The herald., 1893-12-12
OUR UNEQUALLED RESOURCES.

Eastern people who have never visit
ed Southern California labor under the
hallucination that it is region which
produces oranges and table grapes to
sell to all the rest OF the United States,
whereas nothing can be further from
the truth. Southern California, being
semi-tropicai, is not restricted to the
products OF any one particular zone. 1t
presents to the view OF the contem-
plstive and studious agriculturist such
diversity of products as is possessed
by no other part OF the civilized globe.
A few years ago somebody living in
what was then a part OF Los Angeles
county, but now comprising the county
OF Orange, discovered that English wal
nuts grew better on the black peat
lands thRn on the sandy loan OF the
San Gabriel valley. Extensive orchards
of walnuts were planted there in every
direction, and then came the second
discovery-that the same peat lands
which grew the choicest walnuts aleo
produced an article OF celery unequalled
for crispnsss and color. Accordingly
the Jack lands have been largely plant.
ep to celery between the rows OF walnut
trees, in many places; and, as the wal
nuts are generally gathered befo,e the
trenches OF celery are set out, one crop
is not dwaried by the other, nor is the
soil in anywise embarrassed by these
apparently large demands on its fertili-
ty. During the past iortn ght the little
town ui Santa Ana has exported an av-
erage of ten carloads. or 150 tons, of
celery per week to the towns Of the great
Mississippi valley.
But the diversity OF produc Is by no
means stops at this. The sugar beet in
dustry bids fair to become enormous,
and they can be grown on the sandy
.oain land between the orange trees;
and, being harvested early in September,
they in nowiss impair thr eizs or flavor
of the oranges, which are not gathered
till mid winter.
Again, take the peaches and apricots
of this section. You go 20 Jackson
county, in Oregon, and you find a small
belt OF land. 1913 miles, on which good
peaches are grown-the only good ones
in that state. You could drop the Ore
gon peach belt down anywhere between
San Gabriel and Redlands and never
know you had lost it. And on the South
ern California peach belt may be grown
apricots in greater profusicn than in
any other part Of the coast, for apricots
are delicate fruit ard do not thrive
aprcots, canned for market, command
the top prices ct the eaet, and have a.
ready received the highest endorsement
by the medical authorities os the Brit
ish army as an anti scorbutic.
Last comes the apple, the most useful
OF all iruits. You se' box after box OF
applea in the San Francisco market
labeled "Oregon apples," as ii the po-
mological products of the Webtoot state
defes comparison. The truth is, that
while apples grow upon our low fat
lands are sometimes deficient in flavor,
those grown upon the slopes OF the Sierra
Madre are unequaled for their richness
OF bouquet; and it is not necessary to so
to Oregon or anywhere elsewhere else
for apples while we can obtain our own
delicious BelleAowers from the sunlit
slopes OF Southern California.
Ours ia a rich country, but it is still
in lts infancr. Double TIE population
of the adjacent mining states and you
will double the market for Southern
Caliiornia's products. Her possibilities
have not been tested to tithe of their
limite and tits not likely that the child
who is born today will live to see the
day or hour when the farmers and fruit
growerr OF Southern California will be
lamenting tho evils arising from over
production.