Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-24

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Mr.. b. N. Rowe Is the Santa Ana agent Of
the HxRALp
IL n mot worth our whiieP
The HERALD has steadily held, for
years past, that for long time to come
the best Office which can be subserved
by Los Angeles newspaper is to make
the outside world acquainted with the
remunerative and poetical possibilities
OF this section. This journal has GER
tainly done It's share OF this locally pa.
triotic work; and, In the ILLUSTRATED
HERALD, we have issued periodical
which, II circulated as II should be,
will do wonders in the settlement Of
Southern California.
Theproposition is n simple one. There
are upwards Of three million acres OF
land IN Los Angeles county TINT will,
In time, be tho happy homes of three
hundred thousand people The ques-
tion Is, shall we hasten the time when
this desirable consummation shall be
rscordedf 1t really all rests with our
selves.
The HERALD has repeatedly called
attention to the fact that DIR. W. @.
Kingabury, OF the European Land and
Immigration Department Of the Calves.
ton, Harrisburg 4 San Antonio Railway
and the Sunset Route, (including, Of
coarse, California and the Southern Pa
cific), is most anxious to press the claims
OF Los Angeles and Of Southern Cali
fornia on the attention Of European in
vestors With this object In view, DR..
klngsbury publishes several monthly
periodicals. and in them he has quoted
voluminously from the HERALD and
other Southern California newspapers.
There has been no organized effort here,
a. far as we are advised, to cooperate
with DIR. Kingsbury, and no effort
whatever except in SO for as the editor
Of this paper has aimed to do so indi.
vidually.
Thus, while our people have made no
direct effort to assist DIR. Kingsbury in
his generous and disinterested attempts
10 make the claims Of this section known
to people of means in England. there Is
evidently = counter influence at work
there, which bodes no good to US, as the
following correspondence win show.
The frat part Of It is letter addressed
by DR.. Kingsbury to Mr.. John NJ. Da.
vies, the Secretary of the Los Angeles
Board Of Trade. 1t runs,
John M. Dacies, Esq, Secretary, de-,
Los angeles, Caf.-DRAR SIR hand
you,herewith letter from Messrs. Swan
4 Leach, my beat agents at Manchester,
and wish you would give the matters
therein mentioned your best and most
prompt attention. If you would also
give Mr.. Lynoh of the HERALD a chance
at II he would no doubt give us help.
ing hand In the matter. Truly yours,
w. G. KISosBuRy
LONDON, Jan. ,, 1884.
The second communication is one ad-
dressed to DIR. Kingsbury by the Messrs
Swan 4 Leach, foreign carriers, under.
writer's and commission agents, & .
Princess street, Albert Square. Man
chester.
W. O.. KingsJary, Esq.-DAR SIR;
We have been doing our best quietly
but steadily to look up select party for
California. but after very much trouble
and correspondence we fear the whole
thing is ebout to fall through. owing to
unfavorable accounts they have received
from Los Angeles, and also we under.
stand from San Francisco and st. Louis.
Mr.. Swan saw one Of the letters, which
stated that the fruit-growing business was
10 q bad way and no chance of making
any money at it. We are sorry about
this, because some of our people are per.
sons with, say, $4,000 capital, and were
just the people, as we thought, for the
business. Perhaps you can throw some
light on the matter, and thought of
getting your soa, who is on the spot, to
give me his views, so that we might put
the other side Of the question, as we are
anxious not to lose them. We take this
opportunity to wish you happy and
prosperous New Year. and we hope We
may do some good business together.
You have not sent us the produce you
spoke OF in order to make good ey.
hibit here. Yours truly,
tSigned) SWAN & LEAoH.
There is something very detailed and
systematic in the reports which are
being spread so literally in England as
to the lack of profit in fruit culture in
Los Angeles. They show tLat some per-
sons interested in other regions which
invite settlement think it worth their
while to disseminate amongst the Eng
lish people lying accounts to the detri.
ment OF Southern California.
As the facts are Numerically the op
posite OF those alleged, and as frait oul
vre has proved here, both in the citrus,
the grape and in the deciduous ranges,
to be enormously profitable. would it
not be good idea to let the English peo.
pie know the truth:
ln this connection We may state that
Dr.. Kingsbury has sent here repeated
appeals for printed matter which would
enable him to give the myriads who seek
him for definite information Just what
they desire. We may be assured that
he will send here no one who viii become
burden upon the community. On the
contrary, immigrants who reach here
through his instrnmentality will prove
to be valuable additions to our popula,
ton.
Can we not have some concert in this
matter, by which we may divert to this
section desirable class OF immigration
which probably would not fare hall as
well elsewhere as here: We can have it
nsarly all il we care to work for it,
ALL intelligent observers OF our cur
rent politics knew very well that the
only chance of the appearance OF
mi a.. Il. 4. Il