Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-10
THE INITIAL OF MANUFACTURES-A
GOOD BEGINNING.

Angeles Dv the IemaTk CildC We nave Ho
manufactures. This is not true state
ment. We have already very good
start in the line Of productive industries,
and in many lines. In addition, we
have many productive resources that
are in their nature marked branch OF
manufactures. Wines and brandies be-
long to this class. The growing and the
picking of the grape is horticulture. Its
conversion into wine or brandy is dis
tinctive manufacture, and of a very
charming kind. The growth of apricots,
peaches, or any other kind of fruit, be-
longs also to the department OF horticul-
ture. Their conversion into staples of
trade, in the shape of dried or canned
fruits, is in the line OF manufacturing
industry.
Thus, in the very nature OF our pro-
duction, we have large manufacturing
element. But we are not restricted to
these narrow limits, as we shall pro-
ceed to show.
In the immediate neighborhood OF Los
Angeles. at South Riverside and Elsinore,
we have tremendous deposits of kaolin.
This substance forms the basis OF all
the elegant pottery and jars which have
taken so many esthetic and useful
shapes. All the Liebig beef extracts are
packed in jars made of kaolin. We are
thus provided in Los Angeles with the
material for both a fine art and the
adjunct of our canned fruits.
Then we are on the point of developing
the Temescal tin mines, whose wealth OF
ore is said to be exceptionally great, the
percentage running four or five times
that of the mines of Cornwall, England.
AS English capitalists have put million
dollars in this plant, it is to be naturally
assumed that they know what they are
doing. Two hundred and fifty men are
now at work on these mines, and they
will shortly begin to send their product
to market.
With abundance of tin, at such short
remove from Los Angeles, all we need is
iron to assure decidedly remunerative
manufacture of tin plate, of which iron
is highly important constituent. 1t
has long been known that iron in great
quantities exists within sixty miles OF
Los Angeles. The pronounced oxydizing
of the faces of the mountains to the
northeast OF this city has all along pro-
claimed the existence of great iron de-
posits in those ranges. The minute ex-
plorations which have followed have
confirmed these color-disclosures of ma
ture; and iron, in illimitable quantities,
is at hand to be fused in the tin plates.
With both these sources of wealth de-
veloped, we have the conditions of
splendid manufacturing industries in
addition to our manifest destiny Of ulti-
mately becoming the great smelling
center of the western side of the Amer
lean continent. The handling of clay
has already become great manufactur-
ing industry, both at south Riverside
and in Los Angeles. The manipulation
of tin and iron will follow. Later will
come the conversion of the incomputa-
BILE masses OF low grade ores which lie
behind us in southwestern Nevada,
southwestern Utah, all of Arizona and
practically all of Southern California.
It will take few years to group all
these sources of wealth in grand CUP
d'eil, but the grouping is bound to
come, and shortly.
In addition to these materials for
manufacturing our own pots and cans,
we shall shortly have in Southern Cali
fornia quite number of beet sugar fac
tories. The first will be started on the
Chino ranch, and will be in operation
this year. We shall thus have the
sugar, as home product. that will en-
ter into our canning and fruit crystalline
ing operations. These, under such
favorable conditions, cannet fail to be
on a mammoth scale. Take it for all in
all, we shall do very well while awaiting
the advent of the cheap Utah coal which