The herald., 1897-09-19
KERN COUNTY
to Louis Grant of

ago, has been married to Louis Grant of
San Francisco.
Operations will soon be commenced on
an artesian well in Garlock, which, it is
believed. can be struck at depth Of 400
to 500 feet.
Better roads are badly needed at some
points between Mojave and Garlock, and
especially all the way from Garlock to
the foot of Rand mountain. A tramway
Or electric road on the latter route would
pay.
The many friends Of D. N. Comm, super
intendent of the visalia mill, will regret to
hear of his contemplated departure for
Grass Valley to take charge Of a mining
property and mill. r
The Meteor mine, Randsburg district,
has been sold by F. E. Carpenter, John w.
Kelly and Stephen Price of Garlock at
reported consideration of $4O.00
The Garlock mill started work on fifty
tons of ore from the Gold Bug mine, Ell
Paso district last Wednesday.
The Kelly mill is working on ore from
Spangier Bros. mine. seven miles north
of Garden station. The yield averages $50
to the ton. 1873 ts
The Rand Mining and Milling company
has leased the Visalia ten-stamp mill for
a long term, and will make important i'm
provements there at once including the
sinking Of another deep well. This will
cudDlc tHo HILL u run night duQ OAy, anu
add materially to the output. A. D. Mar
chand, the new superintendent, formerly
of Los Angeles, who is an experienced
mineralogist and mill man, assumed charge
last Wednesday.
TEHACHEPI
Your correspondent is now visiting this
mountain town for the first time, and was
agreably surprised to find thriving SUBJ
stantially built place Of nearly 1000 inhabit-
ants. 1t is situated on a plateau of very
fertile land (not desert land, as enormously
supposed by many) and Is surrounded by
the Tehachepi mountains. The Southern
Pacific railroad runs northwest and south
east through this plateau which Is 1000
feet above the level of the sea, and remark
ably healthful. AS a lengthy article on
this district will appear in The Herald the
following outline must suffice for this
issue.
Tehachepi is 120 miles north Of Los An
geles and 1862 miles south of San Francisco.
In the district Immediately surrounding
the town there is 10000 acres of good land
(sandy loan SOLD under cultivation. Wheat
is the principal product, and next in i'm
portance Is wheat hay, which is so good
in quality that livery men complain it
leaves no bedding for horses, the straw
being eaten up clean. Barley and vege-
tables of every description are also grown
HolO ouCCcsSluuy. fEult is beginning TO re-
ceive attention, especially winter apples,
cherries. pears and plums, for which this
section Is well adapted. One hundred thou
sand head of sheep are raised here yearly,
and 200 head of cattle. The mutton is pur-
chased largely by Messrs. Sentous and
Maier, the well-known Los Angeles whole
sale butchers. Poultry is also an import
ant industry.
The Union Lime company of Los Angeles
owns the important lime manufacturing
plant here. from which was shipped in
1895 $4,000 barrels, and the product will
exceed $4,000 barrels this year. Nineteen
hundred cords of wood were used in 1896
at the lime kilns, and 5000 will be used this
year.
There are a number Of valuable gold and
silver mines. also placer mines, in the vi
cinity. There is an immense supply of oak
and pine wood in the mountains, the oak
selling f. o. b. cars a 50 per cord, and the
pine at $4. Granite of superb quality for
building purposes and in immense bodies
Is to be had three and half miles from
the town.
Fertile land, admirably adapted to wheat
growing, can be had here for SIS per acre
in so to 100-acre lots, and it is safe to predict
that the price will soon be advanced ma
terialy.