The herald., 1894-01-01
RESOURCES OF ORANGE COUNTY,
The Latest Data Concerning a
Prosperous Section.
Comprehensive Review of the County
and its Towns.
Reliable Figures Showing the Produ net
ivensss of the County-An Ex-
cel1ent Showing in All
Places.

What are the resources of Orange
county? To answer that question fully
and completely would require about the
same general summing up as would be
necessary in making an estimate OF the
illimitable resources of the great state
OF California.
Orange county, an intregral part OF
California, being happily situated, her
farm products, which are her principal
resources, are as varied as those OF the
entire state. Her mountain ranges
abound in precious minerals, coal and
game; her sea-coast, which traverses
the entire southern boundary, FUR
nishes ample shipping facilities, as well
as numerous seaside resorts and hsh-
cries.
In order to give comprehensive out
line of the resources of the county, 1t
will be necessary to review each and
every locality separately, as each has
some special product on which 1t prldes
itself.
To illustrate: Westminster and the
peat lands distinguish themselves Tor
raising from 100 to 100 bushels OF corn
per acre, and the heaviest corps OF Irish
potatoes grown the coast. In the peat
belt is the large celery farm, consisting
of 80 acres, which will yield 100 carloads
OF celery this season, which Is being
shipped to eastern cities. Westminster
also has cremery, which turns out
large weekly shipments of butter. Be-
sides the articles above mentioned, a
large amount of general farm products is
raised and considerable deciduous
fruit of good quality.
Garden Grove produces about the
same variety OF crops, except celery,
that is grown in Westminster, with the
| addition of larger amount OF alfalfa
and Hugar beets.
Ansheim. besides her usual amount
Of farm products, such as corn, beans,
walnute, deciduous and citrus fruits,
led off this. year in sugar beet growing
and made decided hit in that direc-
ton. The beet crop for the past season
yielded the producers little less than
$4,000, the crop being shipped to
the Chino refinery by rail, distance OF
about so miles. The building of re-
tnery near Ansheim is under headway,
and will be ready to consume the beet
crop OF next year, which will be much
larger than that of the past.
pllhOo hutuCAl Oh tho o<AOuA-
lent citrus fruit and wslnuts grown on
the lands in that portion of the county.
The only ostrich farm in the county is
located near that thriving town.
Placentis. which is portion of tie
Fullerton dluntry, deserves especial no.
tice for the large quantity of citrua fruit
and walnuts it produces. A great deal
of corn is also grown there. Yorba
boasts of her vineyards, olives and wal
nuts Olive OF her Touring mills and de-
ciduous fruits, Villa PARK is in the
thermal belt and produces the tenderest
vegetables the year round. AS proof
of her equable climate attention ia
called to the fact that Santa Ana pro-
duce house is shipping at this time
! (January 1st) car lots of green peas to
the east, which are grown bysYila tRark
gardeners. Some of the 6neat oranges
in the state are grown in that locality.
Villa Park, Mcpherson, Orangs and Ell
Modena grow about all the Taiein grapes
produced in the county, whichianoUnts
to about 20 carloads OF RAISING. These
localities are also rich in other farm
products. Orange grows some fine citrus
fruit. AN'''S
Ell Toro is comparatively q new settle
ment, and is producing grapeH and de-
cduous fruits.
Capistrano has some of the fnest Eng
lish walnut groves in the county, and
ships several carloads OF nuts every
year.
The San Joaquin ranch, Balso Chico
and the Sterns ranches grow most of the
barley, and, as will be eeen by the sta
tistics that follow, cut no small figure
in the resources of the county.
Dairving, hog-raising, growing corn
and alfalfa, make up the principal in
come OF the farmers OF the Newport
neighborhood.
Fairview is a young community and
making rapid advancement in fruit
growing, Some of the finest figs grown
in the state come from the fig groves OF
Fairview, There is one grove of SO
acres in that locality which has recently
come into bearing and is represented by
it's owner as being very profitable.
Tustin's orange groves are the finest
in the county and the fruit OF excellent
quality. She also boasts OF some very
fine lemon groves. great many tons
of walnuts are shipped from there an
nually. Her apricot orchards are also
very profitable.
In order that the reader may fully res-
lizs. the vastness of the resources of.
Orange county, one of the smallest in
the state. the following statistics have
been compiled, some of which may ap-
pear to De an exsggerstion, but their
accuracy in the main is vouched for:
The following is a very accurate list OF
the productions. of Orange county for
the year 1898. Some things had to be
LETT out on account of our inability to
secure statistics thatwe could rely on:
Amount of butter produced, 336, $3.50
pounds; amount of eggs produced,
900 dozen: amount of barley pro-
duced, 9500 900 sacks; amount of corn
produced, 900 bushels; amount OF
barley hay produced, $4,000 tons /;
amount of alfalfa hay produced, 1000
. tone; amount of fsh shipped, 1872, ,492
pounds; number of hogs produced,
> 1890; amount OF poultry produced.
8 PIG, 1860 pounds; vegetables, such as
green peas, etc, $4,000 pounds; celery
shipped, 100 carloads; number of cattle
in Orange county, 11,12S; number of
' cows, 3297; number of horses, S2l5
number of sheep, 109,8S3 number OF
+ acres in grape vines. 750; number OF
# acres in barley hay, 10000; number oi