The herald., 1895-10-20

who Is in the front Of oil pubno enter
prises.
Lancaster has two hotes, the Lancaster
and Antelope Valley. Captain G. f. Ham
ngh is wellknown. both as q splendid host
and as one who has always had the ut
most faith in the future ol Antelope VAL
ley. His hotel is close to the Southern
Pacific station and very popular. There
are several stores in town, one blacksm tn
shop, one lumber yard, hardware and
implement house.
The schoolhouse is con m odious brick
building with large auditorium, where
lectures are given and whae also church
services are held. There is church build i.
ing, too, and livery stabh. The streets
in the Herald subdivision II the town are
fifty feet wide and each blbck has a four
teen-foot alley. During tie recent con-
vention OF the Antelope Ialley associa-
tion the San Francisco Cal had repre-
clipped from the Call of Otober 10th.
LANCASTER, CAL, bet. 15.-Ths
has been great dav tor the Antelope val
ley, region forming the testern portion
OF what was at one time lnown general
ly rs the Mojave desert, but which is
rapidly being converted inp the very an
tithesis of its former desrt condition.
Today steps were being rakln looking to-
ward the construction OF rilroad to con-
Valley line, and amid geitral enthusi-
asm the project was given astrong impe-
tus. Several months ago mass meet
Ing was held here and the antelope Val
ley association was formed. Since then
many new .membe have jined the scs
ciety, until now it includes majority of
the settlers within radiu,of apout 100
miles. The harvest being ovr today was
set for a meeting of the asscistion and
OF the branch associations irganized in
various communities for thl purpose of
discussing matters of general interest and
more particularly the construction OF
railroad touching the more bickly set
tied portions of the valley.
Early IN the foi enon the famers, with
their wives and children, pmme need
coming into town from every ydirection,
some driving from forty to ifty miles.
| When noon came barbecue as partici-
pAted in by the hundreds VIII, had gath
cred. Immediately after the Upper floor
of the brick school house whsh is Ian
casters pride was crowded I'd the doors
| with an audience composed WY largely
of women who in this valle take as
great an interest IN public maers q do
their husbands. The leadin9eature OF
the meeting was the report oithe pros
poets of the railroad through ie valley.
An organization had bean effe9d under
the name of the monwe!th Trust
| WHOSc oUIcCb Was bp making
of surveys and the aoquisitioIof rights
OF way, for the construction a road
from Victor to Hesperia, on Santa
Fe, along the southern and wdern siue
of Antelope valley. and then tfbugh the
Tehachepi mountains t. hnection
with the San Joaquin Valley road at
Bakersfield. The mstter was ully dis.
cusseo and numerous subscrtions to
stock were made, while by luminous
vote the owners OF some 95, 5,00lacrss of
land. now under cultivation, creed to
donate right of way through tsir prop
erty should the line of road strb it.
After this matter had been lily d is
cussed papers were read DIS follot: Cause
of Hard Times Among Farmers Jy s. A. .
Waldron; Work of the PromoterJy L. G.
Cnapin. in which the writer dlrecated
strongly the practice of m'sre psenting
other localities, which is the ba nof Cali
fornia; Elements # Good CitizeIhip, by
Rev. John Morley and AntelopNalley
Twenty Years Ago. by G. f. Weis.
At the evening session paps were
read on Useful Forage Plants. A. b.
Luckenby; Life and Services ofRev. It.
W. Haskins, by Miss A. A. SIND; Elk.