The herald., 1897-04-25
A DISTRICT OF MATCHLESSs
RESOURCES

The Herald To-Day pupiirHes q" ca
on the new sugar factory at Alamltos
| written by a reporter who made speclai
study of the facts and who reports them
without exaggeration or undue color
ing. The recital is one which can hardy
fail to interest those who have any stalk,
| in Southern California.
But remarkable though the sketch of
the beet fields lie, and large as is the
sum Of money that enterprise has TO
keep in circulation, 1t is only one of
many industries which flourish In the
district where these beet fields lie.
Perhaps no part of the globe could
match the valley taken as whole in al,
its features. The district really begins
at the Cahuenga pass. skirts the city OF
Los Angeles, sweeps round by the La
guna ranch to Whittier, and on along
the hills which cut 1t off from Puente.
by Anaheim to the Cajon pass, where
the Santa Ana breaks through these
hills. and circling round above Orange
and Santa Ana comes back to the ocean
below Newport Landing
This tract Is composed Of three main
classes of soil. There is the upper mesa,
light dry and almost frostless all the way
around. Near the ocean salt marshes
abound. more or less. and between the
two lies the rich alluvial plain made by
the wash Of the Los Angeles San Gabriel
x-;xr f,,v " n o. This
forms the wonderful alfalfa meadows of
Compton and Downey, the walnut lands
of Rivera and Fullerton, the pumpkin and
corn lands Of Centralia, below Norwalk,
at Anaheim and between Santa Ana
and Newport Landing.
From the day when the farsighted
German colonists came. saw and seized
upon Anaheim, to the present day, little
by little the wonderful possibilities Of
this district have been slowly coming to
be realized. Towns have grown up and
fourished. the sheep pastures have
given place to hay fields and grain
fields, to orchards. walnut and orange
groves, to vineyards and green meadows
where cattle revel in the sweetest
grasses.
1t is a land of hog and hominy now as
well as Of beet fields. The corn grows
fifteen to twenty feet high and yields
eighty bushels to the acre. Hogs grow
and fatten on the lush alfalfa and
then are hardened on the corn.
managed plant where milk is condensed
and canned. The Pacific Creamery
company disburses $50 per day among
the farmers, or s21, 900 per year. The en-
terprising manager has employed Ger
man skilled In the mysteries Of making
Limburger cheese, and this admired
delicacy Of the fatherland is coming out
all right from the milk of the alfalfa
fed cows. Farmers are finding it less
difficult to pay taxes who get AZ cents
live weight for their hogs, and who are
adding month by month to the number of
their milch cows. They are showing
rare intelligence, too, in grading UP their
herds carefully.
On the rancho Las Bolsas 225 cars OF
celery have been produced for the east
ern markets. The profits are so ga tisfac-
tory that twice this amount will be pro.
duced next year.
Before many years pass some man Of
enterprise will get in on the semi-salt
marshes nearer the ocean and raise as
paragus a foot long as thick as whip
stalk and as tender as marrow. He
will duplicate the results Of those who are
putting their labor on the celery beds
This great valley fifty miles long in a
straight line, and twenty miles wide in
places with its sugar factory keeping
round million dollars moving, walnuts
that pay half a million. fanked with
oranges, lemons, celery, milk, butter
and cheese. hogs, fat cattle and spring
lambs, tapering off with hay, grain and
pumpkins, turkeys. geese and poultry.
and products whose numbers and var
iety are endless, will at no distant day
support dense popula ton, as prosper
Gus as it is denee.
We Of Los Angeles may we'll felicita te
! ourselves in having around the city a
district so prolific and whose many
products yield such an amount of
wealth.