Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-16

PRECURSOR lnAb Was CuhtdCtoiiASO W
the neglect of vineyards and orchards,
and the cutting up OF fine farms into
town lots, agriculture even being largely
lost sight of in the delirious ambition to
towns and villages in ad-
vance of the legitimate development OF
the country.
As result of that purely artificial
boom, we had to send to Kansas and
and Iowa for hay, potatoes, chickens,
eggs and other necessaries of the table.
OF course the rapidity with which
population poured into this section made
sending abroad for certain staples almost
inevitable, but to nothing like the ex-
tent to which we were compelled toI
carry it by our own downright industrial
Generalization.
The boom which we have been enjoy
ing for some months past is horticultural
and agricultural. 1t is founded on pro-
duction, the most natural and truest
source of wealth. We speak advisedly
when we say that an unprecedented
acreage has this year been sown in bar
ley and wheat in Los Angeles county.
The prospects for an unusually abundant
yield over all this extensive area are per-
feet. Even in the cereals the region
known as Los Angeles county before the
bill creating Orange county was passed
will be at least the third and perhaps
the second in California. Between the
two grains we shall be able to reckon
upon four or five million bushels. In
addition, we shall raise fully one-half
of the corn crop of the Pacific Coast.
Hay will be abundent and cheap.
Our orchardists have not been whit
behind our farmers. Tens of thousands
Of acres have been set out in oranges,
lemons, lines, peaches, apricots, French
prunes, figs and olives. The planting OF
the citrus fruits has been on such an ex-
tensive scale, that we have called heavily
| upon the nurseries of Florida in addition
to our own. Our vineyardists have not
been a whit behindhand, and the yield
of our wineries will this year be some
thing out of the common.
A pleasing fact in connection with the
splendid energy developed in increasing
our production is that our orchardists
and vineyardists have at last got the up
per hand of the white scale and the vine
pest. They know now just how to fight
these nuisances successfully, and no one
need suffer from their incursions if he
has ordinary energy and industry. We
are not only increasing our vineyards
and orchards in area, but we are reclaim
ing those which were about to be sur
rendered to their natural enemies.
There is genuine boom in truck
gardening, poultry raising and dairying
in Los Angeles county. The ability to
raise from six to eight crops of rich
ALFALFA Chilean clover-a year, marks
this region out as eventually the richest
butter and cheese-m aking section of the
footstool.
There is a good healthy boom in all
substantial improvements heTeabouts
in building, in street-making, cable.
road, and railways. Some of the hand.
somest edifces in America, such as the
Bryson-B -Bonebrake block, have just been
completed in the city. During the past
year, which was supposed to have been
a dull one, we have put upwards oi
81, 100000 in brick and mortar-a very
good showing indeed for place with a
"busted" boom, Our streets are not all
they should be yet, it is true, but then
they have all been practically created in
the past year, and in that period Chicago
herself has not beaten us in ratio of i'm
provement. We have system of cable
railways, just approaching completion,
which will cost $500, 600, and we have
just completed new railway, the Los
Angeles and Pacific, to the ocean al
Santa Monica. In addition, the Ingle-
wood and Redondo Beach companies are
about to build a railway to the ocean at
Redondo Beach, and they will run
hourly trains to that fascinating sea-side
resort.
The late rains, coming just in the nick
of time and abundant in quantity, have
now put the cap-sheaf on the heslthiest
looking hoom we have ever seen start in
this locality. The new City Council,
which will take its seat on the 21st inst,
is expected to at once inaugurste meas
ures which will give us an outfall sewer
to the sea. This is an absolute essential
to the growth and health of the city, and
both parties were pledged to it at the
late election. 1t will, of course, involve
the disbursement of large sums OF money
and will give employment to the idle
labor of Los Angeles.
To cap all cur bright prospects the
building of the Los Angeles and Salt
Lake Railway seems to be an assured
thing at an early date.
Truly, Los Angeles has boom this
time that she can afford to swear by.
Sr. PATRICK's DAY will be celebrated