Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-07-26
The Example of Los Angeles.

The northern counties have at last
walked up to a necessity of organized
effort in subdividing land and develop
ing water, patterned after the example
of Los Angeles county, where the scheme
first began at Anaheim in 1858, and was
| followed by twelve other such organiza-
tions in Los Angeles and San Bernardino
count es, and now it has spread to San
Diego county. Suffer county has now
started out with a Land Company and
the following Board of Directors W.
H. Parks, Thomas Bell, George J. Theo-
bald, Antoine Borel, Robert Walkin.
shaw. Capital stock, 500, 600, of VIII CHI
the sum of $50, 900 has been subscribed
1t is pleasant to see that the example
Of Southern California is being extended
into our northern counties. We have in
this part of the State the most complete
systems of irrigation in America, and
they are doing great work in the de-
velopment Of the country. By extend
ing the Southern California systems
through the State, room and occupation
can be furnished for 10, 900, 900 of people.
The people of Los Angeles and San Ber-
nardino counties are continually i'm
proving their systems Of land subdivis-
ion and water distribution, and are glad
to furnish information to all who visit
this section fosthe purpose of gaining
information in regard to these impor-
tant matters Our citizens are alive TO
the necessity of the system adopted, by
means of which the population of the
county has been doubled, and will move
right forward till all the tillable land has
been brought under cultivation. We
are glad to see our northern neighbors
waking up aud following our example.
Although their part of the country does
not possess as many advantages as our
own, it is yet good, aud worthy Of good
development. Henceforth Los Angeles
must be recognized as the banner county
in the production Of wealth and in the
number OF its small farms. The north
ern counties that have been growing
about land monopoly can easily go
to work after the manner Of Los
Angeles, incorporate companies and
purchase and subdivide the land.
There is no mystery about the matter.
All it needs is to follow our lead Sand
lot meetings do not subdivide ranches,
make fumes, dams and reservoirs, and
carry the water to every farmers door.
The large ranch owners are not enemies
Of the people. They are ready to sell,
but do not want to sell in part and d.
vide the water supply, which should be
developed as unit and given pro rata
TO all stockholders in ownership. Where
the water supply is limited, no ranch
man can afford TO 60 to work and di-
vide up the water for each party that
wants to buy portion of it. Should he
attempt it death might stop his plans
and the Public Administrator or heirs or
a savage creditor might stop the work.
But with an Incorporated company the
case is different. On the impersonal life
of such company disease or the assas-
sin has no power. The whole State is
the director through our strict corpora
ton laws, and the process of land and
water subdivision becomes simple, just.
and protected by the whole civil and
military power of the Commonwealth.
The Incorporated system possesses the
confidence of the people, and is the only
plan that is permanent aud free from
complications and claims from adjoining
land owners. By this system the great
ranches can be permanently divided sat-
isfactorily, and tho howl Of the agrarian
be no more heard in the land. Other
systems of land and water division have
been tried and ended in a settlement of
shotguns.
1t is fortunate that, in the dispersal
ton of Divine Providence, these great
ranches, with their springs and streams,
have remained intact till this day, when
the system Of colony corporation and
the storage of water in reservoirs and
the subterianean distribution of the same
in pipes, has made the subdivision easy.
cheap and just. The system is adapted
especially to California, and is destined
to spread over the State and abolish
Land Monopoly in peace and with JUS
tice and profit to ali.
Bold Stealing.