The herald., 1895-12-24
ANTELOPE VALLEY LETTER
A Rush for the Alfalfa Lands in
This Artesian Belt
STORAGE DAMS AND CANALS
A Big Planting of Almonds and Olives
on High Lands
An Era of Rapid Development Has Set In
and Lancaster VIII Be the
Business Center

LANCASTER, Dec. 23.-A new era is just
dawning on Antelope valley and every oiu
resident here cannot help but realize 1t.
The hoist given Lancaster and the whole
valley lately by THE HERATD's liberal do
nation of a town lot to every new sub
scriber and the elaborate publication OF
everything about the valley that would IN
terest homeseekers is doing this section an
immense amount of good and VIII very
materially hasten the development OF our
resources. Every land owner in the valley
should at once subscribe for IHE HERALD,
not only from a sense of gratitude but to
keep posted on news of the valley.
The Gazette of Lancaster has done nobly
toward peoplng the valley by doing Ike
wise and the effect of both combined IS
being felt very senslbly.
The influx of newcomers with means to
improve with, the rush for moist lands III
the artesian belt for alfalfa and root crops.
mesa lands for almonds and olives. as well
as the active operations in building stor-
age dams and canals for winter water are
the results of the splendid efforts of The
HERALD and the Antelope Valley associa-
tion, There has been large acreage put
into alfalfa this season. ana large tracts
are now being graded TO plant later on. A
great many urteStiH NSllS nave bc'7i Suiih
with success, and the owners OF land are
putting the land in shape for root crops
and vines where a crop of wheat proved
failure.
very active movement in putting out
almonds and olives on the mesa lands is
being made, where a little water can be
had to give the trees drink the first year;
after that they do well enough Win tnor-
ough cultivation.
Very extensive preparations are being
made for putting in almond. olive and de-
ciduous fruit trees at and around Palm
dale, Almontlale. Catherita, Del Sur. Fair
mount, Manzana and Necach. The Won
derful success made by Horn Il Co. with
their 5O-acre orchard, three miles west of
Rosamond. on high, dry. sandy soil, settles
the adaptabiity of the soil on the high
mesas for fruits and nuts. They pump
water sixty feet into three large reservoirs,
with seven windmills. and have an abun-
dance of water for their orchard, garden,
windbreaks and forest trees, and twenty
acres of alfalfa.
Their orchard is doing as we'll and is as
we'll cared for as any orchard in the state.
The success made with nuts, olives and
other fruits on the high mesas. where the
Dalls and Nick Cochem raise such fine
almonds, is corroborating. as is also the
magnificent exhibit at the chamber of COM
merce from Carter's place on Big Rock
creek.
Although this correspondents place is
situated twenty-four miles northwest of
Lancaster. our people recognize the fact
that Lancaster will be the big town of the
valley in the future. as it is now.
The substantial boom at Palmdale
caused by the building of the great flood
water canal and immense storage reser-
voirs on the mesa south and east of Lam
caster, will be duplicated in several other
districts around Lancaster, and the day is
not far distant when Lancaster will ship
more carloads of fruits. nuts, olives and
ovher products than there is oranges and
lemons from San Bernardino or Riverside
now. The putting out of additional or
chards at and near Del Sur, Paramount,
Neenach. Catherita and Manzaua means
the employment OF a great many people
with profitable and steady work. 1t also
means business for Lancaster. The pro-
posed line for conveying electric power.
from the power house on Kern Triver.
crosses this valley through townships Z, $
and north and / 1 west. 5. B. NJ.
This line will afford us cheap power to