The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-11-03
a Great Ranch In California.

"Nie South California statistics of
fruits, grain, wool, honey. etc., read
more like fancy than like fact, aud are
not readily believed by one acquainted
| with the country. The only way to
get real comprehension and intelli-
gent acceptance Of them is to study
them on the graund. by single visit
| TO u great ranch, one is more enlighten-
ell than he would be be committing to
memory scores of Equalization Board
reports. One Of the very best, if not
THO pest, for this purpose is Baldwin's
ranch, IN the San Gabriel valley. 1t in
| cludes large part OF the old lands of
the San Gabriel Mission, and is Il prin.
cipllity in itself.
''Ihere are over u hundred men on its
payroll, which averages $1,000 Il month.
Another S4O00 does not more than
meet it's running expenses. 1t has So, -
ooO worth of machinery for its grain
llarVests alone. 1t has IL dairy of forty
COWS, Jersey and Durham; one hllnd-
rcd and twenty work horses and mules.
and fifty thoroughDrcds.
VT is divided into four distinct es-
tates: the Santo Anita, of I6. 900 acres
Puentc, $4,000; Merced, 10000: and
the Potrero, $4,000. The Pucnte and
Merced are sheep ranches, and have
~ QUO sheep Oh them. The Potrero il
rented out to small farmers, The
Santo Anita is the home estate. On it
are The homes of the family and of the
laborers. 1t has fifteen hundred acres
ol OAK grove, four thousand acres in
gram, five hundred in grass for hay,
one hundred and fifty in orange or
chards, fifty OF almond trees, sixty of
walnuls, twenty-five of pears, fifty of
peaches, twenty OF lemons, and five
hundred Ill vines; also small orchards
OF cheslnuts, hazel-uuts, and apricots:
ana thousands OF acres of good past,,r.
age.
From whatever side one approac hes
SANTA Anita in May, he will drive
throug h wild garden-asters, yellow
ana white; scarlet pentstom0ns, blue
larkspur, monk's-hood, lupines, white
and blue; gorgeous golden eschscholtzia,
alder, wild lilac, white s;.ge-all in rio
tous towering.
"Entering the ranch by one of tho
north gates, he will look southwark
down gentle slopes of orchards and
VlheJ ards lar across the valley, the tints
growing softer and softer, and blending
more and more with each mile, till all
melt into blue or purple haze. Driy-
lng from orchard to orchard, down half
mile avenues through orchards skirtinp
seemingly endless stretches ut vineyard,
he begins to realize what comes OF
planting trees and vines by hundreds
and tens of hundreds of acres, and The
| Equalization Board Statistics no longer
appear 10 him even large. Ii does not
seem wonderful that Los Angeles
County should be reported as having
slXty-two hundred acres in vines, when
here on ono mans ranch are five hun
dred acres. The last Equalization
Board Report said the county had 25G.-
l3o orange and Al ,25O lemon trees. II
would hardly have surprised him to be
told tllaC there were as many us that
III the Santa Anita groves alone. The
effect Oh the eye of such huge tracts,
planted with single sort of tree, is to
increase enormously the apparent size
OF the tract; the mind stumblos OH the
very threshold of the attempt to reckon
It's distances and numbers, and they be-
| come vilster and vaster as they grow
vague"