Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-19
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1888.

R.N.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1888.
A Newspaper Daniel.
The New York Herald has sent out
. correspondent to Los Angeles who
is unique in his ignorance and unap-
proachable in his mendacity. If our
great New York namesake sent this
man out to misrepresent our section,
il has been faithfully and
unscrupulously served. A letter
Of his before us is filed with the
coarsest denunciation Of our city and
county. His vituperation is as fluent
- the ribald heroics OF the Ancient
Pistol and the reasons for his invec.
tive are as conspicuous by their alb
sence as the prejudices of the writer
are apparent in every line Of his
letter. The whole community is di-
yided by this ''Daniel come to judg-
ment" into ''sharpers" and suckers y
and our lands are sweepingly repre-
scented as worthless and barren. One
would think, from the way in which
this fellow talks, that our beautiful
valleys and rich mesas were mere
'alkali deserts. Says this reckless
scribbler:
"As will be shown, the tenderfoot
has been bitten worse in the suburban
than in Los Angeles city proper.
Originally poor sheep pastures and
cattle ranges, the broad plains and
the inclined mesas at the foot of the
mountain ranges are now held at
prices ranging as high as $500 front
foot"
Does the fellow suppose he can
make any sensible reader believe that
the veriest Sucker" that was ever
taken in by New York pocket book
droppers corld be made to give $500
. foot front for worthless property
We have no doubt that the
HERALD man had beautiful Pasa-
dana in his mind when he
wrote the above, Well, the very
fact that a sheep pasture, as was the
site Of Pasadena a few years ago,
could, in any part of its area, be
1bfou ght Up to so great value in 50
short time ought 10 force upon his
5enighted mind the fact that our soils,
with their concomitants, are some
thing more than common lands.
This Broadway paddler, who may be
= good judge of land values at Squam
Beach or Bsrnegat, is informed that
the richest vineyards and the
most productive and valuable
orange groves in this section
Of the State-and which sell, irres-
pective of booms or abnormal infa-
items, at from $4,000 to $4,000 per acre
ARE on mesa lands, where less than a
score of years ago the sportive bron-
co, the ruminant bovine and the ag-
eressive borrego roamed at will.
Indeed, our New York DO.
hemian, who knows as much
about land values in this
baili wick as he does about the science
Of hydraulics as applied to irrigation,
II he could carry his mind back less
than quarter of a century he would
fnd that nearly every acre Of
this county was at one time
: cattle or a sheep range. E. j.
Baldwin's princely estate, with its
miles Of orange trees and thousands oi
acres Of vineyards, with it's sweeps q
all kinds of tropical fruit was o
sheepwalk and q cattle range
loss than fifteen years ago. If the
fact that land in this county was orig
inally devoted to herds is to affect its
value adversely, then there would moi
be an acre that would escape. We
can recollect when the block
where Delmonico's stands in New
York was filth-dump. But thai
fact, does not lessen its value to-day
The New York Herald would consult
IL reputation for sagacity if itwoule
send some one here to write about oul
wonderful resources, progress and pos
Dibilities from standpoint of fairness
backed by modicum of common in
telligence.