Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-04-01
MAINE in Los Angeles.

The Portland, Name, Adgefttser, q
journal that is older than sold Hun
dred, having been founded in l7s5, has
correspondent, "E. A. NJ, who writes
of Los Angeles, under date of March IL,
1886, as follows:
Eight days from the land of snow and
ice find the lounger in the land where the
myrtle and orange bloom.
NV friend, the viticulturist, says they
are too aesthetic at Los Angeles; not real
Californians, but fancy farmers, with
their orange groves and all that; great
majority Of them New Englanders, who
come with ideas, many OF them fauci-
full, expecting to get an income of thou
sand dollars an acre from an orange grove.
But however that may be, the morning
ride parallel with the snow-capped
Sierra Madre and the foothills Of red
dish brown, along the rolling valley
land covered with green herbage, with
here and there q villa or cottage sur
rounded with orange, eucalyptus and
other trees, was in truth an escape to
the vine.clad hills of Italy. After al
lowance is made for ones falling asleep
with the remembrance Of days ride on
the Mojave desert, and waking to gaze
on green fields in March. it is none the
less fact that the Los Angeles country
is surprisingly grand and lovely.
Stand with me, II you will, by the
palings OF the empty beer garden with
its clusters of banana stalks laden with
fruit, crowning the edge of the hill
known as Fort hill, where Fremont in
the days Of the conquent planted his
cannon and received the surrender ol
the little village of adobe hints, thei
constituting the town of Los Angeles,
and look about you. At your feet old
Mexican adobe houses and all around
the old town broad streets, fine blocks
of stores and noble stretches of tree
| lined residence streets. with many
houses Of line architectural proportions
North and east the valley stretches
away to the foothills, and above all rise
the grand, snow-capped peaks OF th'
,,ierrss, many Of them higher than Mt
Washington, and seemingly close a
hand.
Pass with me down the slope toward
the busy, bustling city. Here on the
hill-si is little front yard. My
shoulder brushes an immense helietrop'
bush laden with flowers. One side Of
the little yard is lined with hedge o
geraniums in bloom; the other sid'
fence is bright with callas, not few
but great clusters of white flowers
The business streets remind one OF
prosperous New England city
and Indicate a population as larg'
AS that OF Porllands. Passing
on YOU find yourself walking by resi-
dences showing evidence Of wealth, tast'
and thrift Cedars Of all kinds, trimmed
| in all sorts of shapes, orangestrees ant
mandarins aeem the favorites for from
wards: and for street trees the eucalyp
tus and pepper trees are great favorites
while in ons spot saw cactus tre'
| trimmed 80 as 10 show clean trunk ant
throwing out above ones head the ova
leaves ornamented with their sharI
| thorns.
am informed that large proportion
of the people are from the eastern
States, and certainly the victim OF con
sumption has found a retreat where per
petual summer affords tempory relief
| The viticulturist says that after one ha
tried the small fruit farm, the tru'
farmer reaches out toward the tabie-lan'
near the mountains, where the vine an'
olive grow to their greatest perfection
and that down in San Diego county Ii
many charming valleys, where il is per
netuaI summer, and the "Bucolics" cal
be lived over again under the spreading
flo tree. OF the wineries and orange or
c6ards shalt hope to tell you NOR
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