Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-26


branches almost meet.
Their highest tops are twenty feet
above the ground. Fig trees and walnut
trees all set the same spring quite over
top the apricots, and make fully as large
a spread. The bolls of these trees foot
from the ground will average twenty to
thirty inches in circumference. There
are pears, apples, piums and prunes that
are the picture of perfect health, and a
small vineyard of some fifteen varieties
of the choicest grapes does not show yell
low leaf among them all, while they are
hanging so heavily burdened with fruit
the limbs from breaking. Where this
of the trees are broken almost to ruin.
A large grove of eucalyptus trees around
the house have grown to be forest.
The supervisors had all gone on to
Santa Monica, and Mr.. Denker and the
charming place up into caiion is the
foothills where they found Mr.. M. L.
Yager busy gathering blackberries. He
wide and 100 feet long, or 1000 square
acre, from which he picks annually
about $50 quarts of fine berries. Mr..
Yager has small patch of thirty-six
growth that they remind one of Panama
Acapulco or Mazatlan. They are cov-
cred with fine fruit of delicious flavor
Just beyond Mr.. Wager lies Judge
Lindley's old Monte Vista. 1t is most
o1, n hn
peppers planted by the judge a dozen
the place. 1t is the home of
200 acres. The most remarkable feature
here is, perhaps, the orchard OF lime
trees. They are twenty-five feet high
over the ground. No touch of frost ever
visits these foothills, and the trees have
grown perfectly. They are much more
tender than either the orange or the
lemon. The beauty of the thing is that
they bear fruit every day in the year,
and the fruit always commands ready
sale at good prices.
On the other side of Mr.. Yager, in a
the White brothers, w. o. and Robert.
did not linger.
Passing on, the house of ex-Sheriff J.
G. Kays was reached, and that of his
charming home they have! 1t is
hang so heavily loaded with fine fruit
that their branches sweep the ground.
Mr.. Kays has planted out large orchard
of 1oo
Next to Mr.. Kays is the place of Mr..
Jacob Miller. He was busy drying
large crop of fine apricots from large
orchard Of beautiful trees. He has a
vineyard, too, that looks we'll. I'm
healthy vines never were seen, and
some of them are old ones, which were
hurt most by the disease. Mr.. Miller
makes fine wine, which was duly and
satisfactorily sampled. This whole foot
hill country is the land of early vegeta-
bles. Here tomatoes grow all the year
round, as such a thing as breath of
frost never reaches this region. Mr.
Miller has been one of the pioneers in
developing this industry. He says he
has harvested $4,000 pounds of early
peas from ten acres of land, which aver
aged him in the markets of San Fran
cisco cents pound, and netted him
here cents. That is 81 $50 net for the
crop of the ten acres. From tomatoes
Mr.. Miller has made 5000 an acre over
and over again.
From this place the road lay to the
handsome house of Mr.. John L. Plum
mer. He has farm of 120 acres of this
fine foot-hill land. He has a lovely
place, and picked from the stalk some
excellent bananas, that do as we'll here
as in Central America Just here large
tracts owned by the Messrs. Little and
Cursor, Mr.. Jones and Captain Frank
enfield, and Col. Dunkelberger were
passed. The ranch of Mr.. Andrew Hay
was seen to the left of the road, where
a gang of Cinnamon was busy picking
the apricot crop. AS none of these peo-
pie live on their land, no stop was made.
Near here, by the roadside, is the
pretty home of Mr.. w. d. Wilson. He
has lived here about two years and al
ready has fine vineyard and handsome
orchard. Last winter, when onions were
cents a pound, Mr.. Wilson had small
patch of fine silver-skins that he made
pretty profit on. Along the foothills
all sorts of vegetables mature all the
year round.
Now the road had reached Hollywood,
one of the prettiest places in the county,
laid out a few years ago by Mr.. H. H.
Wilcox. There is hotel here, and
good store kept by Mr.. J. Watts. Mr.
Wilcox lives here himself, and has
large slice of the finest foothill land in
the region. He sold year ago to Mr.
E. G. Hurd nearly twenty acres of this,
and that gentleman has built a
fine residence on it. He has
set the whole piece to oranges
and lemons, which are doing well. He
is Colorado man, who has come here
to make his home, and is both intelli-
gent and progressive, as all the sur
roundings Of his home indicate. Men
like Mr.. Hurd are all this foothill coun-
try needs to make it the loveliest spot on
earth.
Just above Hollywood is the Cahuenga
pass, the road out into the San Fernando
valley. Just above the mouth of the
canon is the old Eight-mile house,
known to all old-timers who travelled by
stage. In is the home of Mr.. w. B.
Caldwell, who has one of the most ad-
mirable places in the world for a sum
mer resort. The mountain scenery and
the fine air make it delightful spot.