Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-10

the profits from that little patch of land
has no equal under the sun. In the lap
of luxury O man lives on such patch of
land, cuItiyates his mind while the fruit
grows, edGcates his family with no exi-
gent pressure to keep them at home to
do hard work beyond the endurance OF
their youth; his daughters grow up
without having to become less refined
than their fair sisters in the midst of a
city; they are not called on 10 do hard /,
coarse work for an immense gang OF
men in harvest or threshing time. 1t is
as said above, the ideal life of farmer.
THE VARIOUS NUTS.
Where the soil or climate is not suited
to citrus fruits, any one of dozen va
rieties of nuts will flourish, and the ia
cility of their culture is even greater
than is that of the orange. The leisure
of the owner of such grove is greater
than that of man in any other pur-
suit. The profit is hardly less than
that of the citrus family, and the fruit
will keep so long and carry so far to
market that there is much compensation
in these respects.
OLIVES AND FIGS.
One can scarcely find stopping
place whils discussing the pro
ducts of this State. The
culture of the OLIVE, fig, guava and
hundred other fruits has been barely be.
gun. Already it is manifest that grea'
future is to open up in these great In.
dustries. They will cover many broad
acres, enrich many enterprising fruit
farmers, and support multitude OF
happy families whose members VIII grow
to maturity in our glorious climate,
strong, healthy. intelligent. refined, and
without a serious care. The picture is
surely bright one. To those not ac-
auainted with our affairs it may seem
fattering. 1t will be fully realized
MISCELLANEOUS.
California, and Sou thern California
especially, can hardly enumerate the
profitable industries possible in her
area. Wheat and barley are not the
only cereals that flourish well. Corn,
oats and rye grow and flourish and pay
quite as we'll as the others. All the
leguminous products of the soil used as
edibles by man pay more per acre here
than in any other part Of the world. The
common, every day potato will mature
here in three crops per annum. Cab
bages yield the Chinese gardeners enor'
nous profits. 1t is pity our own
people do not enter into this Industry
and make more of it. The time is not
far distant when all these vegetables
will 90 east by rail in daily train loads
to supply the millions on the other side
of the Divide with these articles OF food
fresh from tn 4. earth all winter round.
FUTURE POPULATION.
The future population of this county
will develop peculiar elements that only
a man here and there sees now. In the
first place it will be very dense. Five
or ten acres will be all the holding most
people will care for. These fruit ranch.
es will come to be worth $1,000 an acre.
A small patch will support family. All
who can will reach Out for one OF these
little farms. The social atmosphere sur
rounding these farms will be purer,
sweeter, more intelligent and refined
than in that of any similar community
in the world. All the elements OF leis'
ure. schools, and means are here to make
this so.
This dense population wi II call manu-
featuring industries of all sorts into be-
ing little by little. In this respect
mere beginning has been made. San
Francisco is now the fifth city in the
Union as regard, manufactures. This
seed will grow, as all others do in this
eclectic region of the earth, and in the
future California will lead all the States
in iron. steel, leather, woolen, cotton
and all the other Protean forms of mod.
ern manufactures.
There is no room here to say much of
our mines of all sorts of metals which
already have added 5000, 600, 900 of the
precious metals to the circulation of the
globe, and will add as many more before
they are exhausted.
Let the thoughtful carry out these re.
Elections for themselves, and they will
conclude that here is, in all respects,
the Eden of the modern world.