Los Angeles herald., 1890-11-25


the poetic.
To show how practical the makers of
these scenes OF horticultural enchant-
ment are, we will merely state the fact
that it remained for Riverside orange
growers to find cut that the orange, like
anv other plant, needed some fertilizer.
Consequently, when he saw his tree,
Notwithstanding an abundant supply of
water, begin to show signs of ill-health
the most infallible indication of which
is losing its deep green color-the Riv-
erside orchardist Immediately sought
remedy, and he found it in manure. As
a consequence, the sheep manure of Los
Angeles and San Diego counties is nearly
all finding its way to Riverside.
During the present year they have i'm
ported four hundred carloads of this
valuable fertilizer from the counties
named, together with many other fer
tilizers, such as guano, etc. The River
side oranga grower, who makes from
5000 to $4,000 per acre q year from his
groves, has learned that the expenditure
of $50 an acre in enriching his land
means wealth. Very few Angelef1os
have learned this as yet. The great sue
cess OF our neighbors has been made in
many cases with a soil much poorer
than ours, and with rainfall scarcely
a fourth of ours. the Riverside soil
withal having thirst as consuming as
that of old Jack Falstaff for sack or can
ary. But enough. The subject is mex
haustible.
The English Syndicate.
Genius for development was by no
means confined to Judge North. Amongst
the other ingenious and enterprising
men attracted to Riverside was one Mat
thew Gage, the originator OF the Gage
canal. This man recently consum-
mated scheme of development
almost as daring as the original
plan and settlement of Riverside, and
it promises to be yearly, if not quite as
successful, as that superb programme.
Gage knew that, to the east of River
side, there was large tract OF land quite
as good as any which now commands
from $1,000 to $4,000 an acre, according
to the improvements. He saw that ali
that was needed to make this big
thing in the money line was to guaran-
tee that water should be placed on it in
sufficient quantities. With that aque-
GUS desideratum once assured, all else
would follow, as in the plans of Messrs.
North and Evans.
To think with Matthew Gage was to
do. We understand that he comes OF
good north country Irish stock-the
stock that lies at the bottom OF the pros
nerity OF Pittsburgh and western Penn
sylvania. He first secured the land,
and then he hied him to those regions
OF perennial water supply-those sources
eternal in the rock-ribbed mountains
that lie back of old San Bernardino.
Through artesian wells, which there are
as abundant as the 'how OF Iser rolling
rapidly" Mr.. Gage got all the water he
needed.
T Having the land and the water, Mr..
Gage naturally next looked around for
Englishman. OF course, he found
him; Eand, with view of not seeming
ito want the earth, Mr. G. sold out to a
syndicate of bold, blarsted, bloody Brit
ons, for cool million dollars.
That is where the case stands just
Isnow as respects Mr.. Gage, his land and
his canal. The English syndicate that
purchased the possessions OF Mr.. Gage,
at this consoling figure, are now going
ahead on colossal plan. They have
laid out their four thousand acres on
lines Of precision; and they have pro-
jected one street, called Victoria ave-
nue., which is as wide as Pennsylvania
avenue, in Washington City. 1t looks
to be at least two hundred feet broad
The land in its original state was worth
probably $5 or So an acre. These Eng
lishmen propose to charge $3.50 an acre
for water-right, which means an
abundant one. Land and water they
will hold at from $3.50 to $500 an acre
They reason that lands which will yield,
in six or seven years, from 5000
to $500 an acre are richly
worth that price, and they are right.
The Englishmen themselves will supply
be more than content. They know a
good thing when they see it; and lands
that will some day pay interest on $l0,-
900 an acre they consider cheap at $45o
to $500 an acre.
The Work of the Santa Fe-Develop-
ment on all Hands.
1t is sometimes worth while to give q
thought to the great work done by the
railways in bringing Southern Califor-
MIA to the front, and making life easy
and profitable to us. The HERALD has
frequently had occasion to speak of the
tremendous prosperity which followed
the extension OF the Southern Pacific
railway through Arizona to New Or
leans. 1 had the pleasure of being, by
invitation, one Of Mr. Towne's party to
celebrate the junction of the Sunset
route with the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe railway at Deming Since
then this latter corporation has done
wonders in railway building throughout
Arizona. New Mexico and Southern Cali
fornia. The Southern California rail
way is close connection-at least
cousin german, if not an offspring
of the Santa Fe, and that cor
poration has ramifed all over Los An
geles, San Bernardino, Orange and San
Diego counties. Its recently completed
Belt system, by which you can go no to
San Bernardino by way of Orange and
the cai1on of the Cajon de Santa Ana,
and return by the foothills which at
Monrovia are left for straight shoot for
Pasadena, has already done wonders for
the section trayersed by it. In the
Cajon de Santa Ana, at Yorba and in its
approaches, one gets glimpse of the
old time life of Southern California,
with the Mexican caballero and his
hacienda, as an objective point. At
South Riverside one strikes that beauti-
full and remunerative ideal of the orange
grove, which hangs to one until River
side proper is reached. South River
side, as producer OF the citrus fruits,