Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-10
Cahuenga Farmers Still Talk
of a Factory.
Tn e Cooperative Scheme Max
ing Some Progress.
An Account of the Meeting Held
Yesterday Afternoon.
A Full List of the Subscribers and the
Acreage they Offer-The Plan
Promises Success.

valley and vicinity, was held yesterday
at Denker's Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas
The drive to the meeting was further
opportunity to observe the wonderful
resources of this beautiful district. The
fertility of the region needs no further
comment, because the inhabitants have
in various manners advertised it. Yes
terday a visit was made to the oil we'll
on Mrs. Hancock's place, and to an old
Pittsburger it would seem strange, that
with such indications OF oil and gas, the
whole district is not forest of der
ricks. The Hancock well is only 400
feet deep, and it is said that it was shut
down because the water could not be
cased off. The Pennsylvania gas wells
are al 1000 feet or more in depth, and
all water difficulties have long since
been overcome. 1t would seem that a
pool of black oil bubbling with gas, like
that at the surface of the Hancock,
would encourage the owners to go ahead
and improve their splendid opportunity
The sugar-beet meeting was held in
the open air, as it was last week, so that
be famed by the cool sea breeze. Half
8 hundred representatives of bone and
sinew were there, and at 3 O'Clock were
called to order by Chairman F. J. Mol.
Mr.. Captain rendered a report for the
committee on subscriptions, and it
turned out that only 1867 acres have
actually been subscribed and bonded,
while it is essential that 1000 acres
should thus be guaranteed before the
erection OF a building and purchase of
machinery can be proceeded with.
The subscribers and stockholders thus
Gar were the following:
Five hundred acres-Hammel &
Denker.
One hundred acres cache. Cole, Cole
grove Jose de Arnaz, the Palms; II. II.
Denker, Rodeo de las Aguas.
Fifty acres each-Sentous Bros. and
Andrew Stephan, Ballona.
Thirty acres-D. A. Machado, The
Palms.
Twenty-Five acres-J. r. Dunkelberger,
Colegrove.
Twenty acres-Chris Greve ,Cahuenga
Ten acres each-P. f. Benedict, Monte
Vista; Clemente G. Conronel, j. NJ.
Coguer, Phineas Tiblat, The Palms;
Henry Claasen, War A. Weld, P. F.
Schumacher, Mrs. Ii. G. Weyse, Cole
grove; !. II. Woodwork, Morocco !;
Andrew F. Machado, Ballona; Jose Ma
chado, Ballona; Macarthur & Durfy,
Cahuenga.
Five, acres each--Juan Rodriguez,
The Palms; w. N. Carlin, Cahuenga
Henry Schimmel, The Palms; T. j..
MoIi, Sr., J. Priester. Preby Barrow,
III. E. Neuman and +. Huntley, Pros
Swall, Cahuenga; Fred Schimmel, The
Palms; Martin Labaig, Cahuenga;
Jacob Brown, Ballona.
Three acres each-F. B. Alderson,
Cahuenga James Cook, Ballona; Jesus
Saenz. The Palms.
Two acres-Christ Rocker, Prospect
Park.
One acre.. n. Wilson, Cahuenga.
This is the first time the list of actual
subscribers to stock in the cooperative
company has been published. The
former lists, which summed up some
thing like 1900 acres, were simply in
she nature OF announcements of inten-
tion without really holding the sub
scriber in any way.
Mr.. Captain read letter from a
farmer In Anaheim, who says:
81 see in the HERALD that you are
interested in starting sugar factory
in Cahuenga by inducing the farmers to
go into the cooperative business. In
Germany the farmers have made sue
cess of it. Now, why cannot you come
out here to start this thing? We have
here at least rs, 900 acres of land fit to
raise sugar beets successfully. 1 tried
it now for the last three years raising
heets in small way, and sent samples
to Watsooville and Chino for testing
They ran up to Is per cent. of sugar"
The whole scheme was once more
thoronghly ventilated before the meet
ing by the promoters. Then Mr..
Hutchinson, planter from Chino, gave
Jew of his experiences down at that
place. He declared that for several sea-
sous he did not make anything out of
iis beets, because all the profit went to
the manufacturer. He still has faith in
Che beet culture, even without profit
from the mandatory. He considers
the vicinity of the sea at Cahuenga a
great advantage for the cultivators, and
expressed his intention, if this scheme
would crystalline, of putting forty or
fifty acres into beets himself in the
Cahuenga valley. His views were also
endorsed by Mr.. Smith, also from
0HluO, VINO IOSC OH pne culture DllllSel,
but mentioned several instances where
FARMERS had come out all right, the rea-
sun being the great care they gave to
cultivation.
a. III. Denker here said: "If any one
will furnish me men enough to put my
land into beets, the whole 5000 acres are
at your disposal. Or, if emo lgh renters
can be found, every acre OF this ranch
will go into sugar beets." This an
nouncement was received with enthusi-
asrn, and several of those present de-
ciated that they would go out man
hunting for Mr.. Denker in order to get
the factory.
Mr.. Hall Stoll declared that he could
not understand why the land owners do
not give poor men a chance to rent the
land in such way as to make it posi-
Ole for the renter to bond the land for
five years, and thus enable him to de-
rive the profit from the factory. He
said he was afraid that land owners
knew there was something in the propo-
sition and were holding out their land
so as to rent it after while, and "hog"
the benefit from the stock in the factory.
A. I'll. Deuker replied that the only
thing the land owner would do would be
ia subscribe pieces OF land enough to
start the scheme, and then put it on the
m srket, not try and sell it on bare
prospect.
During a recess OF ten minutes, the
fII-..:..o oJd;t;npof suhscriptiOna were