The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-11-22
BIAS CANAAN.
Tho Paradise on The l'aclllc Ifodd,n
by n TexlAn.
/ ruihful Tales That Wight Make Man-
chausen Marvel.
Fruit Facls-.surprising Statistics

DR.. O. O. Gillespie formerly resident Of
this place but now residing 10 Caliiorni',
has written the following descriptive letter
TO bis son, G. y. Gillespie, of this city. Tso
letter was written from Downey, Los An
geles county, under date OF November lOh'
1882:
left Dallas October Goth, reached Los
Angeles the 9th ard spent several days ia
this cltv OF nugels, as th6 nam, porls' ~
has about e, 600 inhabitants and ~ notice
I, r it's palstial residences, It's groves Shd
gordens. Itlset the base OF the Sierra
Madre mountains, and hundreds Of beaull-
ful residences are now upon the sides OF ne
hills and upon the top OF the mountains
overlooking the whole oity, and giving
view of 100 miles in every direcnon. me
whole CITY IS decorated and empowered
and ornamented with evergreen foliage.
Vineyards, orange groves, lemons, bananas,
eeraniums the palm tree and other trophlcai
fruits and plants which grow here in aDuho-
ance MANY of the streets and yards are
decorated beyond description by the Mon.
taray, Australian, ard Italian cypress, and
Eucalyptus. From Los Angeles we went 10
Santa Monies, beautiful little Town
tigh ecu miles distant on the coast. ms
10 "A Measure resort for thousands during
tbe summer months. We make the round
trip for sevent five cents. Here for tue
first time nv eyes rested on the great
Pacific. whose restless waters nave Dstn
lashlng the coast for thousands OF years.
After a bath in its waters and dinner, re-
turned to Los Angeles. Next day went TO
Pomona, distance OF forty miies, on Tue
Southern Pacific railroad. It's IN u neau-
ttful valley, rich as the MIC, ana 's oelns
filled no rapidly with enterprising. emil
Grants. Sixty families reached there in one
day during Last week. Lands there are
worth from SS5 $1l5 per acre. come
lands sye or six miles from the toWr can
vet be bought for S25 per acre. Next
went to Uowpey where l now write
and am settled) twelve miles from
Los Angeles Oh the Santa Anna railroad IN
the Los Nietus Valley. 1t is living gar
den cut up into 20 or AZ acre tracts WIN
roads every quarter of a mile running east,
west. north and south and beautifully
hedped or fenced on each side by the cv-
press. eucalyptus and pepper tree WINE
yer and anon are limpid streams OF run.
ming water brought from the SaDgabriel
liver for purposes of irrigation. Lands
here are worth from $50 to $500 per acre
and upwards according TO improvement.
Next went to Anaheirl, Orange ana SANTA
Anna, 80 miles from Los Angeles, inc pres
emit terminus of the Santa Anna railroad;
Here nature and art got ahead OF me and
I gave it up. thought
it might be mistake about the garden OF
Eden being located IN the eastern worio.
The soil is as rich as can be found on The
continent. Beautiful mansions every quar-
ter of mile In every direction, while every
adornment of foliage and evergreen rom
ali tropical chimes, tastefully tr mmed ana
primed by the hand OF art seemed 10 We ne
with each other. Very few fences are 10 De
seen anywhere as no stock is allowed to
run out. Some Of the principal fruits and
esculents that grow here are apples.
peaches. pears, oranges apricots, grapes,
pectar;n.s' English walnuts, lemons,
pomegranites, olives, plums, c'trons, hRs,
bananas, almonds, cherries, prnnes, gum
ces, raspberries, strawberries, goospeIres'
lines, MELONS, pumpkins, oeets anu pota-
toes. Beets occasionally grow nere O. 10
weigh l25 pounds and produce nom To TO
loo tons, Der acre. Water MELONS are pro-
duced that weigh over l25 pounds.
And pumpkins very of'eh "eisn
over 200 pounds. Plums grow
TO the size OF small hens egg and
stra wberr,es to half that size. Corn grows
we'll here and produces from ~ 10 I1o push
els per acre Cotton also grows luxunently
but wing to the GOODNESS of the nights does
not omen well aad hence is not
raised '''A Wheat of favorable
season Yields 30 bushels per acre,
I nassed through wheat field few days
since inthe macy or tabie-lands OF 5oVoo
acres, 1t is leased for term OF years by
company at $4,000 a year, which IS less
than so cents per acre. Ota good wheat ear
at 30 bushels per acre, the reader can make
his own calculations as to profits. Tooaco?
grows well here, and like cabbages, the Stalk
lives on for many years. Mustard often
grow ten feet hith, and the stalk near me
ground is three inches in diameter. But
while this is land Of fruits, one may ask
csu men live on fruits. Let us see. a
gentleman mar Los Angeles has thirty
five acres in oranges. he sells Tue crop ah'
nu Ily for 25,0O0, ard the purchasing
marty gathers the crop Apples yield ABOUT
5000 per acre. A man living near this place
has seventeen acres in English walnnts.
Last wear his clear profits were s3,OO
Grapes Weld ahout $500, the large raisin or
Muscst grape much more. The larges'
VINEYARD that / have seen IL 3,OO0 acres
The cost of irrigation is far below what
expec,ed. | cannot discuss in this paper
he cost of putting these various fruits, etc.
into cultivation aud the ages TO which they
have 10 arrive to pay well. The alfalfa is
raised here by the millions OF tons.
Once sowed it lives on VII
piowed np. IL Is moved or cat from
iour to six times year and yield from one
and a half TO two tons ut each cutting per
acre. and worth from $40 10 S'2 per ton
California is emphatically. land 81
churches, AMI lis system OF Tree schooie
from the primary up 10 The universities,
are unsurpassed in the United STATES. ne
prices OF laud seem TO pat them out OF the
roach of men with small means bat from
Ave 20 twenty acres is all that POOR man
IA. hara II will make him living and