Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-28
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA is ALL RIGHT

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA is ALL RIGHT
Although here and there the voice OF
the croaker is heard in the land, yet this
section is all right. There never has
been time when more signs of prosper
ity were discernible than at this mo-
ment. Money is still rather scarce and
circulates little slowly, but the signs
are manifold that the change has set in,
and that the influences now at work will
soon put the last croaker in the country
to everlasting flight.
The great factor in the new era is the
cultivation of the soil. 1t has been a
great year for fruit-growers of all sorts.
The orange orchards have netted their
owners 5000 to $940 per acre for the crop
that has just been closed out. The
orchardists have received, first and last,
$4,000 900 for the crop. Why, the po-
tatoes shipped to the east this spring
have brought back to the section
$4,000, and the cabbages more than
as much. The exports of potatoes
run up to over 800 carloads. The
deciduous fruit crops now being
harvested are paying well. The crop is
large all over this section, and the
prices are twice as high as those pre-
vailing year ago. All the fruit in the
country will be taken care of. A couple
of years ago much OF it was allowed to
lie ON the ground and rot. There was
no market for it. Peaches and apricots
were brought in. here from Nacaville, in
Central California, while the fruit of
our own orchards went to waste. Now
nearly all the fruit consumed
in the cities of Southern Cal
ifornia is of home growth, and
much is being shipped east. All the
rest is being dried or canned for eastern
shipment. A number of drying and
canning establishments have been
set in motion this year, and
others are being put up. Redlands has
large one in full blast. Pomona has
two. Monrovia has just opened one.
Anaheim is putting one up. And there
are others of more pretentious charac-
ter. At San Juan eastern capital is put
ting up large plant to crystalline fruit
and make marmalades. This will be
duplicated at Lordsburg next season, as
was reported in the HERALD yesterday.
There is already crystallizing factory
at Ontario doing a good work. Henry
Oxnard will be at the Chino ranch in
few days. 1t is altogether probable that
a beet sugar factory will be in operation
there next spring. Cheap sugar will en-
able these fruit factories to put up as
jams and marmalades all the culls in
the fruit crop. Small oranges will not
do to ship and are now wasted. They
make as good marmalade as larger fruit,
and 80 cents box is much better than
to let this rejected fruit be lost.
The result of this better market for
fruit has been to stimulate the setting
OF trees to an enormous degree. There
have been more than 1000 acres of
oranges set during the season. In all
other lines of fruit-growing the activity
has been as great. In a few years these
orchards will all be in bearing, and the
income will be increased in like ratio.
The orange crop of the past season
was nearly 2,5U0 carloads. 1t all came
from about that many acres of bearing
orchard, for an acre of orchard is on an
average good for a carload of oranges.
There are now probably 10000 acres of
,l g -, 4l,o
section. In ten years there will be
$4,000 acres planted to this fruit. OF
this 25, 900 or 10000 acres will be bear
ing, and the crop will be 25 900 or 10000
carloads, or more. 1t will be worth
500 ,000,0 900. The figures are quite pos
sible to reach. England has 100000
acres planted to apples, and the United
States has 100000 acres set to this
fruit. The apple crop of the United
States is worth nearly $5O,O00,OOO.
Follow out the line of argument,
applying it to walnuts, olives, prunes
and all the other fruits grown in this
section, and then reinforce these with
the commoner forms of farm products,
| all vi WIllCu DIdllClIcS VI llluuSJIy are
being vigorously developed, and one may
begin to see the future that is opening
up here. 1t is one of unlimited posi-
bilities, and one of absolutely great GER
tainties, and the greatest of these GER
tainties is that those who are here in
any line of enterprise will make money
in it.
THE experiences of the week in our