Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-02
FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1891.
OUR NEW YEARS NUMBER.


was admitted on all hands to be one of
the most interesting and valuable num-
bers ever published in this city. Besides
the current news of the day, including
our very complete telegraphic reports
from all parts Of the world, and the
usual quantity OF local and editorial
matter, it contained carefully compiled
statistics upon every subject of interest
to the people of Southern California.
The transactions during the year OF all
our public departments were tabulated,
and the data relating too schools, city
and county, were accurate and exhaus-
tive. The meteorological tables for over
q decade, with monthly averages of the
temperature during that period ,are of the
greatest value to our people, showing as
they do in clear and indisputable man
ner the supremacy of our climate over
that of any other part of the globe for its
mlldness, equability and salubrious-
ness. As we write, on this bright and
genial New Years day, with the sun
beaming through cloudless sky, we
wonder how any one who can possibly
come here from the harsh and inclement
east fails to do so. The lessons which
these tables teach will turn many eyes
wistfully towards our beautiful section
With its matchless climate.
Perhaps none of the interesting sta
tistical exhibits of this New Years num-
ber will arrest the attention of home
seekers abroad more than those relating
to the returns from our great diversity
of soil products. The orange crop is
steadily increasing, and the profits aris-
ing.from it are simply astounding. The
figures show that the man VINO has a
five-acre orchard is in possession OF a
competency, and that the income from
a ten-acre grove in full bearing is simply
princely. The prune crop is destined to
be one of immense value in the near
future, as horticulturists are paying very
special attention to it. A few days ago
one of the leading grocers of Sacramento
told us that he was beginning to open
his eyes to the merits of this section OF
the state. He had always been one of the
doubling Thomases but when, a few days
before, he was making one of his usual
daily rounds of the freight depot, and
found carload of peanuts, several car
loads OF potatoes, train after train
weighed down with oranges and lemons,
a large invoice OF beans, and nearly a
trainload of English walnuts, and was
told in answer to his inquiry that they
were all the products Of Los Angeles, he
began to think that he might have made
a mistake in his previous attitude to-
ward our section, and frankly admitted
that a locality that could produce all the
fruits of two zones, the nuts that have
but a limited habitat in any part OF
the globe, and all the vegetables that
can be raised anywhere, was section of
possibilities that even Sacramentans
ought not to despise.
The statistical compilations in this
sixteen-page number of the HERALD
ought to be widely circulated in the east.
They are the very best advertisement Of
our city and section that could possibly
be sent abroad. The data about our
public schools and higher educational in
stitutions would alone be a source of tre-
mendous attraction TO the heads of
families in the Atlantic states, and the
poor hard-bested farmer OF the west
would strain every nerve to come to
country where even the most ordinary
crops Weld net income of from 500
to $500 an acre.
As the edition OF yesterdays HERALD
is not yet exhausted, we would advise
those who wish to let their eastern
friends know the kind OF a country we
live in, to call at our Office and have
copies of it mailed to their addresses.