Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-04-26
LOCAL NOTEs---No. 3.
The Town OF Santa Ana Rapid
Growth "A Brisk Business Place
"A Complete Water system-A
Glance ct Gospel Swamp


Growth-A Brisk Business Place
"A Complete Water System-A
Glance ct Gospel Swamp
fin the famous dry year OF l876-77
the editor Of the Herald made circuit
Of Los Angeles county with view Of
showing that, even in such a season Of
comparative privation, this section
abounded in various and valuable re.
sources. He proposes now, in what will
prove to be more than IN average season,
to go over the county from time to time,
and to give, in this journal, the result Of
his observation;]
Ten years ago, in April, the present
editor Of the HERALD, at that time the
editor Of the San Diego World, took
stage trip through the country in which
Orange, Santa Ana and Tustin City now
stand. These places, with their tribu-
tary territory, now contain between five
md six thousand people. AT that time
precisely ten years ago, we doubt II there
were five houses between Anaheim and
anJunn Capistrano, the region, a portion
Of which is now covered by these charm
ing towns. Tuesday we went down to
Santa Ana on train OF the Southern
Pacific, whose terminal station Is there,
and yesterday we feasted our eyes on a
minute and diversified beauty, which no
one, who sticks to the railway track,
would believe to exist south of Los An
geles. To tell the story, not as it was
told to but as il was seen by us. will
require couple Of articles.
THE TOWN OF SANTA ANA.
This new and enterprising town is
located some thirty-five miles south Of
Los Angeles, on branch of the Southern
Pacific, to which II gives its name. 1t
was laid out by Mr.. W. II. Spurgeon
in October, 1869, but its real growth
only dates from 1875. Last year was
characterized by an extraordinary
growth, and the present population is
estimated at fully fifteen hundred souls
within radius OF half q mile. just
at present the town proper is taking a
rest, although the march of improve.
ment has never been so rampant as now
in the country which surrounds Santa
Ana. 1t is an auspicions circumstance
that the growth of the place is really
contingent on production, and produc-
tion Of very various and remunerative
character, at that.
There are some very heavy business
houses in Santa Ana-quite rivaling, in
fact, those of Los Angeles, and the Wis
Its of the drummer, both Eastern and
San Franciscan, are neither few nor far
between. Amongst houses these are the
Spurgeon Brothers and l.. Gildmacher,
general merchandise. They carry i'm
mense stocks of goods and have q
wealthy and reliable class of patrons.
The hardware line has developed to
great proportions there, Bundy 4 Nc
Fadden conducting business on large
scale. Last year they made about one
hundred and fifty tons of sheet iron into
well pipe for what is called the Gospel
Swamp country, the numerous artesian
wells Of that section creating large
demand for such work. The Messrs. r.
H. & H. B. Dibble made up about the
same amount Every range OF business
is quite creditably represented in Santa
Ana, and in neat and attractive quarters.
This is the case from the milliner shops
to the saloons.
This growing young city is well sup
piled with churches, the Methodists,
both North and South, each having
place of worship, as have the Baptists
and the Presbyterians, one branch of
the latter denomination having regu-
lar temple and the other holding its
services in Surgeons Hall. There is
also Lutheran church, making six con-
gregations in all; which, for so young a
town, speaks well for the religious ele-
ment. OF Surgeons Hall a word
should be said. 1t is n slightly and
massive ed6ce which would do credit
to any city, and in it the Masons and
Odd Fellows hold their meetings. The
Commercial Bank building would also
attract notice in place of many times
the size OF Santa Ana. When we add
that this nascent city has two we ekly
newspapers and fine school house,
which cost upwards of $4,000, we have
said enough to show that, from all the
usual points OF view, Santa Ana is more
than abreast of the times.
BEAUTY AND PROSPERITY.
But the true ndicia of the pros
perity of Santa Ana are to be sought
for outside of the town. Under the
kindly auspices of Mr.. Charles Stamps,
of the Stamps Brothers, (both of
whom were for over eight years valued
attaches OF the HERALD, and who are
now the proprietors of the Santa Ana
Standard we took charming drive,
which embraced scope of seventeen
or eighteen miles, and which gave
us very realistic sense of
the horticultural and agricultural
wonders which are at the bottom
OF the prosperity OF Santa Ana, Orange
and Tustin City. We found the former
town to be the center of numerous
places which are even more beautiful
than the exquisite homes which stretch
from Belmont, through San Mateo and
Menlo Park, clear 10 the San Jose and
even to the Pajaro valley, while they
are far more profitable than their north.
ern rivals. There is the material differ
ence between the two that the one are
maintained by San Francisco million.
aires for ornament, pure and simple,
while the latter comprise far more in.
teresting species of establishment, and
yield handsome incomes to their pro. |
prietors besides. Itwas the poet Goethe
who said that we shouli take care of
the beautiful because the useful could |
take cnrn of itself In the Snnfa Ann