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Anaheim, Los Angeles Co.,
California.

OFFIOEliS:

H. K-ROEGER

W. M. McFADDEN

A. RIMPAIT

T. J. F. BOEGE

P. JAMES

W. A. WITTE

F. A. KORN,
E. A. SAXTON,
J. P. ZEYN,

President
Vice-President

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Treasurer
Secretary

Executive Committee

Committee on Publication :
W. M. McFADDEN, E. A. SAXTON,
H. C. KELLOGG.

ANAHEIM GAZETTE JOB PRINT,

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Contents.

INTRODUCTORY ^

THERMOMETRICAL RECORD 4

THE CLIMATE OF ANAHEIM E. A. Saxton ;">

ANAHEIM AS A HEALTH RESORT I. H. Bullard, M. D. 7

WATER FACILITIES OF ANAHEIM H. C. Kellogi; i)

ANAHEIM AS A HORTICULTURAL DISTRICT 10

VITICULTURE IN ANAHEIM W. M. McFAiiUKN J2

ORAZINft AND DAIRY INTERESTS Robert Sthom; 14

LAND VALUES lii

FRUIT SEASONS 16

AftRKiULTURAL POSSIBILITIES 17

t:!ITRUS CULTURE IN ANAHEIM IS

THE OSTRICH INDUSTRY i->0

tHE WINE INDUSTRY E. .1. Peli.euiun 21

THE FUTURE OF WINE MAKING 24

EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES W. M. Mc Fakden 25

THE CHURCHES IN ANAHEIM Kev. F. H. Rohinson 2(;

'SO('IAL ADVANTAGES OF ANAHEIM E. .). PEi.LEt;uiN 27

;BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES ' 28

'ABUNDANT FIELD SPORTS F. f. J. ScuMii.r 29

FACTS FOR SETTLERS :W

A RIDE THROUn H THE COUNTRY 31

OUR ILLUSTRATIONS 32

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Introductory.

^ NAHEIM is the olilest colony in the State. The Krst vines were planted
1% on the site of the colony in 185S — twenty-seven years ago. The early
•^i history of the colony is one fraught with interest, because, as may well
be imagined, theie were obstacles to contend with and overcome which re-
quired the exercise of plodding patience as well as of forethought and ingenu-
ity. It would be out of place here, however, to enter into details of the
progress of the colony; suttice it to say that the enterprise was successfnl in
the greatest degree, and that the pioneers have lived to see the county, which
was a vast cattle range when they first beheld it, transformed into the richest,
most fertile and most desirable county in California. The Anaheim pioneers
*eel a pride in this, for it was they who first rescued from the browsing herd
the soil which produces fruits and wines and food for millions of people. It
was tiiey who first demonstrated the possibilities of land which, in those early
days, and for years thereafter, was considered unfit for |the growth of any-
thing but tlie natural grasses. They planted the vine, and it grew so luxuri-
ently that tliey were satisfied, and did not seek to experiment further. But
as time progressed there came new people, with new ideas; and the colonists
were in their turn surprised at the wonderful diversity of products which tiie
land about tliem was made to produce. The domain of tlie cattle king was
restricted more and more every year, and the land wrested from him was
planted with the orange, the lemon and lime — the apple, the ijeach and the
pear.

Anaheim was fur so long an isolated section of tlie county that it may bt-
said to have been an empire in itself. The people made their own laws, and
enforced them; they dealt with affairs as they sprung np with no other re-
straint upon their actions than that of a sense of stern justice and a desire to
do what was right. A community thus controlled does not respond readilj'
to the changes of time; and hence it is probably true that during the past ten
years — the transition period — eni>ugh of the old order f>f things remained to
|)revent Anaheim from receiving its due proportion of the new element whicrh
iias l)eeii jjouring into the county. And if this be the tine reason whj' Ana-
lieim's growth has been more steady than rapid, there is no reason why, from
this tinu; hencefortii, it should not participate largely in whatever progress is
made in the county generally. For its people are now as eager to welcome
the stranger as they once were to repel him; and with all the enthusiasm of
converts to a good cause, they are striving in every way to bring their section
into favorable notice. And one ut the plans to accnuiplish their object is tiie
publication of this pamphlet.

Tiie Anaheim Immigration Association, recently formed, has for its object
"the collt^ction, publication and distribution (i' reliable information concern-
"ing the advantages, resources, climate, fertility of soil, etc, of Anaheim and

"vicinity for the encoiiragemeut of iininigration thereto." This Association
IS supported by voluntary contributions of citizens, and from the fact that
t^^ese contributions are as liberal as required may be inferred the desire of tlie
people here to be accounted in the van ut the race of progress. This pamph-
let is the first work of the Association. There is not a word, line (tr sentence
within its covers that savors of exaggeration; not an assertion wliich cannot be
substantiated by abundant proofs. It may suffer in comparison with oth^r
publications of the same general character, in that it is confined strictly to
Jacts, and these are set down in a plain, unvarnished way wliich is a novelty
in this kind of literature. The various articles are contributed by men hav-
ing special knowledge of what they are writing about. Their literary style
may be criticised, but their assertions cannot be disputed or denied. The As-
sociation claims that this pamphlet is unique in that it conveys exact infor-
mation, without any attempt at veneering or circumlocution.

It is hoped that of the thuusands who rend the following pages, hundreds
may be induced thereby to come to our town and sjjy out tlie land. If they
will do this,- the Association feels certain of their remaining. Foi- there is no
part of the imperial county of Los Angeles which possesses greater attrac-
tions for the homeseeket than the vicinity of world-famed Anaheim.

Thermometrical Record.

The following record of the average tenii

Mr. E. S. Saxton. The record is made up

at 7 A. M., 7 P. M. and the highest and

twenty-four hours:

1877
Jan. . . .51§
Feb. ...56
March. 58
April. . 57i
May. . .61f
June. ..70
July... .721
August. 70|
Sept... 69
Oct.... 62
Nov... 59i
Dec....54i

lerature of Anaheim was kept Ity
from readings of the thermometer
lowest points reached during the

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1879

1880

1881

1882

1883

1884

511

48i

52i

51|

52i

46|

49^

54 i

56i

52i

54i

57i

54i

60J

56J

57i

61g

60§

63f

60g

66i

66f

70i

67*

68g

65i

69f

70i

72i

711

70g

66i

69g

72f

701

66|

66^

63i

66f

61|

62S

59^

53^

54^

50S

521

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The Climate of Anaheim.

So mncli lias been said aud written about the "glorious climate of Califor-
nia," and it comes up so frequently as a topic for conversation and ooD<{ratu-
lation that the newspapers had to contract it to '•§, c. of C," and the pioneer
merely rolls his eyes heavenward and with a thankfnl and contented expres-
sion of countenance expresses his gratitude and appreciation of his blessing
without unnecessary use of words. The best advice to give a person who
wants to know wliat the climate of California will do for hiia is to say "Try
it." It speaks for itself to every one who has had an opportunity to test it.

Mr. Francis S. iVTiles, one of the early settlers of Anaheim, who had tested
the climates of the Mediterranean Coast, and at all the well-known inland
points of Italy, France and Switzerland, as well as of the Carolinas and Flori-
da, finally concludes a letter on climates as follows: "Southern California
presents a most gloriously invigorating, tonic and stimulating climate, very
mucli superior to anything I know of. The air is as pure and much drier
than at Mentone or elsewheie, and although it has these properties it has a
most soothing influence on the mucous membrane, even more so than the cli-
mate (pf Florida, and without the enervating effect of that. It is quite as
stimulating as Minnesota without its intense cold. Pulmonary patients re-
quire a dry, stimulating, tonic air and a climate in which he can spend most
of the day out of doors. In Mentone and the towns on the Rivera, the doc-
tors always advise patients to be in the house an hour before sundown, and
not to go beyond prescribed limits because the changes are so great and the
wind too cold and the draughts severe. lu California I have not been troubled
in thesi! respects, nor by the doctors, for I have not had to consult one since
I liave been in the State. During the past winter I spent one hundred and
six days out of one hundred and fourteen in the open air." After visiting all
the southern coast of California he concluded Anaheim was the most nearly
perfect climate lie had found, and settled here because of the many advantages
offered in being far enough from the sea to avoid its fogs and mists; and far
enough inland to get the warmth of the soil garnered up during the warm,
r.unny days, tempering the night air and eliminating any malaria which the
moist air of the lower lands bordering the coast might contain.

Mr. E. S. Saxton came to this co.ist in 1872, a conlirmed invalid apparently.
His "oioe w«s almost entirely gone; and, afl^ected with frequent hemorrhages,
he seemed beyond any aid earth could afford, but after a few weeks spent in
examining the various localities from Santa Barbara to San Diego he felt he
had found the climate most nearly that which he needed where his friend Mr.
Miles had settled, and purchasing a piece of bare, uncultivated land he gave
his attention to forming a home to which he might bring his family to spend
with him a few years of his old age which the harsh climate of his Eastern
home would never have permitteil. What his returning health and new

found strength accomplished is best seen in the beautiful place now embower-
ed in roses and other climbing plants, hidden by orange and olive trees, and
shaded by masses of pepper, eucalyptus and cypress and iianked by his well-
kept vineyard of raisin grapes, much of it done by his own hand, and all un-
der his direct supervision. Many instances might be cited of those who, af-
flicted with asthma, bronchitis and kindred troubles, have found great benefit
from the dry, equable and tonic air of the vicinity. Few, if any, of those
who have come here, unless they have waited, as so many will, until death
was already knocking at their door, failed to receive relief and add months
and years to their lives.

One of the peculiarities of the climate of Anaheim, in common with other
points on the coast, is the "gray mornings." To a visitor from the East dur-
ing the summer months it would seem surely the day will be a rainy one, but
after a short experience they will become accustomed to an obscured sunrise
and about nine or ten o'clock a breaking away of the cloudy curtain which
had appeared so threatening, proving to be what is known as a high fog
which, rising from the ocean, floats quietly inland about midnight, seldom
touching the earth but hanging suspended a few hundred feet above it, temper-
ing the rays of the sun in the early morning. Then the Seabreeze conies
across the plain and adds its coolness and freshness to the air until becoming
heated by contact with the warm earth of the interior it rises and, carrying
with it the fogbank broken into fleecy masses, carries it back a "flying
squadron" of the ships of the air to its native ocean, after which the clear,
blue sky is unbroken l^y a single cloud except, perhaps, away off over the
ocean or just above the snowy peaks of the .sierra Madre; but until four or live
o'clock the Seabreeze cientinues to blow a cool, invigorating blast which grad-
ually dies away toward sunset and the still eveniny' air — almost dewless — is
so quiet tliat a lighted candle can be carried about the garden v\ith little dan-
ger of being blown out.

In the fall the Seabreeze generally ceases to blow regularly, and the sun
rises clear and warm, so that frequently our warmest weather is during the
autumn months, but the temperature seldom reaches a higher point than 00"
and is hardly ever above 75° at night and generally drops to about 60" toward
morning. The winter average will be about 20" below these figures, and very
uniformly so, though the summer average will not be over 80° for the day. A
peculiarity of this dry climate is that a like temperature by thermometer does
not indicate a like feeling of discomfort as at an Eastern point. Close ob-
servers have made a difference of 10° to 15° in the temperature to be neces-
sary to like unpleasant results. In a residence of nine years in Analieim the
writer has found it uncomft)rtable to sleep under a blanket but three nights,
and woolen clothes are worn always. Our spring commences about 1st of
.January with the temperature and characteristics of an Eastern May wliich
lasts until about April l.st, when we have another three months corresponding
with an Eastern June. Then three nujnths of July followed by three months
of September, mucli of tlie latter being very similar to the "Indian summer"
nf New England. Sunstroke is unknown, a case never having occurred in

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this vicinity. Nor has a case of hydrophobia ever been known to me, but
whether this is attributable to the climate the writer will not pretend to say.
The climate has some drawbacks, and those who revel in tlie crash of thunder
and take pleasure in dodging lightning and delight in the excitement of an
occasional cyclone, will have to be satisfied with sitting on their piazzas of a
calm summer evening and see the glimmer of heat lightning tar off over the
Arizona plains, and occasionally an attentive listener may get the distant
rumble of its accompanying thunder, or imagine it when a neighbor's vehicle
crosses a bridge. For a cyclone he will have to be satisfied with a putf from
the Mojave desert of hot, dusty air which for a day or two will make "each
separate hair to stand on end" with its highly electrified conditions, making
one really uncomfortable, and wish for a change, until the alternative of an
Eastern northeast rainstorm presents itself, when he settles down to dusty
contentment. Six months at a time without a shower may seem monoton-
ous, but they are never so much so as to cause us to long for a northeaster.
In the winter we have warm storms, occasionally a cold one, but they are so
infrequent as to serve merely to add variety to our almost too equable climate.

The soil of the valley is light and porous, absorbing the rain so quickly
that mud is almost unknown. In this we have a great advantage of the
towns like Pasadena, Los Angeles and others, which built on the adobe hjlls
and mesa lands, during the rainy season have almost impassable roads for
weeks at a time, whereas in Anaheim within twenty-four hours after a rain
one can walk anywhere with their boots unsoiled.

Messrs. Miles and Saxton kept voluminous thermometric, barometric and
other climatic statistics which would be interesting here if not too lengthy for
an article of this kind. Mr. NordhofiF, in his admirable work on California,
gives some of these.

As we said at the commencement of this article we say again: it you want
to know what this climate is, try it. One of its best recommendations is that
all that leave it return to it.

Anaheim as a Health Resort.

In common' with other portions of Southern California, Anaheim enjoys an
evenness of temperature from one season to another, with the clear, bright
days of perpetual sunshine, the mild, cooling, afternoon breezes of summer,
and the cool nights; which together have made of tliis favored section the
Mecca of the invalid and health seeker. And there are additional advantages
of climate for Anaheim, not shared in by other places, arising from location
and from the character of the soil. Situated about equally distant from the
sea and from the foothills, there comes daily from the ocean 12 miles away
the healthful ozone-bringing breezes of the trade winds, softened in force ana
deprived of their harshness by blowina across the intervening valley. These

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breezes act as a regulator for the temperature, wanning the air in winter and
cooling it in summer and preventing that oppressively hot, deadening feeling
which IS so often felt at Los Angeles and further inland in summer. The sea-
fogs rolling inland are usually dispersed before reaching Anaheim; or, if
found resting upon the town in the early morning, rapidly disappi;ar with the
advancing sun.

The subsoil of Anaheim is porous, the surface quickly drains, and stagnant
pools do not form even after the heaviest rains of winter Consequently,
malaria and epidemic disease have never been known. The surface soil is
found to be a warm, sandy loam; selected by the early settlers as the best in
all this region for the growth of the vine. It retains its warmth and heat
long after the temperature falls below the dew point at night. There is no
moisture exhaled into the night air from the ground, and the invalid does not
feel here tliat sense of chilliness aftei- the sun goes down as upon the heavier
soils. Whatever moisture exists ia the air is the invisible moisture which
ccmes from the sea, barely sufficient to soften its dryness and to give it a
tonic effect. The climate of Anaheim and vicinity is theref(jre one which
generously lets the individual alone, neither enervating bv a too luxurious
softness nor harassing by rapia variations or harshness. It is a climate in
which jne lives MO days, or more, of the year in the open air; sleeps in
blankets and works in shirt sleeves from January round to December; whose
warm winter months, with llowers always in hlooin. sustain a temperature
ranging from 50° to 70°, seldom as Ijw as 40°, very seldom lower. The rains
of the year which come at this period are but occasional showers interspersed
with sunshine. It is a climate whose summer temperature is never uncom-
fortably hot as in the East, always being kept below the perspiring point by
the dry character and tlie perpetually movmg currents of the air. We therefore
make no boast in ascribing to Anaheim a climate oll'ering equally the benefits
of a residence by the sea and of one upon the higlier mesa lands, the tonic
electrifying air of the former without its f(»gs and chilliness adiled to the
dry, even atmosphere of t'le latter, minus its enervating tendencies. It is a
climate for the invalid unsurpassed. Whether one comes seeking relief from
the dregs of malarial poison long fastened upon him. or burdened with dys-
peptic troubles, or with viial force at low eV)h from overtaxing of brain or
body, he will at once find relief; former health let.urns without special caie
and without drugs. Catarrhal, asthmatic ami bronchial affections are singu-
larly benelited by the constant evenness of tlie density of the air. The suf-
ferer from consumption, coming perhaps after the disease is firndy fixed upon
him, and too lace for complete cure, hnds his distressing symptoms disappear
and a nevv lease of life given him. Those inhei-iting a predisposition to lung
troubles or being yet in the first stages of the disease, are enabled here to
t'lrjw off this morbid tendency, and develop health and strength again.
Others of delicate constitution, inherited or acquired, which lesist poorly ex-
tremes of heat and cold, tiinl here a cliin«te which allows them to work with-
out exhaustion and to keup pace with their more lugged l)ret!iren. Be it the
kidneys or gouty or rheumatic troubles vviiieh torment the sufferer, relief is
speedily noticed after a short residenee heie. The increased action of the
skin, developed by the stimulating properties of the air, supplements in a
measure that of the internal oig.ins and gives them the much needeil rest.
In short, whether in g(n>d bodily condition or poor, the new-comer may rest
asi^'.red. and longer residence here will confirm the belief, that a better soil or
fiirer climate than that of semi-tropical Anaheim cannot be found the world

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more thrifty horticulturists than among the owners of those same vineyards.
But there are many to whom tlie raising of grapes has no charm, and they are
found with long rows of beautiful orange trees running ofT in deep green ave-
nues, lighted up with spheres of golden fruit, perhaps alternated with other
rows of lighter foliaged trees of the citrus family whose bright yellow fruit is
gathere.1 nearly all the year around and boxed up fop the lemonade and lemon
pies of the Pacific Coast. Another adds to his pomolpgical collection a forty -
• acre apricot orchard whose luscious fruitage ripens in June and" July. South-
ern California and particularly the vicinity of Anaheim is a field for peach
culture equalled nowhere out of Delaware and Maryland, while the French
prune, and it is believed the true fig of commerce, will soon be among the
heavy yielding additions to the products of our community. There is no
better paying crop than the Englis.'i walnut, l,ut many are deterred from
planting it in large quantities because of the long time maturing, but a new
variety recently introduced of an excellent quality and with thin shells which
can be crushed in the hand, thus adding much to their value as a table nut,
13 now being planted, and coming into bearing two or three years earlier
than the hard-shell variety will make a desirable addition to the orchard of
the future. The most successful horticulturists are those who have planted
with reference to a continuance of crops, and in most cases with an addition
to their orchard of a small dairy or piggery, or both, and a good poult.y yard
The writer would recommend for safety and ease of handling to a purchaser
of say forty acres of land within the limits of the irrigation ditches, a divi-
•siou i.ito five-acre lots somewhat as follows: Five acres to alfalfa, which will
give all the green food and hay necessary for the live stock on the place; five
acres to apricots ripening in June and early July; five acres in peaches ripen-
ing in July and August; five acres in iVIuscat grapes ripening in September
and October. A lively trade has been opened up with the East lately in
this fr-.it carefully packed in small baskets and shipped through by Express,
often netting very handsome proHts. Five acres in Winter Neilis pears rip-
ening in October and November, and excellent keepers, can be shipped
wrapped like oianges in paper, and arriving in the East just after all other
pears are out of market, about Thanksgivimi and the holiday season, invaria-
bly bring good prices. As high as $3,000 has been netted from one carload.
Five acres in oranges of the Washmgton Navel and Mediterranean
Sweet • varieties, the former ripening early and being the
choicest variety grown here as yet. The latter a late variety
and the best keeper, and more profitable to ship, as getting into market after
the frosts, and before the early fruits of the East come in, is most likely to
obtain remunerative prices. Five acres in a field for barley and corn will be
desirable, though probably put in either of the fruits mentioned might be
more profitable, and its product be used to purchase what grain may be re-
quired. Another five acres about the house for buildings, corrals, garden, or-
namental grounds, etc., will make up the forty, and will give the' Tnaker of it
nearer to an Eden than can be had in any other place in the world.- This, of
curse, cannot be had without some capital, but a small capital wdl go farther

in California than anywhere the writer, who has seen much of the world,
knows of. The lines between the five-acre plots should be planted with the
soft-shelled walnut, and the apricot, peach and pear orchard should be fenced
with a six-foot lath fence as an enclosure for about a thousand fowls whose
presenoe will do much to keep the insects down, help fertilize the land, and
roll m a hundred per cent income on cost of the hens every year with good
management, for the diseases of Eastern fowls are hardly known here when
proper care is given. With this tribute to the fruit of the hen, I close my
article.

Viticulture m Anaheim.

Those who are contemplating a change of residence from the inhospit-
able climate of the Eastern, Middle or Northern States to semi-tropic Cali-
fornia, with the intention of engaging in vine culture, will doubtless wish to
know something of the cost of a bearing vineyard and the valuta of its pro-
ducts. I shall endeavor to give as nearly as possible the cost, althdugh t)ie
figures may be varied, made to cost more, or by doing your own work and
not counting your time of any value, the cost would be merely nominal out-
side of cost of land.

I will take 20 acres as a basis from which to calculate, as the labor required
on that amount is all that one man can perform and the income l)e .sufi^ieieiit
to support a familj' comfortably:

FIRST YEAR.

Cost of land (20 acres) with water right, l$125 per acre, more or less. . . ..$2,500

Plowing and harrowing, .$2.50 per acre .")0

17,000 cuttiags, $2 a thousand 34

Planting cuttings, f 4 an acre 80

Irrigating first time, !$1.50 an acre i 30

Plowing vineyard twice, $1.50 or |3 00

Cultivating twice, at 60 cts 24

Hoeing once, at 50 cts 10

Expense for first year ••• .$2,788

.SECOND YEAR.

Pruning, $1 an acre $ 20

Irrigating, $1 20

Plowing twice, $1.50 each time (iO

Cultivating three times, at fiO cts 3(5

Hoeing, 50 ots 10

$146
If staking of vines desired, $10 per tliousarid 170

Cost foi second year $316

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Water Facilities of Anaheim.

The success of auy portiou of Southern California depends largely upon its
water supply and facilities for irrigation, as the greater portion of the rains
fall within a period of four months, and those crops which pay the best for
the capital and labor invested in them require more moisture than attains
from these rains The Sierra Mad re and San Bernardino mountains rise to a
great elevation on the east of this valley, and are of vast area. The rains fall
heavily on this immense water shed and the highest peaks are snow-capped
the greater portion of the year. This water shed is drained by the Santa Ana
river which flows through this valley to the ocean. It is the largest river in
Southern California, heading fifty-five miles from here in the San Bernardino
mountain, one of the highest peaks of the Sierra Nevada range; from this
point it weuds its way through the San Bernardino valley, a distance of thirty-
live miles to the .Sierra Madre range, and all the rivulets draining the eastern
slope of tliis range empty into it and add to its volume.

It has worn its way through a defile of this range and at the narrowest
points the bedrock approaches very near the surface. This important physi-
cal fact causes the subterranean flow of water to rise to the surface and be
matle available for irrigation. By this wise provision of nature our water
supply is secured from danger by the diversion of water for irrigation at set-
tlements higher up the river which have to depend on the surface flow. The
waters of the river are divided equally, the people of this section getting one-
half and the people of Orange and Santa Ana getting the other half.

Our water is conveyed to the settlement in two large canals, designated as
the Cajou and New Auaheim canals. The Cajon (or upper canal) heads at a
point near where the county line between this ' and San Bernardino county
crosses the river; this is lietween three and four miles farther up the river
tlian the head of any other canal that conveys water into this valley. This
canal is ten feet wide in the bottom and three feet deep and has a carrying
capacity of 3000 inches. It conveys water a distance of 16 miles into North
Anaheim, an elevated section of country at the base of the foot hills. At'the
entrance of this canal into the settlement there is a small distributing reser-
voir that will hold tlie water during the night, doing away with the necessity
for night irrigation. Tins is a great saving of water and labor. The new
Analieim (or lower) canal has its source at a point on the river just below the
head ol the Orange canal, between four and five miles below the head of the
upper canal. This canal gathers up the waters that pass the upper canals
and gets the advantage of the seepage of the river below them. It is 8 feet
wide in the bottom and 4 feet deep, with a carrying capacity of 3000 inches,
making a grand total of 6000 inches.

It will be seen from the above that our irrigating facilities are very great,
but we still have a large area of country not yet under cultivation, and know-
ing that with its development the demand for water will increase, and with

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a zeal and enterprise consistent with the importance of the water system as a
component factor in the development of this country, the con.pany mak!

.ng arrangements to increase their water supply so as to msure to all pa" s
a sufhcient amount to meet their requirements. In order to do thii they
have secured the site for a large reservoir on the upper sule ot the valley-at
the termmus of the New Anaheim d,tch before referred to. This reservoir
conta^ns 47.61 acres and will have a depth of 25 feet. When full oT waT
.ts storage capacity w.ll be 403.363,291 gallons. With a discharge of ten
cubic feet per second (or 75gallons) it would take sixty days to empty the
reservoir, supposing no water to enter meanwhile. The reservoir wil in all
probability be completed within the ensuing year

basis' ^''''''V'' '' "- -*- ^ff-- i« on the best possible
basis, the water company being of the people and for the peo-
pie. It IS a joint stock company known as the Anaheim Union
Water Company each share of stock representing an acre of land A
egular a ockho ders' meeting is held once a year and a board of seven d rec
tors IS selected from their number to manage the business of the company f < r
Ue ensuing year. The charges for water are no more than sufficient to cove
the running expenses of the company.

is'term'er'H '" T' ''"" ^"'"' ^' ''''''' ^"^^^>' ^ "-^ -hat

of Anal . ' """ ''^^' '^^''^"•"-" ^^°"^ -- '-•« -est

of Anaheim and extending westward to the ocean. Fine Howin^ wells
are obtained at depths varying from 130 to 300 feet. A good well

suMyofsurface water can be obtained at all points through the valley at
dep hs varying, according to the locality, from 10to30 feet. The domestic Jater

'oLi ;. ""7f ''"'"'^"''^'"'""^*^'^"' P"'"P'" - t-k holding
20^000 gallons and thence distributed through pipes to all portions of tht

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Anaheim as a Horticultural District.

By horticulture the writer does not desire to be understood as presenting

California-fruit culture. Horticulture p.. .. appears to have been relegate.!
o the industrious Chinaman, but fruit culture is the hope and ambit o
very man. woman and child that enters the charmed ciLe of the g r .
nnate. and while It strikes al, like an epidemic, it has various symp

and breaks out ,n many different ways. About Anaheim it runs prL- pal
ovine culture, aud that to the grapes best adapted to wine mkiig'b'

making, and no more thrifty and beautiful vineyards are to be found in the
-nthern portion of the State than lie around the town of Anaheim and L.

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THIRD YEAR.

Pruning, $2 an acre $ 40

Irrigating twice, $2 40

Plownig twice, |3 60

Cultivating three times, 60 cts. each 36

Hoeing, suckering, replacing stakes 20

Cost, third year | 196

' ' second " 310

" first " 2780

Cost of three-year-old vineyard of twenty acres ($1(54.60 an acre), . .f.3292
The third year it will produce two tons to the acre at IflS a ton, or $36 an
acre; 20 acres, at iS.SO an acre, .$720. Each j'ear, for several years, it will in-
crease in quantity of grapes till it reaches from 5 to 8 tons to the acre.
/ A man of health and strength who wishes to do the labor himself could do
all the work, and make enough outside working for his neighbors to support
himself until his vineyard comes into bearing. A bearing vineyard three
years old on good land now sells from $225 an acre up to .$500, so it pays to
buy the unimproved land and improve it, although by buying an improved
place an incoma begins at once. By making the grapes into wine the receipts
will be nearer $.30 a ton than .$18. The raisin grape does well in tlie vicinity
of Anaheim and gives a return of from .$200 to $300 an acre for raisins.

Tlie vine in Southern California is entirely free from disease and the crop is
sure; no blight, and but small risk from late frosts; prices are uniformly
good. No industry has had so few back-sets as the vine-culture; in evidence
of tliis nearly every man who has been engaged in the business for several
years has become wealthy.

Perhaps no town of the population of Anaheim can show so little debt
among its people and so much wealth distributed among them. The princi-
pal Imsiness being the grape-culture. There are several larger places in Los
Angeles county than Anaheim, but the shipment of valuable products from
ftur depot is second only to Los Angeles city.

There is no business so inviting as this culture of tlie vine. The work is
never heavy nor hard. There are several months of the year that are months
of rest and recreation. The fresh growth of the vines, the fragrance of the
blossoms, and later the lusciousness of the luxuriant grapes possess a charm
that never fades, even to those who have spent a lifetime at this employment.

There are localities in Los Angeles county where land is held at much high-
er figures than in Anaheim, but no place, not even the more advertised and
higher priced places, have any more natural advantages. The soil around
Anaheim is unsurpassed, the water right undisputed and water in abundance
for irrigation. Surface wells of good, pure water can be obtained from 20 to

100 feet. Many jjeople use cistern water, run in from the ditches, for domes-
tic purposes.

Li addition to the grape we raise excellent apples, pears, peaches, figs, ap-
ricots, English walnuts, lemons, limes, oranges, strawberries, blackberries and
many other fruits. AH by careful handling and proper care are made proHtable.

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Grazing' and Dairy Interests.

In Westminster township, w'hich lies south-west of Anaheim, grazinjy and
dairy interests now predominate all others. In the beginnint? it w'aS not so,
and there were several causes which liave now combined to make it so.

First. — Tlie people bad not capital enou£;h to plant and wait on fruit trees
in large orchards. All decidoolis fruits are a perfect success. No better ap-
ples, pears, apricots, prunes, peaches or grapes can be raised in California.
But the people were forced into gener'al farming with butter, cheese and eggs
for immediate profit.

Second. — Alkali spots and strips were developed bj cultivation and the free
use of abundant artesian water, and these had to be thrown out of cultiva-
tion, thus reducing the area of tillable lands, and usually preventing beauti-
ful solid fields of orcharas, alfalfa or grain.

Third. — The profits of beet, liogs and horses fed on alfalfa' atid the wild
grasses, and of cheese, butter, eggs, corn and potatoes, and the greatly re-
duced cost of fencing with wire instead of boards, made it feasible to inclose
both small and large areas of alfalfa, corn land and unprofitable land The
wild grasses besjan to be appreciated. 8alt grass (long despised but found to
be invaluable in the mixture,) blue joint, rye grass, burr clover, alHileria, etc,
in the same pasture with alfalfa, gave the best results. The uniform liigh
prices of cheese, butter and eggs, the general profit of hogs raised on alfalfa
and fattened with corn, the demand for good horses at hfgh prices, the
doubled value of beef cattle, now four cents on fobt and with ntf present pros-
pect of decline, and the ready sale of alfalfa hay, and the'im'mense production
of corn and potatoes on the damp lands south of^ Westttiinster, made a solid
foundation for prosperity. The diversified land liot only compelled iliversi-
fied industries, but made each one work in with tlfe other.

Our apparently disgraceful weed lields begin to show differently when
fenced in and well dotted over with stock feeding on the undergrowth, and
we are learning that rolling the weeds instead of the annual burning improves
both feed and looks. A new era of content has therefore begUn and crowns
the satisfaction, which is almost universal, with the climate as well as with
the pure artesian water. With this will soon come the much needed improve-
ments in fields, buildings and roads that will give us an honorable place, as a
well developed fine stock country, among the show places of California. Fruit
farming in the direction of winter apples will probably take a new start in
the hands of enterprising newcomers, but stock will undoubtedly predomi-
nate for all these reasons, singly or combined.

An alfalfa field, yreen, fresh and fragrant the whole year round, well fencfd
and dotted with fine stock, has a beauty of its own that appeals to every cul-
tivateil mind. Even a wild pasture, rolled, fenced anil stocked, is a cmnfort
to the eye wearied with bare ground. We are coming to this with increasing
rapidity. The profits that have been made are going into useful beauty af-

hugs, but thev are in d„« n7 V ""'"^''' "^ '»'^''«««' ^^^^^ ^'^^

s , uai uiey are in due proportiou to the cattle and exp«„f f h . .
oil every farm The vipwa ^f ^•*i'"e, ana, except the last, seen

fortably counted The two VV.: ^^ ' "'''**''' '*" l^« 'nore com-
y uniea. ^'le two Westminster stores gather in from th« f

tor a ,„.„ r.„„,. xins „ «.„., expll" t „a tin e'" ^ ." TT m "^

.xpacead .ha. b. Hno.h /r yea rroler „ r aT'' !" °"' ""'""■ " ''
i... tl,em.rke. abo,, t ■> 5H0 „„ , *'"'"'" """'"o will place

... 'v«.u,«e:t,:L?^:r.:z:Ti"''t ""a''? '*"'' '^'-^ "°"

Land Values.

.^.... .Ha. .„e p„„l,a,e, „, .r',, tl: aJl lllr r^b'^-'T'

3.o.„ 1 e .„ Ly ; ptr: :;,,i':r::L^^r.7a..ra„rr"°

much „„er pnce .„.„ i„ a,„ „,her part of L„. Anfiele. cou,,.,

:::j:;-prr;i:r:jti^^^^^^^^^^^

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under average conditions, from one hundred to one hundred and twenty-five
bushels to the acre.

In the Orangethorpe school district, lying northward from town, land is
held at from $75 to $125 per acre. In addition to being adapted to the growth
of grapes, deciduous fruits and cereals, this land also produces oranges and
lemons of excellent quality. It is a most desirable neighborhood.

In Placentia school district, or what is better known as North Anaheim,
the prices are about as in Orangethorpe— from $75 to $125 per acre, and for
some specially choice locations $150 per acre is asked. Everything is grown
on the soil in this district, and nowhere can be seen thriftier orchards and
vineyards, or more beautiful homes. The land held at $150 per acre is, to use
a current phrase, "dirt cheap," and must necessarily double in value within a
very short time.

All the lands referred to above are within the district which is furnished
with water by the Anaheim Union Water Company. Tliere is plenty of
good land outside of the irrigating district which can be bought cheaper, and
when the water company perfects its system and completes its plans for stor-
ing the water which now runs to waste in the winter, it will be able to extend
its area of usefulness and take in much of the land which now is offered com-
paratively cheap because of the lack of irrigation facilities.

There is a section of country oast of Anaheim, adjoinincf the Santa Ana
river, known as Yorba district, where good improved and unimproved land
can be purchased at from $50 to $150 per acre. The people <if this district
have a superabundance of cheap water at all seasons, and the soil is adapted
to the growth of all kinds of fruit and grain.

Vegetarians can find no Ijetter ctmntry than this in which to carry out their
dietetic principles. There are several families in the vicinity of Anaheim w ho
live upon fruits almost exclusively, and use no cooked food of any kind.
There are few countries where such a mode of living is possible, but tlie fol-
lowing statement of the seasons when fruits may be gathered in Los Angeles
county will show that it is (juite practicable to here carry out the vegetarian
idea: Oranges, Christmas to .Tune; lemons, all the year; limes, all tlie year;
figs, July to November; almonds, October; apples, July to December; pears,
July to November; grapes, July 15th to December; peaches, June to Novem-
ber; apricots, June to August; plums and prunes, June to November; cherries,
June; Japanese persimmons, November; guavas, nearly all the year; lo(|uats.
May to June; strawberries, all the year round; raspberries, June to January;
blackl)erries, June to September; gooseberries, June; watermelons, July to
October; muskinelons. July to October.

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Houses of four or six rooms can be rented in Anaheim at from .$6 to $10
per month. It is a good idea to "keep house" for a month or two before pui-
chasing a home, so that care- and jutlgment can be exercised in making a
selection.

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Agricultural Possibilities.

There is aa outlying portion of the country near Anaheim which, to the
farmer, with the tastes fostered by Eastern farming, presents facilities and
opportunities for profitable tillage of the ground by the raising of crops of
barley, corn, potatoes and making hay, besides pasturing stock, hogs and
sheep. West and south o^" the town lies a vast area of uncultivated land, the
property of the Stearns Ranchos Land Company. These lands are many of
them within the artesian water belt and can be ij-rigated for corn during the
summer from artesian wells at a cost of from two hundred to four hundred
dollars for each well, while good crops of barley, rye and sometimes wheat,
are raised ou the lands where flowing wells cannot be obtamed from the mois-
ture of the winter rains. Many thrifty farmers are found on the non-irriga-
ble lands who obtain from deep wells sufficient water by using the trade
winds, which blow so steadily during the summer, as a motive power for
large windmills. These give all the water necessary to supplement the mois-
ture of the winter in raising a corn crop, and forcing the alfalfa fields to yield
their six or seven crops per year for hay and green fodder.

While fortunes have at times been made in raising grain crops in Southern
California, it is the exception and not the rule. Diversified farming pays bet-
ter, and the man with forty acres well fenced and carefully tilled will in the
long run pass his speculative brother who farms his leagues, and have a pleas-
ant home, increasing in beauty, comfort and value year bj year, when the
other will be a parched and whitened stubble field after years of grain raising.

California farmers have been accustomed to a rich, virgin soil and the
abundant crops therefrom until they have failed to recognize the need of re-
turning to the ground what it has been robbed of, and many of them are now
suffering from a falling oft" in the yield of their fields, which a little of the
tfirifty, good sense f>f the Eastern farmer would obviate entirely by fertilizing
with the abundant means at hand wiiere so much stock and so many sheep
and hogs are kept. It is a g'reat mistake that many make in believing the
poetical tickling with a hoe will bring a laughing harvest. Let none think

they can sit idly down and enjoy the dolce-far-niente of fable farming. The
California fanner must rise early, plough deep, hoe lively and think late if he
wishes to succeed, and remember he will get no winter vacatioii, for it ia
"springtime and harvest" all the year around.

The transformation wrought during the past ten years in the 140,000 acres
of land known as the Stearns Ranchos is a never failing suliject of comment
among those whose uieinury embraces the period when it was given over as
range for countless herds of cattle and liorses. With the exception of a
small and insignificant settlement at Los Nietos and the oasis of Anaheim,
one could travel on the main road between Los Angeles and San Juan Capia-
trano and not see liuman liabitation. Now tliere are a dozen or more im-
portant towns and settlements; farms, vineyards and orchards give support to
thousands of families, and of the 140,000 a<5res which comprised this princely
estate, less than 80,000 acres remain unsold.

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Citrus Culture m Anaheim.

Oranges, lemons and limes are grown successfnlly in Anaheim, but (jwing to
the superior attraction of vine culture (because of its earlier becoming re-
munerative), have not received the attention j^iven the latter, but there aie
some old seedling trees that beat their tliousand fruit a year, and a number of
orchards of more recent planting are in bearing and yielding fair quantities of
the more desirable varieties. Citrus fruits, like all other fruits, are liable to
injury by frost, but this is a calamity of such rare occurrence that it need not
be taken into special account. The lime, is the n,ost tender of the citrus fam-
ily, and in many localities its fruiting is a matter of considerable uncertainty,
owingto sensitiveness to cold. Orange culture was so generally undertaken
by the settlers in parts of our own and neigliboring counties a few years since
that its production for the time being has I'atlier exceeded the demand, so
tliat only the best varieties are surely remuneraiive, antl the fact that an or-
ange is au orange — which a few years since was all tliat was tliought ol in
buying 'trees — has had to give way to the belief that there is as much wisdom
to be shown in planting an orange orchard of select varieties, as of peaches,
apples or pears, and that carelessness~in this matter, as in any other, is sure
to bring disaster sooner or. later; while attention and thought, with patience
and perseverance, will surely prove in the end that what has been proven in
the past the source of all success, will also in the pi-esent instance reap tjie
reward for the intelligent, earnest worker.

To plant an orchard of seedling fruit and await its coming into beaiiiig
would be the height of folly, but to plant an orcliard of budded Washington
Navels is almost to insure success. . One of our orchardists, whose thrifty
trees and fruit-burdened branches. are the admiration of every passed- by, was
i-'onaplaining a few days since of the low prices he ol»tained for liis fruit,
manv of the boxes barely covering expenses. But the reason was plain — they
were the old Mission variety; small sized and thickskinned, bv-autiful to the
eye when viewed as an orchard but not sufficiently tempting to the p.ilate U>
insure good prices. Another gentleman with an orchard of young trees hardly
observable among the other growth on his place, was congratulating himself
that he had cleared over three hundred dollars from a carload, and had n--
ceived from four to five dollars a liox for many of his Navel oranges.

Tiie Mediterranean Sweet orange is a good variety to send into ii,;aiket late
in tlie season, as it is m its prime when other fruit from Florida and luiro|>e
are out. One of our townsman has recently obtained a fruit which lie thinks
will have the virtues of the best varieties combined — a thin skin, earlyripen-
ing and very sweet with good keeping qualities, a combination which will, if
proveu, make it tlie coming orange, and what its name betokens, the Favorita.
Probably other excellent and improved varieties will be brought before the
public soon, as many experiments are being tiied, and ali-eady it is said ovei-
three hundred varieties are known to our fruit-growers. The result of the
exhibition at New Orleans, in which ( 'alit'oi'iiia received the first jiremium foi'
citrus fruits over fai' famnd jt'ioi'ida. pT-ovcs tJiat we only need to pei-severe to

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siTcceed. It is improbable tliat the Florida fruit can ever be acclimated iiere
so as to be with us what it is there. The moisture of that climate is wanliug,
aud the presence of water in tiie soil of that low-lyiug State must call ov en-
tirely different qualities iu its trees to resist the tendency to decas' in tlie
louts. The delicious Indian River orange, growing in the rich, damp sail of
Florida, would be an entirely different article on the hard, dry me.sa of our
orange region, or even the light, sandy loam of Anaheim proper, though it
would probably do well here if anywhere in California. On the other hand,
our best varieties would probably do no better there, so that any person de-
siring to give this branch of fruit growing his attention should study the sub-
ject well and be sure to oV)tain only the best of trees, of tlie best varieties,
from relialde men.

The lemon should be a profitable fruit to grow as it is an almost continuous
bearer. There was formerly a great deal of thick-skinned, bitter-rinil fruit
in the market which gave California lemons a bad name, and to this day the
foreign variety commands double the price in the San Francisco market that
our native fruit of the same quality brings, merely because of a jirejudice
which has thus been engendered, but which is gradually weaiing away, as
our growers take pains to pack only the best varieties, of uniform
size and in attractive packages. There is a great deal iu pack-
ing fruit properly. One person will pick his fruit carelessly, letting the
small and large roll into bo.xes in any and every way, when full jam doivn the
lid, slap-dash an address on the end of one, the side of another and top of the
iie.xt, ship them off, and wonder when the returns come that he lias narked
cjii the accountof sales, "fruit bruised," "four boxes lost in repacking,'' "hard
of sale, market overstocked with this kind." His neighbor with same kind of
fruit, picks it carefully, arranges some slats on which he can run the fruit so
as to let each size drop through by itself, brushes off the dust and smut if
there is any, lays the fruit in the box in layers closely packed, fills it above
the edge, presses the cover down hrmly so there can be no motion of the fruit
en route, stencils neatly on one end the address, number of fruit to tiu^ box.
variety and his own name; and is gratilied with returns which pay well for
tlie extra care and attention. Who of us has not f)ften and willingly paid in
the land "bej'oiul tlie Kockies, " an extra dollar a barrel for apples, whose
uiilj' charm was the neatly (lacked concentric circles of rod-cliee'-ed "Spits" or
"Baldwins," which we knew were "deaconed?" Tliere is profit in cire and
no less in the putting up and jiacking than in the selection and ciiitlvation of
fruit, to any one prepared to give the attention require<I, and it is no
sucli laborious attention as is required among the rock-hidden farms of tlie
extreme East or tlie storm-swept Hehls of the Qentrai States, but a steady
enltivating, irrigating, ]jruning, picking and packing in their several seasons;
no liurry, but no time to dally. No danger of storms to interfere with labor
ill any de]jai-tment, but a pleasant, invigorating employnient in the most de-
liglitfiil air and health-giving sunshine that tlie earth can produce. The
near completion of anotlier transcontinental railway to our doors has already
reduced tne rates of freight on these fruits fifty per cent from former pricesr
and the prospe(!t is good for a farther reduction soon, when we may hope for
a steady and healthy demand for all our fruit. The man with a thirty or
forty-acre farm, who has half of it in (/nod oranges and leiifous, will never re-
j'ret it.

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The Ostrich Industry.

A pamphlet about Anaheim would be incomplete did it not contaiil al refer'
eace to the Anaheim Ostrich Farm, the unique undertaking which has attract-
ed more attention in the United States than probably any enterprise wiiich
has been attempted.

The farm is six miles west of Anaheim, in what is known as Centralia dis'
trict. It was established in April, 1883, with twenty-two ostriches inported
direct from South Africa. These birds were sold to the California Ostrich
Farming Company as guaranteed breeders, but the fact became known after
a time that they were not of the age necessary for the production of fertile
eggs. Until this fact was established by indubitable proof, there were many
doubts of the success of the industry; because, although eggs in abundance
were laid, they failed to hatch. This unfertility of the eggs could only be ac-
counted for either by the youth of the birds or by the unsuitability of the
climate; and that the cause was as stated was not only proven by evidence
received from Africa where the birds were raised, but by the further fact that
the eggs are now fertile and ostriches are being hatched every week during
the season. There are now half a hundred or more young birds at the farm,
all in tine vigor and full of promise to the experienced eye. The managers ot
the enterprise are hopeful of its success, and are certain that the time will
soon come when every thrifty farmer in California will number ainung his live
stuck a pair or more of ostriches.

The value of the ostricl\^i8, of course, in the feathers it prmUices. The birds
on the Anaheim farm bear a plumage which the Superintendent never saw ex-
celled in Africa. The returns from the feathers already produced are satis-
factory to the Company. The demand for feathers is far in excess of the sup-
ply. South Africa yearly produces feathers to the value of £1,250,000, and
yat the genuine ostrich feather is an expensive article uf personal adornment,
notwithstanding the seemingly large production. Besides, it should be borne
in mind that in Africa the production is steadily decreasing. Natural causes
— especially the frequency of drouths and consequent famine — k»^ep down
the increase of ostriches, and there is not now as many birds in that country
as there were a few years ago, notwithstanding the stringent regulations en-
forced by the government to prevent the wanton destruction of the wild birds.

It not infrequently happens that the African ostrich farmer has to import
grain at $15 per 100 pounds to keep his birds alive. Unless the birds are
abundantly fed the feathers will be ragged and comparatively valueless, hence
in years of famine there are few first-olasa feathers produced. It is to Cali-
fornia, therefore, that the marlcet must at sometime in the future look for its
supply of Hrst-class feathers, and we are justified in claiming that "ostrich
culture" is one of the most promising industries of Southern California. A
pair of chicks, four months old, will cost say $1.50 or .f'200. The cost of feed-
ing is hi't a trifle, and a small corner of the yard fenced off is a sutfici«»nt en-
closure. Three months after the chicks are purchased the feathers should be
plucked, and at ruling prices they ought to bring $20; eight months later $60
worth of feathers ought to be plucked; the third plucking ought to hring
.$200, the fourth plucking $400. Assuming that these ligiues are correct (and
they are based on actual results obtained in Africa) there is a profit in the
business surpassing that of almost every other industry peculiar to this State.

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The Wme Industry.

Wine makiug has been, is and always will be the leading industry of Ana-
heim. Our light soil has been proven, by over twenty-live years of experi-
ence, to be the very best adapted for the successful growth of the vine. It
was for the pursuit of this industry that the colony was Hrst organized, twen-
ty-eight years ago, and what was at the beginning only an experiment, Has
steadily advanced, year by year, in method and importance to an established
and highly remunerative industry. During the past four or live years, espe-
cially, has this improvement been most marked. The subdivision of large
tracts of land and the great improvement in the water system, ensuring a
plentiful supply for irrigation, has resulted in the setting out of thousands of
acres of land to vines, must of which are in bearing.

The improvement in method, if we may so term it, of tliis industry has
kept puce with its extension. 'J'lie original vineyards were all set out to Mis-
sion grapes, the only ones then obtainable. These, by the imperfect methods
tlien in vogue, produced a wine of an inferior quality and too strong to be
agreeable to the taste of those who had been accustomed to the lighter wines
of Kiirope, and consequently they did not tiud a ready sale. In late years,
however, great attention has been paid to the impurtatiuu of choice varieties
from tlie wine-producing countries of Europe and their adaptability to oar
peculiar soil and conditions; and this, together with the many improvements
made in the treatment of tiie grapes in the process of wine-making, have re-
sulted in producing wines which now tind a ready sale, not only throughout
our own country, but even in Europe.

All these advantages, gained by the old settler at a cost of years of experi-
menting and considerable outlay of money, tlie newcomer now finds at his
disposal; an<l a "green hand" may now embark in this industry with a cer-
tainty of success at about one- half the cost and trouble expended by the older
vineyardists for what could only then be termed an experiment.

In the short space to which tliis article must of necessity be restricted, we
cannot describa this great industry in all its details, and it would scarcely
come within the scope of this pamphlet. The tirst anxiety of the immigrant,
if he be thinking of engaging in the industry, will naturally be; iirst, as to the
outlay— the price of land, cost of planting, cultivation, etc.. and then as to
the returns that may reasonably be expected for his labor. In this respect
we can do no better than give the experience of one of our vineyardists who
sitarted in the business — a "green hand" -just three years ago:

EXP ENTDr TURKS.

1881.

October. 20 acres land at .'$40 per acre $ 800 00

November. Plowing 27 00

Sundry expenses 12 00

1882.

.1 anuary . Water right 15 00

Plowing 25 00

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21,500 cuttings 61 75

Cost of Planting 144 75

April. Plowing and cultivating 67 00

May, June. Sundry expenses 67 75

Irrigating 7 75

Stakes I33 38

July to Dec. Sundry expenses 118 00

$1479 38

1883.

January. Pruning and staking $ 31 50

February. Irrigating, etc 12 25

March. Sundry expenses 66 40

April. Sundry expenses 92 80

May, .lune. Labor II9 85

Sundry expenses to December 260 96

$ 583 76

1884. ==
January. Pruning § 36 00

Sundries (J2 05

Labor to Marc h . . , 77 75

Stakes and staking 78 00

Labor to September 16G 80

Water Assessments 59 50

September. Harvesting grapes 228 00

Sundries 18 00

$ 726 10

1885. '■
January. Pruning $ 58 50

Labor, sulphuring, plowing, etc. to April . 155 05

Expenditures in 1884 726 10

" 1883 583 76

" 1882 1479 38

Total Expenditures $3002 79

RECEIPTS.

Grapes sold in 1883 % 45 00

Cuttings sold in 1884 163 00

Grapes sold in 1884 879 25

Total Receipts $1087 25

Present value of vineyard $4000 to $.5000. This season's grape crop, should
no untoward circumstances injure it, will net about $1000 above all expenses
for the year.

The above is the actual experience of a man who, being engaged in busi-
ness iu town, has had to pay in hard cash for every item of labor done in his
place. It will be seen by the above that this {the fourth) year his vint-yard
will pay him a handsome profit, over and above alt expenses, and each suc-
ceeding year the profits will be multiplied until the vineyard is in full bear-
ing, which is in from seven to ten years. Now, a man who would be able to
do the most of his work himself would decrease the expenses the first three
years by one half — more than enough to support hiinself and small family.

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The money laid out in the above vineyard was not for cheap work, but for
tirat-class work and material in each case.

Now, then, after the newcomer shall have got his vineyard well started and
in bearing, he will want to know how to dispose of his grapes to the best ad-
vantae;e, and a few points as to the relative value of grapes and wine and the
probable income from a crop will be of interest. As to the value of the dif-
ferent kinds of grapes for wine making, we give the experience of our older
growers in tried varieties: The Mission is the original California grape, and
has been proven to be perfectly adapted to our conditions of soil and climate.
It is a good grape for the manufacture of port, angelica and sherry, and makes
a good white wine to blend with other wines; the Zinfandel is a tirst-class
claret grape; the Black Malvoisie is chiefly made into port; the Berger
makes an excellent light wine; tiie Mataro, a new foreign grape, makes an ex-
cellent wine for blending purposes; the Trousseau, also a new French variety,
makes a (irst-class claret and port; the Golden ChasseJas produces a light
white wine, as does also the Queen Victoria. We also have here the Black
Hamburg, the Flame Tokay (a table grape for canning and preserving), the
Muscat (our leading raisin grape), the Museatelle, Sweetwater, Kose of Peru
and a dozen other less-known varieties.

As to tlie returns to be reasonably expected from a crop, we give the ruling
figures of past years: The prices of Mission grapes have ranged from $15 to
$20 per ton; foreign varieties about .f22 per ton. At the fourth year the aver-
age yieUl of a vineyard is from two to four tons of grapes per acre, according
to variety. When in full bearing the yield will range from four to eight
tons per acre.

If the vinegrower is able to make up his wine himself, his protils will be
nearly doubled, and this he can Hgure on to his own satisfaction. The average
production ot wine from one ton of grapes is one hundred and forty gallons.
The average price of Mission wine has been 20 cents uer gallon; of foreign
varieties from 20 to 25 cents. To engage in the manufacture of wine tlie
grower must build a good wine shed and purchase tanks, barrels, pumps,
crusher and other apparatus Two tiiousaiid dollars will furnish all these, and
their cost will be saved the Ji.rst f/wo ijfar>i. After the rirst year the only ex-
pense in this line will be the repairing of apparatus and tanks and the pur-
chasing of new cooperage as the increase in the business may demand; in fact,
the vineyardist can depend upon every dollar spent upon his vineyard return-
ing him an annual interest of from 20 to 50 per cent.

To close, we will give the experience of one of our old winegrowers in late
years: He has a twenty-acre vineyard, one-half of which is in vines twenty -
tJve years old and the other half in vines twelve and tifteen years
old. He has been making his own wine since the past live years

and he has all the improved machinery, etc., needed in the process of wine-
making; also an improved still to work up the grapes after they have been
pressed for wine, into brand}'. He hires all his vineyard work but attends
to the cellar himself, and has kept an accurate account of receipts and ex-
penditures. During the past four and five years his net protits on his twenty-
acre vineyard have ateraced between $5000 and -$'6000 each year.

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Future of Winemakmg.

The wiue manufacturers of this Coast have every reason for feeling hope-
ful as to the future of this important and growing industry. Reports from
Eastern centers are of the most flattering oharacter.and there seems to be but
one fear among those wiio have the productisn 6f jwiues at heart — that is that
the purity of the article may not be maintained by Eastern sellers. There is
no doubt that if the article be sustained at the highest standard, in the near
future the demand will increase wonderfully. A New York dispatch, of Ap-
ril 11th, quotes from Bonfort's Wine Circular, which says: "The business
figures for the first quarter of the year show an improvement over 1884, de-
spite the severity of the weather. The importation of Bordeaux wines during
March were 10,920 gallons wood and 2,122 cases, against 35,700 gallons wood
and 7,637 cases last March. Affairs in Bordeaux show little animation and
purchases are small. Up to last report the arrivals of California wine by the
Isthmus to this port during March were 115,328 gallons, against 131,827 gal-
lons in March, 1884, and 98,883 gallons in Marcli, 1883. In an article on
('alifornia wines and their significance in the markets of the world. Dr. Cross,
an eminent authority, says: 'I have traveled through all the States of the
Union, and found nowhere, not even in California towns or cities, agof)d glass
of California wine. I went directly to the California producers in Sonoma,
St. Helena, Fresno, Los Angeles and Anaheim, and found wines worthy to
stand by the side of Rheingan and France. (Jalifornia wines, in respect tu
their keeping qualities and brightness of flavor, may well be comparetl to the
best wines of the Palatinate of the Rhine, the wines of France and those from
tlie coast of the Mediterranean.' He predicts a l>rilliant future for California
wines in Europe. '

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The Anaheim Immigration Association has upon its brxiks a large list of de-
sirable property, which is offered for sale. This property comprises improved
and unimproved land — orchards, vineyards, farms, town property, etc. The
Association will show applicants all land it may have for sale, and make fair
and truthful representations as to its value. The prime object of the Asso-
ciation is to induce people to come here and buy homes upon which they will
live contentedly and with the conviction that they have not been "taken in."
The Association will not misrepresent property in order to make a sale, and
whatever representations its officers make may be relied upon.

If there is any information which the distant reader desires, and which he
does not Hud in this pamphlet, let him write to the Secretary oi' any oHicer
of tho Association and his queries will be promptly answered.

Those who do not know the capacity and fertility of tiie soil of .Southern
California are apt to deprecate the custo'u of raising two crops a year from
the same soil, as is often done. But wliere irrigation is practiced, there is no
danger of exhausting the soil by two croppings. as tlie river waters bring on
the land more fertilizing matter than i.s taken from it by the crops. The ricli
Sediment which, in winter especially, makes the water murky, stimulates tho
giowth of plants in a wonilerful degree. In his address before the Agricul-
tural Society, Mr. Shorb said: "Near my home at vSan Gabriel there are
lands adjoining the Ohl Mission buildings which have been cropped twice a
year since the foundation of the Mission, one hundred and ten years ago, and
they still retain t''eir fertility unimpaired. Thi.s is purely the result of irri-
jjation."

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Educational Advantages.

The educational growth of Los Augeles coiiuty has kept pace with the ma-
terial growth and prosperity. No couuty in the State of California has made
such provision for tlie accommodation and comfort of the pupils as Los Ange-
les. Ti*e school buildings are models of architectural neatness and as a gen-
eral thing are presided over by as intelligent a body of teachers as are to be
found anywhere, many of whom are graduates of Normal schools and other
institutions of learning. The examinations of teachers are rigid and difficult,
making it next to impossible for an incompetent person to obtain a certiKcate.

A few statistics showing the growth of the schocls durmg the residence of
the writer m this county — a period of sixteen years — may be interesting:

Then there were census children between 5 and 17 3,5.%

Now there are 1-4,010

Tlien there were under 5 years 1,684

Now there are 6,127

Then there wore in public and private .schools 1,878

Now there are 9,944

Then there ware school districts ' 24

Now there are 80

Then the valuation of school property was $22,628

Now it is , $421,727

Then the amount paid te&,cher.s' salaries was '. .'. ." $13,647

Now " • " " " is $122,345

Then there were teachers 28

Now " are ' 177

Tlie .iverage monthly wages paid to males is $87

" females" $73.50

The average term is, per annum .8 3-lOmos.

Each school is supplied with library and apparatus. What was formerly the
Anaheim school ilistrict witli 189 census children with one teacher is now
eiglit districts uith S()5 census cliildren and fourteen teachers. Tlie Anaheim
scho il lioiise is one of the finest in the county, costing about $13,000 and
boasts (if a corps of well-trained and skilled teachers.

In addition to tiic public schools we have a State Normal school located in
Los Angeles city, where peisoiis desiring to become teacliers are especially
trained and educateil for their duties. There are several colleges where young
men can pur.stie the highei' branches. Also a female seminary, a new institu-
tion whicli is supplying a long-felt want, and no doubt will become popular.
Tlle^se are ail located in Loa Angeles city with the exception of a college un-
der the auspices of the Presbyterian church at Pasadena. The^ are all on
good financial footing and are well patronized.

Truly are we proud of our (irosperity and of our schools. The mild nature
of Dur climate is such that the children are cmparatively free from colds and
other epidfuiics that are prevalent in other places, hence our children enjoy
excellent health by reas-on of which they are enabled to prosecute their stud-
ies without interruption.

Tlie pe"ple never grumble at taxes for school purposes, although the State
and county make provision for ahsolutelji free schools. The State is now pre-
paring a scries of text-books which will be published at actual cost, making
cheap school books.

The length of school terms, the apparatus and school libraries, the comfort
.and convenience of school rooms together with the competency of the teach-
ers, cannot fail to give as good an education here as is to be obtained in pub-
lic schools anywhere.

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The Churches m Anaheim.

The church privileE;e8 of a town occupy no mean place in the consideration
of those who are seeking a new home. This is especially true of those coming
from the older settlements in the East where the church has been longer es-
tablished, its influence more deeply felt, and its worth to a community more
fully realized. The foUowint; incident will illustrate this: A gentleman re-
cently arrived in Anaheim. He at onoe sought out the writer of this, and be-
gan to question him respecting the particular church with which he is con-
nected here. How many members has it? What is its influence on the com-
munity? Is the building free from debt? Is the church self-supporting? Hi>w
many are in the Sunday school? How many attend the Sunday services and
the weekly prayer meeting? etc, etc. This gentleman said he wanted to find
a place in which to locate permanently with his family. He presumed he
would find sufficient inducements to stay here when he began to look at laud
for sale, but he wanted first to be sure he would find the church privileges to
his liking.

Perhaps some one reading this description of Analieim may wish to know
about the churches here before deciding to come. Although our town is not
the largest, we have bo leaS than six churches in it. This seemingly large
number does not exist tor the same reason that in a town of the same size in
the East, the same number or more may be found. This will be seen by a
brief survey of the various churches and their peculiar work. There is of
course a Koman church in Anaheim. A large section of country in the
Santa Ana Valley, of which this is a part, has no church of this kind save
here, hence all who are allied to it must come to Anaheim for the privileges
granted by the sect. Rev. V. Foran is the priest. One of the most attrac-
tive and churchly edifices outside the cities is occupied by the Episcopalians.
And that is not all. It is made still more attractive by the noble and faithful
band of adherents who render itlifeand vigor. Rev. VV. C. Mills, who has recent-
ly decided in favor of our climate, is the rector. In the north part of town, and
adjacent to the two already mentioned, stands the Presbyterian church. Al-
though Presbyterian in name, it is cosmopolitan in character — if the word may
apply to ecclesiastical as well as national peculiarities. Being the only non-
ritualistic denomination represented here, intf'iided for the Englisii speaking
population, its doors are thrown open to all followers of our common Lord.
And many, whose early prejudices and fixed principles do not prevent, enter
the door. Among the worshippers are Christians of all beliefs, and all re-
ceive a hearty welcome. Rev. F. H. Robinson is pastor.

Passing to the south part of town we ooine to three church edifices recently
put up. As the stranger enters town he is struck with the neat appearance
of the Evangelical church. A vigorous society occupies this building. Though
the building was but recently erected, the society has been established here
tor years. Rev. C Green is pastor. He resides in Santa Ana, where he has
also another church of the same order.

SPANISH AND INDIAN SCHOOLS, AND QUARTERS ,

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Near the Evangelical church stands the second Presbyterian church. It is
intended for the Spanish speaking population. Rev. J. M. Roberts is the
Missionary in charge. There is a parochial school in connection with the
church. Miss M. A. McCoy is teacher. An Indian-school building stands
next to the church. It has recently been established under the auspices of
the government and in care of the Presbyterian Mission Board. Mrs. M. E.
Roberts is Superintendent and Mrs. N. Robb is matron.

The Southern California Conference of the M. E. Church has recently estab-
lished a mission in Anaheim. This society has a neat building a little removed
from the Spanish and Indian Mission. Rev. G. H. Bolinger is the energetic
pastor. He also is the presiding elder of the German work in the Conference.

If the new comer should settle in the Orangethorpe or Placentia districts of

North Anaheim, or in Fairview, just south of town, he will find Sunday
schools held in these inviting sections, and occasional preaching also. Rev.
C. B. Pershing and others occupy the circuit.

Social Advantages of Anaheim.

As to the social and religious status.of Anaheim, few towns of its size pos-
sess equal advantages; and parents may come here with the assurance that
they can enjoy the same privileges that they had at home, and that their
cliildren can be brought up underjthe best social and religious influences.

Our educational facilities are Hrst-class. The Anaheim Public School ia
one of the finest and most comfortably-arranged school buildings in this part
iif the State, , and employs four teachers for ten months in the year. Besides
this we have private German, Spanish and Chinese day schools.

We have six churches and Sunday schools, as follows: Presbyterian, Epis-
copal, Roman Catliolic, German Evangelical, German Methodist and Spanish
Protestant. These all hold regular Sunday services, which are generally well
attended.

Six fraternal and benevolent Associations are represented here: Anaheim
Lodge, No. 207 F. & A. M., Orpheus Lodge No. 237, I. 0. 0. F. (German,)
Anaheim Lodge, No. 199 I. O. 0. F., Anaheim Lodge, No. 85 A. 0. U. W.,
Magnolia Council No. 94, 0. C. F., and Evergieea'Council No. 808, A. L. H.
These all hold regular meetings in the Odd Fellows' and Masonic Halls, and
aie in a flourishing condition.

The Ladies' Aid Society is an organization of the ladies of town for the pur-
pose of rendering aid to the poor and those unable to work from sickness or
other causes.

A branch of the Chatauqua Scientiric and Literary Circle holds regular
cnonthly meetings at the houses of its members, and quite an interest is taken
in the meetings.

There is no lack of musical talent in our midst, and scarcely a week passes
without an entertainment, concert, ball or exhibition in one of our halls, be-
sides the numerous picnics, social parties, etc., of weekly occurrence.

To sum up, those, who are fond of the more manly and exciting sports and

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amusements may here gratify their deairoa to tlie fullest extent. The PaciHc
ocean, with its splendid bathing, fishing and sailing, is only twelve miles to
tiie south; the mountains, with their beautiful canyons, picturesque scenery
and shady oak and sycamore groves, are but a few miles to the north and east;
the plains all about Anaheim where the zealous nimrod may find rabbit and
quail in quantity and quality to satisfy his most earnest ambition. Then in
the proper seasons our creeks and sloughs are fairly alive with geese and
ducks, which may be slaughtered at pleasure. Finally, anglers may enjoy
their favorite sport in the mountain streams thirty to forty miles away, and
hunters of larger game can face the grizzly bear, the panther or tlie wild-cat
by taking a short pleasure trip of perhaps twenty-live miles to the Temescal
mountains.

Business Opportunities.

While Anaheim can boast of a sufficiency of places of business of almo.st
every line of trade, and nearly every want of farm and fireside can be easily
supplied from its well-stocked stores, shops, yards and mills, there yet re-
main unfilled needs in several departments. For instance, with hundreds of
acre.s of the finest of apricots, peaches, prunes, etc., there is no cannery t"
work up the surplu.s. With hundreds of tons of the most excellent MuRt:at
and Malaga grapes, there is no raisin dryer— an industry which is crying
aloud for some one with capital and enterprise t(i step in and reiip a i-i(;h t(;-
ward. No evaporator for working up the abundant hari'est of peaches, apri-
cots, hgs and deciduous fruits into tlie finest quality of marketable goods, and
thus keeping at home and among ourselves the freight money vvliicli must be
paid to transport ourgOixls to Los Angeles or other points where these useful
and, wlien well managed, remunerative institutions are located. In England
and Scotland there are establishments employing liundreds of hands whii^h
make a specialty of working up oranges into marmalade, a c'ins(;rve whicli tinds
a ready market in the United Kingdom, and wliich would soon tind one in
the United States. Such a factory could include the manufacture of candied
fruits, than which no country in the world offers a more excellent or greater
variety of material for these delicious confections. Thousands of boxes of
orani'es, far superior to the little, sour things which are transported from
Portugal and Spain into England to he worked up into marmalade, may be
liad in the small unmarketed finit from the orchards of Anaheim and vicinity
and which are now allowed to go t() waste.

A want long felt in this vicinity also is a packing house, \\ lit- re fruit mas
be brought in, sorted and packed, and forwarded to market under a brand
which by uniformity and superior quality of goods wuild soon make for itself
a name which would insure good prices in any market to which it might be
sent. A raisin dryer with a packing house of same character attached would
soon make a reputation and get a trade which would command more of the
crop grown in this end ot the county than could be easily handled.

There are other lines of linsiuHSs not developed, which t!ip proviM-bial int^r-n-
uitv of the American citizen should work up from the new and as yet un
tried circumstances and productions of this marvelous land.

As settlors become more familiar vvith the re(|Uirements of the country,
new anpliances are brought into use, the .s()il is put to uses liefore unthought
of, and go-ahead, wide-awake men find nut little difficulty in opening up ave-
nues of profitable and pleasure giving o(;cu[)ation.

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Abundant I^'ield Sports.

Not the least of the features which commend Aaaheim to the cousideratiou
of those who desire to settle in Southern California, is the wide expanse of ex-
cellent hunting ground in" its near vicinity. One can leave Anaheim in the
morning and return at night with improved appetite, high spirit and a heavy
bag of game— from fifty to sixty aucks and geese being my usual bag,
though I have killed as many as one hundred and sixteen quail in one day,
and very often thirty and forty rabbits and hares in one afternoon.

A great variety of game is to be found in the vicinity ot Anaheim. In the
mountains are deer and the California bear; in the foothills and on the plain
quail, pigeon, hare and rabbit; and as one goes west of Anaheim, toward the
seashore, to the creeks and ponds of Westminster, a real bonanza of all kinds
of water fowl can be found. Here is to be found the noble mallard duck in
coiintleas numbers; the canvas back, pintail, widgeon, teal, redhead, blue-
wing, gadwail and the spoonbill. White geese are so numerous that two bar-
rels at the right time have often brought down one dozen and a half or even
more. Black geese and brand geese are abundant. Even the wild swan is
killed occasionally. Herons and rails of all sizes and different colors are
very numerous. The same is true of English snipe, the favorite of the sports-
man and the gourmet. I bigged, without difficulty in two hours of the most
amusing sport, thirty-six of them.

I mis'sed through my illness the best part of the hunting season of 1884-5
and was only able towards the end of January, 188.5, to resume slowly and
moderately my favorite amusement. I went once or twice a week and bagged
in about two mouths' time 45 geese, 670 ducks, 260 English snipe, 180 quail,
431 rabbits and hares and 95 different pieces of game, such as herons, plovers,
pigeons, etc., making a total of 1650 pieces.

These meagre facts iire sufficient to prove that probably throughout all Cal-
ifornia there is not one spot that offers such inducements for the sportsman or
dilletant as Anaheim— where one can have all the enjoyments and comforts
of home life together with the rarest pleasures of sporting, such as usually
can be obtained only in the wilderness or in places remote from civilization.

ANAHEIM.

"And further still toward tropic cliiHe
Looks down on lovely Anaheim,
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.

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Facts for Settlers. .

There is probably no land under the sun which can be nut to such varied
uses as that about Anaheim^ This is the home of the vine. No better wine
was ever made in California than that which has just been made by the thirty
or forty wine makers of Atiaheim. Nor can better raisins be found anywhere
tlian those made in tliis vicinity. This industry is yearly assuming greater
proportions here. It hasJieretofore been insignificant for the reason that the
wine grape was made a specialty, but since it has been demonstrated that
thei-e IS a prolit in raisin uifvking, more attention has been paid to tliat indus-
try. Orange trees grow luxuriantly, and in North Anaheim are orchards in
no respect inferior to any in the county. Apples, peaciies, pears, and nearly
all northern fruits are grown with results which rather surprise people wliu
come here with the idea that only semi-tropical fruit excel. We have tht^
word of an old gentleman, just arrived from Illinois, that the apples grown in
Anaheim are larger and have a Hner flavor than these grown in that State.
Apricots, a fruit which is destined to become the most valuable product of
this county, grow here to an almost phenonienal size and tlie trees are very
productive. We have the t(;stimony of the Superintendent of tiie Los Ange-
les cannery that the best apricots received at that establishment last season
came from Anaheim; ami this tribute is all the more valuable l)ecause of the
large area of country from which tiie cannery was supplied.

There are in this vicinity large tracts of poor, sandy soil, which untliinking
people would unhesitatingly pronounce worthless. But we beg to reniind
our readers that ten or twelve years ago seven men out of ten who came to
Los Angeles county pronounced as only tit for sheep pasture tlie very land
which is to-day worth from $75 to .$300 per acre. These samiy, almost arid,
tracts will yet be valuable groves. It is just the kind .of soil on which iue
the finest olive orchards of Europe; nay, it is even more fertile than the soil
along the Mediterranean, whence comes the most famous olives. Too litt'e
attention has been given to this tree, hut when once the people understand
the immense profits of olive culture, and appreciate the fact that the tret-
iTows and Hourishes on soil aliKost too poor to raise anything else, we may
expect to see the olive as largely planted as the grape and the oiange. - ^Iz/K-
/ifiin Gazette.

Corn is generally known as "the poor man's crop" from the fact that the
farmer can do all the necessary work, and need hire but little help. It is.
ordinarily, one of the most profitable crops grown, as on the corn lands of Los
Angeles county the yield is heavy, and the market for some years past has
been very good. As an illustration of the profits of rorn culture, we may
cite the case of a farmer who last year s,iM\ 1,1.')0 centals of corn from thirty
acres. He sold it for .'fl G.S per cental, a total of $1,874.50, and his actual
cash outlay was barely ^l.'iO, Much better results have been obtained, liiit
we submit this showing as a fair illustration of what can be done on the corn
lands of this countv.

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A Ride through the Country.

A couple of years ago the editor of the Anaheim Gazette took a day's ride
throughout the adjacent country; and his observations were embodied in a
two-column article in his paper. From that article we take the following per-
tinent extracts:

As we drive through this region (North Anaheim,) our companion
points to vineyards planted last year in which over ninety per cent of the
cuttings nourished; to orange orchards, young and old, in whicli the trees are
as thrifty and clean as it is possible for trees to be; There are some very
beautiful places in N<)rth Anal.eini, and land there is ciianging ownership
quite often, and always at an increase<l rate.

Traveling west, by barely perceptible roads, we pass over some hilly coun-
try on wiiioli thousands of sheep find ricli pasture, and find ourselves in
Orangetliorpe ilistrict. The soil here is t>i a different character from tliat pre-
viously described, but is as fertile, judging from the appearance of the vine-
yards and orcliards which here cluster (juite thickly.

Now we reach the Artesia district, and our guide discourses at length upon
t'le size of the pumpkins and corn which everywhere meet the eye. Artesia
is certainly a most prolific country, and corn, barley, alfalfa etc. yield heavily.
As its name implies, it is in the artesian belt, and flowing wells arc obtained
at au average depth of 200 feet. The ground is too damp and the winter cold
too severe for the successful grovvtli of the orange and lemon, but vines do
well.

Centialia, a few miles east of Artesia, is quite a settlement, and there are
a number of very thrifty, haiidsonie farms in the district. Our attention is
called to several orange orchards which look clean and healthy, and the grapes
ruiseil in the lnoality are very superior.

Driving in a southerly direction we reach Westrnin.''ter. No extended ref-
erence to this locality is needed fr.ini our pen, f<»r has not our valued corres-
pondent depicted elsewhere in this issue its advantages, ti'iumphs and
achievements in a manner at once convincing and interesting?

Travelino- still towards the south we reach the ranchos La Bolsa Ohica and
Las Bdlsas, a famous "hog and hominy ' locality. It is pre-eminently a corn
country, and the yield nf some of the fields is simoly marvelous.

Turning horpeward, and approaciiing Anaheim from the southwest, Mr.
Northam points out several fine tracts of iand near town. It is all good vine-
yard land, and suitable for general farming, and will <loubtless ere lontf be
the homes of tnany people.

Such is- a brief and general description of tlie territory seen during a day's
drive. We have passed over half a dozen diflferent kinds of soil, and experi-
enced half a dozeii different climates — for it is a peculiar and noticeable fact
that the atmosphere varies grf atly in localities not far apart. But take it all
in all, we doubt whether in any part of the habitable globe, there is a liner
body of land of similar extent, or on which can be grown productions as di-
verse anrl numerous.

— 38 —

The Illustrations.

Believiug the eye helps the mind in getting a correct idea of a country, we
put before our readers a few photographic studies of scenes in Anaheim, cop-
ied from views kindly furnished by our local photographer, Mr. A. L. Pelli-
grin, which we feel assured will give a value to our pamphlet not generally
accorded to literature of this kind; and winch, giving reproductions of actual
scenes as taken from nature, will serve as souvenirs to those who find the
time to visit us.

Our frontispiece, from sketches taken with a view to getting in all the prin-
cipal points of interest in and about the town, is a bird's eye view from a
point wheie nothing but a balloon would have given the necessary elevation,
as the mass of foliage about the town precludes the possibility of getting it all
in from any point sufficiently near to make photographing possible. As Ana-
heim is a town like Washington — "of magnificent distances," it was not pos-
sible to include it all in the limits of a picture of this kind; therefore, the
railroad depot, which lies about half a mile to the rit{ht of this scene, with its
group of stores, residences, warehouses, steam saw mill, grist mill, etc., does
not appear.

The second picture, of "a vineyard," is taken near the center of the town
and is one of the many which, at this season of the year with their wealth of
fresh, green foliage, add beauty and brightness to t.'ie scenery, and make a ride
through the side streets of Anaheim an enjoyment not to be forgotten, while
the luscious fruitage which bends the burdened branches to the ground in
the fall months, is only to be appreciated by those who have seen the masses
of purple, pink, amber and white grapes which are gathered l)y great wagon
loads in the harvest season.

Our third illustration is a vista tlirough the orange orchard of one of our
wealthy oitizens who has planted grapes among his trees. This adds somewhat
to tl»e pictur'esqueness of the view, but is not given as an evidence of the best
method of cultivation, as the gentleman does not anticipate keeping both in
one (ield, but intends, in time, to remove that which may prove less remu-
nerative.

The next is a view of the residence of one of our business men, and is in-
troduced as showing how a bare stubble held can, in seven years, be trans-
formed into a home which twenty years' growth would not accomplish in the
East.

The fifth is a view of one of the representative homes which are the out-
growth of the colony enterprise started in 1858, resulting in a large number
of thrifty vineyards with their wine sheds, presses and other outbuildings
which, starting in the way of small things, are now. the comfortable, ro(jmy
and hospitable mansions of the burghers of our town.

The sixth shows the educational and religious institutions of our town, the
latter grouped about the well proportioned and conveniently arranged public
school, surmounting that Christian institution, the Protestant church of
tlie Spanish speaking people and school for Indian girls.

The seventh gives a good idea of the good taste and enterprise of nur busi-
ness men in erecting a block of buildings for poatotfice, bank, etc., seldom
seen in a town of the size of Anaheim.

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LIBRftRY OF CONGRESS

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:>lre respectfutly hut enrnestlu requested to rtsit tm
^ our Town and surrounding country he/ore
settling elsewTiere. We only ask you to see
for yourselves, as we are quite willing
to ahide the consequences.

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