Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-28
AMONG THE ANGELS.
SAC3AHENVANS VIEWING ORANGE
GROVES AND SENORITAS.
Pleasant Words for that Loca'ity-A
Three-Story Boom on One
Story Opportunities.

The ride from Sacramento TO Los Angeles
: was one without accident. The delegates
and politicians on board the train had
nearly all taken ont accident policies, evil
IDENTIFY anticipating a stormy time at the
State Convention. We arrived at Lathrop
at P NJ, and passed MERGED, Fresno and
other prosperous towns and farming conf
munities after night, and arrived at Cali
ente shortly after daylight The train con-
sisted of three Pullman sleepers and four
coaches, and they carried the delegations to
the State Convention from Sacramento.
Suffer, Yuba, FL Dorado, Modoc and ANA
dor counties. The first sleeper contained
the delegates from Sacramento and num-
Der of their friends. This was jolly party.
They were we'll provided for, so far as re-
freshments were concerned, their stock of
champagne, fruits and cigars being unlim-
tied
There was fun when it came time to
turn in and all the pranks usually
played by boys in college were INDUCED
IN. Men who wear pOnderous brogaus
had them taken from their place beside
! their cot, and the foot covering of those
who essay the part of dude put in their
place. There was not much sleep to be OBJ
tanned in that car until near morning. At
9 O'Clock they were all up TO take in the
scenery along the ascent of the Tebachpa
mountains, which commences at Caiiente.
l his portion Of the road for some thirty
miles is piece of most wonderful en-
gineering-the loop, as it is called, where
the road swallows itself and comes out on
the othe other side, bright as new dollar.
ALMOST A TRAcKLEss DESERT.
The last two hundred miles of the rou
in fact, from few miles south of Sum-
ner to the town OF Los Angeies-is one of
/ the most worthless, desolate, dried-up
| parched dreary wastes OF land to be en-
counlered anywhere. With the exception
| of 4 little bottom land near Newhall, and
| some few patches in the vicinity of San
! Fernando, it would appear to the stranger
TO be utterly worthless. Especially does
this appear to be the case TO those who
come from the northern and central por-
| tons OF the State, where no land is worth
less, where all is well watered, the foot
| hills and mountains well timbered, and
| where the soil responds " to the tickle of
the hoe, and produces barn-burstingc crops.
Among the delegates were farmers and
grangers who never had visited the south
ern portion OF the State, and who expected
10 see orange groves on every hand, instead
OF feeding their sight for miles aud miles
| upon rugged hills and broad plains, treeless |
unwatered, uninhabitabie, their rocky,
glazed formation glisiening in the sun. |
The whole northern portion of Los Angeles
county Is of this description-or at least
that portion OF it traversCd by the railroad. |
This is the country q member of the (
Legislature remarked, that Haggin and
Carr want to gobble up and added, they
can have all my interest in it, and well
come
A LEGISLATIVE OPINION.
Another member of the Legislature, and
delegate TO the Convention, said: a
| Greaser can live on q red pepper POD for
six weeks, but it take GA, 600 acres OF this
land to support him.
a Kern county man who had boarded
the train at Mojave, said the critic was not
aware of the latent resources of the soil. |
All we want to make the desert " blossom
like the rose " is good society and plenty of
water. A delegate from Amador here
| Clipped in and said, g That is all hell re-
! quires to transform it into paradise"
The whole country is covered with rank
growthS of cactus, and the man who pre-
tends to farm in this benighted section does
not know the extent or value of his crop
until he rounds up and brands his horn
toads, ella monsters, lizards and tarautulaS
at the end of the year. They make some
coin out of the artemisa, alkali sage and
grease wood, from which is made lotion
| for bald heads, and tea for one-lunged
Eastern settlers, which causes them to buy
the land for the sky above it. Climate, and
climate alone, is all that can be purchased
in this section. Climate is something that
every locality has; but climate without
either vegetation or water is poor invest
ment at any price.
THE CITY
One of the most interesting cities to-day
in California, and one in business point
of view the most prosperous, is Los An
ge!es, the metropolis of the southern por-
ton of California. The holding of the Re-
publican State Convention here at this
time has filled her hotels, lodging houses
| and private residences with people from
all portions Of the State from Del Norte to
San Diego. The holding of the Conven-
ton so far south it was supposed would
initiate against the Convention, and 1t was
prophesied that many counties in the
| northern and middle section would be I'M
represented except by proxies This
prOphesy, however, was not well founded,
for no State Convention in the history OF
California has ever been SO well repre-
scented. Every county has its full repre-
sentation, and but few proxies are noted
upon the roll-call. There are many rea-
sons assigned for this, but the chief one was
to see the City of Angels, the town about
which so much has been said and written.
LOS ANGELES IS a PRETTY CITY.
| She has almost doubled her population in
| the last two years, many improvements
| have been made, and are being made Of
/ the most substantial character. 1t is a city
of wealth, and the immigration from the
| East is q moneyed class seeking investment
! in California. They come to stay they
| come TO invest in real estate. Les Angeles
| has been advertised in the East, and once
| they land here via the Southern route
| they unloose their purse strings, and the
property that best suits their view is pur-
| chased regardless of It's price, and without
| considering the proftablenes5 of the in
! vcStment As a consequence, real estate OF
every kind advanced with surprising rapid
! ity, values went up all along the line as
| did mines on the Comstock when the bo
nanza was struck in California. City lots
| that sold for $500 went to $4,000. Farms
that were held at $40, 900 went TO 100000
Land heretofore
CONSIDERED BARREN AND WORTHLESS
Sympathized with the general advance, and
| sold readily in the market at prices which
in the north would be considered fancy
| for the best lands in the Sacramento val
ley, which are capable of producing abun
| dant crops annually without irrigation. As
a natural consequence everyone here has
money. The hotels are filed with people.
everybody is full of business, and the town
! grows apace What has brought about
this result?" is question asked by every
Northern visitor. why is it that values
are so high and investments so much
sought after in this section?" The answer
is simply this: The people of Los Angeles
know the value OF printers ink. They ad-
vertise The East has been flooded with
pamphlets descriptive of their extensive
orange groves, and glowing accounts of
their glorious climate. Agents were sent
East to canvass this section-agents who
were wide-awake; agents who sought out
and placed in the hands of proper persons
information regarding Los Angeles and its
surroundings that to those people sounded
like
THE yERTEsT TALES OF FICTION
In order to satisfy their curiosity, to flee
from rigorous winters, and to enter far
off Western country that to them was rep
resented as a paradise in comparison with
their own-thev came, they saw, and they
were conquered. To them Los Angeles
was in reality all she was painted. Here
was country free from snow and ice,