An illustrated history of Southern California : embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of Lower California, from the earliest period of occupancy to the present time; together with glimpses of their prospects; also, full-page portraits of some of their eminent men, and biographical mention of many of their pioneers and of prominent citizens of to-day, Part 129

Author: Lewis Publishing Company
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 1038


USA > California > Los Angeles County > An illustrated history of Southern California : embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of Lower California, from the earliest period of occupancy to the present time; together with glimpses of their prospects; also, full-page portraits of some of their eminent men, and biographical mention of many of their pioneers and of prominent citizens of to-day > Part 129
USA > California > San Diego County > An illustrated history of Southern California : embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of Lower California, from the earliest period of occupancy to the present time; together with glimpses of their prospects; also, full-page portraits of some of their eminent men, and biographical mention of many of their pioneers and of prominent citizens of to-day > Part 129
USA > California > Orange County > An illustrated history of Southern California : embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of Lower California, from the earliest period of occupancy to the present time; together with glimpses of their prospects; also, full-page portraits of some of their eminent men, and biographical mention of many of their pioneers and of prominent citizens of to-day > Part 129
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SCHOOLS.


There are in Orange County thirty-four school districts. The apportionment for the last school year was 859,584.57 from the respect- ive sources.


There are in the county 4,095 school census children, for whose instruction are employed sixty-eight teachers. Most of the districts possess good buildings, with improved furniture and appliances.


There are in Santa Ana three school build- ings, accommodating about 720 pupils. The largest building cost $30,000, and the other two $9,000 and $6,000 respectively.


Orange has two good school-houses, costing $8,500 and $7,800. There are here 392 school census children.


Anaheim has two fine school buildings, cost- ing $16,000 and $7,000. The number of cen - sus children here is 546.


The Tustin school building cost about $12,- 000, and accommodates 267 pupils.


Most of the schools run nine to ten months yearly.


WEALTH.


At the close of 1889, the books of the county assessor showed the following figures for the new county:


Number of acres. 420,462


Value of real estate, other than city or town


lots $4,800,706


Value of improvements thereon 680,625


Value of city and town lots 1,837,169


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Value of personal property, exclusive of money and solvent credits .. 1,168,641 Total value after equalization by State Board .. 8,646,024 Railway, Santa Fe. 385,951


Railway, Southern Pacific.


238,791


Total. $18,268,269


Santa Ana is the county seat of Orange County, and the other important cities and towns are Anaheim, Orange, Tustin, and West- minster.


The officiale of Orange County are as follows: Superior Judge, James W. Towner; Supervisors, William H. Spurgeon, Jacob Ross, Sheldon Littlefield, S. Armor, A. Gny Smith; District Attorney, E. E. Edwards; Sheriff, R. T. Harris; County Clerk, R. L. Wickham; Recorder and Auditor, George E. Foster; Treasurer, Dr. W. B. Wall; School Superintendent, J. P. Greeley ; Tax Collector, F. C. Smythe; Deputy Revenue Collector, Richard Melrose; Public Administra- tor and Coroner, I. D. Mills; Engineer,-Wood.


The Orange County Medical Association was organized in the spring of 1889, shortly after the segregation of the county. It has fourteen members. The president is J. M. Lacy, M. D .; vice-president, J. R. Medlock, M. D .; secre- tary, J. P. Boyd, M. D., and treasurer, W. B. Wood, M. D.


SANTA ANA.


The Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana was granted, under the old Spanish regime, in 1810, to one of the Yorbas, the grant comprehending about 62,000 acres. After the death of the original grantee, the land now occupied by the town site of Santa Ana l'ell to the share of Zenobia Yorba de Rowland, from whom it was bought by Mr. W. H. Spurgeon, who had the land surveyed and laid off in town lots in Oc- tober, 1869. The growth of Santa Ana has been slow, but steady, the town being built up and supported by the resources of the surround- country, and being the trade center of one of the finest agricultural and horticultural sections of Southern California.


Santa Ana was first incorporated June 1, 1886, as a city of the sixth class, and it was re-


incorporated, Angust, 1888, as a city of the fifth class.


This city is situated on branch lines of two great railways, the Santa Fé and the Sontliern Pacific. It is thirty-three miles distant from Los Angeles, forty from Riverside, forty-eight from Colton, and twenty-five from San Juan Capistrano; it is ninety miles from San Diego, eighteen from Laguna, eighteen from Long Beach, fourteen from Anaheim Landing, seven from Anaheim, seven from Westminster, four from Las Bolsas, nine from Newport Landing (which is its seaport), five from Garden Grove, three fromn Orange, and two miles due west from Tustin City.


Thus, it will readily be perceived, Santa Ana has superior advantages, both for residence and business purposes, from its situation with regard to the foregoing cities and towns, and from its excellent railroad facilities.


The climate of the valley is inviting. Lying about ten miles from the coast, it has a more equable temperature and a drier atmosphere than points immediately on the seaboard, while the breeze from the Pacific prevents sultriness. The mercury rarely reaches 90° in the shade dur- ing the heated season, and very rarely falls to within 10° of the freezing point.


Santa Ana is now the county-seat of Orange County, with a population of some 5,000. The assessed valuation of city property for 1889 was $2,561,275. During the past year, there have been erected two business blocks costing $35,- 000 and $45,000, one $20,000 residence, over a dozen dwellings ranging from $2,500 to $5,- 000, and a great number costing from $500 to $1,000.


The city is well lighted, having both gas and electricity systems.


There is a street railway system of abont six miles, and it also connects the city with Orange and Tustin. The Orange and Santa Ana line again connects with the Orange and El Modena system, thus giving Santa Ana a continuons line of about twelve miles of street railway.


There is a local telephone exchange, besides


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communication with Los Angeles and other neigboring points.


Almost every line of business is well repre- sented at Santa Ana. The merchants carry good stocks, and sell at reasonable figures. The following is a list of the business houses oper- ating in the city at the beginning of 1890: Six dry-goods shops, twelve grocery stores, two men's furnishing-goods houses, six hardware stores, five livery stables, four millinery stores: two feed and grain shops, one steain roller flouring-mill, three hotels, three restaurants, two confectioneries, five drug stores, one bazaar, eight saloons, five harness shops, two photo- graph galleries, two merchant tailor shops, four job printing houses, six newspapers (four week- lies and two dailies), four cigar stands, two news depots, one cigar factory, one hairdresser, two musical instrument depots, one paint and oil store, four bakeries, three shoe shops, nine real- estate offices, three dental parlors, two packing houses, four butcher shops, three clothing stores, two gun stores, two undertaking parlors, three banks, two abstract companies, three jewelry stores, one fruit and seed store, one hardware and grocery store, one general merchandise store, six blacksmith shops, one machine shop, six lodging honses, one tin store, one oil and gas- oline store, two second-hand furniture stores, two sewing-machine offices, one marble works, one employment office, two lumber yards, one gas works, one Thompson & Houston electric light works, three carpenter shops, four carriage repositories, three furniture stores.


The oldest bank in Santa Ana is the Com- mercial Bank, incorporated in April, 1882. Its capital is $100,000, and its surplus $35,000. D. Halladay is the president and Will K. James, cashier. This house transacts a general bank- ing business with foreign and domestic ex- change and collections.


The First National Bank was organized in May, 1886; it has a paid-in capital of $150,000. Its president is William H. Spurgeon, and its cashier, M. M. Crookshank.


The bank of the Orange County Savings,


Loan and Trust Company, has a capital stock of $100,000. Its president is Carey R. Smith, and its cashier C. F. Mansur.


Santa Ana Lodge, No. 124, F. & A. M., was organized October 1, 1875.


Santa Ana Lodge, No. 236. I. O. O. F., was organized October 30, 1875.


Santa Ana Lodge, 151, I. O. G. T., was or- ganized January 19, 1878.


Santa Ana Lodge, No. 82, A. O. U. W., was organized February 27, 1879.


These were the pioneers of the fraternal or- ganizations, which are now represented by:


Santa Ana Lodge, No. 124, F. & A. M .; Santa Ana Lodge, No. 236, I. O. O. F .; Laurel Camp, No. 87, I. O. O. F .; Rebekah Degree, I. O. O. F .; Santa Ana Lodge, No. 82, A. O. U. W .; Santa Ana Lodge, No. 151, I. O G. T .; Women's Relief Corps, No. 17; Santa Ana Lodge, No. 149, Knights of Pythias; Order of Chosen Friends, Hesperian Council; Sons of Veterans, McDowell Camp No. 2 .; Carpenters' Union, No. 282; Ladies' Benevolent Society of Santa Ana; Y. M. C. A .; W. C. T. U .; Y. W. C. T. U .; G. A. R., Sedgwick Post, No. 17.


The Methodist Church South was organized at Santa Ana, at the residence of W. H. Tiche- nal, December, 1869. A church edifice was erected in 1876, and consecrated in October of that year. It cost $2,000.


The Baptist Church was organized March, 1871. The church edifice costing $4,000, was dedicated September, 1878.


The Methodist Episcopal Church was organ- ized in 1874.


The United Presbyterian Church was organ- ized June 22, 1876. Its edifice was built August, 1877. It cost $2,800.


Such were the pioneer churches. It may fairly be said that Santa Ana is now a city of schools and churches. Almost every religious denomination is represented, and most of them own their own edifices.


At present there are in Santa Ana church edifices of ownership and valuation, so far as can be learned from the assessment lists, as fol-


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lows: United Presbyterian, $3,000; Presby- terian, $5,000; Baptist, $5,000; Methodist Episcopal, $3,500; Methodist Episcopal South, $4,000; Adventist, $3,500; German Lutheran, $3,000; Episcopal, $6,000; Roman Catholic, $3,000; Christian, $6,000. The Congregation- alists have no building.


Santa Ana has five newspapers: the Blade, daily and weekly; the Free Press, daily and weekly; the Standard, weekly; the Herald, weekly, and the Pilot, a Prohibitionist organ, weekly.


GEORGE RIDGELEY BROADBERE, editor of the Santa Ana Free Press, was born in New York city and educated at Cambridge University, En- gland. He began the newspaper business as war correspondent while serving in the naval brigade in the Zulu war in Africa, and while there he was severely wounded. In China he did war correspondence for the London Daily News. Returning to America, he was employed on the New Orleans Picayune as reporter and traveling correspondent in Louisiana and Texas; next he was a traveling agent and correspondent for the States of the great southwest for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat; then he was on the local force of the Kansas City Times, and then going to Lawrence, Kansas, he took charge of the local pages of the Kansas Daily Tribune. In 1881 he established the Mirror at Tonga- woxie, Kansas, but losing his health he was compelled to seek the high altitudes of New Mexico, where he was for some time city editor of the Albuquerque Journal; thence he came to Los Angeles and worked on the Times and the Express. As soon as it was settled beyond dispute that Orange County was to be organ- ized, he established the Free Press at Santa Ana, the county seat, with Lester Osborn as business manager. He recently bought out Mr. Osborn and organized a stock company under the name and title of the Free Press Publish- ing Company, with Dr. R. F. Burgess as treasurer. The paper, both daily ard weekly, is published in the Opera House block, corner of Fourth and Bush streets. Having had an


experience of sixteen years in journalism, Mr. Broadbere understands thoroughly what is nec- essary to conduct a newspaper successfully.


He was married in Kansas, in 1880, to Miss Margaret J. Sappenfield, and their children are George Ridgley, Jr., Martin Ashley and Mar- garet Case.


The Blade was originally started as the Pacific Weekly Blade, at Santa Ana, then a small town in Los Angeles County, in Sep- tember, 1886, by A. J. Waterhouse and W. F. X. Parker, both of whom had migrated from Dakota. The paper was started as a Repub- lican journal, and as Mr. Waterhouse proved to be a man of more than ordinary ability the Blade forged ahead rapidly, and soon became the leading paper of the sontheastern portion of Los Angeles County. In a few months Mr. Parker retired from the firm, and Mr. Water- honse continued as sole manager until January, 1888, when he failed. The coming of the " boom " had encouraged him to start a daily, called the Morning Blade, leading him into other extravagances because of the flattering patronage extended to the daily and the rapid growth of the country. A suspension of the weekly followed, but an association of printers, with Joseph E. Tillotson as manager, carried the daily on as an evening paper, and kept it alive till June, 1889, when the material was sold at anction by the assignee, and was purchased by Victor Montgomery, a leading lawyer of Santa Ana, then the county seat of Orange, a new county formed out of Los Angeles County, and he was assisted by other leading citizens in the purchase of other mortgages resting on the inaterial. The paper was then changed from an evening to a morning paper, and shortly after- ward the Weekly Blade was resurrected, the whole being under the immediate management of W. R. McIntosh. On March 6, 1890, the Blade Publishing Company was incorporated, with a capital stock of $25,000, and was organ- ized with a board of directors composed of three Republicans and three Democrats, the policy of the paper to be independent in politics, and


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as purely local as it is possible to make it. Jolin Beatty, Jr., a leading merchant of Santa Ana, is the president of the board, Judge C. W. Humphreys, treasurer, and II. A. Peabody, a practical newspaper man, the secretary and manager. The Morning Blade and the Weekly Blade are recognized as the leading papers of the county, and both have constantly increasing circulation and advertising patronage.


HENRY A. PEABODY, Inanager of the Santa Ana Blade, was born in Detroit, Michigan, March 19, 1837; in 1847 he was a newsboy in Cincinnati, Ohio; in March, 1857, as a jour- neyman printer. He started from Columbia, Missouri, for California, crossing the plains, and arriving at Colusa, California, September 1, 1857, barefooted and without a coat to his back. There he hired himself out to drive an ox team, three yoke, to Petalnina, California, earning his first money in the State. About September 20 he took work in the Democrat office at Santa Rosa, California, and from that time followed his trade at Santa Rosa and in San Francisco till June, 1859, when he returned East with the intention of completing his education and study- ing law. The war of 1861 broke into his pre- conceived plan, and he entered the Confederate service, filling the positions of private, ordnance sergeant, drill-inaster, sergeant major, lieutenant and adjutant, and captain, passing through the war, receiving bnt two wounds in the four years. At the close of the war he returned to Califor- nia penniless, and since then has steadily fol- lowed the business of printing, during that time being foreman of the Sonora Democrat, Vallejo Daily Independent, Tulare Times, and the State printing office, and associate proprietor of the Sonoma Democrat, proprietor of the Men- docino Democrat, and now, in 1890, he is a member of the Blade Publishing Company and manager of the Morning and Weekly Blade, published at Santa Ana, Orange County, California. He has a wife, two daughters and two sons, and hopes to live twenty or thirty years longer in the service of his country.


There are in Santa Ana three fair hotels, one of which cost $65,000.


The domestic water supply is, so far as re- gards the central position of the city, derived from Spurgeon's artesian well, which supplies daily about 50,000 gallons, forced by a steam pump into tanks, whence it is piped to about 100 subscribers. The rest of the city is sup- plied from surface water, which is to be reached by wells ten to twenty feet deep, although they mostly penetrate to the second stratum, fifty to sixty feet deep.


The city is expected to issue bonds for $50,- 000 for water-works at the next election.


The irrigating supply comes from the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company.


The municipal government of Santa Ana is in the hands of the following officials: Trustees, John Avas, President, J. R. Congdon, A. Good- win, C. E. Gronard, M. D. Halladay; Z. B. West, City Attorney; E. Tedford, Clerk; Gec. T. Insley, City Marshal; Geo. E. Freeman, City Recorder; D. T. Brack, Assessor; Board of Ed- ucation-Victor Montgomery, President; I. G. Marks, J. A. Buckingham, I. Chandler, D. W. Swanner.


The postoffice of Santa Ana is of the second- class, the postage receipts for 1889 being about $7,400. Eight mails are received here daily. The office employs three assistants and Walter B. Tedford, Postinaster.


Following is a report of the freight shipped from Santa Ana during the first six months of 1887:


POUNDS.


POUNDS.


Oranges


5,000,000


Cheese.


3,300


Lemons


75,000


Peanuts


12,000


Limes.


28,000


Apples.


900


Poultry.


45,000


Tallow


10,000


Raisins.


475,000


Hides ani Pelts. .


1,600


Wool ..


475,000


Pop-corn


1,100


Honey


105,000


Butter


1,700


Eggs.


150,000


Walnuts


1,000


Nursery Stock.


125,000


Lambs


52,000


Beans


3,000


Hogs.


320,000


Corn ..


475,000


Cattle.


2,200,000


Potatoes


40,000


General merchan-


Oats ..


25,000


dise.


475,000


Apricots .


3,000


Other shipments.


375,000


Grape Cuttings ..


3,200


Total ..


10,480,800


The following are the exports through the


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Southern Pacific warehouse at Santa Ana, for the first eleven months of 1889:


POUNDS.


POUNDS.


Oranges.


790,000


Grain.


450,000


Lemons.


63,000


Corn.


321,000


Miscellaneous ...


695,000


Hides ..


47,500


General merchan-


Lumber.


168,000


dise


1,939,220


Walnuts.


3,820


Green fruit


211,000


Cabbages.


279,000


Eggs


4,280


Live-slock


125,000


Honey


3,060


Potatoes


226,000


Wine ..


42,000


Peanuts


5,000


Total. 5,373,080


The exports of the Santa Fé are not obtain- able, but it is fair to estimate that they would equal those of the Southern Pacific.


The exports via McFadden's Landing over the steamship company's line, as furnished by the Santa Ana office, sums up a total of 1,180,- 400 pounds, about all of which consisted of corn, harley, peanuts and wool.


By Wells, Fargo & Co's. express were ship- ped from the Santa Ana office during the month of November, 1889, the following articles of produce: eggs, 3,470; live poultry, 9,762; fish, 8,580; game, 540, and butter, 1,400 pounds; a total of 23,752 pounds, not including miscel- laneons shipments of merchandise.


ANAHEIM


ranks as the oldest colony in California. In the year 1857, several German residents of San Francisco discussed among themselves a project whose result was the purchase by fifty persons of a tract of 1,165 acres of land, lying some twenty-eight miles southeast of Los Angeles, for which they paid $2 per acre, including sufficient water privilege to insure ample irrigation. Mr. George Hansen, of Los Angeles, was the leader in this enterprise, he choosing and buying the land, and laying it ont. There were fifty farm lots, of twenty acres each, and fifty house-lots, with fourteen ad- ditional village lots, reserved for school-houses and other necessary public buildings. The members of the company remained in San Francisco, pursuing their respective avocations, while the manager improved the colony's land by means of hired labor. A main ditch was


dug, about seven miles long, to convey over the whole area the irrigating water; and also there were 450 miles of minor ditches, and twenty- five miles of feeders. On each twenty-acre lot were planted to vines eight acres, 1,000 to the acre, and some fruit trees. Each lot was fenced with willows, making five and one-quarter miles of outside, and thirty-five miles of inside, fencing.


At the end of three years all the lots had been carefully cultivated, pruned and kept np: all the assessments were paid, each stockholder having expended $1,200. A division was now made of the lots, also of a cash balance on hand, sufficient to give over $100 to each shareholder. Each member of the company had now acquired at a cost of about $1,080, a farm lot of twenty aeres, with some fruit trees, and 8,000 hearing vines, and also a town lot 200 x 150 feet. Now came down from San Francisco, most of the members of the Los Angeles Vineyard Society, to take possession of conveniences, se- cured by intelligent management and co-opera- ation, for which, had they acted singly, they must have expended far greater sums and waited long, moreover. These men were mostly inechanics; there was not a farmer among them; yet, owing to the system and thorongh- ness of the arrangements, the following propo- sitions in 1872, were truthfully made concern- ing them:


"[1.] There was a struggle for some years, but every one had abundance to eat, a good school for his children, music and pleasant social amusements, and each was his own master.


"[2.] Only one of the original settlers has moved away, and the sheriff has never issued an execution in Anaheim.


"[3.] The property, which cost $1,080, is now worth from $5,000 to $10,000.


" [4.] There are no poor in Anaheim."


In 1860 the Vineyard Society sold ont to the Anaheim Water Company; the same share- holders formed the second company, and in effect only the name was changed.


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Anaheim was incorporated as a city and duly chartered February 10, 1870, but this charter was revoked March 7, 1872, owing to a mis- understanding among the officials.


An act of the Legislature, approved March 18, 1878, granted a town organization and again incorporated Anaheim.


For many years the chief industry of Ana- heim was wine-growing. Some idea of the extent of this manufacture may be liad from the statement that one winery turned out in one year 187,000 gallons of wine, and 15,000 gal- lons of brandy, while there were some twenty or thirty other vineyards producing many thousands of gallons each, yearly. Within the last few years this industry has been almost paralyzed by the vine disease, which has almost destroyed the vineyards. The railways report that forty or fifty car-loads of wine are still sent out annually; but this is old wine, that is to say, wine stored from former harvests. It is con- sidered, however, that the vine disease has spent its force, and a portion of the vineyards are being replanted, while others are being set to oranges and walnuts. It is estimated that some 4,000 acres will be planted to trees of these two sorts in 1890.


The orange crop here is already considerable. the output in 1888-'89 having been some 100 car-loads, and the export for 1889-'90 is expected to reach 150 car-loads, from which the growers will realize $75,000 to $100,000.


Other products of this section are hay, grain, all kinds of deciduous fruits, potatoes, petroleum, brea (crude asphaltumn), honey, wool, walnuts, corn, dried fruit, fresh and cured meats, poultry, bntter and eggs, nursery stock, cattle and hogs, cooperage, pampas plnmes, and ostrich feathers. These swell the freight tonnage of produce and merchandise to about 2,000 000 pounds monthly, and bring money into the town and the district. The wool export goes out mostly from Fuller- ton, the winter clip amounting to about twenty car-loads. A new industry has been growing of late, in the shipment of sheep on the hoof to Kansas City and Chicago markets. Up to the


close of May, 1890, thirty-two car-loads of live sheep had gone East, and enough orders were in hand to complete 100 car-loads.


The ostrich farm was established in what is known as Centralia district, six miles west of Anaheim, the farm being stocked with twenty- two ostriches imported direct from South Africa. The youth of the birds militated against the success of the enterprise at first, but that fault became corrected with the lapse of time, and when the eggs proved fertile the success of the undertaking hecamne assured. The constant de- inand for ostrich feathers exceeding the supply and the high grade of the yield insured here by the unfailing supply of appropriate food, and by the suitable surroundings, bid fair to render this a most important and profitable industry.


The present population of Anaheim is about 1,300. Notwithstanding the year just passed has been the dullest known in Southern Cali- fornia for many years in business and real-estate transactions, Anaheim has shown more marked progress than during any other one year of her history. There has been built: A two-story brick export brewery, cost, $12,000; a three- story brick academy, cost, 20,000; two two- story brick blocks, costing 88,000 and $7,000 respectively; a one-story brick block, cost $4,- 000; the Methodist Church, cost $4,000; the West Anaheim school-house, cost $7,000; a packing house, cost $1,200; nine frame business houses, aggregate cost $6,000; and twenty-two residents of various cost, aggregating $30,000.


Anaheim has a popular and progressive set of officials. The town has a good systemn of sidewalks, and entensive water-works; it has lately organized Wright irrigating district with bonds of $50,000; it has a good opera house that cost $16,000; a Roman Catholic Sisters' College-St. Catherine's, costing $20,000; one public school building that cost $12,000, and another, $7,000, the two accommodating 400 pupils and occupying ten teachers; also a bank with over $100,000 regular deposits. There are in the city some eighty business houses, representing almost every branch of trade, and




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