Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-06-05
why Los ANGELES crows.
A omar ming climate and the
Richest soil.

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A Charming climate and IN,
Richest soil.
1t is hard to get people to understand
the solid bases that underlie the pros
perity Of Los Angeles. The first is to b,
found in her matchless climate. Thii
hiss been drawing and will continue tC
draw from all parts of the country for al
time to come. It will draw the tran
silent tourist and the solid settler The
valley, which is like horseshoe with
the opening towards the sea, is about
seventy.five miles along the coast and
reaches back with more or less irregu
Iarity about the same distance to San
Gorgonio Heights, above San Bernar.
dino. Here are probably not less than
8, 100000 oil acres of good land. counting
all the small valleys that run back into
the mountains. This is not all the
country that is tributary to this
city. All through San Diego county
there are many valleys where
large population is collecting, most Of
whose supplies are drawn from here
Kern county trades here. With The
| building of the railroad Ventura aud
Santa Barbara will be added to the ter
ritory belonging commercially to Los
Angeles. With competition between
| the railroads centering here, freight from
the East to this point will be lower
than to San Francisco. With such adj
vantagas, the merchants Of this city will
be able to push up to Fresno in the in
terror and to San Luis 0bispo on the
coast to meet those OF the City by the
Bay on the north.
Then there are the vast mining re-
gions Of San Diego and OF the country
along by Calico 10 draw from this city.
| With the extension of the Carson and
Colorado railway down to a junction
with the A. & ?. at Daggett the whole
| OF Mono and Inyo counties and all OF
Western Nevada will be added to the
markets of Los Angeles.
If now the eye is let rest
on the products of this valley
with the vast area Of fertile lands
under Semi Tropic skies there opens up
q vista Of great beauty and attractive
ness. There is hardly product of the
earth that does not grow here. All sorts
of leguminous edible plants flourish
here. Many thousands of acres will
produce two and three or even more
crops year. Fortunes will be made
here raising potatoes, sweet potatoes,
tomatoes, cabbages. caulihowers, peas,
beans, onions and peppers for the East.
RGrains do as we'll here as anywhere.
It is no rare thing to get Is sacks of
wheat or 20 of barley from an acre. Corn
is another drop that does as well as on
the prairies Of Illinois. Hay, both that
grown from barley, wheat or oats, and al
falfa is great industry here. Thou
sands of acres are cut each year, and the
baled product sells at $40 to SIS ton,
as to season and time of year.
These are common crops, but they
bring better prices here than they do in
the Western States. Then large areas
Of land here will produce crop of hay
or corn and one of potatoes each year.
Tomatoes and peas grow all the year
round. Cabbage, celery aud caulifiower
do the same.
fhUtT ChOfSs
But it will be fruit crops for which
Southern California will ever be famous.
Small berries will furnish means Of
living for thousands. There is farmer
at Compton who has an acre Of Monarch
strawberries, from which he derives a
revenue every week in the year. Last
week he drew from the fruit dealer $40
for his berries. Such an acre OF land is
worth some money.
All the deciduous fruits do well here
from the nectarine and apricot to the
apple. Then follow the grapes for wine.
brandy, raisins and shipment.
The whole business is crowned wit b
orange bios oms, like the queenly bride
of perpetual summer. Every acre of
land ia the county that will produce or.
anges and lemons will be devoted to
these crops. The number of acres
suited to this use run up into
the thousands. As the country be-
comes settled, as speculation ceas.
Is and money goes into permanent
investments and the rate Of interest nat
urally falls, these orchards anywhere in
this vast valley will be v orth from $1,000
to $4,000 per acre.
The vineyards will be worth not much
If any less, as raisins and shipping grapes
pay about as well as oranges. The de-
mand for wine and brandy, homemade
and pure, will grow rapidly. Lands de-
voted to deciduous fruits will range at
$500 TO $1,000 per acre, and that in the
no very distant future.
Such lands will be held 10 small tracts
for these reasons: First, living for
family can be made more easily here off
OF Eve to ten acres of such property than
off of half township in lands of frosts
and cyclones. Hence all who
can will press in here to lead
life of leisure and reap good income
among the orange groves. purple grapes
and apple blossoms. in land of peren-
NAL summer. Second, because the price
Of the land will be $50 high that few will
be able to hold the property in large
pieces.
These millions of vines, hundreds Of
thousands of citrus trees and millions of
deciduous trees. with family on each
five or ten acre lot will make big de-
mand for hay. grain. vegetables. butter,
milk, etc., etc.
ApENsE POPULATION.
The above outlines q population of
unusual density all the way from the sea
to the mountains, all over the plains and
mesas and up into the cafions that pene-
trate the mountains. What has been
done down in the Vernon district
and out in Pasadena, what is now going
on at Ontario and other places. what is
Just beginning at Santa Anita, Mon
rovia and Covina will be done all over
the country. This will be no sparsely
peopled rural district, but succession
Of villages, towns and villas all the way
from the ocean to San Gorgonio Heights.
There are Tustin City, Orange and Santa
Ana, which have all grown together so
that they are practically one community
They are now building system of street
railroads to get about from one part to
another Of this string of lovely villages
and towns. So it will be from Santa
Monica all along the foothills as far as
Pomona So it will be to some degree,
and high degree, all over this Para
disc upon earth.
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