Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-16
Population and Production.

The population of Los Angeles has in
creased during the last few years at so
rapid a rate that the products of the farm
necessary for its support has not kept
pace with it. This is thing that will of
course equalize itself in time; but We
wish to point out this fact so as to show
that there is no place in the State, nor in
the United States, which holds cut the
inducements which Los Angeles does to
farmers of other States to come here and
get rich in raising the supplies that are
so greatly needed by our people. They
will find here what cannot be found
elsewhere, land of unapproachable fer
tility and market at their very door.
Let us just mention two items, and they
will show the rich opening We have here.
Last week fifteen carloads of eggs were
imported by both lines of railroads from
Iowa and other eastern States. One
firm here receives carload of butter
each week from Cedar Rapids. If we
import butter and eggs for our own con-
sumption, it is fair to presume that we
are receiving a great many other farm
products from abroad. Now the butter
that comes here from Cedar Rapids is
but small part Of that neces-
sary article of consumption which we
receive from other points. San Luis
Obispo sends butter here by the ton.
Potatoes and other vegetables are
brought from abroad, and there are but
few kitchen articles of which we raise
sufficient here to meet our immediate
consumption. OF course this is all
wrong; but it is a repetition of the
circumstances always attending sudden
immigrations. Whenever a settled
country sends out large emigration,
that emigration carries with it or is fol-
lowed by the expectation of supplies to
feed it. Agriculturaily we were not pre-
pared to meet the wants of the great
influx; and the newcomers became So
busy in laying out towns and specializing
in real estate that they neglected to 60
into the business of tilling the soil. The
old settlers also became affected with
the fever, and not only failed to increase
their products, but in many cases pro-
duced a great deal less than they had
before the rush had given them larger
market than they had previously.
1t is now about time that We should
all settle down to the true business. Los
Angeles county has over two hundred
thousand acres of land upon which from
| fb roa 70 civ oroDc of alfalfa GOV, bo ro;eoJ
and cut every year. That will dispose
of the butter importation business
just as soon as farmers cominghere see the
opening and avail themselves of it. The
Fastener or Westerner who has had the
hard experience OF farm life on the other
side will not be long in seeing the advan-
tages which these lands hold out. They
can be purchased all the way from twen-
ty-fve to one hundred dollars per acre,
and each acre can be made to pay its
purchase price in one or two years.
There is no such opportunity for farmers
in any other part of the Union.
A young man came to us yesterday
who had just sold out an indoor business
that did not agree with his health. He
said he had made up his mind to buy a
small farm, and asked us for our advice.
We knew his means were not Rothschild-
ian, so we suggested that be should Sc
lect, say, forty acres of land where he
could raise alfalfa, put few COWS upon
upon it and start into the dairy business.
At the same time, we told him, he would
do we'll to plant out few acres in wal
nut trees, etc., and make up his mind to
work. That young man ia now looking
for the forty acres, and it is dollars to
cents that in three years from now he
will have fat bank account and a thirty
ing dairy, with perhaps his forty acres
swelled to eighty or one hundred. There
is room here for several thousand men
to 60 and do likewise.