Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-06-04
BUSINESS OPENINGS.
More Ways Wherein Money
May be Made.
ENERGY MUST SUCCEED.
The Live Stock Interests and its
Various Products Briefly
Considered.

The HERALD has been trying for few
days past to point out ways OF making
money outside Of the very popular and
beaten track OF speculation in corner
lots. There is great deal Of money in
vested in unproductive city property in
this city at the moment. There is moth
ing to say against this shape of invest
ment. But there is limit to that game
If the hundreds of people who have mil
lions of dollars in this speculative
scheme wish to get all there is out OF
their investment, it may be that they will
be called upon at some future time to
back their opinion as to the great future
Of the city in some more tangible way
than by curbstone brokering and what
lis vulgarly known as ''jawbone." They
may be called upon to help develop the
resources of the county and to build up
the city in some OF its elements OF great
ness. The HERALD has no doubt OF the
richness of these resources nor OF the
greatness Of the future that lies before
the city. But these resources VIII moi
develop themselves, nor will that great
ness grow out of the ground like maiva
weeds in the mondays succeeding wei
winter.
Things are moving forward In very
satisfactory manner. Many avenues OF
profit are being occupied, and with good
results. Building Of business blocks
and of private residences is progressing
perhaps, If not as rapidly as the situa-
lion demands, why at least as much so
as can be reasonably expected consider
ing how very rapid the increase in pop
ulation has been. Little ventures in the
way Of manufacturing enterprises are
springing up from time to time. Tue
paper mill at Lynwood is running night
and day. Other enterprises are doing as
well.
NEW VENTURES.
Yesterday the writer was credibly in
formed that stranger had just pur-
chased piece Of property down on the
river front, near the soap works, with
the intention Of putting theron at once
a plant for handling sheep pelts, pulling
the wool, securing it and curing the
skins. 1t is sure to do WELL There are
great many sheep slaughtered
here, and there will be plen-
ty Of business for the enterprise
1t il not ct all improbable that 1t may
develop into q general securing estab-
lishment where all the wool produced
in this part Of the State may be cleaned
and sorted and shipped east at about a
quarter of the expense Of hauling.
A kindred adventure which is likely
to attract attention at an early day is a
tanuery. The slaughter of cattle in
this banner county is immense, and the
consumption Of leather is also very
large. II Is already an anomaly in busi-
ness methods that a long and heavy
double haul should have to be made on
all the hides produced and all the leath-
er produced in this county. Los Angel
Is county alone has population Of
$4,000. The other counties OF Southern
California raise this to large sum. 1t
will be but very short time until South
ern California will contain quarter OF a
million people. This region is very
rapidly growing with an unusually solid
growth.
This leads back to the starting point
THE LIVE STOCK INTERESTS.
In this branch of industry there is
room for great and immediate improve
ment. Two-thirds OF the butter con-
sumed in this city comes from the north.
There Is within twenty miles of the city
in all directions plenty of the best dairy
land in the world. It is land on which
a plant of alfalfa will produce green
feed all the year round. There is less
care and trouble with stock on these
alfalfa farms than anywhere else where
animals are domesticated.
The profits are very large. Fine but.
ter sells all the rear round here at 20
cents to 80 cents per pound. lHdeed it
sells at 40 cents to 81 a roll, and the roll
is usually not more than 30 ounces, and
is often as light as 2s ounces. Put a
band Of fine Jerseys, milk straiu Dur
hams, or Holsteins. on such pasture
and the investment is paying one be-
yond any question. Cheese stands in
the same position as butter. Most of
that sold here is imported. Good cheese
will bring 12t cents pound to the pro.
Queer at all times.
The same land that will so superbly
support cattle is as fine run for hogs as
can be found. A patch OF alfalfa and
the milk from butter and cheese fac.
tory will build up pork about as rapidly
as any elements in the world. These
damp lands produce as fine corn as the
latest prairie in the West. Here is the
desert on which to harden up and round
out the hog in all his fine proportions
with 800 or 800 pounds of clean, whole.
some meat on him.
When the COW is done milking, II the
Durham or Holstein is kept, she can be
fattened up and sold to the butcher for
a very handsome sum of money. As
the population grows there will be more
and more demand for meat to feed the
many mouths. On the subject of rails
ing beef for a market, the National Live
Stock Journal OF recent date says:
We pointed out recently the inevita.
bic tendency OF the onward march OF
civilization to wipe out the range cattle
business, which must be superseded by
the improved stock-rsising that accom-
panies higher civilization. Since then
our attention has been called to another
factor In the problen. which is the west.
ward movement Of the annual rainfall.
This appears to follow the settler, aud
has already reached points far west OF
the eastward line of the area of arid
sterlity, save the peculiar range grasses,
whose roots are drowned and rotted by
the encroaching rainfall. This rainfall,
however, makes possible the cultivation
OF better grasses, which render the
soil capable of feeding greatly
increased number OF cattle. Large areas
of Nebraska have already been re-
deemed from the starvation condition
which required twenty-five to thirty
acres of land to keep steer through
the year. Showers now fall regularly,
and large crops Of corn, oats and wheat,
as well as tame grasses, are grown and
harvested. This improved state of af-
fairs Is supposed 10 be due to stirring
the soil, planting trees and perhaps to
influences beyond the human ken. The
Great American Desert" is beginning
to blossom as the rose. Before this
march of improvement the ranch bust.
ness disappears and is followed by a
more improved method OF farming"
This will be found more and more the
tendency of things as the country fills
up with people. Fine stock will be
cared for that will sell for sl00 per ami.
NAL will take the place of the long.
horned, lean.hsnked runners OF the
plains.
What is said Of cattle may be duplica-
ted Of sheep. The same elements that
force the butcher to look for his beef in
the pastures Of the home farmers will
lead him there for his mutton too.
Horses stand In the same category
Here Is a country where there will be an
unprecedented demand for horses. The
thousands of acres Of orchards and
the hundreds OF thousands of acres
Of vines will always create a
demand for good horses. They
will be needed in an ever increasing rs.
ito as the area under trees aud grapes
extend. They flourish here and are
raised with fewer difficulties and draw.
backs than in any other part of the
country.
ooipters where a hundred sensible men
with proper knowledge and sufficient
canital can make money in Los Angeles