Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-24

California. All fruits of this class come
to the highest degree of perfection. For
the citrus fruits it is also the equal of any.
In the town of Anaheim the orange grove
of Captain Keith will compare favor
ably with any in this section. The same
Is true of the grove of Mr.. Parker
North of Anaheim is the Semi-tropic
Fruit Company's orchard, under the
care of Mr.. Gilman. 1t is one of the
most profitable orchards of the country.
Its oranges and lemons command the
highest going prices. w. M. McFadden
and other growers on Placentia avenue
are quite as successful. The orange
shipments from Anaheim for the year
come to about $4,000 boxes. This is
more than 100 carloads, and the value is
upwards of $4,000. That sounds pretty
well for a little place of 1000
inhabitants to derive in the way of in
come for one crop of one kind of fruit.
The walnut crop of Anaheim is only
second in Importance, whether from the
standpoint of its magnitude or that Of
its profit, to oranges.
Another industry in which Anaheim
stands as the full equal of any part of
the section is that of livestock produc-
tion. The horses, sheep, cattle and
swine of this district are pre-eminent in
their quality. Its lush grasses and big
cereal crops make this secure PROPOSE
ton. Big dairies abound all around
Anaheim. Great fiocks of sheep whiten
the plains in all directions. This is one
of the principal points in the section for
the shipment of fine wools.
One of the first things the
pioneers at Anaheim went into
was vine-growing and wine-mak-
ing. For years the products of
her wineries in sweet wines or dry were
the best in the state. The terrible vine
disease came during the decade now
closing and laid waste the vineyards all
are still found a few puncheons of grape
most approved quality in soundness,
dryness, sweetness, aroma, flavor or
bouquet. For the present the industry
is almost annihilated, but with signs of
speedy rehabilitation. The disease is
thought by the best informed men to
have run its course, and in few years
Anaheim will be as famous as ever for
its wines. Some of the more adventur-
GUS are already setting out new vine
yards.
Anaheim's Industries.
AT one time Anaheim had a score of
the largest wineries in the state. These
plants are next door to dead now, but
are carefully kept,as the hope is strongly
entertained that in a very short time
the vineyards will be replanted, will
flourish and will fill all the vats with as
good wine as bon Uirdnt ever drank.
The barley and hop crops moult no
feather about Anaheim, and with a
plentiful supply of good water here are all
the materials to make fine quality of
beer. Mr.. Conrad has put up fine
brewery near the Southern Pacific depot.
1t is well equipped and will in a short
time put on the market its first special
brew of new and genuine lager beer,
from made materials grown on the spot.
The Thacker Fruit Company is doing
an excellent work for Anaheim in TAX
ing care of it's citrus fruit crop. There is
much need of facilities for caring for the
deciduous fruit of Anaheim. A cannery
and drying apparatus ought to be put in
there, and capital so invested would no
doubt pay well.
From the hills north OF Anaheim a
great deal of asphaltum is taken out and
shipped away to pave streets of the cities
of Southern California. There is good
deal of mining being done in these hills
on both sides of the Santa Ana river,
some of the silver claims paying well.
There is fine vein of coal uncovered in
the hills, which is soon to be worked,
and company has been formed to bore
for oil.
Anaheim is well supplied with good
stores, and all the minor industries Incl
dent to such place.
Churches, Schools and Societies.
The Catholic, Episcopal, Congrega-
tional, Methodist, Presbyterian and
Lutheran churches all have houses of
worship and good congregations at Ana
helm.
The Masons, Odd Fellows, United
Workmen and other societies have -four
ishing lodges. There are good halls for
meetings in the town.
Anaheim is well supplied with schools.
The public school buildings are the pride
of the people. There is no town in the
section whose school grounds are so well
set with fine shade tlees. The teach
ers are competent and painstaking.
A year ago a sisterhood of the Catholic
chruch opened fine school in Anaheim.
Ample grounds had been secured and a
Hue DrlcK DullulHS erected. % popular
has the school proved that it is now full
of pupils, and an addition forty feet long
is to be put up at once to accommodate
the increasing membership.
News of the Moment.
Although the times are little dull al
present, there is much of an encourag
ing character to be noted at Anaheim
The country is all full of fine crops. The
promise of the immediate future is good
The Thacker Brothers are just shipping
away the last few loads of oranges. The
streets are all beautiful with the bright
foliage of the shade trees. The sidewalks
are cemented. The water bitches are al
running full of floods of water, going
down to irrigate the orchards, the alfalfa
fields and the corn.
Charles SCHNEIDER is putting up very
nice brick cottage on Center street, near
Lemon. 1t will cost 81, 500 and upwards
Near Yorba, in the Peralta school dis
trict, L. w. Kirby is building fine
residence. His home was burned down
month ago, and the Home Mutual In
surance Company, of which the Rim.
pau Brothers are agents, at once paid
his loss, and he is rebuilding.
The new brick block at the corner o.
Center and Los Angeles streets, erected