Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-11-17
ROSAMOND ITEMS.
Healthy Growth and Big Grain
Yield, with Vast Acreage Being


Healthy Growth and Big Grain
Yield, with Vast Acreage Being
Put I'm.
EDITORS HERALp-The development OF
the vast resources of this valley has
been much slower than other portions OF
the southern counties, but there is no
section of the State making more certain
progress or having a more healthy
growth.
The fact that every settler who has
made any effort to test his lands has
been thoroughly satisfied of the repro
ductive Qualities of our soil, has nerved
him to use every energy he is possessed
of to make some improvements, by
clearing and plowing, TO prepare the soil
for profit as soon as possible. In his
ambition to benefit himself he has tried
to do too much. He has actually done
more to retard the development OF the
valley in many instances than hs has to
make it attractive to others. He has
tried to cultivats ten times as much land
as he was able to do thoroughly, and
has also tried to get hold of every avsil.
able sore his rights of location would
embrace. His shotgun process of culti-
waiting new land has frequently been
disastrous and confirmed the predictions
of the enemies of this section. By de-
gress, however, they are getting onto
that fact, and many are now
selling an abandonment of their
improvements on government land
for q nominal sum to some newcomer, to
get the money to help them improve
their homestead as it should be.
It is estimated there were about five
thousand tons of grain and ten thousand
tons of hay raised in the valley this sea-
son. There will be at least three times
the average in grain the coming spring.
Much of the land ih grain this year
will be put to vines and fruit trees the
coming season.
By oultivating the new lands here one
year and deep plowiBg the next, 8
goodly portion of the valley will raise
rooted vines without irrigation.
One of the best features Of this part of
the country is the elevation, which CON-
pletely shuts out every species of scale
and the various diseases vines are sub
jected to in lower, foggy attitudes. Drs.
Crandall and Fredricksen imported from
Los Angeles few citrus fruit trees, that
were snowy white with the cottony cush-
ION scale, as an experiment.
In three months the scale had entirely
disappeared. In three months more the
ffosts did up the trees too. They not
Only discovered that the dry, rarifed at
mosphere was "dead out" on the scale
family, but they also discovered that as a
commercial proposition they could not
raise oranges here unless they put
breeches and night.caps on the trees, az
they do in the northern citrus belt"
By a series of experiments, however,
they have found that the mildew and
other inexplainable ailings of the vine in
Los Angeles, Nspa and Sonoma counties
does not exist here in the faintest degree.
O. F. Bean, of Alhambra, shipped up
a lot of the diseased vines, that had been
dug up and thrown away as "done gore,'
and they were reset on his place near
Willow Springs and in the vineyard OF
Ernest Schrader of this place.
To their great astonishment these
notify, gickly vines grew to
be large, rugged vines and bore good
yield of grapes this their first season.
They were set in February last, and now
have canes on an inch in diameter and
AUin lUuE bO LW6lto 1851 AL iouBbu.
Il is estimated that there will be from
10000 to 10000 acres put into grain this
season.
In view of the large bodies of grain
being put in in Townships and 8, in
Ranges IA and Is west, General Beale,
owner of the La Liebre grant, has COM
menced the fencing of his east line to
keep his vast herds of cattle from an
noying the farmers. This fence will be
twenty-seven miles in length and very
expensive and durable affair. The wire
was shipped directly from the factory in
Massachusetts to Rosamond. His six
mule teams have been hauling wire and
feed from this place for two weeks, max
ing the old Willow Springs their camp
ing place and halfway house. 1t is the
Generals intention to rehabilitate the
Willow Springs place, and very materi-
ally improve it this season.
This station, that has gone into decay
since the building OF the Southern Pacific
railroad, was formerly one of the pleas.
antest and liveliest stopping places be-
tween Visaiia and Los Angeles.
The General proposes to rebuild the
hotel aud stables, pnt out an orchard and
vineyard and make it a great convenience
for the travelling public and the attaches
Of his vast rancho as well as q matter of
profit for himself.
Like every other community who have
to depend or but one railroad for trans
portation of our products, we are watching
with interest the movement of new rail-
roads coming across the continent for the
Coast trade.
We all hope to see the Union Pacific
or Utah road come through this valley
and we watch with interest the railroad
news column of the HERALD the first
thing after reading the status of the
Wheeling trial.
The political revolution in the East
has Get the dye.stuE OF all the
wavering Republicans of this valley.
Many of them deny they ever were regu.
lar Republicans or high tariff men, and
now they wish to be taken into full
fellowship by the Kern County Dsmoc.
Cracy.
The agitation of the irrigation district
on the south side OF the valley will no
doubt result in the organization of an
other district on the north, or Kern
county, side OF the valley.
By the organization of these two dis
tricts under the Wright law, an abund-
ance Of water can bs had to make this
valley blossom like big sunfower.