The herald., 1897-07-04
PROSPEROUS
VILLAGES
Located in Very Rich
Districts
THE FAMED PEAT LANDS
GARDEN GROVE, BUENA PARK,
AND WESTMINSTER
The Growing Industries of Orange
County Township Profits
in Celery

IN lldl part OIL OIdIpSG COullty olictSh-
ting westward from Anaheim to beyond
Buena Park south to Santa Ana, thence
sou uthwestw to the far-famed peat
lands with Los Almitos as the western
boundary, lies a section of country enor-
mously rich in the possibilities of horti-
cultural and agricultural development.
Notwithstanding this charming belt of
country is now fairly well settled upon
and planted ard titled to large extent,
there yet remains a considerable por-
ton of it slunrbering beneath its virgin
sod awaiting the work of the intelligent
farmer who, possessed of the magic
wand of industry may wake its to mar
velous production. Then, too, in the
new conditions are developing, new dis
coveries as to the possibilities of the soil
are being made, resulting in the estab-
lishment of new lines of industry and
impiarting in the breasts Of the farmer
hopefulness and courage. Not that any
one expects a boom for this section. A
boom is always to be deprecated. Its
receding tide ever carries enumerably
more wrecks out to the sea of ruin than
it leaves of staunch crafts on the gently
rolling blllows of prosperity.
In this section named are located the
charming and thrifty villages of Garden
Grove, Buena Park Westminster
and Los Almitos.
The first, Garden Grove, is located in a
favored region, where the soil and eli
mate renders the life of the farmer one
of ease and luxury. To a visitor from
less favored climes this region-this land
Of sunshine, fruits and fowers-is a
revelation. 1t is a wonderfully pleasing
sensation that thrills ones being when
in midwinter one journeys from the ice
and snow covered states east of the
Rocky mountains and drops in on this
paradise of warmth and balm and fra
GRANGE. From the frigid terrors of the
cruel blizzards to the generous, blissfu!
beds of bloom and blossom! What a
delightful change! For here one may
pluck the rarest roses that delight the
senses, blossoming in superabundance
on every day of the twelve months.
Even in midwinter scores of different
kinds of flowers can be seen in bios
som and in profuslon and plenty in the
hedges by the roadside and adorning
with varied hues the tasty lawns of the
thrifty farms that thickly dot the wide
expanse of valley. The ripe orange
hangs upon the tree when the peach is
in its perfection. The brown and oily
olive is piucked before the lemon is
ready for gathering and while the late
apples and pears are still upon the tree
ic he
grape to perfection, the olive, fig, lemon,
apricot, nectarine, peach, pear, apple,
cherry, prune, ounce. pomegranate
citrons, plums, blackberries, currants,
sugar beets, loQuats, walnut, shaddock
pomelo, grape fruit, date palm, chestnut,
corn, guava, lines, peanuts and celery
all flourish in this favored cline. Orange
is the smallest of the fifty-seven coun-
ties of the state, yet it stands sixth in
fruit culture, an evidence of the rich
ness of its soil and the genial character
of its climate. The village of Garden
Grove is a beautiful place in which to
live. 1t is surrounded by highly cult
waited farms, has good schools, fine
church buildings well stocked general
merchandise store, postoffice, black
smith shops, beneficiary societies, lib
rary, etc, and can be said to be in,
most thrifty condition. The people are
of high moral character and are ever
active and energetic in the interests of
their schools and church organizations.
The Garden Grove school has the honor
and distinction of graduating the larg-
est class this year that was ever grad
uated in any school in Orange county.
There were twenty graduates in the
class the names of whom are as fol-
lows:
lis Newsom. Eugene De Vaul, Mabel
Chaplin, Eynan Huff, Charlie Reed.
Will Newsom. Effie Clement, Be Ma
coffin, Charlie Price, Irene Beckett.
Frank Wayman, Harry F'ulsom, Ida
Eaton, Clare Beckett, Maude Carter,
Clarence Aldrich, Grace Chaplin, Ger.
trude Firebaugh.
The teachers of this excellent school
who were enabled to gain such good re-
suits for their scholars are w. B. Hill,
principal, Carrie E. He'll, Ida Belle Clay.
Sarah A. Mitchell, ]. S. Stubblefield
Trustees: VIM. Beckett, clerk; DR.. H
W. Head, G. Ingram.
AS further proof of the high stand
ard of intelligence of the citizens in and
around Garden Grove, we cite the fact
that students from Garden Grove to the
Santa Ana High school, the state nor
NAL school and the University of South
ern California stood at the head of their
classes at the examina tons for the
terms just closed, and that Garden
Grove young men and young ladies
ranked among the highest at Stanford
and Berkeley. Among the church or
ganizations having their own church
buildings for services are the Advent
lists. Baptists and Methodists The
Methodist church organization has a
membership of about 200 and a large and
well organized Sunday school. Rev. N
]. Burton is the pastor. The Quakers
also have church located short dis
tance from the village. Mrs. E. M. Web
ster is looking after Uncle Sans and the
Garden Grove citizens interests as post
mistress and doing the work so thor
oughly,- efficiently and satisfactorily
that changes in the administration al
Washington need not worry her. P.
Peters & Son conduct a large general
merchandise store in Garden Grove,
where one may find complete and care
fully selected stock of goods which are
sold at Los Angeles prices or less They
have recently purchased the business