Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-21
TWO FOOL DRUMMERS.
HOW They maligned Los Angeles
ana the Semi.Tr0Pics.

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this pair began discussing Los Angeles
and the other towns in this part of the
State. They kept it up all the time until
the reporter left the train at Anaheim
and lost sight of them. In the en-
tire hour of discussion, and not
for mSnent did they utter one
syllable about any other subject,
they never said a word that was not un-
friendly, not word that was not q
malign libel on the city of Los Angeles,
and on each and every one of the sur
rounding towns whose names they mem
toned. By their account all the towns
in and about Los Angeles are dead. Most
of them had no business ever to be be-
gun; all the people in them were on tho
brink of bankruptcy. They were positive
in expressing the opinion that there were
no resources here on which to found q
town at any point. One said that within
six months there would be 100 failures
carrying with them many of the most i'm
portant houses in Los Angeles. This
one also inveighed loud and long against
the railroad company fer what he alleged
to be discrimination made in favor of
Los Angeles.
These fellows were here seeking busi-
ness among the merchants of Los Ange-
les and of the suburbs. They visited
hundreds of people and besought them to
buy their goods, whose interests they
had deceived, whom they Id said were
on the brink of bankruptcy, whose prop
erty they had declared to be
worthless. If they so delivered
themselves while travelling through
the section they were decrying
and while seeking business here, what
sort of utterances do they deliver them
selves of when they are among people
whose sentiments are naturally adverse,
if not absolutely hostile, to Los Angeles
and the surrounding towns? Now all
the merchants of this section ought to
spot these two fools and refuse point
blank to buy another dollars worth of
goods at their hands. 1t was on Monday
of this week, September 10th, they
visited the Santa Ana valley. They are
eaeily identified. They are inimical to
this section. and their absence from here
ought to be encouraged in all
possible ways. Their employers in San
Francisco would do we'll to take note
of their scandslous conduct, and to haul
them off this route, or hammer sufi-
cient sense into their skulls to teach
them to close their mouths. Two such
fools the country could hardly furnish as
these loud, insulting, ignorant pair.
Neither of them has sense enough to
qualify him to sling hash ct 1O-cent
restaurant on the Barbary Coast of the
Bay City.
And all the time they talked so loudly
in dispraise of this section, they were
passing through valley whose area
embraces 1000, 900 acres of the finest
land under the sun. On all sides
we're great corn fields, where stalks were
twelve to fifteen feet high, on an aver
age, and on each of these we're three or
four ears of corn. Cattle as sleek as if
they were stall-fed were grazing all along
the country. Great flocks of sheep GOV.
cred the plains. Every three or four
miles was town with it's cozy houses
and air Of prosperity. Orchards of all
sorts studded the megas, and in these
were farm houses whose ample size and
well kept gardens bespeak the prosperity
of the owners. Orange groves whose
revenues average $500 to $500 a year;
figs which pay nearly as well; vineyards
and orchards of deciduous fruits abound
on all sides.
At least one of these blatant declamers
went to Anaheim, and there he found a
community where it was a rare thing to
find man who owes dollar to anyone,
and where nearly every man has bank
account. He found nice cottages either
just finished or being built. He found
one handsome brick block just completed
and another just begun. If he had gone
to see Max Nebelung, man of his own
race, he would have found him raising
pampas plumes from which he would
make $500 to $500 an acre. He would
have found this enterprising and
prosperous gentleman planting out
ten acres of this grass, from
which in five years he will
harvest 100000 plums, and receive
So 900 to So, 900 income. If he had gone
to Captain Gsde he would have been
told that, while this citizen has been
getting all the summer long carload after
carload OF ice, all of which he has sold at
a fair profit, he has not % cents on his
books not paid. Mr.. Gade would have
told him that he has lived in Anaheim
for years and done business all the time,
and that he has not lost in bad debts in
all that time the tenth part of one per
cent. of all he has done. If he had
gone to the big Dreyfuss winery
his own townsman, Mr.. Weglein, of San
Francisco, would here tell him that in
spite of the vine disease he is crushing
900 tons Of grapes, all raised in and near
the cold Colony" He might have
learned further that the total grape crop
of Anaheim this year will amount to
l 900 tons. All along the valley were all
the evidences of prosperity of a most
universal character. All the farmers of
the section are doing we'll. In all the
valley it is safe to say that neither Of
these libelous drummers has any bad
debts of any amount worthy of consider
alton. They will travel year, and in it
all they will not pass through another
valley to be compared to the one they
were so maliciously abusing. If the
railroad company favors Los Angeles,
surely that cannot be alleged against her
as misfortune, or be quoted as reason
for her lack of prosperity, nor as likely to
produce dull times. The fact that Los
Angeles is blessed with active railroad
competition, while San Francisco is at
the mercy of one line, is a feature not
to be easily overestimated. It
is fact, and is surely the reason for
much of the prosperity in this city. 1t is
no doubt sufficient cause to make the
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