Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-05

month, $25,OO to $500; bakers, per
month, $4,000 to $4,000; butchers, per
month, $4,000 to $4,000.
To which we respectfully call the
attention of her Majesty's able represen-
tative.
The statement that thousands of good
workmen are now out of employment"
is totally without foundation and alb
solutely untrue. Not one of the
different classes of laborers, now
honestly seeking employment, is unable
to find it, at the above schedule of
wages.
On page 43 of the report (speaking of
Catalina) occurs the following:
"The island, which is about nine
miles long, and one third to one mile
wide, was sold for 1000 lbs, and'may be
worth that much apart from the ore."
The actual dimensions of the island
are. length twenty one miles, breadth
about three miles (smallest) to eight
miles (largest.)
On page 48, referring to the Beaumont
colony lands, occurs the following:
''The best valuation | can get OF these
lands is lbs $500 per acre an adjoining
proprietor offers his lands at lbs ($20)
per acre."
This statement is certainly misleading,
as outside lands with no water except
by digging 70 to 120 feet for it, at Abs
($20) per acre, does not compare in
value with lands, supplied with plenty
of good water, by an effective system Of
reservoirs and water pipes distributing
it to the producer for domestic and
irrigation purposes.
Dry lands without supply of water
for irrigation, at lbs ($20) per acre, may
be higher priced, than the same quality
Of land supplied with water for domestic
and irrigation purposes at 30 lbs. ($150)
per acre.
The foregoing attack on personal
enterprise would seem to be beneath
the dignity of fair minded British vice
consul.
On page 45 OF the report occurs the
following:
"Irishmen and Canadians succeed
well here because they readily adapt
themselves to the manners and customs
of the people. Englishmen are more
successful in thoroughly English colo
nies like British Columbia. and in view
of the facts that the vast agricultural
and mineral wealth of that colony is
almost unexplored, that the oppotuni-
tlCS W llOuCy are lully SOOu
there as here, that the surroundings are
more in harmony with English ideas and
that Englishmen are likely to live hap
here, 1 invariably advise my English
correspondents to write to the com
missioner of lands, Victoria, British
Columbia, before deciding where they
will SETTLE"
While Englishmen as per the above
are not as suitable to this country as to
British Columbia, on account of lack of
harmony existing between it's surround
ings and their ideas; and while their
personal usefulness is a failure here as
compared to the former country still,
evidently, their capital handled by
those not so sensitive to nor effected by
this want of harmony between sur
roundings and ideas, meets with better
success, as appears by the following,
which occurs on page 43 of the report:
'For the past six years have annu-
ally pointed out the remarkably good
opening existing here for the in
vestment of money on mortgage"
In view of the fact, which is we'll
known, that the vice counsul himself
has for some years past been engaged in
loaning British capital on mortgage Sc
curity here, charging largecommissions
the somewhat remarkable advice be-
comes significant.
On page 80 of the report occurs the
following passage in the opinion of an
''Irish gentleman" which is here
quoted:
II would not take present of an
orange grove near Los Angeles, or any
where in the vicinity of the sea or where
there is much fog, if the gift was coupled
with the condition that | should work
it,"
Immediately following this opinion
the vice consul says:
''The writer of the foregoing is sue
cessful business man, in whose judg-
ment and integrity place implicit con-
fdence."
In view Of the fact that during the
last season alone, upwards of 319 car
loads, averaging 300 boxes to the car, of
oranges were produced from the orchards
in and "near" Los Angeles, it would
seem either that the threatened refusal
of the gentleman whose opinion is
quoted, to accept as gift one of these
orchards, is based on the we'll founded
and safe assumption that none such will
be rendered him, or that the implicit
confidence" of her Maiesty's representa-
tive has been misplaced or betrayed.
On pages As and 46 of the report oc-
ours the following:
''It has been stated in the press here
that poor laborers seeking employment
are sometimes arrested as vagrants by
the constables, solely to obtain the fee
allowed for making their arrest, and are
committed to the chain-gang. 1t was
stated in the Los Angeles Daily Times a
few weeks ago that twenty-five OF the
chain-gang refusing to work more than
six hours day were put in the dun
geons; that they made a great deal of
noise, and to quiet them the jailor
turned the hose upon them and that
some of the worst continuing to howl,
were taken out and hung up by their
thumbs until they gave in, which was a
very short time. Since writing the fore
going, the following item was published
in one of the local papers
This thing of arresting an honest
mechanic simply because he was out OF
work and sending him to Jail as a
vagrant, and because he refused to go
out in chains to work on the highway,
trice him up until his thumbs are pulled
out of joint, must not only stop, but the
atrocity committed must be atoned.
| Our people are worse than barbarians
for tolerating such atrocities
LUMBER VESSEL REPORT;