The herald., 1894-02-05
CURRENT MOTIFS OF DEVELOPMENT.


spection is favorable except in the cases
of few atrabilious persons. What has
been done here during the past fifteen
years is simply an earnest or foretaste
of what can be done in the next fifteen.
A well-informed gentleman told the
writer the other day that the various
railway companies leading to California
had booked eighty thousand passengers
for this spring. The total somewhat
surprised us, but denbtlesa the figures
approximate the truth. That travel
will be large is beyond question. The
other day we reprinted an article from
the Chicago Tribune in which that
journal, on the authority of two noted
railway men, said that most of the
large volume of travel that is already
under way was booked for Los Angeles
and not for the Midwinter fair. In
this article Los Angeles was called
suburb of Chicago. The phrase rather
pleased US, although we confess
that this seems rather stretching the
limits of the Windy City. We are con-
tent that our people shall partake of the
dash and enterprise of Chicago without
their being subjected to the municipal
authority of the noble burg which is
growing up on the borders of Lake
Michigan.
There is quite general impression
up north that the late cold spell has
greatly damaged our orange and lemon
crops. 1t is useless to try to disabuse
the people there of that notion, and to
assure them that less than 10 per cent
OF the orange crop was injured. They
receive their intelligence through
grape vine telegraph line and will not be
convinced. That we have had weather
unusual to this section is true, but it
was prevented from doing much damage
from the fact that when the mercury
took to dropping to such unpleasant
figures the fruit had reached a great
stage of forwardness. 1t ia the tender
and only partially ripsned fruit that is
liable to suffer under stress of weather.
Owners of farms are beginning to
realize that there is a great dearth of
hogs and the product of the hog in the
United States. From whatsoever cause
this may arise it is the fact. As con-
sequence hams, fiitches, bacon and mess
pork rule high, both in this country and
Europe. This scarcity is likely to con-
tinue as very pronounced demand has
sprung up in Europe for American pork.
Our farmers are now beginning to real
ize that their barley and alfalfa can be
made to yield very large returns in the
shape OF pork We have tho ar1thor;tv
OF Cudahy himself for the statement
that barley makes the sweetest pork in
the world, and that the barley-fed hams
and bacon Of Ireland and Denmark COM
msnds from two to three cents more
pound than any other sold in the Lon
don market. He announced, when he
put up his pork packing plant here,
that he would make in Los Angeles
the sweetest ham and bacon on the
American continent, and be is now
doing it. The Los Angeles farmer. in
raising hogs, has also the advantage,
where he has irrigating facilities, OF
growing from six to ten crops OF alfalfa
yearly, and this Chilean clover makes a
capital feed for hogs, This circum-
stance really places our farmers in the
lead as to the whole world in their
ability to raise hogs at profit With
great good sense many of them are
going into the business. Good stock,
care and cleanliness, in addition to
wholesome and abundant food, are the
essentials for success. Hog cholera is
unknown in any part of California,
which again gives our pork makers a
tremendous advantage.
Colonel 7. w. Brooke, OF Pomona,
lately returned from a nine months trip
into the priceless region which will be
tributary to the Nevada Southern rail-
way when it shall be extended q certain
distance, or which will be tapped by
any railway which shall aim to make q
connection between Los Angeles and
Salt Lake City. He spent his time in
diligent prospecting, and mis- impress
eions of the mineral and other wealth
OF that region are of the highest. Col.
Brooke, from time to time, has given
the result of come OF his observations to
the HERALDsin the shape of correspond.
ence, but it is some months since hit
last letter appeared, and those who
were interested in his movements will
be glad to learn that he confirms al
the expectations held out in his CORE
spondence. Minerally the country tt
be traversed by the new road or roads
is probably the richest in the world. II
abounds in gold and silver, iron anC
coal. lead, copper and other valuable de-
| posits, the most striking and preciou
of which consist in immense fields o
nitrates. These beds are simply with
out limit both as to extent and richness
As gold has been given 80 muct
prominence OF late. it is pleasant tt
know that the region tributary to Los
Angeles is coming into the field as
heavy producer. We have given copi
GUS notes, from day to day, of the Cole
placer deposits and of other treasure
outputs in the almost immediat
neighborhood of this city. 1t gives u
great pleasure to assure the readers 0
the HERALD that the Keystone mine
which is on the line OF the projected
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