anaheim-gazette 1883-12-29

Some of the articles which appear on this extra page have been published in previous issues of the Gazette, but they are republished in the belief that they contain information which will be of interest to the people among whom this edition of the Gazette will circulate largely. Some Queries Answered. To certain queries propounded by a correspondent in Novia Scotia, the Gazette some time ago made the following replies: 1. The price of unimproved land in the vicinity of Anaheim, convenient for irrigation, varies from $50 to $100 per acre. The land at these figures is of first quality, and is unsurpassed for the growth of grapes, oranges, lemons or other fruit. Some of the finest vineyards and orchards in the State are to be found here, and on soil similar to that we refer to. West of Anaheim, in Westminster township, land is selling at from $20 to $30 per acre. Part of this land is alkali, but on most of it alfalfa can be grown, hence it is a desirable country for dairymen and stockraisers. 2. The poultry producers of Los Angeles county find, in the neighboring territory of Arizona, a market which they find impossible to supply. There is a strong demand for eggs and poultry at all times and seasons of the year. During the past two years eggs have never brought less than ten cents per dozen, and the highest price paid has been 40 cents a dozen. It should be explained however, that the low price of ten cents ruled but a few days, and was caused by an abnormal receipt of eggs from San Francisco. It would not be unfair to quote fifteen cents as the lowest figure. 3. If the third query relates to persons, we can emphatically say that there are no diseases peculiar to this country. It is the healthiest part of the globe. There are occasional deaths from malignant diseases, but the cause can almost invariably be traced to acute insanitary condition of the immediate surroundings. Diseases never become epidemic. If, however, the query relates to METEOROLOGICAL FACTS Concerning the Glorious Climate of California. Some of the discomforts of this glorious climate have been undergone during the week. It has been a sort of weather which would lead the strangers within our gates, to ask whether the tales they have heard regarding the strawberry all the year-round climate have not been a trifle exaggerated. A truthful answer to such a query would be that many writers have unwittingly led their readers to believe that there was a dead uniformity in Southern California climate. As a matter of fact we have a few warm, disagreeable days every summer, and a few cold, disagreeable days every winter, and in making this admission we do not for a moment recede from the position always maintained by this paper, that the climate of Southern California, and of Anaheim especially, is as near perfection as in any other country in the world. If there is a place on the globe where there are less disagreeable meteorological peculiarities than the section of country of which Anaheim is the principal part, travelers have failed to make known the discovery. Mentone, in France, is said to be an ideal health resort. Its naturally beautiful situation, heightened by a lavish expenditure of money and taste, make it a favorite resort; and yet the hard facts show that climatically it is far inferior to Anaheim. In support of this, we quote briefly from the oft referred to record kept by the late Francis S. Miles at Mentone during December, January and February, 1869-70, and to a similar record kept at Anaheim by the same gentleman during the corresponding months of 1872-73. AT MENTONE. December. Hygrometer -Average difference between wet and dry bulb, 54°; Thermometer -Average temperature, 49°; maximum, 62°; minimum, 37. Bright sunshine, 10 days; sunshine and clouds, eight; cloudy all day, thirteen; rain, twelve; strong winds, two. January. Hygrometer -Average difference between wet and dry bulb, 6°; Thermometer -Average temperature, 48°; maximum, 61°; minimum, 36°. Bright sunshine, eighteen days; sunshine and clouds, four; cloudy all day, nine; rain, nine; strong wind, seven. February. Hygrometer -Average difference between wet and dry bulb, 64°; Thermometer -Average temperature, 45°; maximum, 61°; minimum, 33°. Bright sunshine, ANAHEIM An Expert in his Imagination. Prof. Husmann in Returning to Loss I took the train for famous for being large scale for the prairie. On the way we pass a vineyard planted dean, which also shows young industry is very pleasantly lofty plain with very saintly rigoration absolutely results with vines, which was originally an exponent who are now with Americans, to each. My first call Reiser, who received hospitality and kindness his flourishing vineyard over twenty five years thy and were beaten also saw some Burgess bearing a handsome bunches. Returning some very fine Mr. years old another grape, also very fine cord wine made fiver over the porch, two really extra fine, and this Coast. It was color very smooth pleasant aroma freeiness. Mr. Reiser escorted place of Mr. A. Lars and his kind and acceded the remainder of the moon of the next day his vineyard, where kinds we met among Orlean's Reising, best of beautiful and high must certainly make piece of Lenoir grape which presented at The grafts had new some fruit the first this season with an effectively ripened bunch by the deep green fall of foliage will be a grape The South where Vanferas often flags dark colored juice wilt for blending with which may lack color however, that the low price of ten cents ruled but a few days, and was caused by an abnormal receipt of eggs from San Francisco. It would not be unfair to quote fifteen cents as the lowest figure. 3. If the third query relates to persons, we can emphatically say that there are no diseases peculiar to this country. It is the healthiest part of the globe. There are occasional deaths from malignant diseases, but the cause can almost invariably be traced to some insanitary condition of the immediate surroundings. Diseases never become epidemic. If, however, the query relates to poultry, we can say, upon authority, that they suffer no disease peculiar to the country, but improperly cared for fowls are liable to diseases prevalent among poultry the world over. Only this and nothing more. 4. Buildings are necessary for keeping poultry, but they need be of the cheapest kind. "Buildings" is scarcely the word to use; "coops" would be more proper. This item of expense is trifling and inconsiderable. 5. Vineyard and fruit land is irrigated with water from the Santa Ana river, conveyed through ditches to the land to be irrigated. The ditch which conveys water to Anaheim is twelve miles in length, and there are probably four or five miles of distributing ditches. 6. Land can be rented for gram raising. The usual rental is $1.50 per acre cash for unbroken land, or $2 per acre for land which has been cultivated. It the rental is on shares it is usually one-fifth of the crop, delivered at the railroad depot, each party furnishing his own sacks. The above are the terms of the owners of the Stearns Ranchos Corn land usually rents for one-fourth of the crop, shelled. 7. If one wants to come to Southern California, he may come at any time. The winters are mild, and fierce heat is not characteristic of summer, and if our correspondent is moved to make a change from considerations of health the sooner he comes here the better. Anaheim Climate A pamphlet issued by the Railroad Company has this extract: One of this class [invalid] writing from Anaheim, Los Angeles county, says: "I do wish you and your family were in California, for a more perfect climate I can not imagine." Later in his letter he compares California to health resorts he has visited in the south of Europe: "Southern California presents a most gloriously invigorating, tonic and stimulating climate, very much superior to anything I know of; the air is so pure and so much dryer than at Mentone or elsewhere, and although it has those properties, it has a most soothing influence on the nervous membrane, even more so than the climate of Florida, and without the enervating effect of that. It is quite as stimulating as Minnesota, without the intense cold of that climate." December. Hygrometer—Average difference between wet and dry bulb, 6'; Thermometer—Average temperature, 49'; maximum, 62'; minimum, 37'. Bright sunshine, 10 days; sunshine and clouds, eight; cloudy all day, thirteen; rain, twelve; strong winds, two. January. Hygrometer—Average difference between wet and dry bulb, 64'; Thermometer—Average temperature, 45'; maximum, 61'; minimum, 33'. Bright sunshine, sixteen days; sunshine and clouds, seven; cloudy all day, five; rain, seven; storm wind, seven. AT ANAHEIM. December. Hygrometer—Average difference between wet and dry bulb, 616'; Thermometer—Average temperature, 62'; maximum, 77'; minimum, 50'. Bright sunshine, seventeen days; sunshine and clouds, six; cloudy all day, eight; rain on two days and four nights; on five days the temperature was below 55° at 8 A.M.; strong wind, one day. January. Hygrometer—Average difference between wet and dry bulb, 74'; Thermometer—Average temperature, 634'; maximum, 80'; minimum, 50'. On six days the temperature was below 55° at 8 A.M.; bright sunshine, 19 days; sunshine and clouds, eight; cloudy all day, four; rain two days and strong wind two days. February. Hygrometer—Average difference between wet and dry bulb, 41'; Thermometer—Average temperature, 574'; maximum, 75'; minimum, 44'. On fifteen days the temperature was below 55° at 8 A.M.; bright sunshine, seven days; sunshine and clouds, thirteen; cloudy all day, eight; rain on nine days. The deductions from the above are that during the three months mentioned, at Anaheim an invalid could have been out of doors all day, 81 days; confined indoors by bad weather, 9 days. At Mentone there were 67 fair days and 23 bad days. At Anaheim it rained thirteen days, and there were strong winds three days; at Mentone it rained 28 days, and strong winds prevailed 23 days. At Anaheim the average difference between the wet and dry bulb was 6½ degrees; at Mentone 6 degrees. At Anaheim the average temperature during the three months was 61 degrees, maximum 77½', minimum 49¼; at Mentone, average 48¼', maximum 63¼', minimum 35¼'. To give a further idea of the winter climate of Anaheim, we call the following from the thermometrical record which has been farmed weekly to the GAZETTE for the past seven years: On December 25th, 1877, the lowest reading of the thermometer was 42', and the highest 57'. January 1st, 1878, lowest 36', highest 57'. December 25th, 1878, lowest 32', highest 59'. January 1st, 1879, lowest 52', highest 59'. December 25th, 1879, lowest 33', highest 57'. January 1st, 1880, lowest 39', highest 66'. December 25th, 1880, lowest 53', highest 62'. January 1st, 1881, lowest 41', highest 62'. December 25th, 1881, lowest 37', highest 63'. January 1st, 1882, lowest 38', highest 76'. December 25th, 1882, lowest 38', highest 71'. January 1st, 1883, lowest 51', highest 66'. From the record above referred to we also compile the following table giving the average temperature of several months from 1877 to 1883. The record is made up from... "Later in his letter he compares California to health resorts he has visited in the south of Europe: 'Southern California presents a most gloriously invigorating, tonic and stimulating climate, very much superior to anything I know of; the air is so pure and so much dryer than at Mentone or elsewhere, and although it has those properties, it has a most soothing influence on the nervous membrane, even more so than the climate of Florida, and without the enervating effect of that. It is quite as stimulating as Minnesota, without the intense cold of that climate. 'All the leading physicians of the world agree that a tonic, stimulating, dry climate is the best for the great majority of cases suffering from pulmonary diseases, or from a lowered vitality. The patient needs a climate in which he can spend most of the day out of doors. In California I have not been troubled with sudden changes in temperature, nor by the doctors, for I have not had to consult one since I have been in the State. As for going out, I have constantly been out evenings. During the past winter, out of one hundred and fourteen days I have spent one hundred and six in open air. Italy, generally, is a poor climate for the invalid, and the 'pure blue Italian skies' are not be compared to ours." Matthew Cooke, ex-Horticultural Commissioner, says: I have received several letters, also personal inquiries from fruit growers, asking—"Do you think fruit growing or orchard planting is being overdone in California?" I have answered the inquiries as follows: I do not think fruit growing can be overdone; or, in other words, I do not think an over production of choice marketable fruit will be found in our markets in the near future. Such fruit growers as will send to market fruit free from insect pests, mildew, etc., will command a good price for their products. How the world has progressed within a century! George Washington, the first President of the United States, never saw a steamboat. John Adams, the second President of the United States, never saw a railroad. Andrew Jackson, the seventh President, knew nothing about the telegraph. Abraham Lincoln, the seventeenth President, never dreamed of such a thing as the telephone. January 1st, 1879, lowest 52°, highest 59°. December 25th, 1879, lowest 33°, highest 57°. January 1st, 1880, lowest 39°, highest 66°. December 25th, 1880, lowest 53°, highest 62°. January 1st, 1881, lowest 41°, highest 62°. December 25th, 1881, lowest 37°, highest 63°. January 1st, 1882, lowest 38°, highest 76°. December 25th, 1882, lowest 38°, highest 71°. January 1st, 1883, lowest 51°, highest 66°. From the record above referred to we also compile the following table, giving the average temperature of the several months from 1877 to 1883. The record is made up from readings of the thermometer at 7 A.M., 7 P.M., and the highest and lowest points reached during the twenty-four hours: 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 Jan... 51½ 51½ 51 48¼ 49 48 52½ Feb... 56 52¼ 54 46¼ 53 49¼ 52 March... 58 54 56¼ 54 52¼ 54 59 April... 57¼ 56 57¼ 54¾ 60¼ 56¾ 57¼ May... 61½ 60½ 61½ 60½ 63½ 63½ June...70 64¾ 66¾ 64¾ 66¾ 67¾ July...72½ 67½ 68½ 65½ 69½ 70½ August.70½·69·70½·66¾·69¾·72¾·70¾ Sept...69·66¾·66¾·63¾·66¾·67 Oct...62·61½·62½·60·59¾·61 Nov...59½·56·53½·54·54¾·57 Dec...54½·50²·52²·54²·52²·54 The following recapitulation of the dates on which the mercury has reached one hundred degrees or over for the past eleven years is interesting as showing how little real foundation there is for any apprehension concerning excessive summer heat: 1873 Sept. 15 ·····100 " " ·····100 1877 June ·····101 " " ·····104 " " ·····108 " " ·····112 " " ·····100 " " ·····104 " " ·····104 " " ·····104 " " ·····104 " " ·····104 " " ·····104 " " ·····104 " " ·····104 " " ·····104 " " ·····104 " " ·····104 " " ·····104 " " ·····104 There have been only twenty days during the past eleven years in which the thermometer recorded one hundred degrees or over—an average of less than two days per year! The excessive heat of September 10, 11 and 12, 1878 was caused by mountain fires which raged with even greater fury than during the present week. —From the Gazette of September 29th.* A remarkable illustration done with ten acres of furnished by a fruit farmer of Woodland, California planted five acres since which he has added He has also planted nectarines and peaches first mentioned his grapes were $1,200. Last year fourths of an acre of bounty. By the aid of or short, he kept a spruce seven months, but $30 worth of beets. From 10 pounds to lll week, besides the milk small family uses. Being Dillon further plant which have borne fruit the wood cut from that the trimmings he made cords of stove wood. Years ago, and some diameter, will make from one-tourth to one per tree. In the cone has his fruits and vines grown on a small scale make a living for him lay by from $800 to $family consists of his child. It is evident that Woodland California thing within his reachized. —There are plenty anxious to contract for cents per pound, a grower an enormous which he sold last year at the rate of $6½ cents drawback to planting the length of time when the planting and the trees seldom bear ten years; and as in late decade seems an operated against these groves." ANAHEIM VINEYARDS. An Expert in Viticulture Records his Impressions. Prof. Husmann in San Francisco Bulletin Returning to Los Angeles in the afternoon I took the train for the village of Anaheim, famous for being the first settlement on a large scale for the purpose of wine making. On the way we passed through a thousand-acre vineyard planted last year by Mr. Nadean, which also shows the giant strides the young industry is making here. Anaheim is very pleasantly located on almost a level plain, with very sandy soil, which makes irrigation absolutely necessary to attain good results with vines, oranges and lemons. It was originally an exclusively German settlement, who are now, however, intermixed with Americans, to the mutual benefit of each. My first call was made on Theodore Reiner, who received me with true German hospitality and kindness, showing me through his flourishing vineyard, where Mission vines over twenty-five years old still looked healthy and were bearing abundant crops. I also saw some Burger, in their third year, bearing a handsome crop of magnificent bunches. Returning to the cellar, we tasted some very fine Mission white wine, three years old, another white wine from mixed grapes, also very fine, and a sample of Concord wine, made from a few vines trailing over the porch, two years ago, which was really extra fine, and a curiosity to find it on this Coast. It was of a beautiful bright red color, very smooth and full, with a very pleasant aroma, free from all offensive foxiness. Mr. Reiser escorted me to the beautiful place of Mr. A. Langenberger, with whom and his kind and accomplished family I spent the remainder of the day and night, until noon of the next day, in rambling through his vineyard, where the two most interesting kinds we met, among many others, were his Orleans Reising, bearing an immense crop of beautiful and high-flavored fruit, which must certainly make a first-class wine, and a piece of Lenoir, grafted on Muscata in 1882. This presented a magnificent appearance. The grafts had nearly all taken, produced some fruit the first year, and were loaded this season with an abundant crop of perfectly ripened bunches, completely covered by the deep green foliage. This consistency of foliage will be a great recommendation in the South, where the tender foliage of the Vanferas often flags in the hot sun, and its dark colored juice will make it very valuable for blending with other red wine grapes which may lack color and tannin when grown. VALUE OF ANAHEIM LANDS. Some few years ago a gentleman, whose business brings him annually to Anaheim, was half induced to invest some of his money in land here which was then held at from $30 to $40 per acre. He decided that the price was too high, and confident that the land would get cheaper he postponed making the investment. For three years in succession he returned here, but instead of finding property depreciating in value he found it steadily advancing, and the problem that now confronts him is whether he will, as a matter of speculation, pay from $80 to $100 per acre for the land which a few years ago went a begging for less than half that price. Although land values have steadily and unceriously advanced in this section, they have not reached one-half the value which will ultimately be placed upon them. And we are glad to be able to say that land is held at much lower figures than in many other localities in the county where the advantages are not one whit superior. No superficial inflation has afflicted this district, but the signs of present prosperity and future promise are so unmistakable that we have no hesitation in asserting our belief as to the ultimate value of the land; nor, we may remark, have we the slightest hesitancy in acting upon our belief and investing what means we have in Anaheim property. We hope that no writings of our will attract speculators, or cause them to invest in property. Speculators are not wanted; it is men who want to make homes, who improve the land they buy and add to the prosperity of the district—these are the kind of men we want to see buy the broad acres which invite their labor and which will respond so spontaneously to the efforts of the husband-man. Cheap Land. To those who come to this State with a view to investment in unimproved land, we commend the splendidly fertile section of country of which Anaheim is the most prominent part. At this time of year the plains are in their most unattractive garb, and Nature is unadorned with a single ornament except that supplied by man's labor; and yet we have no hesitation in inviting the stranger to ride over the country and view it at its worst, because the evidence of what labor will accomplish stands forth in striking contempt of our own nature even yet attained or even dreamed of by any person. CALIFORNIA OUTLINED. Written for "The Renaissance of California," by James C. Kemp. California is no place for a good-for-nothing, shiftless, lazy man, who seeks to get a living or obtain a competence in any other manner, than through honest, well-applied labor and effort. Neither is she adapted to the necessities of one who has a family to support, no capital, and only his two willing hands to assist him. It is about as poor as poor locality as I know of for a preacher, lawyer, doctor, clerk or professional man, unless possessed of the most signal ability—in other words, of qualifications tar above the average of those even, who, not only are considered, but are in reality, decidely talented in their particular sphere. It nower on the other hand, there is a more desirable or better section extant (all things considered) for the home of a sensible, enterprising earnest—never say die—industrious man, who has means ranging from a thousand dollars upwards. I would am merely and respectfully ask the possessor of such knowledge to kindly inform me where that locality is? I came to this State thirty-four years ago, am thoroughly acquainted with its topography, climate advantages and every resource, and unhesitatingly and conscientiously state, that in my opinion, it is the healthiest, fairest best in every respect, and most favored land upon which the dew of heaven falls, or blazing sun sheds its effugent penetrating life-giving rays. I have reached this conclusion through the medium of actual practical experience, and the closest research, and know fully as well as I do that I am a living being, that my deductions are unquestionably correct. We can judge of the merits of anything material only by comparison, and as California has been honored by the advent of a very large number of distinguished visitors from every portion of our Common Country, most of whom have made the journey hither for the first time. I propose in this communication to address myself particularly to them, and ask all such who shall chance to read my statements, to afterwards institute comparison between what they may have seen and experienced here, and that which they have at home, and in fact have been accustomed to, from childhood up. Knowing as I do that their conclusions will be the same as my own, and that they are filled with admiration of the mighty resources lying around in every direction, inviting enterprise, plainly indicating and pointing with the hand of manifest destiny, to a state of civilization, far grander, broader, and more advanced than was even yet attained or even dreamed of by any person. The Possibilities of Land Culture. A remarkable illustration of what may be done with ten acres of land only has been furnished by a fruit planter named Dillon, of Woodland, California. Six years ago he planted five acres with Muscatel grape, since which he has added two more acres. He has also planted one acre with prunes, nectarines and peaches. From the five acres first mentioned his gross returns last year. The remainder of our time was spent in drives through the neighborhood, visits among some of the neighbors, where we found some very good dry wines, both white and red, and in pleasant converse with our host. Altogetner, I was much pleased with my visit to Anaheim. The country has a salubrious and healthy climate, the heat being tempered by the breeze from the sea, and people look what they are—robust and healthy. The soil is level and easily worked, as it contains more or less sand, and can all be irrigated conveniently. I saw large tracts, however, which seemed to me to be better able to withstand the summer's drought than some of our lands in Napa and Sonoma. I have seen corn fields which would produce, in my estimation, from 75 to 80 bushels per acre, and the land is not so enormously high in prices as near Los Angeles; the latter costing from $109 to $200 per acre. There are large tracts lying quiet, in the hands of large owners, which would make pleasant homes for industrious families, and I have heard of arrangements between owners and tenants by which the tenant plants a certain amount of vineyard, cultivates it for three years, and at the end of that time the land is divided—one-half belonging to the owner, the other half to the tenant. This seems to me a good arrangement for both, and a practice that ought to become general. The grapes have a lower price there, it is true, than at Napa or Sonoma, but the general average crop is also heavier, being from seven to eight tons per acre, and I have no doubt, from the samples I have seen, that good dry wines can be made there if the grazes are taken at the right time and the wineries carefully handled. Referring to Pasadena, Prof. Husmann says: I can imagine that it must be very pleasant there, but can hardly see how any one without large means at his command can buy land there at present figures, plant it with trees, wait until they make returns, and make a living. True, he can now sell any day, realizing hand-some profits, but it seems to me that the maximum price is about reached, and that land can hardly advance much more. The only solution seems to be that so many Eastern capitalists buy small homes here, to recruit their shattered health in this pleasant and salubrious climate, and they will pay nearly any price for a pleasant place ready for them. Cheap Land. To those who come to this State with a view to investment in unimproved land, we commend the splendidly fertile section of country of which Anaheim is the most prominent part. At this time of year the plains are in their most unattractive garb, and Nature is unadorned with a single ornament except that supplied by man's labor; and yet we have no hesitation in inviting the stranger to ride over the country and view it at its worst, because the evidence of what labor will accomplish stands forth in striking contrast and cannot fail to make a most favorable impression. It is possible to drive along the public highway and see upon the one side an uninviting barren looking plot, while upon the other side, on the same kind of soil, is a magnificent stretch of vineyard, each vine loaded with semi-ripe bunches of grapes, or an orchard upon the trees of which the oranges are just beginning to make themselves crispuous. The inference to be drawn is that by cultivation the barren plain can be made to blossom and bear fruit, and that the charming homes and profitable places are attainable by all who have the desire and the muscle to carve them out. A comparison of the price of land here and elsewhere is decidedly in favor of Anaheim. One hundred dollars per acre is the highest price asked for unimproved land, while the general range of prices is from forty to seventy-five dollars per acre. The same quality of land in many other parts of the county is held at $250 per acre and more—a fine price which those paying it will soon regret. A Word or Two About California. Her future promises to be one of unexamined prosperity, and that it will be one of the most densely populated and wealthy in the Union there is not a shadow of doubt. Our grain fields are among the marvels of the world. Think of tens of thousands of acres in one body all covered with growing grain. The herds off stock are vast almost beyond comprehension. The fruits of California are more perfect in size, and delicious in taste than can be raised in any quarter of the globe. This is the verdict of many of our recent visitors. The vegetables are also of extraordinary size and perfect in all other respects. The shrubbery and flowers are of infinite variety, beautiful hues, and worth traveling a great distance to see. The forest trees of cedar, pine, and redwood grow to an enormous size, and make the finest timber in the world. A gentleman from New England, who recently made the tour of our State, writes to the Springfield Republican, its gigantic mountains all covered with vardure; its beautiful mountain lakes; its numerous and valuable mineral springs; its astonishing geysers; its petrified forests all of absorbing interest to those who view them for the first time and it would fill a large volume to do them even slight justice." We often wonder why some of the representative working men of England and other countries who occasionally come to the United States (to find out by personal observation, whether some thousands of farm laborers and other working men of their respective countries would improve their condition by settling in it) do not extend their visits to our State. Here they would learn that California soil is very fertile, and that her climate permits of comfortable outdoor work in any every day in the year; that we have an expanding commerce, and plenty of elbow room. In short, they would discover that California is a formidable land and all most of whom have made the journey either for the first time, I propose in this communication, to address myself particularly to them, and ask all such who shall chance to read my statements, to afterwards institute comparison between what they may have seen and experienced here, and that which they have at home, and in fact have been accustomed to, from childhood up. Knowing as I do their conclusions will be the same as my own, and that they are filled with admiration of the mighty resources lying around in every direction, inviting enterprise, plainly indicating and pointing with the hand of manifest destiny, to a state of civilization, far grander, broader, and more advanced than was even yet attained or even so much as dreamed of, by any people of whom history or tradition gives account. Nothing comparatively has been done here in the way of manufacturing, and yet the conditions are very superior in many respects to those found in any other portion of the country. We have the largest and most available water power of any State in the Union, extending completely over that portion of California known as the Great Foothill region, which among other advantages never冻es. Our climate is such that very many portions of the work upon different articles can be performed out-of doors year round, and this is a desideratum of the utmost importance; it being in fact one of the principal causes that has given the blankets manufactured in this city, at the Mission Wooden Mills, a quality and reputation far above those made in any other quarter of the world. Nearly every description of iron goods could be made here, from a loeotmotive or steamship down to a cooking stove, and of all places in America in which to manufacture the latter, this is certainly the most advantageous. Iron of the very best quality abounds throughout the mining region, that of Clipper Gap, Placer Co., being fully equal to the best Scotch imported, and right in that immediate vicinity; extensive works should be erected, the water power being enormous and close at hand. We export most of our wheat instead of first making it into flour, and send wool to other localities to weaken into cloth and returned to us again when, as I said be ore) this is the very best section known (naturally) for the manufacture of wooden goods. The little fish called the sardine, swarms in countless millions all along our coast, from Lower California to Oregon, and there is literally no limit to the supply of olive oil we could produce; yet no one has ever put up a box of them; while on the other hand we have imported millions of dollars worth from France; and still keep on doing so as the years roll back. All our wooden ware, a large portion of the necessary supply of furniture, as well as wagons, farming implements, etc., are imported; while hundreds of caribou of pork, ham and bacon come to us over the railroad yearly; notwithstanding this is one of the very best places on earth in which to raise hogs. In the winter season, too; turkeys; chicken and other poultry come to us regularly from Kansas, Nebraska Iowa and other States west of the Rockies and Missouri river. This is all wrong. It should not be so; and here is a grand opening for those who wish to establish themselves in a good business; that will pay well and finally make them rich. Our wines are becoming well-known and highly appreciated; here is one of the most splendid opportunities for enterprise that has ever existed in any age of the world. Hundreds of thousands of vineyards can be set out; and still there is no such thing as overdoing the business. Even now, we sell the wine so fast that it cannot be kept long enough to attain the necessary age required to suit the market. The time is coming when California wines and brandies will The Possibilities of Land Culture. A remarkable illustration of what may be done with ten acres of land only has been furnished by a fruit planter named Dillon, of Woodland, California. Six years ago he planted five acres with Muscatel grape, since which he has added two more acres. He has also planted one acre with prunes, nectarines and peaches. From the five acres first mentioned his gross returns last year were $1,200. Last year he planted three-fourths of an acre of beets, which yielded 35 tons. By the aid of these, and a little bran or short, he kept a span of horses and two cows seven months, besides which he sold $30 worth of beets. One of the cows yields from 10 pounds to 11 pounds of butter per week, besides the milk which the planter's small family uses. By the side of his fencing Dillon further planted 20 walnut trees, which have borne fruit for two years. From the wood cut from these trees this year in the trimmings he made a little over three cords of stove wood. Gum trees planted six years ago, and some of them 12 inches in diameter, will make when cut into wood from one-tourth to one-half a cord of wood per tree. In the condition in which he now has his fruits and vines, this enterprising grower on a small scale states that he can make a living for himself and family, and lay by from $800 to $1,000 annually. His family consists of himself, wife and one child. It is evident that Mr. Dillon, of Woodland, California, does not allow anything within his reach to lie idle or unutilized. There are plenty of buyers of walnuts anxious to contract for the new crop at 8½ cents per pound, a price which gives the grower an enormous profit. Mr. Kroeger has in his yard twenty walnut trees from which he sold last year $200 worth of nuts, at the rate of 6½ cents per pound. The only drawback to planting a walnut grove is in the length of time which intervenes between the planting and the bearing of the trees. The trees seldom bear much of a crop under ten years; and as in looking into the future a decade seems an age, the prospect has operated against the general planting of groves. Los Angeles County. Los Angeles is a privileged county among the many privileged counties of California. Large areas of its land are eminently adapted to the growth of cereals, and its crops of wheat, barley, oats and rye are all large in area and liberal to the acre. It is one of, if not the best corn county in the State, and some of its cornfields are equal to the best of those of the Western States. In fruits it has no rival. In citrus fruits, oranges, lemons and limes it excels Florida, and in apricots, peaches, pears, and even apples, and some of the smaller fruits, it runs even with any other part of California. Los Angeles more than holds its own as a dairy county. It is a great sheep county still, though its wool product is becoming less and less each year, because the land is becoming too valuable to be devoted to raising wooland mutton. It has a number of excellent mining prospects, and what is better still, a number of mines which are making their owners rich. Even its sage-brush deserts produce honey and wax in abundance, and its naked hills and gloomyest canyons are immense storehouses of petroleum, and the very mountains, lifting their precipitous sides from 7,000 to 11,000 feet into the heavens, are great reservoirs of water, containing a perennial store of watersufficient to irrigate and fertilize thousands upon thousands of acres of sterile, gravelly, sandy desert, now bearing cactus and other vegetable rubbish, and make of them the most productive and profitable fruit orchards in the world. Los Angeles is a county so favored that while its cultivable lands are amongst the richest in the world, its wildest wastes are directly or indirectly productive of wealth.—Cor. S. P. Merchant, We often wonder why some of the representative working men of England and other countries who occasionally come to the United States (to find out by personal observation, whether some thousands of farm laborers and other working men of their respective countries would improve their condition by settling in it) do not extend their visits to our State. Here they would learn that California soil is very fertile, and that her climate permits comfortable outdoor work in any every day in the year; that we have an expanding commerce, and plenty of elbow room. In short, they would discover that California is a favored land, and in all respects desirable as a home for the industrious, that it is of all lands the home of the industrious poor, that it has capacities and resources which are only awaiting intelligent and persistent labor to develop. There is ample available land to support a population of ten millions of people. In our opinion there is no other country in the world that offers such advantages to the settler.—Resources of California. I come now to the great overshadowing business of all, that is destined to convert the whole State into a countless number of delightful vineyards and orchards. California will soon become the chosen land of the viticulturist. Nature designed this piece of territory, 800 miles one way, by 250 the other, to finally be the great fruit producing region of the world. Upon one side of it she created the majestic Sierra, towering heavenward to an altitude of 13,000 feet, placing upon its crest the eternal body of snow that throughout the generations to come will furnish the element with which to irrigate the whole football section. Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. In California, water makes everything possible, given a sufficiency of it, and the soil will produce a crop such as mortal eye never gazed upon before. The snow that accumulates during a rainy season, as I stated in a former communication, melts during the warm months of spring, summer and fall, and passes off into the Pacific Ocean. This if saved and utilized would water the whole State, and the time is soon coming when it will be made to do so. The project is a grand one, that may well interest the capitalist. Railroad investments have had their day and the next great operation involving thousands of millions of dollars will be the erection of mighty aqueducts hundreds of miles in length and composing in their aggregate a "magnificent inland mountain sea," that will be carried through a vast network of flumes and pipes all over the three sections named. When this great enterprise shall have become an accomplished fact, California will enter upon a career of activity and productive grandeur such as the most enthusiastic visionary dreamer never for a moment contemplated, and which will make her the great center of civilization in the twentieth century and San Francisco the distributing depot of the world. This will as surely come to pass as night will follow day. We read of dreadful cyclones, ot PLANTERS' HOTEL ANAHEIM, Los Angeles County, Cal. The only First-class House South of Los Angeles. Offers Superior Accommodations to Tourists. Families and the General Public. Suites of Rooms for Families. HENRY S. KNAPP, Proprietor. ANAHEIM HOTEL, DEUTSCHES GASTHAUS, Center Street, Anaheim. JOHN DIETZEL, Proprietor. Board and Lodging: Per week, $5.00 Per day, from $1 to 1.50 Single Meals, .25 made the journey lither I propose in this commuself myself particularly to such who shall chance to me, to afterwards institute when what they may have need here, and that which and in fact have been from childhood up. Knowtheir conclusions will be the and that they are filled the mighty resources lydly direction, inviting enodicating and pointing manifest destiny, to a state or grander, prounder, and was even yet attained dreamed of, by any peoty or tradition gives actively has been done here manufacturing, and yet the superior in many respects any other portion of the are the largest and most power of any State in the completely over that porknown as the Great Footamong other advantages of climate is such that very the work upon different performed out of doors the is a desideratum of the it being in fact one of that has given the blanin this city, at the Misa quality and reputation in any other quarter early every description of made here, from a loedown to a cooking stove, in America in which to letter, this is certainly the. Iron of the very best roughout the mining rener Gap, Placer Co., benest Scotch imported, and mediate vicinity, extensive directed, the water power close at hand. We exheat instead of first maksend wool to other lointo cloth and returned (as I said be ore) this is known (naturally) for wooden goods. The littardine, swarms in counting our coast, from Lower on, and there is literally only of olive oil we could one has ever put up a on the other hand, we millions of dollars worth will keep on doing so as All our wooden ware, a necessary supply of furwagons, farming imple-ported, while hundreds of am and bacon come to us yearly, notwithstanding very best places on earth legs. In the winter seachicken and other poultry from Kansas, Nebraska, lies west of the Rockies. This is all wrong. It and here is a grand openwish to establish theminess, that will pay well from rich. becoming well-known and and here is one of the fortunities for enterprise in any age of the world. lands of vineyards can be there is no such thing as less. Even now, we sell it cannot be kept long the necessary age required. The time is coming times and brands will of this fruit, with twenty more for all other purposes? A man thus situated would be one of the most truly independent persons upon the face of the earth. It is literally impossible to conceive of any business that would be at once so agreeable and, at the same time, free from the thousand and one difficulties and petty annoyances that beset us at every turn of the road, and which seem to be inseparable from nearly every pursuit in the catalogue, sourcing the disposition and making our lives an absolute burden to be endured instead of enjoyed. I might go on and enumerate several other fruits which any one can cultivate solely for a business, but will only mention the apricot, which belongs almost entirely to California, it growing here to perfection. Twenty acres of this fruit would support a large sized family in affluence, and the trees will flourish in nearly every portion of the State. We neither have extremely hot nor intensely cold weather; and in the city of San Francisco experience that great boon so often prayed for by the denizens of the East, namely, a region where it is cool in summer and warm in winter. This, I repeat, is a literal realization in this city, and all those desiring such a climatic condition need seek no further, but come here at once and enjoy themselves as best they may, and to their heart's content. If asked to enumerate some of the advantages of California over all other portions of the world, my reply would be any style of climate desired. Three hundred and fifty days of each year warm enough for a man to work out of doors in his shirt sleeves, in nearly every portion of the State, and particularly in that part lying between Point Conception and 324 parallel of latitude. This region constitutes the "sanitarium of the world," and where the poor consumptive can go, recover and live, if the awful dessease has left just enough of him or her for nature to build upon. The foothills of Santa Barburg, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and San Diego counties bear at an altitude of 1,200 feet, the most invigorating health-promoting life-giving region upon the whole American Continent. This is a great and very important fact that the people everywhere should know and fully realize. Not only can a person go there with almost absolute certainty of recovery, unless too far gone, but with the surety of being able to get a living, remain, and even become wealthy through viticulture, be raising and kindred pursuits. The finest field in America for men of small or large means to establish themselves in the wine-making and fruit-raising business, either on a small, extensive or gigantic scale; in the former case, not being under the necessity of expanding all their capital in the erection of a house and out buildings, the climate being such that the latter are not needed, while the former can be built by any one of ordinary mechanical ability, for say, three to four hundred dollars, and that, too, good enough for a family of six to live in for years or until the vineyard and ordhard come into full bearing, and yield the money to build a better one. The best section in America in which to raise wheat, this being the banner State for 1883. In all probability; while for stock raising she stands pre-eminently at the head with the certainty of becoming, in the near future, the birthplace of the finest types of animal life to be found upon this planet. Her magnificent horses will soon be known far and wide, while, even now, her splendid sheep are being exported to countries that have heretofore been celebrated for their fine breeds of Cotswalds, Southdowns, Spanish and French Merinos. Six months of continuous unbroken sunshine, with no fear, care or thought of a rainy day. School facilities of the very highest order; churches the same; and a The best section in America in which to raise wheat, this being the banner State for 1883, in all probability; while for stock raising she stands pre-eminently at the head, with the certainty of becoming, in the near future, the birthplace of the finest types of animal life to be found upon this planet. Her magnificent horses will soon be known far and wide, while, even now, her splendid sheep are being exported to countries that have heretofore been celebrated for their fine breeds of Cotswalds, Southdowns, Spanish and French Merinos. Six months of continuous, unbroken sunshine, with no fear, care or thought of a rainy day. School facilities of the very highest order; churches the same; and a press that—for editorial ability, news reliability and enterprise in securing, at whatever cost, the latest telegraphic information from all parts of the world—is second to none in the nation. Places of amusement equal to the very best found anywhere, and hotels that are, at once, the admiration and wonder of visitors from every portion of the earth. These are a few of the inducements the Golden State has to offer, and I respectfully submit the truth of every statement I have made, even to the minutest particular. California is the most desirable spot in all this world for a home. This is an incontrovertible fact that needs no demonstration whatever, for here the people are exempt from every great physical trouble, and most of the lesser ones that afflict humanity everywhere else. Let the reader, who has the slightest doubt of this, simply sit down before a map of the world and see if he or she can place a finger upon any other section possessing such manifestly transcendent advantages. San Francisco, September, 1883. ANAHEIM. "And further still toward tropic clime looks down on lovely Anahiem, No fairer scene, by rainbow spanned, Or sweeter grapes hath Fatherland. Here plenty dwells; and mirth and wine Are mingled with the songs of Rhine, And silvery patriarchs recline Beneath the olive and the vine." —Albert F. Kercheval. The members of the Salvation Army have been discharged from arrest at New Haven, Conn. The Judge said to the army that he did not believe they would be interfered with in singing, parading and exhorting from the steps of the old State-house, but they must not parade the streets beating drums, etc.