Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-03

get homestead, timber.culture or a
| fragment OF railroad land, on which they
can build up home aud dwell in peace
under their own vine and fig tree, with
out laying out enough money in the first
plant to pay for highly cultivated
ranch in the land of cyclones, sumptuary
laws and hypocritical politicians, that
don't go on this Coast. Among the new
comers, who have lately secured land
and who have combined TO build up a
new townsite and colony about midway
between Rodgers Station and this place,
are w. R. Norton, P. II. Fitzgerald,
E. w. Fitzgerald, ]. F. Head, Miss
Mary Hoyt, Mrs. Hammond, G. A.
Sprague, Lydia A. Pumphrey, Mrs. Ella
Simpson, J. A. Younnie, j. Colbron, E..
G. Bichourky and VIM. Hall and VIM.
Parkin, of Los Angeles.
These gentlemen are now busy with a
corps of engineers surveying the bound
aries of their land, laying out town
site in the center of large body OF fine
land, in sections Z, s, II and Is in town.
ship 10 N, range 10 w, and sections II
and Is in township 10 N, range ii W., s.
B. NJ. This new townsite and colony is
to be named Nortonville. This town
takes its name from w. r. Norton, a
prominent architect of your city
and one of the original loca.
tors of land here in company
Messrs. Hall and Parkin, who are well
known in your city and who have prob
ably surveyed and located more men on
the cheaper lands of Los Angeles and
San Bernardino counties than any other
two men in the State.
Nortonville is eight miles directly west
of Rodgers and about twelve miles south
east Of Mojave on the Santa Fe road
and at the point where the survey of the
new Santa Fe leaves the old Atlantic and
Pacific road for San Francisco via the
TETON Pass.
The Santa Fe Railroad Company have
done everything in their power to CO.
operate with and assist these gentlemen
in their start, authorizing them to flag
trains to get water for their men and
animals until they get their initial well
down, and take up and drop men and
material at this point until they get a
siding, hotel and station established.
The colony people will at once build a
temporary hotel, sink twelve good sur
face wells, and between this and the 1st
of January next clear and plow over a
thousand acres of land. They will also
lay out town site and put portion OF
the property on the market as soon as
they get it in presentable shape. They
expect the graders OF the Santa Fe road
at that point within the next thirty days.
As soon as they do come, they will COM
mence the new road to Bakersfield and
lay the rails as fast as the grade is
ready.
The Santa Fe road will cross the
Southern Pacific road at right angles four
and half miles north of this place, some
two and a half miles south of Gloster
switch and about nine miles south of
Mojave.
AT RosAMoND
Matters have improved considerably
within the last two months. Isaac
Bayles, for over a year engaged in locat-
ing settlers on lands, in connection with
his brother, David Bayles, has lately
started hotel, bar and livery stable
here, and is now prepared to accommo-
date people with good beds, plenty to eat
and drink, and sprightly teams to go out
and look at land. Mr.. David Bayles be-
ing pioneer familiar with the geogra-
ply of the country, corners of sections
and the choicest portions of the valley,
has been very successful in locating a
great many on Government and railroad
lands. He is now subdividing a por-
ton of section seventeen, about mile
from Rosamond, where he will put in a
fine garden and orchard and fit himself
up home for all time.
L. II. Washburn, of your city, is now
completing his arrangements for the SUBJ
division of the west half of section 16,
just north of this town. His plan con-
templates forty acres on the west side OF
the track in lots 25x130, which will be
sold at $5, $40 and SIS per lot, and the
balance he will put in five and ten acre
lots and sell them very cheap. His plan
also contemplates an avenue through the
tract on each side of the railroad, with
palms and shade trees on each side, sup
ported by well sunk up near the hill
where there is an abundance of water at
from six to ten feet from the surface.
David Bayles, who owns the east half
of the same section, noting the success of
Ernnest Schrader with his horticultural
experience on ten acre tract, about a
half mile east of our town, has concluded
to divide his 800 acres up into ten acre
lots and improve it at once.
The crop yield on the land sown to
wheat by Messrs. Moore and Sutton, four
miles northwest of here, has encouraged
these gentlemen to subdivide a portion
of their lands into small vineyards and
fruit orchards for those who are in search
of small fruit farm at nominal first
cost.
Some gentlemen from the east have
been figuring for subdivision and town
site in township 8 north and 16 west on
the Santa Fe route to be called Aurora,
but enough has not been done to locate
the section on which the new town is
situated, or when it is to be started.
The town of Fairmount, situated in
township north, Is west, started some
six months since, is slowly but surely
being improved and developed, and bids
fair to soon rival the settlement at May
nard and Palmdale on the south side of
the valley.
Lancaster, that for years strug-
gled along as a modest rail
road station and jumping off
place is getting to be point of con-
siderable importance in the way of trade
and as shipping point for the products
of tho volIav