anaheim-gazette 1872-05-18

Southern California. Saturday, May 18, 1873. Chas. A. Gardner...Edr & Prop'r LEGAL ADVERTISING. Any notice, petition summons, or other matter required by law to be printed in a newspaper, may be legally published in the Southern Californian after the 21st instant: that being the limit of the time to which the operation of the Litigant Law was continued by the Repealing Act. Will our friends please bear this in mind, and give us a chance, hereafter, for a fair share of that class of business which has been heretofore, by the operation of an unjust law, entirely monopolized, at extorbitant rates, by one paper. Such advertising will be promptly attended to at this office, at reasonable rates. THE THIRTY-FIFTH PARALLEL. The route of this road is a matter of considerable interest to us just now, as it will in any event pass through the northern end of the county, and might, if sufficient influence be brought to bear, come still further south and open up the great agricultural valley region upon which both Los Angeles and This can only be done by passing over the lower division of the river and by the route through the Cordillera de Santa Ana above Mountains. Because, in doing so, instead skirting the base of the Cordillera the road would follow the river naturally the main drainage of valley, bringing within proximity south of Santa Ana. Therefore, the great plain of San Joaquin, which contains 100,000 acres of tillable land, being covered rapidly with new settlements and thriving lages, and the Mission of San Capistrano with its fertile valleys and the grass enveloped hills fact, as the southerly half of the great plains of San Bernardino, Los Angeles—and Los Angeles particular—contains the lowest area of available land. I consider location of the road south of dividing low hills, and as near way between the coast and mountains, as a matter of public interest of all. The thorough these hills are wide easy, and with a grade of frost to 17 feet per mile, give weighted teams seeking the highway the advantage of a grade, while it would be even the reverse for the greater part of the people living nearer the Third. The Gradients are almost uniform. From the crossing of the Ana near San Bernardino, along river, and through the canada grade will be from 18 to 20 feet mile, and from the canada to Angeles, 457 feet above the river will not be more than three feet per mile. With the execl of crossing the San Gabriel which is common to both the lower one has the advantage THE THIRTY-FIFTH PARALLEL. The route of this road is a matter of considerable interest to us just now, as it will in any event pass through the northern end of the county, and might, if sufficient influence be brought to bear, come still further south and open up the great agricultural valley region upon which both Los Angeles and Anaheim depend principally for support. For the road to run through both these towns, would not be so much out of its way as might at first appear. The point of its crossing the Colorado is about thirty miles north of Los Angeles, and San Buenaventura, the next objective point, is only eight or ten miles north; so, it will be observed, the necessary southing is almost gained anyway in the present proposed course of the road. Now when it is considered that by deflecting about forty-seven miles from a straight line, between the Colorado crossing and San Buenaventura, it could run through three of the most important towns in Southern California, viz: San Bernardino, Anaheim and Los Angeles, and besides this, secure better mountain passes, and pass through a fertile country, where there would be an abundance of local traffic, instead of a desert one like the air-line route, where there would be little or none, it appears like good policy to make the road a trifle longer for the sake of securing the advantages of cheap construction and additional business. As to the relative merits of the two routes between San Bernardino and Los Angeles, the following able contribution from the pen of Major Strobel to the late People's Advocate will be of especial interest at this time: The Road from the San Gorgonto Pass to the San Francisco Mountain. After crossing the Santa Ana river near San Bernardino, no obstacles present themselves either in building the road along the upper division of the plain, or the low one. In justice, to the company and the populace of the people living near the river, and through the canyon grade will be from 18 to 20 feet mile, and from the canada to Angeles, 457 feet above the river will not be more than three or four feet per mile. With the exception of crossing the San Gabriel which is common to both the lower one has the advantage of bridging less gullies, needing culverts, and requiring a smaller amount of cutting and ing. From Los Angeles on mountain of San Fernando, our route is practicable, namely: lowing the cast bank of the Angeles river, and without cutting it at all, spanning the Arroyo a tributary to Los Angeles near its mouth, then up the Los Angeles river to where it leaves plain of San Fernando, and through the middle of the plain a grade of about 15 feet per mile to the entrance of the pass Fernando. A meeting is to be held in Angeles, to-day, to decide some course of action which is possible, secure to us the advice of the location of the trunk road through the heart of county. If this be not practiced then we suppose the question be the building of branches tosect the main-line at the most convenient point. Anaheim will likely be represented, and we await the issue with conscientious interest. A long dispatch has been graphed by the San Francisco committee of One Hundred to the ident of the United States, the ident of the Senate, and the order of the House of Representation entreating their efforts against session of Goat Island to the tral Pacific Railroad Company requesting that the dispatch before the Congress of the States as a protest against measure. RICHLAND.—We publish outside this week an interesting count of Richland and the cities which it has to offer. The Road from the San Gorgonio Pass to the San Francisco Mountain. After crossing the Santa Ana river near San Bernardino, no obstacles present themselves either in building the road along the upper division of the plain, or the low one. In justice, to the company and the population, the route of the lower division, as far as Los Angeles, is preferable, for the following reasons: First: The Distance is Materially the same. From San Bernardino passing along the upper plain and for 35 miles quite close to the base of the mountains, then by El Monte, over the undulating plain of the mission of San Gabriel and through the low hills of the Rancho Rosa Castillo to Los Angeles, the distance is 61 miles. From the crossing of Santa Ana river near San Bernardino to the Cajon do Santa Ana is 24 miles; through the Canada to the settlement of Santa Ana 10 miles; from there to the city of Anaheim 6 miles; from Anaheim, over a perfect level plain, passing through the rancho Los Coyotes and the settlement of Los Nietos, to Los Angeles, is 26¼ miles, making in all, on the lower plain, the distance 68½ miles. The additional cost of construction in passing the canada Santa Ana, where a side-cut through arenaceous slate, sand stone and conglomerate of about 700 yards in length is required is fully offset by the additional cost of filling and cutting necessary over the undulating plain of the New Mission of San Gabriel and the low hills of the rancho Rosa Castillo. Second. In dividing the advantage which a Railroad offers to the population of a country, more equally, a quicker development and a more general benefit is effected. only be done by passing power division of the plain route through the Cafayen and above mentioned in doing so, instead of the base of the Cordillera, would follow the river and the main drainage of the manging within proportion well, the available county of Santa Ana. There is, too, the great plain of the rain, which contains some acres of tillable land, now ered rapidly with scores ofiments and thriving with the Mission of San Juan with its fertile valleys grass enveloped hills. In so conderly half of these lands of San Bernardino and Angeles—and Los Angeles in—contains the largest available land. I consider the of the road south of the low hills, and as near mid-winter the coast and the as a matter of policy for rest of all. The passes these hills are wide and with a grade of from 15 feet per mile, give heavy teams seeking the great advantage of a down while it would be exactly so for the greater portion people living nearer the sea. The Gradients are less and almost uniform. The crossing of the Santa San Bernardino along the railway through the canada, the be from 18 to 20 feet per from the canada to Los 457 feet above the sea, it more than three or four miles. With the exception of the San Gabriel river, it common to both routes, one has the advantage of LITERARY NOTICES. The American Journalist, which appeared Feby. 1st, and is published monthly at $1 per year by Cole Wetherill & Co., Philadelphia proves itself to be one of the ablest edited journals of the ago. Its leaders are models of the best style of English composition, and the whale work filled with so choice and interesting a collection of original and selected matter that we are able to say of it, as we can say only of this and one other publication, that we read it all through. Everything, from the longest leader to the smallest item, is eagerly absorbed, with pleasure and profit to the reader. It is also a beautiful specimen of neat printing, and reflects credit alike upon the skill of the workman and the brains of the editor. American Homes, for May, is at hand with a goodly number of stories, pictures etc., amusing and entertaining for young people. This magazine lacks originality and is far from coming up to a first class standard, but we think it is good for the sphere it is calculated to fill viz: that of a cheap collection of varied and tolerably interesting reading matter. Chas. H. Taylor & Co., Boston $1 per year. The American Agriculturist, for May, is a most attractive periodical, full of beautiful pictures and useful information. It is only $1 50 per year, or 15 cents for single copies. Send for a specimen number to NEW ITEMS. Grand trial of Babcock's Fire Extinguisher, at Oakland on the 4th last Two story building ignited, crowd of 3,000 people looking on. The huge burned up as usual, the stream from the Extinguisher having no permanent effect. They can't set fire to our house in anyash lay-out as that. The Santa Cruz Sealife says, the frost killed all the leaves on the sycamore trees in Santa Clara valley, and most of the early shoots of the grape-vines have been frozen off close to the bad, by the recent frosts. The grapes are again growing finally, but the grapes are as destitute of leaves as in winter. A London telegram says that negotiations between the United States and England, with relation to the Alabama claims would be broken off, and states that the British Government had withdrawn from the arbitration provided for under the treaty of Washington. The Boston Peace Jubilee Coliseum was blown down April 26. It was yet in an unfinished state, and the 2,500 builders employed upon it had fortunately quit work for the night before the accident occurred. The damage is about $100,000. It is estimated that over 500 power printing presses were destroyed in the great Chicago fire. One manufacturer there, N.P. Rounds, had, by April 1st, sold over $221,000 worth of new presses to replace the losses. A desperate fight with canes and pocket knives occurred at Washington, May 11th, between General Jones of West Virginia, and Colonel Tayre, of Alabama. in which both received serious injuries. The Stockton and Visal'a Railroad is being constructed at the rate of 1½ miles per day, employing 1000 men. On the 9th inst. the track was laid to within about 35 miles of Visalia. The Gradients are less and almost uniform. The crossing of the Santa San Bernardino along the railway through the canada, the railway be from 18 to 20 feet per mile. With the exception of the San Gabriel river, it is common to both routes, one has the advantage of less gullies, needing fewer and requiring a great deal amount of cutting and filling of San Fernando, only one practicable, namely: Folk-the east bank of the Los River, and without crossing spanning the Arroyo Seco, carry to Los Angeles river, mouth, then up the Los Ante to where it leaves the San Fernando, and almost the middle of the plain, at about 15 feet per mile, up trance of the pass of San Francisco. Dispatch has been televised by the San Francisco Comptroller One Hundred to the President United States, the President Senate, and the Speaker House of Representatives, making their efforts against the Goat Island to the Central Railroad Company, and that the dispatch be laid by Congress of the United States a protest against the Land. We publish on our this week an interesting account Richland and the advance which it has to offer to new for the sphere it is calculated to fill viz. that of a cheap collection of varied and tolerably interesting reading matter. Chas. H. Taylor & Co., Boston $1 per year. The American Agriculturist, for May, is a most attractive periodical, full of beautiful pictures and useful information. It is only $1 50 per year, or 15 cents for single copies. Send for a specimen number to Orange Judd & Co., New York. The American Farmer's Advocate is to us a new journal, which reaches us from Jackson, Tennessee. It is a fine large 16-page paper, devoted to farming interests, published monthly at $1 per year. Rounds' Printers' Cabinet, for April, is received. It is one of the finest specimens of printing that comes to this office and a useful publication for the editor or printer. Editor Southern California—Amid all the material improvements and progress made by the people of Los Angeles county, but few of the readers of your excellent paper are aware of the advances made in all that tends to make a people prosperous and happy—education. During the last two years the number of school districts of this county have increased from twenty-six to thirty-seven, and the schools, from thirty-three to fifty-one, while the buildings that have been erected for educational purposes speak volumes for the enterprise, liberality and intelligence of our people. Twenty-one new school-buildings have been erected in two years; of which number seventeen are east of the old San Gabriel river and were erected at a cost averaging from eight hundred to four thousand dollars. Of the four which have been built east of the river three are common board affairs, erected temporarily, and one fine two story building at Compton, worth between three and four thousand dollars. The last Legislature passed an Act authorizing the Board of Education of the city of Los Angeles to issue bonds to the amount oftwenty thousand dollars to erect a there. B.P. Rounds, had, by April 1st, sold over $231,000 worth of new presses to replace the losses. A desperate fight with canes and pocket knives occurred, at Washington, May 11th, between General Jones of West Virginia, and Colonel Payre, of Alabama. In which both received serious injuries. The Stockton and Visal's Railroad is being constructed at the rate of 14 miles per day, employing 1000 men. On the 9th inst. the track was laid to within about 35 miles of Visalia, A western editor says, "the march of civilization is onward—onward—like the slow but intrepid footsteps of a jackass to a peck of oats." (The curtain falls to slow music.) The remains of an ancient city have been discovered on North river, Florida, seven miles north of St. Augustine. Heavy gales, making the tide unusually low, led to the discovery. It is announced that our Minister to Spain will soon be withdrawn, and no successor appointed until Spain is more disposed to act with justice according to her treaty obligations. The Los Angeles City Council has made an appropriation, not to exceed $100, to test the importance of the late peat discoveries in this County. Third annual session of the California State Dental Association will be held in San Francisco June 11th, 13th, 13th and 14th, 1872. In the House, a bill passed appropriting $10,000 for a marble statue of Col. E. D., Baker, in California. There are in the United States 63-800 church edifices, affording accommodations for twenty-one millions and a half of worshippers. San Buenaventura has an attack of the Dolly Varden; so we learn from the Signal. Butler says that Grant will be nominated on the first ballot at the Philadelphia Convention. It is stated that printing presses in England are driven by ordinary gas jets and hydrant water as motive power. The President has signed the bill to develop the mining resources of the United States. It is the general belief that the Treaty of Washington will fail of execution. The municipal authorities of Paris have voted in favor of railroads. Mr. Mitchell has retired from the editorial staff of the Los Angeles Express. It is announced that the Sacramento Reporter is about to give up the ghost. We publish on our this week an interesting account of Richland and the advance which it has to offer to new It gives us pleasure to show up in these columns the events which this county, or nation of it offers to emigrants, baseball feel obliged to any one furnish us the necessary write from, or send communions upon the subject. Judge Nye, Co. of Alameda Co., visited us. He owns a half-section about 3 miles southwest of which he proposes to plant hundred acres of fruit and nut. The Judge is something of a per man also, having at once earned a half interest in the La Gazette, and we learn that adds a vigorous quill, when he soon the war-path. Major Ben Brennan has accepted the position editor of the Evening Express. H.M. Mitchel resigned his allegation that the "Nix" and "ants" San Diego correspondent of the Star will hereafter be claimed.—News. For want your pictures or look at frames gilded grained or need, take them to Payne at a cost averaging from eight hundred to four thousand dollars. Of the four which have been built east of the river three are common board affairs, erected temporarily, and one fine two story building at Compton, worth between three and four thousand dollars. The last Legislature passed an Act authorizing the Board of Education of the city of Los Angeles to issue bonds to the amount of twenty thousand dollars to erect a large central school building. The contract is let and the work progressing. The question of voting a tax for erecting school houses is about being submitted to the voters of four other districts east of the San Gabriel river; the common board affairs are giving place to well arranged, commodious houses. All these improvements are necessary to accommodate the increasing population and furnish educational facilities for the thousands of children who are availing themselves of this privilege. W.M. McFadden County Sap't of Schools The Editor of the Californian has been nominated for City Attorney. Not aged but full of honors—Ventura Signal. We take off our hat in silent acknowledgment; and as a sequel to the above our modesty will only allow us to point to the election returns published last week. Rust has made its appearance in the San Gabriel valley and is playing sand havee among the wheat crops.—News. If you have a house you want painted, and want it done we'll go to Payne Bros. The President has signed the bill to develop the mining resources of the United States. It is the general belief that the Treaty of Washington will fail of execution. The municipal authorities of Paris have voted in favor of railroads. Mr. Mitchell has retired from the editorial staff of the Los Angeles Express. It is announced that the Sacramento Reporter is about to give up the ghost. The San Bernardino Guardian promises an enlargement by July 1st. Fashion sharps predict an early collapse of the Dolly Varden fever. If you want a sign painted—Well, you've got to go to Payne Bros., there's no place else. Payne Bros. ask no pay for work that don't give entire satisfaction. New Advertisements. NEW AND FASHIONABLE MILLINERY. MRS. ELDNEDGE RESPECTFULLY ANNOUNCES to the ladies of Anaheim and vicinity that she has fitted up rooms at Mrs. Metz's Building, on CENTER STREET, where she will conduct the MILLIKINERY BUSINESS in all its departments. She will keep on hand a FULL ASSORTMENT of reasonable GOODS of the LATEST STYLES, and will Manufacture to order in a modifactory manner, and at Lowest Rates. B. A. PULLEN, PAINTER AND PAPER-HANGER. Leave orders at Clark's Bookstore. D. W.C. DENNE. A.J.BROWN. CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. 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