Los Angeles daily herald., 1885-12-15
AN EARTHLY PARADISE
Mr.. Il. J. Baldwin's Price
less Principally.
THE SANTA ANITA RANCHO
San Gabriel Valley-Fr0m Noun
tain to Sea-SOil, Climate.
Views. Products.


The HERALD on Sunday morning
sketcSed the manner in which Los An
geles people spend their lovely winter
Sundays. On that day HERALD re-
porter, after the fatigues OF the week,
took such a trip as was there delineated,
and as confirmation Of what was there
said, his experiences are here set down.
At IO:l5 o'clock be took the tram on
the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley
Railroad at the East Los Angeles bridge
with genial brother quill from n daily
contemporary by his side, and with the
morning sunshine all aglow on city, hill
side, plain and mountain, over the whole
rich Los Angeles valley to the "mnny-
twinkling smiles of old ocean, they
were quickly carried up the Arroyo
Seco, past the cool groves of sycamores,
by the rapidly improving Highland
Park track, where Mr. Wilse Potts and
| Mr.. George Rice, having abandoned
the one politics, the other journalism,
spend their sunny days like, yet unlike,
| the Emperor Diocletian, raising mid win
| ter roses and helotropes, instead OF
common, plebeian cabbages.
Then the train shot through the or
chards and fower-clad homes OF TAR
famed Pasadena, stopping moment at
the site of the Raymond Hotel, where
| literally forest OF timber is being up
reared by the busy workmen, and the
mammoth caravansery is beginning to
show what vast undertaking its enter.
prising proprietor has set before him.
| The road shoots right into the very
heart of this, the first great colony OF
semi tropic California, whose unpara-
| lelled success was the signal for all the
wonderful development of the day. The
| glossy foliage of orange groves covers
| the whole mesa, and among them
nestle in world OF beauty the
tasteful and comfortable homes OF this
| attractive suburb. Further up the
slope in nearer or less near proximity to
the base of the uprising mountains, are
seen the houses Of Mr.. j. +. Crank,
VIM. Allen, the world renowned Sierra
| Madre. the no less famous kinnelon, the
place Of Mr. Vosburg, that OF the late
| L. C. Hastings. and hundred others.
After running for miles through such
scenes of loneliness the train soon pulled
up at the last station. Lamanda Park, at
the edge of Mr. l.. j. Roses grand Sunny
Slope ranch, with its 1000 acres OF bear
| ing vines, its great winery, and woods
upon woods OF citrus trees.
The day lay before the weary pencil
propell er and as his more fortunate com
| panion has heritage of goodly acres IN
the Carterha Colony and was met by
his happy family at the station in u
nice turnout, the lonely HERALD man
"took TO the woods, NOT o bad place
as they lie sunny, and green with the
smooth foliage OF the evergreen oak
around Lamnnda Station. Here is u
charming place for picnics, large or
small After wandering short dis
lance, Mr.. Monroe, OF Menrovia, drove
along and offered the pedestrian scribe a
seat by his side. which was gladly ac.
cepted, and in half an hour fine, clear
park of stately live oaks was reached
which was pointed out as part OF the
great
SANTA ANITA RANCH,
| The property of Il. j. Baldwin, Esq.
The temptation wss too great, so an
adieu and thanks were made to Mr.
Monroe, and ramble was begun be-
meath the wide-spreading branches OF
these century living" trees, whose cool
shade was very grateful under the too
ardent MONDAY sun, albeit the season
was id-December. After an hours
stroll, past the world renowned
stables of Santa Anita, the home
of st. James, Nolante, the pro-
geuy of Molly McCariy, and a
long string of fleet.footed flyers that ran
on nearly every track at the East last
wear returning good fortune TO their
fortunate owner, the charming grounds
and residence OF Mr.. Baldwin were
reached. Here the days of the scribe
came near coming to an untmely and
lumentable end, froma trio OF fierce Eng
lish mastiils, noble specimens OF their
breed but of no use in the path oil a
peaceable newspaper man. Tho two
males were quickly placated, but the
materfunilias who is the proud mother
of pair Of puppy Gracci, thinking her
offspring in danger sprang with wide
open Jaws for the reporter and her din
ncr at one fell gulp. Wrapping his
heretofore useless overcoat around his
hand he thrust it into her cavernous
Jaws, and she, thinking she had her VIC
tim secure, held On-the brutes never
did have sense enough to learn to
let go-until q member of the house
came to his rescue and called off the
unfriendly canine.
Mr.. Baldwin, coming up directly, not
only pardoned the intrusion of a stran-
ger ON his premises, but seeming to
think that some ameudo honorable was
due for the inhospitable reception ten.
dered by her canine maiesiy, said, Mr.
| HERALD | have st. James and ComOris
in the shafts here ready to drive around
and look at what the men have done
last week, will You accompany me as |
was going alone and ! will show you
how we are developing the resources OF
the Semi.Tropic Paradise, as you news
paper people call il. Putting up the
buggy top to keep the sun off, away we
went down the broad avenue with the
big orchards whirling by. orange, lemon,
| lime, apricot, almond, peach, pear, APP
pie, one after another in stately rows of
fine trees. Along the avenues were lines
OF tall, kingly eucalyptus, between
them the less magnificent but most
| graceful pepper, with here and there Il
few locust trees, and these latter, by the
way, which are deciduous in their habit
| of hfe, were putting forth new leaves
| already, TO cover their bare arms from
the heat OF n December sun. MIR. Baldwin
said as we spun along some
orehardists claim that the eucalyptus
tree kills others plauted near. Now see
that row OF oranges nearest them in the
orchard. 1t is the most thrifty row OF
| all in the patch. Another thing | no
| tice is that there are no scale bugs ever
seen on these trees near the pepper and
| eucalyptus. More than this, many
years ago when the grasshOppers ap-
| peared in myriads. flocks OF them would
hy towards this row of large trees and
when within hundred feet or there.
ahouts would turn and fly directly back,
and in no instance did the pests cross the
line of those trees. The gum, as the
Australian eucalyptus is called here, is
a prime favorite with MIR. Baldwin. He
| has two clumps of them on the Santa
| Anita, of which the seeds were planted
about fifteen years ago. There are ten
| or twelve OF them in each clump. The
| great straight trunks almost meet at all
points within few feet OF the ground
and their tops tower to u very great
height. One OF these giants measures
four feet in diameter five feet from the
ground. There is not less than $50
worth of fire wood in ii. Mr.. Baldwin
remarked that when in New Orleans he
saw lumber cut from the gum tree OF
fine grain and very tough. In this same
Australian exhibit the wood was worked
into all sorts OF things wheels for
wagons, furniture, and everything imag-
Unable. On the Santa Anita there are
miles of the trees, with peppers
in between, all along the great
avenues, and all along the
county road so far as it runs through the
santa Anita. MIR. Baldwin grows all
his tree right in his garden. There are
thousands OF peppers, gums, cypress and