Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-06
SOME THINGS | SEE.
A Bishops Views Of Southern
California.
A Pointed, Condensed, Thought
full Expression of Opinion.
What He Considers Characteristic of
the People.
Agricultural DevelOpment-The Labor
Question - Public improvements.
A Sublime Audacity-Facts
About Population.
TBy BISHOP ArrIcUs G. HAYeooD.


entitled Some Things See, and Some
Things 1 am Told, for the Wesleyan
Christian Advocate, of Atlanta, Ga. The
paper is as follows:
The agricultural portions of this state
are filing up very fast andswith people o
enterprise and, with few exceptions, o
means; only such people can get foot
hold here. For example, today hearC
a man who expects brother to settle
in this part of the state say, ''Neal
Azusa, farming village about twenty
miles from this city, he can get land
suited to oranges, but not set in trees
Just the land, for $3.50 per acre." His
brother wanted a twenty acre farm and
this not far from the average. In the
same vicinity he can buy twenty acres
with trees just beginning to bear, for
$500 per acre. Nearly all the old
ranches are being rapidly broken up
into small farms and buyers keep COM
ing. These little twenty-acre farms set
In oranges, lemons, English walnuts,
olives, grapes an6 vegetables, keep their
owners very busy. And for all they
produce there is ready market, in most
cases at their doors.
In this country white men work and
white women also. There is no negro
question here; there are very few ne
groes in the state; probably there never
will be Gmany. The Chinese do not,
ana told, increase in numbers; the laws
excluding them are said to be vigorously
enforced. Those who need or wish SER
wants have a problem not easily settled.
The very rich, it may be supposed, have
less trouble on this subject than aver
age citizens. hope so. We have Jared
reasonably well and our Chinaman is
doing for us about the best he can,
while we are emulating his example in
our efforts to please him. There are by
no means so many Mexicans hereabouts
as expected to see. A wise and in
formed man, long resident here, tells
me that they are disappearing. They
cannot compete with the Chinese as
iaborers, nor can they endure attrition
with Americans. They do not get as
good food or as much of it as when they
roamed these fertile plains and fed on
their hocks and herds.
White men are energetic here; the
delicious climate has not enervated
them. Lazy people could not have
worked the transformation of twenty
years in this part of the state, to say
nothing of Northern California. The
courage of these people is immense.
They build cities, railroads, great dams
for storing water, vast and complicated
(and most remunerative to all con-
cerned) systems of irrigating canals and
bitches.
1t is said, truly, no doubt, that much
eastern capital has been invested here,
but it would have been worthless but
for the keen sense and invincible spirit
OF the people who live here, own the
lands and cultivate the soil. Somewhat
is due to people who had sense enough
to induce New England to plant its
millions 80 far from home. In the
money ideals" that have entered into
the development of this country it is
said that the true Californian does not
often ''get left"
The school house is in front; it leads
the procession. Few college buildings
surpass the high school building in this
city; the grammar school houses here
are imposing structures. have seen
jnst as fine buildings in towns not five
years old, and some in the country, sur
passed but by one school building in At
lanta. Experts say that the public
school system of this state is in the fore
front in the United States. They do
not lack money and the school term is
tull nine months. A lady teacher
chance to know, who has a place in a
grammar school in a country town,
rather collection of little farm set
Elements, of about eight hundred souls,
receives $500 per month, and she
is one of six teachers in the
school where she is engaged. The
state does most of the work of education
In this country, and 80 far as book-train-
ing goes, does it wonderfully we'll. Col
lege people know about the university
OF California and greater things are ex-
peeted of the institution Senator Stan
ford is establishing with his princely
gift of twenty millions of dollars. On
Wilson's peak, in sight of the parson-
age, Harvard has, | am told, a branch
observatory, and the university set 60
ing in this city by the Methodist Epis-
copal church (North) is, through the
Gberality of one friend, as l am in
formed, having prepared an observatory
whose telescope will surpass any ever
constructed. In these matters l am not
ND, and content myself with what in
formed people tell me.
These people have sublime audacity
in carrying out their wishes. This
county of Los Angeles, large as some
New England states, grew weary of the
old court house. This week the officials
are moving into the new one. ven
tured to ask the cost. A well informed
preacher long resident, said, "The whole
plant. grounds, building, and furnishing
cost seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars" / have small knowledge of
such matters, but have seen no state
capitol south of the Potomac as noble
except two, one in Austin, Texas; the
other, of course, in Atlanta, (where At
lanta is need not say. There are other
buildings in this fair city worthy to
keep company with our magnificent
court house. Many cities have seen !;
not one that has 80 many beautiful and
comfortable homes. They say that the
boom when it burst hurt them dread
fully, but they seem to have forgotten
it welI-nigh, if one may Judge by the
building that is now going on.
The census of 1880 gave this city about
IL 900 people; Mr.. Porter's count of last
year--faken, they say, when 10000 peo-
pie were at the dozen beaches close by
gives over $4,000. If the people focked
to the beaches last year as this, as many
nB 1O,O00 may really have. been out of
4uwn when ME. Porter made his guess.