Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-20
RosAnOND REDIvIvlUs.
new Railread Agency, Church,
schoolheuse and other Improve.


Railroad Company which has al
wsys been our main dependence
foe reaching the outside world,
hssY finally recognized our i'm
portance by building nice depot and
freight house, and establishing freight
and ticket Office here with all things nec-
esssry for our present needs. "Uncle
Ike' Baylis was duly installed as agent
by Mr.. Fairchild, the gentlemanly agent
for the Southern Pacific and Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Companies ut Mo.
lave, last Saturday. To lend style to the
occasion, our fnew agent opened on his
maiden effort, by taking in over thirty
packages of freight for Los Angeles, two
for San Bernardino, and the sale OF $l5.3
worth Of tickets the first day.
It 30 happened that thereIwere num-
Der of friends OF the new agent here from
Los Angeles and elsewhere on this
occasion, who congratulated "Uncle Ike"
in unmeasured terms for his indefatiga-
BILE energy in booming up Rosamond
and lands in the immediate vicinity that
are now being developed, and will, in the
near future, materially swell the receipts
Of his Office. Among them we're party
consisting of G. F. Bean and David Baylis,
of Alhambra, Colonel A. B. Hotchkiss, of
Los Angeles; Colonel John ]. Burneo, q
French banker of New Orleans, and one
or two attaches of the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company from San Francisco,
all of whom own land within five or ten
miles of this place. After hearty con-
gratulations over the bright prospect for
this section Of the country, an informal
meeting was had, when the proposition
of q schoolhouse, church, road district,
and many other matters, were consid-
cred. One of the parties connected with
the Railroad Company announced that
they would make deed to four lots on
the corner of block just west of the new
depot, as soon as the lumber was on the
ground for the new church. He also
stated that the company would give a
quarter of block of lots, being 150x200
feet, 70. schoolhouse. and that the
company stood ready to build school
house on the same plan they did at Mo-
jave, as soon as the district was formed
and the trustees were elected. They take
q sensible view Of it, viz. that large
per cent. OF the tax for school buildings
is exhausted by expenses of collection and
hap hazard contracts for schoolhouses.
and they would rather put up a building
costing as much as their assessment, and
know that it would be credit to the dis
, trict. The matter of a sanitarium, a
road district, the development
of the fire clay ledge that
extends for miles along the hills just
above this place. and the most feasible
plan for the protection of trees and vines
was ably discussed. Mr.. David Bayles
stated he would have carload of lumbe
Eere next week as the starter for a good
supply of lurber. The party above re-
ferred to took pleasant drive over the
north side of the valley and returned in
the evening, highly elated with the trip
and the appearance of the soil where it
had been put into cultivation. By way
of &slant they brought in a fine bag of
quail and four cotton-tail rabbits, to say
nothing of other game that is out of sea-
son over at Bakersfield and other locali-
ties where they have a well organized
sporting club. The entire party sat down
to potpie with quail, cotton-tail and
dumplings galore at the Baylis Hotel be-
fore taking sleeper for home.
Referring to the establishment of q
freight and ticket office by the railroad
company, it is we'll for the people living
here and shipping freight to gradually
get on to the fact that freight can now be
shipped here "collect," and that We can
and return, on the same terms they can
be bought at Los Angeles, to this place
and return. This is the proper caper
and is highly appreciated by the resi-
dents of the north side of the valley. 1t
saves US just LAO every trip to Los An
geles, which "helps out powerfully on
beer" The trains passing here both
ways appear to be doing much larger
freight and passenger business of late
than any time for three or four months,
the local trains particularly. Br'er John
Madigan, who has been section boss of
this division of the road since it was
built, has finally left us for good, and
taken similar position under o. T.
Cason, who is road master at Santa Fe,
headquarters at San Bernardino. He
leaves with the best wishes of every man
in the valley. j. 3. Titus and family,
residents of this place for four years,
have moved to San Luis Obispo, renting
their house to l. Baylis for lodging.
house.
Our town now boasts of hotel, store,
livery stable, saloon, real estate office,
section and tank houses, postoffice and
express and railroad agency. We need
. blacksmith and wagon repairing shop
bad, good stock of lumber, wood and
coal, and about hundred families who
are willing to take a forty-acre farm at
SIS or $40 an acre, pay one-fourth down
and have money enough left to improve
it and carry them along until their trees
and vines begin to be productive. There
is probably no place on the continent
where chickens and turkeys can be
raised with more profit. The Oldershaw
boys started in this business extensively
last season, and have made grand sue
cess of it. They find sale for their
chickens and eggs here without ship
ping. The Cinnamon at work on the
road make an active market for all, and
more than can be furnished from this
station. Messrs. Hillen, Bean, Bayles,
Allen, Oldershaw, Sutton, Crandall,
Werth, Mosgrove, Schrader and many
others are putting in great many trees
and vines this season. Over 1000 trees
have been received here within the last
ten days from Alhambra, Pomona,
Fresno and Sacramento.
Dan Dengman, prominent contractor
and builder of your city, has just sum-
mer.fallowed ten acres of his land six
miles west of Willow Springs, which he
will put in fruit trees this season. He
left for f1vinp trin tn Rakorcf,a1d opI