Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-17


The following letter was also received
by Secretary Hanchette of the chamber
of commerce yesterday, from former
resident of this city:
ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, August 10, 1890.
DEAR SIR-As a citizen of Southern
California take lively interest in her
prosperity. In my opinion, to enable
Southern California to achieve the need
of prosperity which her many and
varied resources entitle her to, one of
the most essential things is an ample
supply fgood steam producing material
She must become a great manufacture
ing center, at least to the extent of
working up her raw material and put
ting it into shape for home consumption
and the surplus for shipment. Her
soil and climate will enable her in few
years, under a proper system OF irrigation
and cultivation, to produce many times
what her people can consume. The inn
mense surplus must be wasted and lost,
unless manufactured into forms which
will enable it to be shipped to places
where there is a market for it. Our
wool should all be worked up at home,
not merely into blankets but into all
descriptions of cloths, cassimeres, and
other wooden goods. Our iron ore,
OF which almost unlimited deposits
have been found, into pig metal, and
that into the tens of thousands of other
things, into the composition of which
iron enters; our beets into sugar;
our millions of tons of fruit should be
canned, preserved or dried, boxed and
shipped all over the United States, COM
pletely excluding foreign importation OF
these things practical experiment hav-
ing demonstrated that they excel in
quality anything that can be brought
from abroad. In word, manufactures
must be built up all over our beautiful
southern country and their tall Chin
neys be found everywhere pointing
heavenward. We have the boundless
Pacific ocean for our commerce, over
which future steamships and white
winged sail vessels can watt our surplus
to distant lands, but the solid foundations
npon which successful commerce rest,
are, manufactures, and manufactures
cannot flourish without an abundant
supply of cheap, steam-producing fuel.
Large amounts of money have been eX-
pended in Southern California in pros
pecting for coal and oil, but the latter is
too expensive and so far no large deposit
of good coal has been found.
| left home clos Angeles) about two
months since, and have just returned
from careful, geological and practical
survey of the coal fields at and near the
town of Gallup OH the western borders
of this territory. | have become salts
fed from careful examination of the
geological formation, the dip of the sand
stone and other strata and groupings of
coal here and there, that not merely
one but numerous large veins of choice
coal would be found at reasonable
depth below the surface, and practical
experiments have proven the correct
ness of my theoretical conclusions. The
deposits are far more extensive and the
coal of much better quality than l had
expected. | have acquired half in
terest in tract of 800 acres lying ON
the Atlantic and Pacific railroad, under
the whole of which tract four large
veins of splendid coal extend, the lowest
vein not being over $50 feet from the
surface. The coal from some of these
veins has been carefully tested by an
expert selected by the railroad, and
found to be of superior quality for man
ufacturing purposes. We propose to
develop our property and can put out
thousands OF tons OF coal per month, If
we can find market for it, We look to
Southern California for a market.
Respectfully, JOHN FLoURNoY.
Donations to the exhibit were receiv-
ed yesterday, as follows: H. d. Merrill,
Florence, Spreckles sugar beet; Charley
Dalton, Los Angeles, cat tails; James
MAR, Coldwater Canon, plums; S. M.
Deven, of Artesia, cucumbers; Dan Kel-
lar, University Tract, preserved French
prunes; r. L. Cook, Hesperia, grapes
San Diego county, yellow pine shakes,
pine cones, oats, brewing barley, white
Russian wheat, red wood bark.