Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-22
WHAT THEY SAY.
Clippings From the s'HerAld's"
List of Local Exchanges.


the recent changes having placed a
quantity of stock in the hands of an in
fuential Los Angeles citizen, who is
said already to have botel-keeper to
take charge of the building and throw it
open to the public in the near future
Anaheim Gazette.
A prominent shipper of produce this
week, told us that shipments from this
valley alone now amounted to 5000 per
day. This does not include Anaheim,
but it shows that farm products are
about as good as grape. The fact is
hogs, corn, hay, potatoes, butter and
eggs beat grapes badly, and always will.
Santa Ana Standard.
Many of the raisin.gr overs report that
the yield from their vineyards is very
large this year, and that the clusters are
perfectly filled with an exceedingly
plump berry, and the prospects are that
the raison crop. this season will be very
satisfactory both in quantity and quality.
The picking is going forward in earnest,
and numerous camps of both Americans
and Cinnamon are to be seen near the
different vineyards. Along California
avenue, between Jefferson and Arlington
avenues, it is lined with the tents OF
Americans who are picking the grapes in
that section, while large camp of Chi
namen is located on Arlington avenue,
near Magnolia. Riverside Press.
The cannery has about exhausted the
seasons fruit crop. 1t is thought that
ness for this year. The company has put
and about three carloads of dried fruit,
hn Aria frt1i q
peaches and prunes, the latter named
fruit reaching nearly thirty tons, much of
which is hauled from Cucamonga. They
are now engaged in putting up. late
peaches and pears. The Cotton cannery
q few days ago purchased 525 cases of
canned goods, and few carloads have
been shipped east, but the bulk of the
fruit is still unshipped. About six car
loads are stored ia Graber'o warehouse.
A car of dried fruits is to be shipped
east in few eays.-[ Pomona Times.
G. w. Garcelon has returned from
Sacramento, where he went with the
committee from the Board of Super
visors to meet the State Board of
Equalization. When Mr.. Garcelon went
north he took with him quantity of
his Rip Van Wrinkle lemons in his
valise, and after the work with the
Board of Equalization was completed,
went to San Francisco to show the fruit
to some of the fruit dealers in the
metropolis. Mr.. Garcelon says that
the dealers who saw the lemons ex-
pressed surprise at the excellent color,
quality and quantity of juice, and said
that they were the best that they have
ever seen. Three dealers offered him
$40 box for his lemons in preference
tie paying SIS per box for foreign fruit.
Il Riverside press.
There are several cases of typhoid
fever in the city, and some OF the
patients are lying almost at the point of
death. Ia nearly every instance the dis
ease can be easily traced to the use of
water from tanks which have not been
cleaned out for long time, and which
are consequently full OF particles Of de-
cayed animal and vegetable matter, both
the most deadly OF poisons. One man
who was paying neighbor for water
noticed the fearful stencil arising from
the fluid, and after some persuasion got
permission to look into the tank. AS he
suspected he found in the water the car
cass of a eat 80 nearly decomposed as to
be completely disintegrated and soft.
frequent. Those who are now using
water that smells to high heaven had
much better get their supply somewhere
blocks.-[Santa Ana Free Press.
Captain P. T. Adams, of Tustin, is the
model farmer Of that precinct, and yet
he don't wear himself out with worry.
He has the finest twenty-acre ranch in
the valley, which he has made in the
past ten or twelve years. His oranges
that he sold the past spring and summer
brought him about 81, 900 cash, the pro-
duct of 900 trees. His walnut crop, now
ripe, will reach about Is 900 pounds,
which, at eight cents pound, will bring
$1,000 more. Aside from these staple
articles he raises large quantity of
fruits for home use and the market. As
he was never seized with the mania for
specializing during the boom, he took
care of his beautiful home and finds his
reward in the splendid crops he gets
every year. The young crop Of oranges
now coming on ia the finest he ever had
vet. He is one farmer who takes life as
il comes and has solved the problem that
life is worth living, if fellow gets paid
for it, and the way to get pay for it IS to
do little solid work now and them
santa Ana Standard.
Having heard in various ways th@t
some parasite was destroying the red scale
up in the San Gabriel valley, WV. Mar
tin and myself concluded that we would
90 up there and see for ourselves what it
was, so last Friday We went to Pomona
and remained over night, making in
quiries OF different ones what they knew
of it, but found no one that knew any.
thing about the parasite, but on the con-
trary found that they were going to have
q public meeting on Saturday to see what
could be done with the "Dusrte red
SCALE" as it was getting pretty badly scat
tered about there. This scale is a little
different from our red scale, and is called
the apidiotus aussontior, or San Ga
briel red scale, from Australia, while ours
is from Japan, and a much more raven
GUS chap. We went from there to La
manda Park and made inquiries, but
found no one who knew anything about
this parasite we were hunting. We
got a team and went to Sierra
Madre Villa, where they have
an orchard of 5000 large or
ange and lemon trees, that had been
very badly effected with the red scale,
and also with the white scale. The
foreman of the orchard said that pre-
vious to the advent of the white scale,