Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-16

Total No. Of acres, 81,


Large portions of all these tracts are
suitable for all sorts of fruit production.
including the orange and grape. These
can be segregated and sold to settlers in
the colony for 500 to $50 per acre, leaving
the hill lands for grazing to others at AZ
to $40 per acre. The agent of tlis tract
says Of his company: 1--WE will sell these
lands to actual settlers, who will i'm prove
and live on their lands, for one-ouarter
cash payment, and the balance in three
annual payments. A large COLONY has
just arrived from Chicago to settle on
l, 900 acres in our valley. These colonists
are SO well satisfied with the location and
climate and land that several of them
have already made arrangements to
buy more land from the Company"
There are large bodies of fine land in
this county still awaiting purchasers at
the lowest prices known before the big
boom began. They are held by large
estates and are not yet offered in small
subdivisions. These range at from 5000
to 90 900 and even 100000 acres in q
body: They are to be had at from $l3
to $30 per acre. They are among the
best lands in Los Angeles county. They
have water rights indisputable as to
title, and capable of being utilized at a
moderate outlay OF money. These can
be purchased by heavy syndicates and
sold to settlers in small parcels at from $25
to 500 per acre and allow the investors to
double their money.
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT.
Here are many matters for the settler
to look carefully into. The other dav a
farmer near Anaheim wrote to the Go
zeue of that town like this: when /
was boy | determined not to spend nv
life where was born, in the inhospitable
climate of Pennsylvania. I heard of
California, where they said there was uo
winter. came to San Frarcisco and
found there was no summer at that
place. came here and settled at PIa-
centia and found the climatic paradise /
long dreamed Of, but never foupd be.
fore." DO not be mistaken. Ou1 climate
can not be equalled on the footstool. The
climate about San Francisco no more
compares with ours than that OF Nebras-
ka compares with the weather in North
ern California. Along the coast il ia
bleak, foggy, cold and trying in the ex-
treme to weak constitutions. In the
interior the winters are quite sharp, and
the summers are close and sultry. The
hot nights of the East with all their en-
ervatlng, prostrating effects will be found
everywhere in the valleys of the Sacra-
mento and San Joaquin rivers.
AS the climate in the northern part of
the State ls not 30 agreeable to man,
neither will it permit Of the same sue
cess to the farmer that he is sure of in
the south. He is debarred in that section
from the most profitable and fascinating
OF industries. He may grow alfalfa to be
sure, but he cannot cut more than half
as much per year from the acre as we
do. He cuts it only about half as often
and gets less to the cutting.
The settler will find when he gets to
the northern part of the State that he
can not buy land baubee cheaper, all
things considered, than he may buy it
here. Ii he goes to the choice spots near
San Jose he will pay as high a range of
prices as he pays at Santa Ana or Po-
mona. 1t he goes to the region near
Oakland or Alameda be will be asked
about the same range of prices as rule
near this city or Pasadena. He will be
able to get cheap land there, but he can
DO the same here; and in Los Angeles
he will nave all the advantage of
our climate and all that is derivable
from section which is gridironed with
railroads, and all that to be had in a Sec
ton where there is church spire and a
school house belfrey at all times in sight.
Here are colleges and libraries, stable
and highly moral community with all the
safeguards usually thrown around life and
property in such places.
And, finally, here is the climate, here
the soil, here the home market, here the
transportation facilities, here the crops
and the prices for the same, here the
social, religious and educational priv
ileges, which are not matched all to.
pelher in any other spot in California, in
the United States, on the American con-
linent, or on the footstool of the Most
High.