Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-02-02
Santa Ana and vicinity.

The subioined items relating to the
Santa Ana Valley are from the Herald
Of this date:
A great breadth Of land has been sown
to barley this season in the Santa Ana
valley and the crop promises to be an
enormous one.
Mr.. Cook reports the result Of the rain
to have been SOC inches up to Friday
morning. This makes the total for the
season il.42 inches.
Halesworth Bros. shipped one car load
of wine to Los Angeles this week. manu-.
factured from their Muscat grapes. They
made but few hundred boxes OF raisins
this season.
Notwithstanding reports to the con-
trary. we learn that no material damage
was done by the late rains to the bitches
Of the Irrigation Company. The schute
on the Hazen ditch was washed out,
and some of the concrete, not yet dry,
was somewhat injured. This was the
extent.
1t is stated in some portions of the
Newport district the land was so thor
oughly saturated with water that horse-
men would sink deeply into it. The
formerly dry bed of the Santa Ana
river was full, and the stream spread out
over good stretch of the fat country.
The following are the exports from the
Santa Ana depot for the week ending
January 3lst: Raisins, 200 boxes, 49,
500 pounds; lines, 9l boxes, 2, 500 pounds;
eggs, 20 cases, l, ,740 poands; wine, one
carload, 10000 pounds; general mer-
chandise, l3, 100 pounds; hogs, two car.
loads. 10000. Total. ll2,990 pounds
Mcpherson Bros. are getting ready to
ship three carloads of raisins to Il. r.
Nicoles, Chicago, one Of the largest fruit
dealers in the West. Men are now en-
gagged in the warehouse here marking
and arranging the boxer. The consign-
ment will GO forward the first Of next
week No doubt but these first. class
raisins will sell at good figures in the
Eastern markets.
Mr.. Eccles, Of the Santa Ana Valley
Packing House, has slaughtered 1900
head Of hogs this season (not 10000, as
reported by an "Observer'), and will
probably slaughter 1000 more if he caa
purchase at fair prices. 1t is good
thing for farmers and hog raisors to have
such an industry as this right at their
doors. taking their products and paying
| cash.
Abbott & Hisom, of the Santa Ana
mill, have been and are now testing
crude petroleum as fuel to run their ma
chinery. To keep the mill running
steadily all day will take from forty to
sixty gallons of oil. 1t is not yet deter
mined which i. the cheaper, coal or oil,
but Mr.. Abbott thinks the oil somewhat
the cheapest. The PIPES are so arranged
that the fire can be shut off at pleasure,
and aay degree Of heat obtained. 1t has
many advantages over coal. A barrel in
the yard is connected by pipes with the
furnace. Messrs. Abbott & Hisom will
give the oil a thorough test.
A heavy shower Of rain and hail fell
here on Friday nght of last week, com
mencing about 10 O'Clock and lasting
near half an hour. The rain literally
fell in torrents. In some spots, half q
mile away, not droN fell. Saturday
night rain again set in, continuing nearly
all day Sunday, pouring steadily all
night and all day Monday. At night
the rain ceased, but the wind remained
steadily in the southeast Thursday
morning, about 7 o'clock, there was a
slight sprinkle of rain, and again at 9
o'clock. At9 o'clock Thursday night
the rain again set in and continued to
fall steadily all night and up to about 0
o'clock yesterday morning.