Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-10
IA CANADA VALLEY
Procrastination of Railway
Building the Thief Of Cash.
That Assertion Proved by Paper by
General Shields.
Two syndicatcs Considering a Road from
Los Angeles and Pasadena to
La Canada-Some VAL
ley Chips.


AID in freely surrendering column after
column to the prolonged La Canada
railroad agitation, both local and east
ern railroad people have become con-
ver5ant with the situation. That atten-
tion has been centered and interest
aroused may be inferred from the nat
ural effects Of attention and interest,
among which effects may be mentioned
three visits to La Canada valley by
three railroad experts, respectively rep
resenting three railroad syndicates.
Two syndicates have concluded to give
the cities of Los Angeles and Pasadena
railroad connection with La Canada
valley. Which of the two syndicates
will give the said railroad connection
depends on relative celebrity in getting
ready.
MY last private dispatches impart in
creased significance to the railroad un-
dercurrent. 1t is the emergent of per-
sistent agitation. III hieroglyphic ehad-
ows are not mere tantalizers, new de-
parture is incubating.
1t is a financial bunder to postpone
railway extension through La Canada
valley, because right of way can now be
had for song and the land thrown in,
will cost litigation and from 5000 to $1,000
forecast2 Is this an advance chip from
the certain future block? 1t is. l can
match this future chip with several La
Canada valley chips of the present, as
follows:
Mr.. Theodore Pickens has plantation
of citrus trees, deciduous fruit trees,
guavas and also decorative trees south of
bis beautiful mansion and north of it
has implanted land. Mr.. Pickens will
donate the right of way through his un-
planted land, but would not accept $4,000
per acre for right of way through his
planted land. Mr.. Pickens has plenty
of both resolution and coin to litigate
this choice through all the state courts,
and, If defeated in the state courts, small
hope would drive Mr.. Pickens to domi-
cile in another state in order to attach
federal appellate jurisdiction.
DIR. j. b. Lanterman was offered 5000
per acre for his home place of 100 acres,
plantation of citrus groves, deciduous
orchards and vineyards. H5 refuses to
take less than $3.50 per acre. DR.. Lam
terman also owns implanted land. He
will donate right of way through his
implanted land, but $4,000 per acre
would not buy right Of way through
his citrus Eden, and $4,000 per acre
would not buy right of way through his
pleasure plot, ducal as England and real
as La Canada valley. DIR. Lanterman
would embattle with Lawyer Stephen
M. White as his customary Napolon,
and the railroad corporation would feel
the touch of jolly thunderbolt.
Charles HI. Macarthur sold to Mrs.
Mccormick forty acres of bearing citrus
and deciduous fruit trees and vineyard
at $682 per acre. Two thousand dollars
per acre would not buy right of way
through the citrus grove and the
pleasure plot, because it is about as
ducal as the best possessions of DIR. Lam
terman. The railroad syndicate that
would dig through this Eden would feel
the cares of juridical cyclone.
DR.. S. S. Salisbury, the capitalist,
now owns the Ketchum place, fair as the
parterres, orchards and groves watered
by Montezuma's fountains. The doctor
also has implanted land. Today Dr. Sails
bury would say to the railway projec-
tors: $50 through my implanted land
without money and without price; thv
head be showered with a cloud-burst of
thanks. But tantalize me with your
over the present dominions of Jack rab-
bits, and then yon dig out the middle of
my Eden and besmoke its borders. Sir /!
my vengeance shall burn through you,
and your grand cash shall begrand me. %
In less time than it took Harrison as
President to weed out Blaine, plow his
political farm and gather the Minneap-
oils crop, Mr.. E. Dunham weeded out
jack-rabbits, plowed his La Canada farm,
gathered orchard crops, grew forest,
spread blue grass smile, surpassed
London flower parterres, and the ripe
loneliness of vine, tendril, leaf and
bloom, captured, overhowed, and low
ingly half smothered the palatial man
sion. A gentleman stood on an emil
nence looking upon Mr.. Dunham' g
four-year-old paradise, in all the bright
ness, beauty, purity and salu brity of La
Canada climate. Turning to me the
gentleman said: "Some day rich in
valid will come along and offer Mr..
Durham $1,000 per acre." This gentle.
man is one of the best judges of land on
the Pacific coast. He is decidedly the
most conservative of the very conserva-
tive board of managers of the State
Loan and Trust company bank, one of
the richest, most conservative and re-
sponsible of the California banks. ]
repeated the gentleman's remarks to
Mr.. Dunham. why" replied Mr..
Dunham, "I would not take $1,000 per
acre for my planted land. But" con-
tinued Mr.. Dunham, "yonder, outside oi
my cultivated land, are farm tracts that
/ would sell at $3.50 per acre"
Mr.. Dunham's case proves that the
postponement of railway extension may
be not only very costly, but quickly 80
The opinion may be that deciduoul
orchards and citrus groves cannot spread
over La Canada without railway exten
sion. There is some reason for this
opinion. 1t is quite certain that with
out railroad extension plantations o.
fruit trees will not spread over the val
ley as rapidly, but still they will spread
In point of fact, they are spreading. Ir
1891 more citrus fruit trees were planted
in La Canada than during all the pre-
vious years of the American occupation
of California. The actualities of 189
up to the 1st of July are as follows:
Mr.. Will d. Gould, of the law firm O
Gould & Stanford, has 1000 acres O
fruit land in La Canada, and has 1900
orange trees that will be planted in 13
acres of the 1000 acres as starter.
Or. Salisbury planted several hun
dred orange trees and added large res
ervoir that increases the capacity fo
additional spread OF tree plantations.
j. III. Bone planted five acres in ol