The herald., 1897-07-12
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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Santa Monica Is not exclusively a
watering place. A plan is under way to
place an exhibit of home grown barley,
corn, lemons. walnuts, beans. etc., in
the Los Angeles chamber of commerce.
Heliograph messages are daily flashed
between Fredalba Park, on the noun
tain top, and San Bernardino.
Redlands brags nightly about its
fine band of amateur musicians.
A stove is being put up in the Visalia
and ST. Louis.
The new oil well at Fullerton pro-
duces fifty barrels a day.
Last week two young golden eagles
were caught on the Dunn ranch, near
San Felipe. They were shipped to San
Francisco.
The recent earthquake started good
flow of water in all the springs in the
Comstock district.
A year ago Theodore Bacigalupi
bought 800 acres of lake land at Angola,
paying therefor s2240, and this season
he sowed it to wheat. He has just har-
vested 1000 bags of grain that will bring
him $4,000. After paying for the land
and for the crop expenses, he will have
$4,000 clear. The land was irrigated from
an artesian well.
Sam Lee, Fullerton Chinaman, stood
on a box to sell fireworks to crowds Of
boys. Someone kicked the box out from
under Sam, and when he got up he had'a
skinned nose, but no fireworks.
Fine Connecticut seed leaf and Ha-
vana tobacco is being grown in East
Anaheim.
Summer visitors at San Diego find
much to admire in the chamber of com
merce exhibit.
Brahmacharin Bobhabhikshu, who
created such rumpus at the wpman's s
congress at San Francisco, has been
lecturing at San Diego. He made no
reference to the harbor question.
Santa Barbara has a naval reserve
tered in last week.
The product of the Alcatraz Mining
and Asphalt company will be piped from
Los Olivos to Gaviota. a distance of
thirty-five miles.
A carrier pigeon, exhausted and ap-
parently half starved. came to the resi-
dence of Hon. Brice Grimes last week
in Grimes canyon, near Ventura, which
bore a message attached to its neck so
indelible as to make it undecipherable.
The bird was properly cared for and
soon took its departure, only to return
in a couple of days.
Capt. James E. Friend of San Diego
went trout fishing in Cuyamacas can
yon and caught a gigantic burro that
was peacefully feeding by the side of
the brook. He played the catch for
nearly an hour before he could get near
enough to unfasten the hook
The Ontario Observer complains that
late calls are being made on the melon
patches in that vicinity.
Orange county has eight banks. Four
are located at Santa Ana, and one each
at Tustin, Orange, Anaheim and Full
lerton. Their combined resources rep
resent $150O,000.
There are now over 200 birds at the
ostrich farm near Fullerton.
]. Norton and A. G. Hull shot seventy
five rabbits in one day recently.
Just lis Santa Paulans heard Bryan
and the Sentinel says they all came
back with their faces wreathed in
smiles"
The Santa Paula Sentinel offers a
years subscription for the largest water
melon brought to the office. 1t should
now secure a drug store concession.
The sugar factory at Chino will begin
operations July 18th. Harvest began at
Anaheim July 18th.
A milk war is imminent at Riverside.
Capt. Mullett of Santa Barbara has an
order for fifty sea lions to be shipped
east, and has already sent fourteen.
The sugar factory at Alamitos will
start up July 18th. Six hundred cleo
trio light have been placed in the fac
tory.
Big stories are being told of the gold
and silver quartz finds in the Trabuco
canyon. The ore in Jacob Yaeger's Ira
buco mine is said to run several hun
dred dollars to the ton.