Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-16

places that others will flourish in tn
r region around is delusion.
The grape is another industry of grea
promise and profit. 1t, too, has beer
, attacked by a parasite which has some
, what impaired the vineyards. That
100, will be conquered. A rem
: |edy will be found in the future
! aud there will be shipped to th'
East thousands of carloads of ou
! grapes year. Much more of the crol
J will be dried for raisins or cushed TO
wine and distilled into brandy. Grape
pay $100 per acre a year, if the crop ii
sold. uncured. If dried and packed il
proper shape for raisins, or crushed anC
cured into wine the profit is twice or thre'
times as great. The largest winery il
| France is the La Fitte. There arr
fifty-one acres in the property. The sale
of wines from this little patch per yea
comes to 100000. There is no reason
why the same methods pursued in the
handling OF our crop shall not reach at
happy results.
There is no necessity of explaining
how large results are to be reached from
the cultivation of the deciduous fruits
These products are excellently suited to
our soil and climate. The fruits come 10
great perfection here and find market
at home. The writer has offered in times
past 81 900 rer acre for suburban peach
orchard, and been refused. The owner
stated that he was making good interest
on that price by selling the products
of his orchard From berries there
are farmers near this city who
sell from small patches from $40
worth per week in the summer down
to $5 or $40 worth in the winter. There
are men near Los Angeles who make a
living and have money to spare from the
sale of the berries from few acres.
Reference to the alfalfa crops above
will prove how profitable common farm
ing is hereabouts. Land that yields six
to eight crops, ten to fourteen tons of hay
year, is worth money. There is home
market for it all. The HERALD a few
days ago published letter from Los
Angeles farmer who cut eight crops Of
alfalfa hay this year from five and half
acres of land, and got eleven tons at each
cutting or eighty-eight tons per year.
He sold it at $40 per ton, or $3.50 for his
hay crop from five and half acres. The
man who feeds his alfalfa to COWS and
sells the milk in this city, or makes
it into butter for the home mar
ket, will make profits whose figures
will seem mrrvelous to any one who
reads them. These outlines will be suffi-
cient to show what may be made from
our lands.
AREA OF OUR LANDS AND PRICES.
There are 100000 acres of good land
in Los Angeles county. These range
widely as to grade, uses and prices. The
best lands with water, on the highest
slopes, suitable for the cultivation of
oranges, are justly held at high prices.
Such lands are in most cases near towns
of greater or less population. The eli
mate, the water supply, the absence of
mud after the heaviest rains, and the
profits of the industry all combine to
draw many people to these localities.
Some of this land planted and with inn
provements on it, in such phases as
Riverside and Pomona is held
at $1,000 to $1,000 per acre
1t is strictly suburban property,
and many little patch will produce suf.
ficient fruit to pay interest even on the
highest price. Raw lands of such grade
in such localities may be bought as low
as 500 per acre, and is sometimes held
at 81 900 because of it's speculative pros
poets for business or suburban residences.
But discounting these factors outside
and above the uses of the lands for the
ordinary avocations of the husbandman,
and our lands are not held high. Here
are some of the figures as quoted on the
schedules of the agents:
One dealer writes to the HERALD: 81
.nn &c go L. -
per acre; it is Section II, Township S..
R. 6 w., S. B. M, at the foot of the
Cucamonga Mountain, half mile east of
Etiwanda Station, on the line of the
California Central Railroad, one third
cash, balance on time to suit, at six per
cent. per annum."
There is no better orange or grape land
in the county than this along the highest
part of the mesa close to the foot of the
mountains. There is plenty of land
suitable for these most profitable of our
industries to be had at for from $50 to
500 per acre. AS stated above some OF
these lands are held at five times these
prices. Like this Etiwanda land most
of these lands are near one Or two sta
tions.
MONTE VISTA.
Monte Vista is situated fifteen miles
north OF Los Angeles on a direct line.
From Roscoe Station, Oh the Southern
Pacific, fourteen miles north of this city,
the distance is four and half miles east.
The elevation is 800 feet. The climate
is dry and equable. The average sum-
mer temperature is SO degrees that of
winter AZ degrees. The summer average
for humidity is about 55 degrees, and for
winter 5S degrees. The valley OF Monte
Vista lies east of the Big Tajunga, and
embraces about 5000 acres, of which
1900 are in the Monte Vista tract.
The main chain of the Sierra Madras are
on the north the Verdugo mountains on
the south. The San Fernando valley
lies 10 the west, and Crescenta and La
Cafiadas and Pasadena to the east. The
soil of Monte Vista is rich mountain
loan, mixed with sand and fine gravel,
making it unsurpassed for the highest
grades of oranges, lemons, olives, figs
and all deciduous fruits and berries. All
fruit grown in this favored valley sells at
80 to 100 per cent. advance over the same
kinds grown elsewhere. This is one of the
valleys in Southern California where cher
ries will grow to perfection. 1t is also
the home Of the fig, orange and olive.
Frost and fog are here absolutely harm
less. The water supply is drawn from
the Big Tajunga, and is unsurpassed
both in quantity and quality by any tract
in South California. The best hotel in
the county is here maintained for the
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