The herald., 1896-09-27

colony 10 peculiarly adapted to the
growth of sugar beets, and an effort Is
being made to enlist capital in the man
ufacture Of beet sugar Lompoc apples
were awarded the first premiums at the
Chicago worlds fair and at the New Or
leans exposition. Her pears, prunes.
peaches, plums, apricots and nectarines
are also grown successfully and wal
nuts, almonds, oranges, lemons, figs and
olives are grown with more or less sue
ess. There are vast deposits of diato-
macious earth in this vicinity, which
is now being shipped by rail in large
quantities to New York city. There are
also large deposits Of bitumenous rock
and good indications of petroleum. 1t is
worthy of note that there is 1000 acres in
apple orchards, mostly the winter vari-
eties, and that the Goblin moth. the great
insect enemy of the apple, has never
invaded this district, which is attributed
to the fact that the nights are invariably
cool, and the Goblin moth is q night in
sect.
Lompoc is an Incorporated city of the
slxtn ciass' anq Is two miles square. 1t
has an excellent water system. suppIied
by springs one and one-quarter miles
from the town. The city derives
net revenue of $1O0 per month
from its water system, which, with high
license rate of SIS per month each from
Its three saloons, suffices to pay all run
ming expenses of the municipality.
Ihere are eleven schools in the colony,
one of which is a union high school SUP
ported by twelve school districts. a two
and half story building that cost SIC. 600
1t has 100 pupils. A commercial dena rt
ment has recently been inaugurated. saw
ing the necessity of sending pupils over
sixty miles to Santa Barbara to gra6u-
ate. The city school has six depart
ments and the building cost $14, 900.
The churches in the town of I,ompoc
comprise the following: Episcopalian
(building cost $4,000; also Presbyterian,
Baptist. Christian, Methodist -Episco-
pal North and South and Catholic.
all OF which have church buildings.
There Is a good planning mill and lum-
Der yard combined and several other in
dustries. Every line of mercantile busi-
ness is well represented and there are
two good hotels, the Hotel Arthur and
Foster house. The streets are well
paved and unusually wide for town
of this size Q500 population). Ocean
'venue, the principal street Of the town
and colony, is 100 feet wide, and is splen-
didly macadamized it's entire length Of
nine miles. w. w. Broughton, super
visor of this district and chairman of the
board of supervisors, also editor of the
Lompoc Record, is entitled to great
credit for inaugurating and carrying
through the project successfully. All
the expense has been met from the or
dinary 50 cent road tax, which also pays
the expense of sprinkling twice day
from water tanks supplied by wind mills
located at points half mile apart along
the entire nine miles. 1t is said to be
one of the best roads in the state.
The Lompoc Journal and the Record
are both very creditable newspapers.
The prospects Of Lompoc becoming
one of the prominent cities of Southern
California with an immense acreage
tributary to it, are very f1attering, being
already the largest town between Santa
Barbara and San Luis Obispo and about
midway between the two cities. The
spur" railway of nine miles from the
main line of the Southern Pacific coast
road, now being constructed towards
Lompoc will probably be completed
within few months as the settlers have
offered right Of way through the colony
and depot facilities free at Lompoc
whenever the railroad company are
ready to complete the line. This, with
ocean transportation at Lompoc land
ing will afford ample transportationfa IA
cilities. aNe Sf it
Following is list and acreage of the
large and undeveloped ranches sur
rounding the town of Lompoc, aggre-
eating 100000 acres, all of which are
within radius of fourteen miles: Lom-
poe, 47,o00 acres: La Espada. 10000, Ell