Smyrna times., 1883-01-17

Lemons, Filberts.
The great white Muscat grapes are,
you think, the best of all. But when
you come to the Tokays and Malagas,
and then the little Missions, you give
the palm to each in turn, like the
occasional lady would there were
more of her charitable kind) who per-
sists in saying the last sermon is always
the best. l weighed the two clusters,
just selected at random from basket |
and lodged in fruit-dish, and together
they weighed six pounds. But the
peaches, pears, figs, and all the rest in
the catalogue are of the same quality.
The soil and the sun have their triumph
here; not rarely, but every day.
But to see Los Angeles well, one
must get out of it. We had two drives
over the same ground, and both times
under the guidance of that swift char
ioteer, the Rev. Mr. Chase, formerly of
New England but now pastor in Los
Angeles. We went eastward, through
the lemon and orange groves of
Pasadena, and our picnic party met in
Wilson's Rancho, just where the Span
ish bandits used to meet and plan for
robbery and murder, and again to
divide the spols, and then go over to
yonder San Gabriel Mission and pay
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} their souls from purgatOry. Here, in
; mid October, our company sought the
5 shade, spread out their wraps, and
r spent so much time at lunch that, after
!, carrying out tie rest of our programme
c we only reached Los Angeles late al
e night. The orange and lemon groves
t vary in size from few acres up to the
/. hundreds. The difficulty is in waiting
# for the trees to grow. You have to b
a satisfied with the prompter fruits unit
d your solid oranges and lemons fam,
e before and above you. But the repay
Is ment comes in due time and in sucl
Of bountiful measure as to make you fol
a get your five OF ten years of expecta
j. ton. was told that a thousan
a dollors an acre is fair price for a
ID orange farm, when ready for bearing
as At the start land can be bought cheaI
ne ly enough; but the expense comes
er when you buy the water for it. Tf
its Woodburys and COL Banbury recent
IN bought thousand acres, near Pasad
sh ma, for sixty-seven cents an acre; b
of they paid $40, ,0O0 for river from Il
he Sierras to water it; but when you ha'
un your land and the water, you have {
be the fruits of all the tropics.
MS We came to a quaint old house, ne'
ling under the English walnuts and 6
es. off by the half-climbing fig. Itwas t
ish Molino, or old mill, the first one bu
de by the Spaniards on the coast north
he Mexico. The house connected with
,er. now, occupied by laboring men on t
of adjoining lands, seems about as firm
iia. ever, with its immense walls a
the curious halls. We walked up its sta
IS a ways and looked out through its c,
de. webbed windows on the new civil
rity ton, and had no difficulty in gOi
his back to the times when it was
leo. princely home Of a Spanish grand
{ of who counted herds and acres by
the ten thousand. Now his lands are
r. as under the Saxon's control, and
,on- quiet Cinnamon who work for.
heir come together ut noon and eat
zed. with their chop-sticks near the w
city which have outlasted their build
rnia The old mill turns no more. 1t is
D. to needed. A puff Of steam of. in
ern- distance tells the tale of the new ii
last and the quicker process Of the
old from the hsrvest to the table Up.
ined road, not far awsy, is the railway,
and boldly going Through these old Spar
Gen. acres and bearing the fruits that. b
they grown by the labor of the pre-
-ern- toilers. Everything is on the ma
ever, The eastward bound of the
ivby Angeles Valley ii the long and to-
,hree ing Sierra Nevada, while its ives
lard, limit is the Coast Range, whose v
r the ern base is lashed by the Pacific 4
igels, These two ranges stretch all the
odist from Oregon down to Mexico, and
+ the, tween them lie all the great va
n an which make California the garden
, spot the orchard that il is. The humid
ands. il climbing ffont the Pacific 70
1 the nights ofthe coaAh Range, loses \
alley. ly its moisture as it ascends, SO