Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-29
KERN COUNTY.
It's Prospects and Air OF
Prosperity.
THE SUBDIVISION OF LANDS.
Monumental Water Scheme, Tim
ber and Lumber Outlook,
Schools, Churches, etc.

EprroRs HERALD - The same
healthy, solid and substantial growth
80 noticeable in the financial affairs
of the county at large is also con-
spicuous feature in the growth OF the
county seat of Kern county. While
there has been no boom in the COM
mon acceptation of the term, there has
been steady increase in property
values in Bakersfield, as well as
throughout the country. The last
two years town property has gone up
at least one hundred per cent, while
the irrigated and cultivated lands in
the country have increased cores
pondingly.
An air OF prosperity pervades the
town that promises to develop into a
gilt-edged boom as soon as the time
comes, which is not far away now.
Every business trade or industry ap-
pears to be prosperous and not over
done. The everlasting credit business
that has 80 crippled the large wheat
growing counties of the San Joaquin
valley never had foothold in Kern,
as it has had more certain and varied
resources. She has never had occa-
sion to carry wheat farmers from one
wear to another to the injury OF both
farmer and merchant, like the exclu-
,sively grain n-producing counties fur
ther north.
SUBDIVISION OF LANDS.
One of the great drawbacks to q
rapid growth of the towns in this
county has been the lack of large
population, and the large land
holdings in the best and
most productive portion OF Kern.
The time has come, however,
when a new order of things is to take
place that will usher in an addition
10 our population, who will occupy
our county on small fruit farms and
thereby multiply our resources and
trade after the style OF Los Angeles
county and her neighbors:
Genl. E. F: Beale, of Washington,
D. G., who has been the proprietor Of
the great Ell TETON, La Liebre, Castac
and Los Alamos, Y. Caliente grants
for thirty years, as well as large
body of railroad lands all laying in
this county and laping over into Los
Angeles county and embracing
an area of some four hundred
thousand acres has resolved to aban-
don the stock business, and after his
subdivision has been accomplished,
put this vast body of land on the
market, This will open to settlement
a hundred thousand acres of arabic
land adapted to fruit, grapes and
olives, supplied with abundant water:
In addition to the vast domain that
has been one of the largest and
most profitable stock ranches on
the Pacific Coast for the
last thirty years, Messrs. Haggin
and Carr own something like 100000
acres of choice agricultural lands,
every foot of which is susceptible OF
the highest cultivation to fruit,
grapes, berries and all kinds of agri-
cultural products. This vast tract Of
land has $4,000 acres in al
falfa and some $4,000 acres in
fruit, vegetables and grapes.
This firm has payroll of seven hun
.dred men. and they are supplied with
meats, milk, butter, eggs, fruits and
all kinds of garden products from the
ranch. This princely firm has over
fifty thousand inches of waste water
running down Kern river that they
nor their neighbors above them are
able to utilize. They too are now
getting their lands in such a shape
they are .ready to receive applications
for the purchase of a body OF
developed and irrigated land for col
,ony subdivision and profitable occupa-
-tion at once. To this may also be added
the magnificent and colossal landed
properties of lux & Miller, which
comprises 100000 acres of choice
fruit and farming lands, with repro
ductive qualities capable OF support
ing population of 100 900 persons.
MONUMENTAL WATER SCHEME.
In addition to the elaborate system
of water bitches from Kern river and
the magnificent artesian we'll develop
ment in Kern county, must be men.
toned the great storage reservoirs
that will soon be built on
the site of these two mammoth reser'
voirs which by nature il fitted for oc.
cupation with but little expense, and
are thought by many to have some
time been used for thai
purpose by the prehistoric races, al
the ground bears the appearance o
having been some time thrown w
and used for storage of water. The
survey makes the pipe line from
Kern river but eight miles
and the ditch line clever
miles in length. The capacity of one
reservoir would be in round numbers
g $50, ,32O, 900 gallons and the othel
Ass ,88O,OOO. This would furnish
water for the "Weed Patch" {
magnificent tract Of land o
some ten townships, as well al
a vast expanse OF high lane
laying north and northwest Of thi
city. This colossal scheme will guar
antee enough water, and with what i
already available, to water tn
entire valley parts of thi
county, and make it one of tn
most thickly settled and profitable
counties in the United States.
I have omitted to mention the loca
ton of these two monster receptacles Q
the vitaIizing fluid that will stimulat
to activity the dominant energies 9
the most productive soil on the cont
nent. They are situated on townshi
90 south, range 8 east, M. D. M, an,
some six miles east of this city.
TIMBER AND LUMBER OUTLOOK.
At present the lumber supply for thi
county comes principally from tn
counties north of here, but, the da
is not far distant when we will hav
lumber enough from our ow
mountains for home consumption an
plenty to spare to our neighbors.
AS soon as the Santa. Fe compan
i uni