantially, the view that
the most enthusiastic Californians take OF
their State. They really look upon 1t as the
nearest approach 10 a paradise to be found
upon this or any other continent
Awe.
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