Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-28
nan .;oc This wholesome movement is

an sion. This wholesome movement is
" no means confined to the city. 1t ram
fes throu ghout the length and breadth
If Los Angeles county, and through that
immense region known as Southern CAL
ifornia, all of which is directly tributary
10 the City of the Angels.
An impression has been industriously
in the East, South. North and
Northwest that lands are held at exor-
high figures in Los Angeles
county, and indeed throughout the
whole of Semi-tropical California. To
Justify these extravagant assertions
figures are quoted of some positively
fancy pieces of property-pieces which
are either included in some eclectic col
ony or town, provided with every con-
ceivable convenience and ornament, such
as handsome churches, fine public halls,
perfectly graded streets and ample and
developed wafer systems, or in some
orange grove or vineyard, frem which
the revenue runs from 500 to 500 an
an acre. These transactions are held up
as the standard, with the result, where
the curious Fastener has not cared to
continue his inquiries, of discouraging
his partially formed project of coming to
Los Angeles county. AS a matter of
fact, however, there are immense tracts
of cheap lands in Los Angeles county
and in Southern California, and in these
a movement has begun which is sure to
be phenomenal before it has reached its
climax.
Perhaps no better commentary could
be instanced of the absurd exaggerations
about land values which have been pop
ular as to Southern California, and Los
Angeles county in especial, in the East,
than is to be found in the figures of the
reported recent purchase of the San
Joaquin ranch by an Eastern or French
syndicate. This splendid body Of land,
traversed by railway from end to end /,
much of it equal to any on the footstool,
is said to have been sold at an average,
rough and smooth, of about $15 an acre.
We know that, within short time, it
has been sold at judicial sale for less
than that. The intelligent and
painstaking Fastener who desires
to buy cheap lands can get
them on all hands, not only
in this but in adjoining counties. Where
he pays more he does it for special con-
siderations of society, neighborhood or
likelihood of speculative enhancement,
circumstances which make land high
even in sections where the limited ex-
teVt of available territory, the variety
and value of products, the unexampled
fertility of the soil and an unapproached
climate do not contribute to create ex-
ceptional values.
The HERALD is glad to be able to
chronicle the fact that strong move
ment of settlement and Improvement is
going on in lands which are compara-
lively cheap, and which are capable of a
high state of cultivation and very valu-
able production. All old-time Califor-
mans remember the little estimation in
which the so-called Cucamonga Desert
was held in the old days. 1t
was thought that nothing would
grow there. Now, at places on
this Cucamonga Desert, in the deep
sand, where it is hundred feet to water,
grapes are growing luxuriantly without
irrigation, both the wine and the raisin
grape fourishing there to perfection.
Antelope valley is another region
which has hitherto been held in the
utmost contempt by most people, where
improvement is going on in the cheap
lands. Fourteen miles east of Rosa
mond syndicate composed of Los An
geles and Pasadena people are getting
ready to spend $1OO, 900 in improvements.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe COM
pany are cooperating cordially with this
and all other schemes for the improve
ment of the country through which their
road runs.
The managers of that great company
remember well the long and painful
process by which they settled up western
Kansas. 1t looked like hard and un-
grateful job. For weary months and
years the trains Of the company ran
through desert, houses being as scarce
as angels visits. But they rersevered,
and they accomplished their work.
This company is now using it's best
efforts to supplement those of the South
ern Pacific, and the result is the marvel
GUS growth and settlement we are now
witnessing in Southern California. Here
there are advantages that were never
dreamed of in Kansas. Nebraska or Iowa.
The cyclone is conspicuous by its absence
in Southern California. Instead of corn
and hogs, we have every specially pc.
culiar to the temperate and the semi
tropic zones. Corn has been here known
to grow to a height of twenty-six feet,
with three enormous ears to the stalk,
and it has been raised in fields contigu-
GUS to others where the fig, pome-
granate, orange, lime, lemon, and
a hundred other remunerative pro-
ducts, flourish. Then there is the
climate, which is away ahead of that of
tho Rivioro oud tha Mediterranean Noost