Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-27

AProsperous Era In view.

That this section has been suffering
from an era of industrial and financial
depression Of a mild type there is no
denying. Indeed, in one or two respects
the cloud that obscured the Gun Of pros
perity was dense. Through some mys-
FERROUS dispensation we lost many of our
vineyards, and then our orange groves
we're actually threatened. Besides these
calamities, there was the natural re-
action from a very undue state of infla-
ton to which everything had been
wrought.
This last unfavorable influence
has passed completely away, and
matters all along this particular line have
settled down onto solid basis of values
sustained by intrinsic merit. There has
been no collapse in reaching this adjust
ment, perhaps the most remarkable
thing in the whole financial history of
the world. But the adjustment has been
wrought out perfectly, and very few have
suffered in the operation.
The orange groves of the section have
been saved, and this prime industry of
all that are peculiar to the section was
never in q more fourishing condition.
The trees all over our charming valleys
are in a state of perfect health, and the
vigor observable in the new fall growth
now on the branches has never been ex-
celled. At Anaheim, at Rivera, along
the highest mesa from Pasadena to San
Bernardino, the groves are all in the
most excellent condition. The result
is that during the past spring
and summer hundreds of thousands Of
new groves were planted, even although
the trees had to be imported from Flor.
ida. Preparations are now in progress
to repeat this energy during the coming
season. The paintings of last spring
are doing 30 well that they will moi
merely be duplicated but doubled during
the next planting season. The nursery.
men are doing all in their power to
supply the demand or trees.
The vineyards have not yet been re-
habilitated, but they will be in good
time. 1t is not the first time that sec.
ton devoted to the vine has been visited
by disastrous blight. Germany went
through just such an experience years
ago, and the Madeira vineyards were OBJ.
liberated from the islands not many dec
AIDES ago. These vineyards have all been
restored to state of perfect health. 1t
is source Of encouragement of great
significance that in 100 years this blight
is the first setback the vineyards of
Southern California have ever suffered.
There are out at San Gabriel today grow
ing vines planted by the Mission Fathers
towards the end of the last century.
Such blight as that which we have just
passed through may never be seen here
again. All probabilities teach that it
will not disturb our enterprises or inter.
rupt our prosperity for the next hundred
years.
Besides these there are multitudes of
lines of development awaiting the ener-
getic and Industrious. Walnuts, figs,
psmpas plumes, guavs berries, olives,
Japanese persimmons, beet root sugar.
live stock, dairying, hog products and a
hundred other fields of rich promise are
wide open for the investment of capital,
and the efforts of labor.
With new railroads pointing this way,
with thousands Of well.to.do and enter
prising people anxious to aid us in the
developing of the resources of this sec.
ton, with climate such as the world
cannot match to draw the invalid and
the stalwart too, there is no reason for
any feeling here but one of hopefulness.
The resources of so rich a section must
be developed, and in all material and
intellectual things our growth must be
rapid.