Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-05
THE WORLDS FAIR.
a Correspondent of the Herald Tells
What He Thinks.

EDITORS HERALD: Having spent the
last six months in the east, few items
came under my observation that may
be of some interest to the readers of the
HERALD.
While in the east made the study of
emigration to California the subject of
my observations, having put in most of
the time in the city of Chicago, and,
therefore, my information is principally
gathered there.
During the last two months was in
the Southern California exhibit in the
Rialto building almost daily. And 1
can with truth say it is doing great
work for Southern California and
Major Ben G. Truman, manager
of the same, is the right man in
the right place. His experience is
great, he having had charge of similar
exhibits in Paris, London, Vienna. Phil
adelphia, New Orleans and other places.
The exhibit is kept up we'll, and is well
fpatronized. II will form quite nucleus
: for the worlds fair. One thing we
f,rincipal part of the exhibit, that is the
kiterature and let nae say right here
literature somewhat. We have been
giving too much statistics, such as
churches, schools, colleges, postoffice
business, wholesale and retail business,
street car traffic, railroad freights, har-
fbor traffic, etc. If any of the above are
mentioned at all in pamphlet it
should be in very condensed torn. The
trouble is the people we are after, and
the kind we need most, that is the
farmer and fruit-grower, he cares moth
ing about these statistics. What he
wants to know is where can l buy land,
what will it cost per acre, on what
terms can l buy it, and what will it
produce, and is there or will there be a
market for my produce? The nearer
we confine ourselves to these questions
the better. My advice would be that a
map should accompany pamphlet
something in the style of the climatic
map issued by the Southern Pacific
railroad company; that is, the county
should be divided in sections peculiar to
the adaptability of its products. While
this could not altogether be relied upon,
yet no one will doubt that one section
OF the county will produce certain kind
Of fruit better than another. Forex
pie, the walnut does produce better in
the low lands and the orange on the up
land. would divide the county about
as follows: All the land between the
ocean and the Southern Pacific railroad,
Santa Ana branch, and on line from
Florence to the Soldiers home, l would
call the said belt the evergreen or dairy
belt, and say adapted to grain, corn,
vegetables, nuts, etc., and color it green,
and say altitude from ocean level to 800
feet; all the land north and west of said
gyine to the Sierra mountains I
would call the orange belt, and would
vcolor it yellow and explain it's adapta-
vaility, altitude, etc. The same should
also be done with the frostless belt
along the Cahuenga foothills and along
the Sierra Madre mountains for winter
vegetables. ihe mountainS and the
Antelope valley should also come in for
their explanation.
Irrigation systems, artesian wells,
etc., could also be indicated on a map.
In this way we could much better eX-
plain the resources of our county and
be understood. Each section in map
would come in for its share OF eAplana-
ton. Prices of lands, amount OF land
unOccupled, etc. ANY one tnat VIII get
up map of this kind will fill long felt
want. We also need pamphlets very
bad in the German language. The Ger
mans, as rule, make good farmers and
fruit-growers. and we should encourage
them. Our efforts to settle our vacant
lands should be as much as possible to
colonies, something like the Anaheim
colony, which has been great success
At present it is good time to make a
good beginning. While our fruit last
summer has entered every little city in
the union, it required less explanation
what California can produce than here
tofore. We must look foi our farmers
west of the Mississippi river. Those o.
the very far east, as whole, l do not
favor for the reason their wants have
become so great that the farm will moi
support them any more. While theil