Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-07


the harness gave way, and MIR. McNally
and his two friends were thrown out
Fortunately no one was hurt.
CALIFORNIA; PRODUCTS.
GOmg.Continued Influx of Desira.
bic Settlers In the State.
Having observed the name of w. B.
Bancroft, bookseller and publisher, o
San Francisco, among the arrivals at the
Palmer House on his way east, re,
porter for the Inter-O Ocean called on him
and obtained an interview, in the course
of which he gave much interesting in.
formation. The conversation ran as
follows:
"How is business in California
"Very brisk"
"Is it not very speculative?"
Eyes and no. Wherever there is q
large and long-continuing influx OF de-
sirable settlers in new country with
rich resources there must be great bust
ness activity attended by a certain pro-
portion OF speculation. That proportion
is probably not larger in San Francisco
than in Kansas City, Chicago, or Min
neapolis."
"The bulk of the business is safe?"
No doubt Of that in the mind of any
well-informed business man. There is q
great increase in the wealth Of our State
every year by the construction of steam
railways, street railroads, wagon roads,
irrigation bitches. houses and street i'm.
provements, by the opening of new fac
tories, by the planting of new orchards
and vineyards, and by the addition OF
about five per cent. to our population.
The newcomers include capitalists as
we'll as laborers, and are a most desirable
class of citizens, decidedly superior in
intelligence, energy and wealth to the
average of Americans"
"When did capitalists begin to go to
California ?"
Very few went to stay until within
the last ten years. Our State has now
become resort for health and pleasure,
and thousands of wealthy families have
made their permanent homes there for
the sake of their invalids.'
''Is enough money taken to your coast
TO materially affect its businessl"
Eyes, sir. A large part of the wealth
of Los Angeles, San Diego, and San
Bernardino counties has been developed
recently by Eastern capital. Most of
the money in their banks has come from
the Atlantic slope; and most of their
improvements within the last five yeaIs
have been undertaken by or because of
the newcomers. Perhaps one of the
most remarkable products of the new
immigration has been the town of Mon
rovia, about twelve miles east of the city
of Los Angeles. Five years ago the site
Of the place was bare, dry plain. Now
1t has 1900 inhabitants, including,
according to common rumor, eight mil
lionairee, all recently from the east, and
all supplied with elegant homes there"
"What is the condition Of the leading
Industries in your State?''
"Our yield of wheat is about $50 ,OOO,-
900 in average years; of gold, $l5 ,OOO,-
900; of wool, 100000 of lumber.
perhaps, l0,000 900; of silver, So .OOO,-
900, and of quicksilver, 81 500. 900.
These are stationary, or nearly so. with
no prospect of rapid increase in the near
future. The butter, representing about
$500 900, and the cheese, nearly half
as much, will keep pace with the popu-
lation."
Glow il the live stock business ?''
There is no prospect OF much increase
in the number Of sheep or neat cattle.
or OF common horses, but the great sue
cess OF the California trotters and thor
oughbreds in the races of this year will
probably lead to an increase in the
farms for breeding horses of fine blood !"
us the fruit Industry advancing?"
"Yes, in some branches very rapidly.
There is great activity in planting prunes,
plums,. figs, apricots, nectarines, olives,
almonds, walnuts and peaches"
''Not pears and apples ?"
mo; those fruits suffer much from
destructive insects, which our orchardists
have not yet learned how to overcome. -
And about oranges?'
"The planting of orange orchards in
the Southern part of the State seems to
have come to an end at present, but is
advancing in the Sacramento basin. The
orange stock, however, overstocks the
home market, and on account of high
freight does not find very profitable
outlet east OF the Rocky Mountains"
"And about grapes?"
''The very low prices of grapes and
and new wine this season will probably
check the planting of vineyards for a
year or two. Many thousands of tons OF
grapes have gone to waste for lack OF a
market. The common price in some OF
the wine districts was only SO ton for
good grapes-less than q cent a pound.
Many of our vineyardists have not
learned how to make good wine, and
and there is no large stock of wines Of
uniform quality and established reputa.
ton. The most profitable vineyards are
those yielding the early table grapes
and next to these are those OF the raisin
makers"
"How many grapes does Californis
producer"
Perhaps 200, 900 tons, or 400 900 OO(
pounds. Of this half goes into Is 900.
600 gallons Of vine and 1 900, 900 gallons
of brandy; one-fifth is converted into
raisins, and the remainder is used fol
the table or goes to waste"
What is your fruit crop?''
"There are about 100000 bearins
sub.tropical fruit and nut trees Oranges
lemons, figs, olives, almonds, etc. }, anc
about 100000 temperate fruits, o.
more than fifteen fruit trees for every
inhabitant of California. Many of ties,
trees yield 200 pounds annually; but tn,
average may be set down at 100 pounds
or 1000, 900 900 pounds year. Their
is no approach to such an abundance o
fruit in any other country"
"What do you do with so much ?"
"About 800, 900 tons are dried and so,
900 tons cannsd. These are the weight
p of the green fruit; the dried and came,
products are considerably less. Tn