anaheim-gazette 1879-03-08

WEEKLY GAZETTE. SATURDAY...MARCH 8, 1879. AGENTS OF THE GAZETTE. The following gentlemen are appointed agents of the Gazette at the place designated. They are authorized to receive money in payment for subscriptions or advertisements: WESTMINSTER ... ROBERT STRONG GARDEN GROVE ... CON HOWE SANTA ANA ... DR J N BURTNETT ORANGE ... N D HARWOOD TUSTIN ... C TUSTIN SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO ... R E DOAN NORWALK ... J E CALDWELL SILVERADO ... J C HILL TRAVELING AGENT ... A T FERDON LOS ANGELES COUNTY. The Southern Portion of it Described—A Partile Section. ANAHEIM, February 6th.—Ten years ago Southern California was terra incognita to all, other than residents of the Pacific Coast, and the writer has not many persons of more than ordinary intelligence who frankly confessed that, previous to their coming here, Southern and Lower California had been to them synonymous terms, and that they had pictured it an American Sahara, devoid of all agricultural possibilities. And notwithstanding the avalanche of newspaper correspondence, pamphlets, etc., which have been showered upon the Eastern people the past few years, descriptive of this part of the State, there are yet many who have but a faint perception of the true situation in this country, and are still athirst for every item of information written concerning it. The southern portion of Los Angeles county, which I shall attempt to describe as fully as possible in the space allotted to me, contains an area of about two thousand square miles. In the Legislature of 1869-70, a bill was introduced to create the County of Orange out of this area. It passed the Assembly but was defeated in the Senate, and although nearly every subsequent Legislature has been importuned on the subject, the bill has never succeeded in getting beyond the Committee to whom it was referred. vineyards and not embarked in outside business—are possessed of a competence, and in some instances may be classed as wealthy. The wine product of Anaheim, in 1872, was 800,000 gallons, and it is estimated that in a good season the yield will fall little short of one million gallons. There are vineyards here which have produced over one thousand gallons per acre, although I suppose that five hundred gallons per acre would be big average. Under the stimulus of an increased and presumedly permanent demand for California wines, the area devoted to vines is being increased steadily. Anaheim wine has long been favorably known, not only in this State but in the East. The grapes grown here are incompatible for the manufacture of sweet wines and brandy, and a leading vineyardist informs me that the gravelly lands of Orange, six miles from here, produce a grape from which a dry wine has been made superior to any he had ever seen in Napa or Sonoma counties. Anaheim is an incorporated town and a thriving business centre. The by-street, bordered with willow and sycamore, form, according to one writer, "green lanes that cannot be excelled even in Merry England, for picturesque and rural beauty." There are numerous substantial brick buildings in the business quarter, two large hotels, planting and grist mills, two banks, a sanatorium, of which a distinguished English physician is proprietor, and in fact every business is well represented. The public buildings comprise a school house, completed last month at a cost of $10,000; an Odd Fellow's Hall, costing $9,000; a Masonic Hall, costing $4,000; and an Episcopal and Presbyterian Church, which cost respectively $3,600 and $3,500. The railroad buildings at the depot are the largest in the county, excepting, of course, those at the county seat, and an immense amount of exports and imports are handled there, notwithstanding that the bulk of the grain is shipped via Anaheim Landing; a roadstead twelve miles from town, operated by an incorporation known as the Anaheim Lighter Company. In the Spring of 1868, a company of San Francisco capitalists purchased 200,000 acres of land known as the Stearns' Ranchos—140,000 acres in Los Angeles county and 60,000 diary volume can be made to acres. Much attention has been minister to the raising of Napa and it is generally conceded take the palm in this respect exhibition of the Southern Cultural Society, the display Westminster took the first though the competition was braced displays from other counties. There are young trees in the colony, but years there will be a large amalgam. Garden Grove is about the Westminster, and is surreptitious that produces immense crops also in the artesian belt, and great number of flowing wetland is analogous to that of ing steady, temperate, inducing perona. A handsome church just been completed, and so able, it is all paid for. Santa Ana is seven miles Anaheim, and is the term Diego branch of the Southern road. It is the centre of natural country as there is on globe, and it is an undisputed prospect for some day because city of great commercial assured. It already enjoys thickly-settled country, but other California towns, the vided up among a plethora. The famous corn-producing Swamp, is only a few miles That is the place where bushels of corn is raised to Swamper who tells you that pumpkin which weighed 3 required to make an affair of his statement. Such insane means rare. Tustin City is two miles Ana, and is a charming plains settled and there are orange plantations scattered land is much the same as a rich, easily worked and very latest achievement was the sweet potato which weighed pounds. The southern portion of Los Angeles county, which I shall attempt to describe as fully as possible in the space allotted to me, contains an area of about two thousand square miles. In the Legislature of 1869-70, a bill was introduced to create the County of Orange out of this area. It passed the Assembly but was defeated in the Senate, and although nearly every subsequent Legislature has been imported on the subject, the bill has never succeeded in getting beyond the Committee to whom it was referred. The matter will probably be dropped for some years, but that there must be a segregation of this county in the future there is no room for doubt. A comparison between the present condition of things in this section, and the state of affairs ten years ago, presents a record of wonderful growth and progress. In 1869 the population in the area of which we write was 4,000; now it is 11,000. There were then four school districts and 800 census children; now there are twenty-two school districts and 2,215 census children. Then, the trade of almost this entire section centred in Anaheim. Now, there are half a dozen flourishing towns, each indispensable to the communities surrounding them. Then, one could ride on the plains for hours without descrrying a human habitation, or seeing anght but vast herds of semi-wild cattle. Now, these herds have disappeared, and the rich soil pays tribute to the husbandman, and substantial, cosy homes dot the plains. In this area there are five millions of taxable property—one-third that of the entire county. And when it is considered that there is very little waste land in this section—that nearly the entire area is susceptible of cultivation—one can get an idea of the greatness awaiting us in futurity, when the plains are peopled by a thrifty and industrious class of immigrants. The colony of Anaheim is one of the most noted in the history of the State, and its founding and subsequent career are themes upon which a score or more of writers have exercised their pens. But it is a story which cannot too often be told, as it is a record of a successful struggle against adverse circumstances and discouraging obstacles, and contains many a useful lesson for future colonial experiments. There are bodies of land contiguous to Anaheim in every way suited for colonies, and it is not without the hope of encouraging a co-operative settlement of these lands that I briefly sketch the origin and progress of the colony of Anaheim. In 1857 a number of German residents of San Francisco purchased a tract of 1,165 acres, twenty-seven miles southeast of Los Angeles, for which they paid $2 per acre. The tract was divided into fifty twenty-acre lots and fifty house lots, 140x181½ feet. A superintendent was engaged, and under his supervision eight acres of each lot was planted in vines, the lots were fenced in with willow trees and an irrigating canal was made from the Santa Ana river to the Church, which cost respectively $3,600 and $3,500. The railroad buildings at the depot are the largest in the county, excepting, of course, those at the county seat, and an immense amount of exports and imports are handled there, notwithstanding that the bulk of the grain is shipped via Anaheim Landing, a roadstead twelve miles from town, operated by an incorporation known as the Anaheim Lighter Company. In the Spring of 1868, a company of San Francisco capitalists purchased 200,000 acres of land known as the Stearns' Ranchos—140,000 acres in Los Angeles county and 60,000 acres in San Bernardino county—for which they paid $150 per acre. It is on the principal of these ranches—the San Juan Cajon de Santa Ana—that Anaheim is located. Previous to their purchase, these lands were used solely for grazing purposes, and, as before remarked, vast herds of semi-wild cattle roamed over them undisturbed. In 1869 the company began selling the land in small farms, and there remains in their possession only $80,000 acres in this county, and $50,000 acres in San Bernardino county. I venture to say that there is not another tract of land in the world that can compare with this in agricultural possibilities. On the greater portion of it grain can be grown and fruit raised in almost entire independence of the season. The great Cajon Ditch, which was completed a few months ago at a cost of $50,000 can distribute the waters of the Santa Ana River over 10,000 acres of fertile land in this immediate neighborhood. Artesian wells furnish an inexhaustible and inexpensive supply of water for irrigation. In short, I do not believe that there is any other section in the whole State in which a man of moderate means and abundant energy can do as well, or get himself as comfortable and cosy a home in a few years. It is really astonishing to see what a few years of well-directed energy will accomplish in this wonderful country. There are places here in which are orange trees bending beneath the weight of the golden fruit, bearing vines and every variety of northern fruit trees, tall evergreen trees and shrubs, and myriads of flowers—all growing on land which, five years ago, was a barren plain, and as devoid of vegetation as a barn floor. It would take fifteen years of unremitting to accomplish in the older States what can be done here in five, in the way of surrounding one's home with trees and flowers. For the cultivation of the orange, lemon and lime the land about here is unsurpassed. There are many young orchards here of exceeding thrift, showing the adaptability of the soil for the growth of semi-tropical fruits. Not only that, but this is one of the few places in the county where the heavy frosts of January did not injure the young orange trees. The shelter given by a range of low hills east of here is the cause of our immunity from the unwelcome visitation. All kinds of Northern and semi-tropical fruit do well here. The agricultural products are: Corn, barley, rye, potatoes, beans, onions, hops, flax, castor beans, etc. Oats are raised to some extent and wheat Swamper who tells you that pumpkin which weighed 38 required to make an affair of his statement. Such insults mean rare. Tustin City is two miles Ana, and is a charming place settled and there are orange plantations scattered land is much the same as rich,easily worked and very latest achievement was the sweet potato which we pounds. Just beyond Tustin City San Joaquin Rancho, on we are pastured thousands rancho has a large amount land, which will find the owners see fit to place. Orange is very aptly groves cluster thickly all atment,and the trees grow thrift and vigor. Many o bearing for the first time to estimated 50,000 orange this season. In a year orition will be immense superior quality are also notthe soil is adapted in a h culture of grapes.Wine-rried on to any extent,m grown being of a variety Besides it is a temperate effort to establish ar years ago was resisted there is little danger o attempt. San Juan Capistrano,south of Anaheim ,is its possession of a picture built in 1776,and partial earthquake in 1812.T good farming and grazing.of the town. There is one thing in w this section feel a great salubrity and health! In fact Anaheim is known health resort second to The first writer to bring respect was Charles Norse several pages of his book monetrical comparisonsand other noted health try and in Europe.The asthmatic persons find thi ficial is attested by the large number of residents this country a few yearsthe aliments alluded to,and hearty men and women. One very peculiar foe is that there are hal climates within its borto some class of complere there some persons with sumptive tendencies wh Westminster best suit again,find that the drygives them the needed to prefer the still dryer mountains east of Anahem tive settlement of these lands that I briefly sketch the origin and progress of the colony of Anaheim. In 1857 a number of German residents of San Francisco purchased a tract of 1,165 acres, twenty-seven miles southeast of Los Angeles, for which they paid $2 per acre. The tract was divided into fifty twenty-acre lots and fifty house lots, 140x181 feet. A superintendent was engaged, and under his supervision eight acres of each lot was planted in vines, the lots were fenced in with willow trees and an irrigating canal was made from the Santa Ana river to the colony. While all this was being done, the stockholders pursued their usual avocations in San Francisco, and the distribution of the lots was not made until 1859. Each stockholder had at that time paid assessments to the amount of $1,400. The lots were viewed and assessed at prices varying from $1,840 to $475—the location, quality of soil and relative growth of vines determining the value of each particular lot. The average cost of the lots was $1,300. It was then, in 1859 that the first colonial experiment in the State was fairly inaugurated. "Campo Aleman" (German camp) it was called by the native population—an appellation it retains to the present day. After providing themselves with suitable residences, the first work of the colonists was to plant the balance of the lots in vines. About two acres surrounding their houses were planted in fruit trees and in garden truck and flowers. A history of the trials and difficulties which beset the colonists in those pioneer days would make an interesting chapter by itself. The obstacles which they encountered and overcome will never present themselves to any colony which may be hereafter organized; and it is sufficient to note the results of these struggles against adverse circumstances. Nordhoff, in the chapter which he devotes to Anaheim in his book on California, sums up these results quite fully and truthfully. He says in substance: Only one of the original settlers has moved away; the property which cost $1,300 is now worth from $5,000 to $10,000; there are no poor in Anaheim; there is little intemperance. And he might have added that all these pioneers—at least those who have remained on their There are many young orchards here of exceeding thrift, showing the adaptability of the soil for the growth of semi-tropical fruits. Not only that, but this is one of the few places in the county where the heavy frosts of January did not injure the young orange trees. The shelter given by a range of low hills east of here is the cause of our immunity from the unwelcome visitation. All kinds of Northern and semi-tropical fruit do well here. The agricultural products are: Corn, barley, rye, potatoes, beans, onions, hops, flax, castor beans, etc. Oats are raised to some extent and wheat also. Odessa wheat is receiving an extensive trial this year, and it is believed that it will successfully withstand the "rust," which has heretofore made wheat growing a risky experiment. The price of good farming land in this valley varies from $25 to $100 per acre, according to the location. There are many thousands of acres which can be purchased at the first-named figure, upon which can be grown any of the crops mentioned in the preceding paragraph. On a great deal of this land artesian wells can be had at a depth of from 100 to 200 feet. The other towns in the southern portion of the county are Westminster, Garden Grove, Santa Ana, Tustin City, Orange, San Juan Capistrano and Norwalk. Westminster is six miles west of Anaheim, and is one of the most thrifty and desirable places in the county. It was started as a Presbyterian Temperance Colony in 1870 by Rev L. P. Webber (since deceased), and its success is another strong argument in favor of the colony system. It still retains its temperance features, but is no longer exclusively Presbyterian. There are three fine church edifices—Presbyterian, Congregational and Methodist. A more orderly law-abiding, sociable and intelligent community does not exist, and their prosperity is as much due to their industry as to the advantage of location. Westminster is especially noted for the number and volume of its artesian wells, of which there are nearly 300 in the colony. There is scarcely a farm on which there are not one or more of these wells spouting forth their saving waters. In the dryest years, the farmer who has an artesian well on his place can raise a good crop, as a well of or- this country a few years after the ailments alluded to, and hearty men and women. One very peculiar feature is that there are half-climates within its bore to some class of complaints there some persons with sumptive tendencies when Westminster best suits again, find that the dryness gives them the needed preference still dryer mountains east of Anaheim. I give below the average Anaheim, as recorded thermometer: I must briefly allude east which last year spent on the mountains, twenty Anaheim. During last locations were recorded tricts were established grounded belief here experience that the cominess developments beyond the most sanguine. They all silver ledges, but and tin mines of greatest. The celebrated Blake twelve miles east of from this mine is in northeastern and rapidly supersees is sold in Anaheim at force of men are consonant Directors are memoir prize. The bee-keeping business which has had late years many people. The bee with bee ranches, and mense. Netwithstanding at which honey has stained business is reasonable natural advantages with the necessity of it. In concluding my hypothesis that I have briefly upon facts m dinary volume can be made to irrigate forty acres. Much attention has been paid in Westminster to the raising of Northern fruits, and it is generally conceded that they will take the palm in this respect. At the last exhibition of the Southern California Horticultural Society, the display of apples from Westminster took the first premium, although the competition was brisk and embraced displays from Ventura and other counties. There are yet but few bearing trees in the colony, but in a couple of years there will be a large amount for export. Garden Grove is about three miles from Westminster, and is surrounded by land that produces immense crops of corn. It is also in the artesian belt, and there are a great number of flowing wells. It population is analogous to that of Westminster, being steady, temperate, industrious and prosperous. A handsome church building has just been completed, and, something remarkable, it is all paid for. Santa Ana is seven miles south-east of Anaheim, and is the terminus of the San Diego branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad. It is the centre of as rich an agricultural country as there is on the face of the globe, and it is an undisputed fact that its prospects for some day becoming an interior city of great commercial importance are assured. It already enjoys the trade of a thickly-settled country, but, as in nearly all other California towns, the business is divided up among a plethora of merchants. The famous corn-producing section, Gospel Swamp, is only a few miles from Santa Ana. That is the place where from 80 to 120 bushels of corn is raised to the acre, and a Swamper who tells you that he has raised a pumpkin which weighed 300 pounds is not required to make an affidavit in support of his statement. Such instances are by no means rare. Tustin City is two miles east from Santa Ana, and is a charming place. It is thickly settled and there are numerous young orange plantations scattered about. The land is much the same as at Santa Ana, being rich, easily worked and very prolific. Tustin's latest achievement was the production of a sweet potato which weighed twenty-two pounds. Those who contemplate a removal to this part of the State. It would take several columns of the Cull to trust this auction and its industries with the fallout the subject warrants. The President's Veto. President Hayes sent his veto of the bill to restrict Chinese immigration to the House on Saturday afternoon. On the motion to pass the bill over the vote, the ayes were 109 in the affirmative and 95 in the negative—not the requisite two-thirds. One paragraph of the veto read thus: I regard the very grave discontent of the people of the Pacific States with the present working of the Chinese immigration, and their still graver apprehension therefrom in the future, an deserving the most serious attention of the people of the whole country and a solicitous interest on the part of Congress and the Executive. If this were not my own judgment, the passage of this bill by both houses of Congress would impress upon me the seriousness of the situation, when a majority of the Representatives of the people of the whole country had thought it necessary to justify so serious a measure of relief. The authority of Congress to terminate a treaty with a foreign power, by expressing the will of the nation no longer to adhere to it, is as free from controversy under our Constitution as is the further proposition that the power of making new treaties or modifying existing treaties is not lodged by the Constitution in Congress, but in the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, as shown by the concurrence of two-thirds of that body. PACIFIC COAST NEWS. At Chico, during the year 1878, there were forty-six deaths from diphtheria. The Constitutional Convention adopted the new constitution as a whole on Monday morning, by a vote of 119 ayes to 15 noes. The Convention adjourned another on Monday. Apples sell at Pendleton, Oregon, for five and six cents per pound; potatoes, two and one half to three cents; onions, five cents; cabbage, three cents; butter, fifty cents; eggs fifty cents per dozen; wood,$5 to $8 per cord, and flour $4 30 per barrel. The Workingmen of Sacramento resolved Wednesday night to send a lecturer, accompanied by a Chinese leaper, to follow on the track of Otis Gibson and his convert to Christianity, that the people of the East may see what Chinese immigration means. On Monday afternoon Daniel Collins, better known as "Happy Jack," a dissipated man, entered the store of M. Cohn at Saticoy, Ventura county, and was there given Swamper who tells you that he has raised a pumpkin which weighed 300 pounds is not required to make an affidavit in support of his statement. Such instances are by no means rare. Tustin City is two miles east from Santa Ana, and is a charming place. It is thickly settled and there are numerous young orange plantations scattered about. The land is much the same as at Santa Ana, being rich, easily worked and very prolific. Tustin's latest achievement was the production of a sweet potato which weighed twenty-two pounds. Just beyond Tustin City lies the famous San Joaquin Rancho, on whose broad acres are pastured thousands of sheep. The rancho has a large amount of valuable farming land, which will find a ready sale when the owners see it to place it on the market. Orange is very aptly named. Orange groves cluster thickly all around the settlement, and the trees grow with surprising thrift and vigor. Many of the orchards are bearing for the first time this year, and it is estimated 50,000 oranges will be shipped this season. In a year or two the production will be immense. Raisins of a very superior quality are also made here; indeed, the soil is adapted in a high degree to the culture of grapes. Wine-making is not carried on to any extent, most of the grapes grown being of a variety adapted for raisins. Besides, it is a temperance settlement, and the effort to establish a saloon there some years ago was resisted so vigorously that there is little danger of a renewal of the attempt. San Juan Capistrano, thirty-three miles south of Anaheim, is famous chiefly for its possession of a picturesque old Mission, built in 1776, and partially destroyed by an earthquake in 1812. There is some very good farming and grazing land in the vicinity of the town. There is one thing in which the people of this section feel a great pride, and that is the salubriity and healthfulness of the climate. In fact Anaheim is known far and wide as a health resort second to none on the coast. The first writer to bring it into notice in this respect was Charles Nordhoff, who devoted several pages of his book to giving thermometrical comparisons between Anaheim and other noted health resorts in this country and in Europe. That consumptive and asthmatic persons find this climate highly beneficial is attested by the fact that there are a large number of residents here, who came to this country a few years ago suffering from the ailments alluded to, who are now strong and hearty men and women. One very peculiar feature of this county is that there are half a dozen different climates within its borders, each beneficial to some class of complaint. For instance, there some persons with asthmatic or consumptive tendencies who find the climate of Westminster best suited to them; others, again, find that the dryer climate of Anaheim gives them the needed relief; while others prefer the still dryer atmosphere of the mountains east of Anaheim, and so on. The Convention adjourned sinuous on Monday. Apples sell at Pendleton, Oregon, for five and six cents per pound; potatoes, two and one half to three cents; onions, five cents; cabbage, three cents; butter, fifty cents; eggs fifty cents per dozen; wood, $5 to $8 per cord, and flour $4.50 per barrel. The Workingmen of Sacramento resolved Wednesday night to send a Lecturer, accompanied by a Chinese leaper, to follow on the track of Otis Gibson and his convert to Christianity, that the people of the East may see what Chinese immigration means. On Monday afternoon Daniel Collins, better known as "Happy Jack," a dissipated man, entered the store of M. Cohn at Nati-coy, Ventura county, and was there given three beer glasses full of whisky, which he drank in less than twenty minutes. Of course he died the same night. The Coroner's jury say that Cohn exhibited great want of judgment, but was not actuated by malice. A distressing accident occurred at Polsom on Saturday. A number of small boys were going to Lancolia's Cut to celebrate the day on their own account, and one of them, Sherman Dresser, carried along a small pocket-pastel. It was fired one or twice at a mark by some of the boys, and while in the hands of young Dresser preparing to fire again, it went off unexpectedly, and shot Joseph Harris, aged 16 years, who died in a few minutes thereafter. The town of Reno, Nevada, was destroyed by fire on Monday morning. The only house in the town which escaped destruction was the Masonic Hall. Two or three Central Pacific trains were burned. Five lives were lost—Mrs. John Beck, John Riley, and three tramps. Loss, $1,000,000. From returns made to Internal Revenue Collector J. B. Richardson, it appears that Solano county brewed 6,524 barrels of beer during last year, and Yolo 1,364 barrels. Wheat is 82 cents per bushel at Buena Vista, Oregon. The Council of Dakota has passed a bill for an act to grant suffrage to women. It is generally believed the House will pass it. Eggs are one dollar per dozen at Silver City Idaho. We understand that an order has been received here from headquarters—General McDowell—directing the converting of the barracks into an hospital for invalid soldiers for the Pacific coast, including Arizona and Oregon. The soldiers to be stationed on the line—San Diego News. A religious revival is going on at Napa. There were 82 accessions to the various churches on last Sunday. Should the South Pacific Coast Railroad Company decide to build the road from Felton to Santa Cruz, on the east side of the San Lorenzo two tunnels, one of 600 and another of 1200 feet, will have to be constructed. The St. Helena Vinicultural Society has passed a resolution "that the State Society be requested to take steps to have Congress modify the revenue laws in regard to grape brandy, so as to allow producers and manufacturers to fortify sweet wines—not to exceed 22 per cent—free of duty. The Nevada legislature has appropriated $10,000 for the relief of the sufferera by the Reno fire. London, February 23.—A dispatch from Vienna states that an avalanche near Marbourg killed twenty-one persons and destroyed nine houses. BLACK STAR COAL MINING COMPANY. Location of principal place of business, ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA. Location of works, Santiago Canyon, Los Angeles County, California. NOTICE—THREE IS DELINQUENT UPON THE following described property, on account of An PETER SCHUTLER WAGONS. Webster, Howe & Co., Garden Grove. Notice of Assessment. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AT A meeting of stockholders of Cajon Irrigation Co., held on the 15th of February, 1879, an assessment of fifty dollars a share was levied upon the sold stock of the corporation, payable immediately in U.S. gold coin, or by note with satisfactory security, with interest at the rate of 15 per cent. per month. Any stock upon which this assessment shall remain unpaid either by cash or note on the 17th of March, 1879, will be delinquent and advertised for sale at public auction, unless payment is made before will be sold on the 15th day of April, 1879, to pay delinquent assessment, toward her with the costs of advertising and the expenses of sale. W.M.M.FADDEN, Secretary C.I.C.Anaheim, Cal. Notice to Creditors. In the matter of the Estats of Christian Kroger, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN BY THE UNDER-signed administrator of the estate of Christian Kroger, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them, with the necessary vouchers within ten months after the first publication of this notice, to the said administrator at his residence in Anaheim, or to Scott & Montgomery attorneys at law, Centre Street Anaheim, Los Angeles county. HENRY KROGER, Administrator of the estate of Christian Kroger, dece'd Scott & Montgomery，counsel. Oakland Poultry Yards! Cor 16th and Castro streets, Oakland. Constantly on hand and for sale; choice specimens of the following varieties of towls: Dark and Light Brahmas; Buff White and Partridge Cochins; White and Brown Leghorns; Dorkings; Polish; Hamburgs; Plymouth Rocks; Game and Sebright Bantams; Bronze Turkeys; Pakin; Aylesbury; and Rouen Ducks; etc., etc., etc. SAFE ARRIVAL OF EGGS GUARANTEED. No Inferior Fowls sold at any Price. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. For further information send stamp for illustrated circular, GEO. B. BAYLEY, P.O. Box 1918, San Francisco，Cal. FOR THE BEST AND CHEAPEST Clothing AND GENTS FURNISHING GOODS, READY-MADE AND TO ORDER. GO TO... M.A. Mendelson Merchant Tailoiling Emporium, Centre Street. Anaheim THE GREATEST BARG IN this country a few years ago suffering from the ailments alluded to, who are now strong and hearty men and women. One very peculiar feature of this county is that there are half a dozen different climates within its borders, each beneficial to some class of complaint. For instance, there some persons with asthmatic or consumptive tendencies who find the climate of Westminster best suited to them; others, again, find that the dryer climate of Anaheim gives them the needed relief; while others prefer the still dryer atmosphere of the mountains east of Anaheim, and so on. I give below the average temperature of Anaheim, as recorded by a self-registering thermometer: 1877. 1878. 1877. 1878 January...51...51...July...72...67 February...56...52...August...70...69 March...58...54...September...60...66 April...57...56...October...62...61 May...61...60...November...59...58 June...70...64...December...54...50 I must briefly allude to the mining interest which last year sprang into existence in the mountains, twenty-three miles east of Anaheim. During last Summer, about 800 locations were recorded; several mining districts were established, and there is a well-grounded belief here among miners of experience that the coming Summer will witness developments beyond the expectations of the most sanguine. The discoveries are mostly all silver ledges, but there are also gold and tin mines of great promise. The celebrated Black Star coal mine is twelve miles east of Anaheim. The coal from this mine is in use all over the county, and is rapidly supereding imported coal. It is sold in Anaheim at $8 per ton. A large force of men are constantly employed, and the Directors are men of capital and enterprise. The bee-keeping business is an industry which has of late years attracted a great many people. The canyons are crowded with bee ranches, and the honey yield is immense. Notwithstanding the very low price at which honey has stood for some time, the business is reasonably profitable, as the natural advantages of the country do away with the necessity of any great expense. In concluding my letter, it must not be supposed that I have done sight but touch briefly upon facts mostly sought after by Wm. NILES, IMPORTER AND BREEDER OF THOROUGHBRED Poultry AND BERKSHIRES. LOS ANGELES, CAL. ORDERS RECEIVED FOR ALL KINDS OF LAND AND WATER POWLS; ALSO BOGS for hatching from grassland stock. General Pacific Coast Agent for American Poultry Food. It will make your hens lay. It will prevent and cure surely every common disease. For raising young chickens it is invaluable. Ask your present for it. Our Better Powder and Home Milk on hand. High Grade Berkshires. I am branding from stock imported direct from England and my stock is not sterilized by any of the same clams on this email. A limited number of these pigs for sale. Prudent very low. Letters of inquiry, including stamps, charitably answered. Home Branch, Washington D.C. between Main and San Pedro St., where visitors are always welcome. POLAND CHINA PIGS. My Breeders have been IMPORTED direct from THE MAGIC COMPANY, which alone is a guarantee of their purity. A limited number of choice Pigs lot sold very low. NEW FIRM. HULL & LUND, Successors to... Westminster Co-operative COMPANY. WE RESPECTFULLY SOLICIT THE PATRON: age of the friends of the old firm, hoping by FAIR, SQUARE DEALING ...AND.... LOW PRICES To sustain the confidence of all our patrons. We have adopted the CASH SYSTEM of doing business, believing that it will in the end prove a benefit to ourselves and customers, and will also enable us to materially REDUCE OUR PRICES. WESTMINSTER NURSERY! Good Trees, True to Name Is the first consideration to the planter. LOW PRICES Is the next consideration. WE OFFER BOTH. Inspection and correspondence solicited. Great inducements to large planters. The smallest orders carefully attended to. Apples, Peaches, Pears, Prunes, Plums (Wild Goose), Apricots, Nectarines, Loquats, Cherrr ries, Quinoes, Date Palms. In the best variation. Japan Persimmon, 3 YEARS, HOME-GROWN. FAIR, SQUARE DEALING ...AND... LOW PRICES To sustain the confidence of all our patrons. We have adopted the CASH SYSTEM of doing business, believing that it will in the end prove a benefit to ourselves and customers, and will also enable us to materially REDUCE OUR PRICES. All accounts due the old firm must be immediately settled by cash or note. The firm of Hull & Lund will pay all debts of the Westminster Co-operative Company. HULL & LUND, WESTMINSTER. A NEW DEPARTURE! PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. GOODS almost GIVEN AWAY. D. & G. D. Plato have reduced the price fully 25 per cent on their Immense Stock OF CLOTHING Dry Goods, HATS, Ladies Fancy Goods Boots & Shoes, Yankee Notions, CROCKERY, Groceries, ETC., ETC., ETC. Inspection and correspondence solicited. Great inducements to large planters. The smallest orders carefully attached to: Apples, Peaches, Pears, Prunes, Plums (Wild Goose), Apricots, Nectarines, Loquats, Cherrie; ries, Quinces, Date Palms. In the best variation. Japan Persimmon, 3 YEARS, HOME-GROWN. Purchasers have our continued guarantee of care and good faith in their selections. Early engagement is a mutual advantage. ROBERT STRONG, Westminster. Exotic Gardens, NEW LAOS ANGELES STREET. Bear of Cathedral. LOS ANGELES. LOUIS J. STENGEL, Proprietor. RESPECTFULLY INFORM THE PEOPLE OF Anaheim and vicinity that I have ob blind this season in the finest lot of flower plants ever brought to Los Angeles. In leading a practical gardener, and having no expense for professional help, I am enabled to sell cheapest theretoothers. Particular attention is drawn to my appointment of Magnolia, Golden Arthur Vilam, Wooing Cypress, Aurinia (5 sachets), Canadiana (60 sachets), and fine plants of the latter with buds, for $11 Cape Jasmine, Gardenia, Daphneys, etc., Dahlia, Gladiolus, Tuberouses by the hundred or thousand Guavas, strong plants, bearing next season, at 80 per hundred; Rosas, overblooming (199 sachets), 25 cents each, in pots or without; and hundreds of other varieties of flowers. An invitation is extended to all to visit my garden; whether they purchase or not. Remember that I am selling at lower prices than has ever yet ruled in this market. CHOICE LOTS! OF LAND FOR SALE AT TUSTIN CITY. Will be sold in 5, 10, or 20 acre tracts to suit purchasers. This land is especially suited for the growth of semi-tropical and northern fruits. It is one of the finest pieces of land in the State, and has abundance of water for irrigation. Water Right goes with Land. A STORE BUILDING, 24x90, two stories high, also for sale. Also, A DWELLING HOUSE with 10 acres of land, nearly all set out in fruit trees. The house is 20x26, two stories. Fine Well, Tank, Windmill, etc. All the above property will be sold at a CREAT BARGAIN! Boots & Shoes, Yankee Notions, CROCKERY, Groceries, ETC., ETC., ETC. The public are requested to call and examine our stock before purchasing elsewhere, as we are certain that our prices are the cheapest of any store in town. We have one of the largest and finest assortments of Ladies' and Children's Gaiters. Also men and boys' wear, which we have reduced to less following prices: Ladies' Gaiters, $1.00; Ladies' Kid Fox Gaiters, $1.25; Ladies' all cloth Gaiters, $1.50; Ladies' Buttoned Gaiters, $2.00. Misses' Gaiters, $1.25. Children's Shoes, 50c@$1. PRODUCE TAKEN IN EXCHANGE. D. & G. D. PLATO. Corner of Los Angeles and Centre Streets. For Sale at Garden Grove. 20 Acres of Good Farming Land. IN 3 OR 10 ACRE TRACTS. FLOWING ARTEsian well and orchard. One hundred macks of onions to the acres have been raised on this land. Apply to Mrs Benjamin Rice, male west of Alamitos school home. LECTURE! BY... REV. E. HALLIDAY, At Kroeger's Hall, Monday, March 10th, at 7:30 o'clock, P. M. Subject: Philosophy of Self-Culture. There will be vocal and instrumental music by the ladies during the evening. ADMISSION, 25 Cents. All proceeds will be used for a betterment object. Water Right goes with Land. A STORE BUILDING, 24x90, two stories high, also for sale. Also, A DWELLING HOUSE with 10 acres of land, nearly all set out in fruit trees. The house is 20x26, two stories. Fine Well, Tank, Windmill, etc. All the above property will be sold at a GREAT BARGAIN! as the owner desires to remove to another part of the State. Town Lots sold at $20 each. C. TUSTIN, Tustin City, Los Angeles Co. THOROUGHBRED Poultry! 116 Acres Devoted to Fancy Poultry. Unlimited Range. Healthy Stock Largest Yards on the Coast. Brahmas, Leghorns, Plymouth Kendal, Blanche Thuray, Geese, Pelican Ducks, Grisen Pigs, etc. Safe arrival of Fowls and Eggs presented off Pamphlet on the care of Fowls—handling, feeding, disease and their cure, etc., adapted especially to the Pacific Coast, sent for 18 cents. Send change for price list. The Continental Insurer; any one can lend eggs with it. Address. M. NYER, Napa, Cal. (Please state where you see this ad.). Patents. F. A. LERMAN, SOLICITOR OF AMERICAN AND Foreign Patents, Washington, D. C. All business connected with Patents, whether before the test office or the Orders, presumably attained in. No charges made unless a patent is entered. Fund for strainer. PIANO FOR SALE. ANYONE DESIRED OF PURCHASING A NEW Piano at a large discount will learn of an opportunity to do so by applying at the GAZETTE office.