Year: 1875

An area of fifty square miles
in the Southern part of our county is
about the extent of tract of land
known as Richland. On this tract as
choice directed, persons have recently
purchased hundreds of acres, others, if
for no other reason it would seem than
for society's sake, have taken from one
to forty acres adjoining each other,
forming in this manner


CHARMING VILLAGES


Whose inhabitants seem as a unit, so
cOngenial are they in sentiment and
pursuit, and If anything beneath the
sun is calculated tosecure happiness 1t
must be in forming such communities
as these, where the moderate wealth
of each individual Is an incentive to
some exertion; where the soil pro-
duces almost everything that soil can
bring forth; where all enjoy the love-
liest of climates; where each one
seems intent not only to beautify his
respective home, but also to cultivate
his neighbours good will, by means of
that attention and kindness, which is
sure to bring peace and contentment
to the common home of all.


We will not refer particularlyto the
beautiful villages of Tustin City or of
Santa Ana, built upon the same tract
as Orange, but rather confine our short
description to the latter to which our
experience is better suited.


THE TOWN OF ORANGE,


$50 called from the peculiar adapta-
bility of its soil to the luxuriant
growth of the orange) five and one
half miles in a Southeast direction
from Anaheim, is scarcely three years
old, and yet, numbers hundreds of in
habitants. The average attendance
of the graded public school, under the
able management of Mr.. Robert Fur
long, numbered the last term over one
hundred. The Sunday School, under
the supervision of Mr.. l.. j. Lockhart,
a gentleman of wealth and education,
numbers ninety-six attendants. The
building ola new and more c0mmo-
dious school-house is contemplated
and will soon be effected; the
school furniture, however, belonging
to the present school building is of the
latest and most approved pattern,
adapted to the best of school looms.
A narrow-gauge railroad connecting
with the Anaheim branch is much
talked of, and the Railroad Company
have already conferred with the peo-
| pie of Orange in reference to the
building of a bridge across the Santa
| Ana. s,-


A Grange Hall and handsome
church have been erected; a first-class
country store, under the management
of the Grangers; Postoffice, carpen-
ter shop, paint shop and blacksmith
shop are some of the cOnveniences to
be found in this progressive and ad-
mirable colony. The pleasures of po-
lite society are not forgotten, and
teachers of music are encouraged and
well patronized. AS an evidence OF
the literary taste of the people we
would call attention especially to the
fact that:


THE TRIPLE o. o. o. SOCIETY


OF Orange, devoted to literature
and music, gave an entertainment
ON the evening of the 18th inst
for the benefit Of the public school
library of that district which, every
way considered, was a perfect success,
resulting, in financial point of view,
beyond the society's most sanguine
expectations. From this we might
infer that there exists among the peo-
pie of Orange unanimity of feeling
and proper disposition to encourage
the efforts of the literary part OF theii
community. While the object on this
occasion is not by many considered as
of the most popular class, yet from
the interest displayed on that evening
by the people of Orange, nothing
could then have been more popular
The display made by the Q. o. o. So.
ciety was Indeed admirable. Let us
stand for one moment among the
crowd of ladies, gentlemen and little
ones who constituted the audience Oh
that particular night of the 18th, and
listen to the music of the orchestra
now see the curtain rise upon a gar
den scene, real and true to nature; the
artistic landscape view in the distance
the sparkling fountains flow and heal
the music of its waters, as they mur.