Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-07-20
THE PARADISE FOR LABOR.
Perpetual Demand for Toil-An
Intending Planting ana Harvest
in the Golden State.

1t has been said that California was
not place for poor man to come tc.
The proposition in some respects is true,
and in some untrue. If man without
means expects to come here and buy
land at a high price, and pillow, and
plant and trust to future crops for means
to pay for his land, he may get left in
his calculations. 1t requires some capt.
tai to pay for land at SIS per acre, with
water rights, and then to wait for an
orchard or vineyard to help him out
with the fruit which it produces. Yet
cases are numerous where young men
with no capital, except honesty and in
dustry, have achieved completesuccess.
They have obtained credit for span of
horses and outfit, to work in the neigh
borhood, at blowing and planting at full
prices, and from their daily earnings
have speedily paid for horses. harness
and pillow, then contracted for land,
which they have paid for in the same
way, in using the team in taking care OF
orchards and vineyards of neighbors
who were well supplied with this worlds
goods. The price OF labor has been
high in California for the past thirty
three years, and when an Industrious
young man adds his own intelligence to
the muscle of a team in our numerous col
onies he can earn enough to pay for ten
acres Of land in very short time.
This combination has been successful in
many colonies in Southern California
and will so continue for years to come.
Honesty and industry have won in a
most remarkable manner in Pasadena,
Riverside, Etiwanda and Ontario, by
following this line of labor. 1t is the
triumph of man over circumstances.
To follow grain farming requires large
outlay for land, for reapers, headers,
threshers, teams and seed, SO that il
may well be said concerning this indus
try that mo poor man need apply.
The profession of teaching is badly
overdone. Tho supply OF lawyers and
book-keepers exceeds the demand at all
times, while the number of clerks is
above the requiem ants Of business con-
tinually.
Few young men on their arrival in the
State are prepared to engage in the
raising of cattle. That requires certain
amount Of boldness and adventure that
few are fitted for. Sheep-raising also
requires a peculiar seclusion from society |
that new conner is not able to under
take. As to mining, they must be fitted
for the business by special study Of
metallurgy, which is generally omitted
in Eastern schools to give room to Greek
and Latin. Very few young men like to
serve seven years to learn trade which |
shall iii them for usefulness and an in |
come. After leaving out these industries
il may be asked what shall poor man
do in California? There is much for him
to do. Wages are higher in California
than in any other State in the Union.
Labor is perpetual in California. In
January comes blowing and sowing of
grain and preparing land for vineyards
| and orchards, that lasts three months. |
Orange picking continues from January
to July, in steady activity. In February |
the planting Of deciiuous trees is active.
In March and April the planting Of vine
yards and the clearing of the land of the
weeds and alflerilla that have sprung
up in abundance; also, the shearing Of
sheep and packing Of wool. Orange,
lemon and corn planting are active in
May, while haying and harvesting begin
in May and continue through June and
Jaly, and threshing and hauling grain
lasts three months longer. In July the
gathering and canning of fruit begins,
while potato digging lasts all the year.
In the latter part of September, The
business of gathering grapes and the
making of wine and raisins lasts for two
months more, when the fall clip of wool
must be gathered and the great vine
yards pruned, and the cuttings gathered
for spring and winter planting, and the
harvesting of corn must be made. |
The clearing Of land and planting OF
grain begins in November and extends
through the Winter, and laps on TO all
the labor Of Spring.
1t will thus he seen that labor here is
perpetual. While the barley and wheat
is being sown, the alfalfa is yielding hay |
and dairy products, and the dairy and |
poultry business is perennial. Every
month boasts an equality with another.
No winter locks our land or harbors,
and the same activity prevails in one
part Of the year which is demanded in
another. There is no season of rest
from business in Southern California. In
addition to the demands of agriculture
ehht hoi t'Settutos oui hiAhco tchihut uh-
RENTING attention all the year, and
furnish labor with rich remuneration.
In looking over the list of industries
the only one that seems most perma-
nently profitable to man with
little money is fruit-growing. II a
young man can get team, he
can in this eternal round of
labor get something 10 do for each and
every day Of the year, and soon earn
enough to make payment on ten acres
of land. From time to time he can de-
vote few days to cultivating his
ground and planting a vineyard or or
chard. This has been done without
capital, except brain and muscle, and
the land paid for and planted in three
years and at the end of four years made
self-supporting to small family.
In our colonies there are always a
certain number of persons OF means
who need labor of every kind in the
making OF their homesteads and the
gathering of their fruit, so that young
man can always depend ON having
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