Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-10-11
vaporings of an Ass.


The Central aud Southern Pacific Rail-
ways have lately adopted the policy OF
encouraging immigration to California.
With this end in view they have establish
ed agencies in Chicago, New Orleans and
London which are in charge of energetic
gentlemen who are distributing printed
information respecting this section in
places where it will do the most good.
Mr.. l. n. Hoag is the agent of the COM
pany at Chicago, and very energetic
and capable representative he is approy-
ing himself to be. He has lately applied
himself to puncturing the pretensions OF
one John A. Tyrrell, a windy humbug
who, after visiting California, unbosomed
himself to q reporter of the Chicago
Tribune. According to this wordy but
unobservant individual, ii is case OF
Hium ,tuit with us over here. Mr.. Tyr
rell amongst other things, delivered
himself of the following absurdity, MY
"opinion is that the far west has reached
"about its limit of civilization and settle
''ment." SO lugubrious an outgiving
could only have arisen from a declination
to dead-head the Tyrrell aforesaid to the
Yosemite or to chalk his hat at the
hotels.
To this twaddle Mr.. Hoag replies, in
letter to the Inter-OceaR: 81 have be-
fore me the report of the Commissioner
"of Emigration for the past ten years,
"and from it learn that there arrived
"from foreign countries, at all our ports,
''in that time, 2,O96,l27 immigrants.
"The number arrived in 1880 was 327,-
"37l. In 1881 the number was 455,6Sl,
"while in 1882 there arrived 476, ,OS6,
showing rapid annual increase in the
"last three years; also showing an I'M
migration in the last three years OF
80, 259, l3s, or more than half the whole
number in ten years past. Mayor har.
''rson, of this city, says that, of the
"whole number arriving in 1882 over GO
'per cent. passed through Chicago going
"West The reports of the Immigration
Association of California show that the
number arriving in San Francisco is
"about one thousand week, or at the
'rate of $1,000 year. What becomes
'then of Mr.. Tyrrell's opinion that the
.'far West has about reached the limit OF
civilization and settlement"
Mr.. Tyrrell's next Damphool delivery
was in the words following, viz: Il
"draw an arbitrary line at the Tooth
"meridian, and am firmly convinced
''that west OF that no farmer can sue
"ceed." Dogbery's ambition was to be
written down an ass, and Mr.. Tyrrell,
through the agency of the Tribune
reporter, has more than rivaled his
original archetype, which Mr.. Hoag
proceeds to show up in the following
trenchant style: "The State of Califor-
mia, according to the census OF 1850,
chad whole population in round mum
"bers of 500 900 all told. The number
"engaged in all agricultural pursuits, all
"told, men, women and children, was
"92, 900. The same year Illinois had a
population OF S,G7s, 769. OF this mum,
"ber between one.third and one-fourth,
''or about l,000,0 600 men, women and
''children were engaged in agriculture,
'In that same year California produced
80, 900, 600 bushels OF wheat, and Illi-
''nois, the only State in the Union that
''exceled the product of California, pro-
''duced go, SOC, 600 bushels Dividing the
number representing the bushels by the
"number rep presenting the farmers in
leach case, and we have 652, the aver.
cage number of bushels OF wheat pro
"duced by each farmer in California in
''that year, as against sixty and one.
.'half, the average number of bushels
produced by each farmer in Illinois in
'the same year. No irrigation was
fused ON wheat in California, and none
twas necessary. None has ever been
FUSED on the cereals in the State unit
within few years, or since the South
'ern counties have successfully entered
upon the cultivation OF the cereals
They use irrigation when necessary
and, having plenty OF water at cheaI
''rates, find it very profitable. The
average income OF the farming CLASSES