Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-07
OUR NEIGHBORs.

The long delayed engine for the
Chino valley has arrived and the trial
trip made with the best success.
The Pomona Public Library Asso-
clatlon has a.memhership of 20, about
300 good books upon its shelves, and
is out of debt.
MIR. L. II. Tinsley, an architect, of
Kansas City, has purchased the Willis
homestead, in San Bernardino. and
will reside there.
The census of Santa Ana shows that
there are only 1907 females to 2455
males. There are, therefore, 54S men
who are disconsolate and who must
remain bachelors perforce.
Acreage property is in keen de-
mand all over the San Bernardino
valley, while the demand for good
town lots in San Bernardino and Red
lands is greater than a year ago this
month.
The boom at Redlands is not dimin-
ishing in the least, and building
is being pushed in that beautiful
location, and its tributary terri tory
is being settled with a rapidity cor
responding with the town itself.
There is enough timber of one kind
and another in the section to be
tapped by the fume to last many
years, and the projectors of the
scheme cannot but reap large profit,
so says the San Bernardino Times.
They are keeping and maintaining
in good condition four milch COWS
the year round upon an acre in Ven
tura county. In the Eastern and
Southern States they fall far short of
this, even in the most favored local
tiles.
The real estate transfers in Santa
Ana for the month of February
amounted to $6S9,S60, or a daily
average for the twenty-four working
days Of that month of $2S,744. The
least total Of transfers in any one day
amounted to $5, IA, while the largest
reached $161, 1857.
The safe for the Chino Valley Bank
has been received and placed in posi-
ton. There is probably not a finer
OhC III thO OHlt0u DtdtcS. IL 10 VI
chrome steel throughout. 1t weighs
nearly 1000 pounds, and cost $3.50,
without reckoning the freight. The
bank will soon open it's doors for busi-
ness.
Grading on the Palmdale railroad
has been commenced at Seven Palms.
The ties have arrived in San Pedro
and will be sent out at once. The
iron is on the road and a portion of it
is expected to arrive next week. The
engi, which is now on the road is
expected to arrive some time this
month.
The scheme was entirely feasible.
but the time was not opportune, and
it was abandoned. But the great and
constantly increasing demand for
wood and lumber has led to the revi-
val OF the plan, and it is now said
that it is to be carried out. The hume
will have its terminus close to the Val
ley road, so that the wood and lum-
Der can be loaded on the cars without
extra handling.
The Courier thus enthusiastically
descants about Redlands: 1t is the
choicest section in all citrusdom, the
climatic gem, the scenic crown Of the
subtropics. 1t has no rival. 1t is a
Pasadena refined, crystalized and
freed from all impurities. 1t is, in a
word, the lovelicst and most fertile
section in all the foothill belt. Three
years hence Redlands will be the
second town in the county and the
first citrus section in California.
Up at the head OF the Santa Ana
river, at the northern base of San
Bernardino mountain, is broad val
ley heavily covered with pine, oak,
alder and other timber. 1t is inter-
sPersed with cienegas, some of which
are of considerable extent, and afford
fine pasture for cattle, and also much
good potato land. Some twelve or
thirteen years ago, this vast body of
timber land attracted the attention OF
capitalists, and company was organ
lied, which had a route surveyed for
fume down the Santa Ana Cafion,
and out on the Lugonia plain. 1t was
proposed to utilize the water thus con-
veyed both for taking out lumber and
firewood, and for irrigation on the
plain.
Commenting upon recent statements
which have appeared in the New
York World and other papers, advis.
ing workingmen to stay away from
California, the Fresno Eapositor says
"There is work for all room for all.
There is also work for more, and room
for more. No part of our country,
outside of all the great advantages Of
climate and productiveness OF soil, be-
gins to offer the inducements to the
laborer, skilled or unskilled, as does
California. Any number Of enter
prises are delayed for want of this Ia
Dor. Here the laborer can work the
year round, in a climate that is not
visited by snowstorms Or billiards..
The reports of the condition of labor
here as given by those journals, are
wholly erroneous, and are the very
opposite of what is true with regard to