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5 160
210
Fair Oaks,
J. F. Crank.
1,300
1.300
200
1,525
900
10
900
1,200
..
2
50
30
20
100
50
100
117
71
185
10
500
500
500
100
60
3,500, 1,500
5,000
100
5,100
10
375
375
750
50
10
600
600;
100
10
710
170
174
249
E. C. Glidden
20
1,200
1,200
....
150
100
85
1,985
J. M. Griffith.
5
300
1,850
1,400
50
150
1,550
140
64
Marengo Ranch
F. P. Bacon
5
300
4
200
10
600
5
300
10
600
Harbart
2
120
1201.
120
Rodgers
10
600
pr. Hayden
5
360
360 ..
50
1,0001
1,350
10
12
10
114
N. Aspland.
21+
400
120
250
820
300
250
1,150
1.8
154
2.174
w. S. Chapman
40
1,200 ***
1,000
3,000
500
100
3,000
11M
15
412
$12
A. B. Chapman
500
10
60
50
1,850
60
75
Kummer IJil
J. C. Davis.
10
800
100.
61H)
+
1
...
tion
100
....
6
00
100
600
20
0
5
300
50
24
135
1261
25
160)
50)
[H. P.I
TI. D. McDonald
.....
210
100
50
360
50
10
10
370
650
10
600
900
40
140
20
1,3+0
1.360
1,350
I
10
20
10
40
10
3410
10
0
Dr. Edwards
6
000 .
Mutual Orchard Co ..
...
Mutual Orchard Co ..
210
13,650
13,650
13,4: 0
360
25,000 . . . .
20,0001
26,000
10
5,000
6,000
5,000
-
2,206 3,000 04 :15|27,409 21,800 17,429 134,262 29,734 11,85. 0,141, 156.27: 28,401 9,019
.R. D. Wilson & Co., J. De Barth shorh, E. S. Hereford and Mrs. B. D. Wiison, shipped by J. De laith Shorb. tof San Francisco, 1100 lunes included in J. D. H. Shorb. Nork. - Shipments of boxes oranges, lemons and himes, in the uhove table, taken from freight forwarding book of San Gabriel Station. The number of acres, age of trees, number and kind of each, taken personally from the owners. Any one destring information can communicate with any of the above named parties.
1 "This Is an estimate, as the inners' Agures could not be obtained, although promised. Think it is very low average.
DESTINATION OF SHIPMENTS. ALSO MONTHS OF THE YEAR IN WHICH ORANGES ARE MARKETABLE.
1870.
Sun Fran-
Sacramento.
Santa Barbara,
Chicago.
Nevada.
Salt Lake.
Oakland.
Goshen
Arlauna.
Tutal Hate# i Forwarded
Nold at Orchard
Total
Months,
January
2,101
251
45
February
3,384
293
March ...
6,875
1,00;
21
..
308
1-
May
6.745
2,187
June
3,504
2,00,
19
July
262
703
17
02
15
1,371
August
141
Total
28.0%
8,537
10.
310
264
2,770
793
192
41,25.2)
2,61
The above from freight forwarding book, San Gabriel station.
TABLE SHOWING INCREASE OF ORANGE, LEMON AND LIME TREES. ALSO, BOXES SHIPPED SINCE REPORT OF 1877.'
Total AcTos.
1 3 Year.
5 Years. | 7 Years, 9 Years. 11 & Cher
Orange Trees Total.
Trees Bearing.
Total Lemor Trecs.
Lime Trees
No. Trece.
NU.
& Lima,
1,100.
2. 2015
3,4MMI
64,415
27.400 16, 51
15,50
5,342
71,793
5,852
10,5*1
8, BUT
14.305
2.3-4,160
47.563.32
1,50)
2.290
25,530
- 10,64%
5,750
62,49
1,079
5,544
68,502
0,541
434
0.5.5,54
₾44.414.24
!The report for 1577 was published by the Los Angeles Herald. September 95, 18.7. *. "For the past two years most of the trees taken from Nursery have bech five instead of three years, which accounts for more in 1877 than 14,9. The price, $10, per 1,000, for 1879, was not the result of large erop, but the extreme cold fall of 15:5, which prevented the fruit from attaining usual alze. The crop of 1980, nearly ready for market, has been pold for $22,50 per 1,000, delivered at this station.
ORANGE YIELD AND VALUATION PER ACRE FOR 1879
Av No. boxes to 1000 | Av No. Oranges to Omages & Lemons. cach Hux. 4.76 210
Tutal No. Buses 10,932
Tutal No. Oranges
Average price per 1000
Total Value of
Total Bearing Trecy
Average No. Trees Total Act . In Trece PET ArTe. BearınıK.
Acre.
5,574.720
$10.00
₹5,857.20
20,734
410
THE COST OF TEN ACRES OF LAND, AND WATER GUARANTEED FOR AN ORANGE ORCHARD TO THE TIME OF BEARING
Expense per Year Total Expenses for 5
الحار+T
Number
Average No.| Tutal No.
Price per Acre.
For 10 Acres.
Cost of Five Year-old Trees from Nursery.
Na Trees per Acre.
No. Trees for 10 Acres.
Cost of Trecs fur 10 Acres.
Capital invested at Start.
for Cultivating
Years, when Treen
Amount
Trccs
Bearing at
End of 5
10 Years
the First
the 10 Acrem.
$,50,00| 50 centa.
70
$350.00
$1. 10.00
$1.500.()
of Age.
Oranges per Tree.
140,/* * )
$10.0
¥1.401.00
GENERAL REMARKS, -All the varieties of oranges and lemons that have attained notoriety as to flavor, etc., in other orange countries, are being successfully rateed here in addition to the welling oranges so noted for their keeping qualities H. V. SLOSSON, Agent, S. P. R. R.
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HISTORY OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY. CALIFORNIA.
No. Boxes
Number
105
4,975
1,200| 1,575
7,750
2,775
7,750
-
13. 11. Wilson & Co.
J. DeBarth Shorb.
20
1.100
1,100
1,100
300
400
1,800
350
248
14
262
25
287
Sunny Slope.
Volney E. Howard
65
W. H. Winston
275 3,000
2,000
5,000
5001
10,500
51'0
3,000
1,200
14,700
518
50
14
591
591
200
E. J. Bakiwin
1.800
651
367
1,024
50
1,074
J. R. Dobbins
20
300
300
100
15
65
100
80
100
250
10
260
50
310
10
J. Heslop.
20
1,400
1,500
100.
800
300
3,000
180
33
261
380
70
450
Sierra Madre Villa.
W. Cogswell.
Old Mission Orchard
1,2GU
30.
310
100
410
1,174
.... .
840
6
200
W. H. Stevens
10
120
650
15
...
25
1,200
200'
...
20
... .
900
10
1,200
50
50
E. W. Tallant.
FI. Hamilton ... .
Lazard Freres & Co. t.
J. C. Wallace
H. P. Barrowa
15
100
1,000
300
50
300
...
150
50
260
E. S. Hereford;
600
C. Pollard
300
300
Rev. Schelling
Marshall
5
300
11. Johnston.
5,00
500 .
500
.. .
..
100
1201
60
300
50
3.000
3001
3,300
2.1741
2.178
20
Gen. C. Gibba.
25
1,000
600
1,600
Ira Felt
1
25
25
c. T. Adams
C. T. Wilson
70
70
.0
. ....
200
R. J Bailey
O. H. Stone ..
K. Messenger.
2
40
300
300
C. P Brown.
S. M. Halstend
10
600:
50
F E. Gmay
1'. Kewen
1. C. Anderson ..
D. F. Fall
5
230
300
611
113
47
1.219
April
340
325
21
7.1017
. .
Present Report for 1-70 Post Report for IST .. Total.
Age of Trees No. Each.
1kg%, Leny Value per
Total Value.
21,00 €)
17,429
134,259'
$3.734
11.545
9,141
165.27^
13,50
210
9.200,100
Low Valo- ation per
at 10 Years uj
10 Acres ; Setting will be 10 Years old, Expended at
Axe, First Year Hearing for
out Orchard in- eluded.
and First Year Ikaring.
250
800
4,120
698
698
77
775
S. Richardson
30
N. Tuch.
09
8110
200
200
...
500
380
1,174
A. C. Weeks
120
...
10
N. C. Carter
A Bridgen
Dr. Kellogg.
1,200
Knight Place
Jind, l'age
300
600
9
WilliamH. ..
II. MeGregory.
Chilton.
60
1,500
500
500
29
(sn
..
8. Mosley
(. B. Adonis.
76
360 !.
09
J. Jarchow
101
15
000'.
10
31
Total
Total
Total
Average
Total No. | Market
-
Angeles,
12
1
3.753
26
7.636
6
l'aul Felt
Pasadena, In San Gabriel Valleyt" Duarte, In San Gabriel Valleyte
305 41,5M3 2,471. 43,866
Total
Acres in Ore'd.
Total.
and
Trecs.
Number
Past Season.
Lemons
Limes
Rec'd San
... . ..
Lake Vineyard.
Dewdrop. . ..
James Foord
Mrs. Cooper.
800
100
336
1.400
1,200
S. K. Sewall
1,50€
920
1,200
60
97
1.100
300|
c. Lord
50
300
360
50
1,000
10
250
600
0
-
39.1851
1,962
9.642
412
¡Value received
31
70' 4,000
Market Brand.
VINEYARDS OF SAN GABRIEL VALLEY.
TABLE SHOWING MARKET BRAND, OWNERS, AND TOTAL AMOUNT OF WINE OR BRANDY THAT COULD BE MADE DURING THE YEAR 1879.
Name of Vineyard.
Owners.
Number of
Number Vines
Total Number Vines.
Average Pounds per Vinc.
Total Pounds.
Pounds per Gallon Wine
Total Gallons Wine.
Total Pounds Grapes.
Pounds to Gallon Brandy.
Total Gallons Brandy.
Sunny Slope
E. J. Baldwin ..
200
1,000
200,000
3
(1007,000
15
40,000
Take Vineyard and Mound Vineyard . J. De Bath Shoth and Wilson.
1,000
300.000
5
1,500,000
15
100,000
1,500,000
45
38.3333
Gen. Stoneman
140
1,000
140,000
3
180,000
15
12,000
180.tHM3
4.5
4,0%0)
60
1,000
60,000
3
180,000
15
12.000
150,000
45
5
2.000
Dewdrop ..
30
1,000
30,000
3
3
150,000
15
150,000
E. J. C. Kcwen
30
1,000
30,000
3
90.000
15
6,000
00.000
15
Nierra Madre Villa
30:
1,000
50,00
3
150,000
15
10.(MM)
150,1244
45
H. D. MeDonald
20
1,000
20,000
3
001,000
15
1,000
80,000
4.7
1,3331
V. E. Howard
25
1,000
25,000
7.,000
5,000
+5,000
1,0667
S. Richardson.
5 -
Jna, Foord
23
1,000
23,000
3
60,000
15
4,600
J. Jnrchow.
J. M. Griffith
1
c. T. Adamny
1
15
1,000
15,000
Not Sold.
C. T. Wilson
3f
1
w. H. Stephen-,
2
1,773
1,000
1,773,000
5,6,4,00
15
3.1.000
5,874.000
45
130,3333
Owners of ahove vineyards gave the number of acres.
REMARKS. - Half crop for 1879, and 630 acres. New vineyards included in total number of acres, 1,773, account for the average pounds per vin-, being about Sis each. Vineyards six years ohl and over will average per vine of all variety of grapes, bils.
TABLE SHOWING ACTUAL AMOUNT MADE OF WINE AND BRANDY FROM VINEYARDS OF SAN GABRIEL AND OTHER PLACES, MANUFACTURED AT SAN OABRIEL.
Owners.
Names of Vineyards.
Total Pounds Grapes.
Propor- tion for Wine. 3-5
Total Pounds Ifor Wine.
Poun 's per Gallon of Wine.
Total Gallons.
Total No. Pines ; 150 Gallons rach
Propor tion fur Brandy.
Brandy.
Brandy
40 Gala en
Ta. J. Have
Following Vineyards sold to L. J. Rtose
Sunny Slope
J. F. Crank.
Fair Oaks.
Wm. Allen
Sphinx.
A. Bridgen.
Ta. 11. Titus
Dewdrop ..
Bacon & Co.
Marengo ..
E. J. C. Kewon.
El Molino. . .
W. Cornwell.
Sierra Madre Villa
1,614,000
M. J. Wicks
I. D. MrDonald.
V. E. Howard
8. Aspland
N. Richardson
Jas. Fourd
J. Jarchow
Vineyards outside San Gabriel Mission solt to Sunny Slope
Total made by L. J. Rose
Sunny Slope.
5,674,000
3-5
3,404,400
15
226,960 87,500
1,513 1-15 553 1-3
1-8
2,269,600 187,500 150,00M
50,435 6 0 4.177 7-9
101 4 1
J. De Bath Shorb and Wilson.
Lane Vineyard & Mound Vincy'd
1,500,000
1-8
1,312,60)
15
Total Cost per
Tutul
Total Cost of Crop | Average Market Value per Gallon on
Total Value uf
100 Pounds.
Gallon.
Gallon.
$1.İKI
15
15 ets.
5 ects.
7 cts.
27 cts.
3-4,400
$103,804.20
50 cts.
$192,230.0H1
REMANKA .-- Every year added to its age adds to its value 25.6.
COST AND MARKET VALUE OF BRANDY MADE IN 1879.
Average Cost of | Number Pounds
Grapes per
per
Cost of Grapes per
¡Labor, Distilling .! etc., per Gullon.
Government Tax per Gallon
Cost of Barrels per Gallon.
Gallon in Packages.
Total Number of Gallons.
Total l'est of Brandy Made.
Market Value per Callon
To nl Market Value of
100 Pounds,
Gallon.
Gallon
$1.00
45
45 cts.
5 cts.
90 cts.
10 cts.
81.50
57,9404
886.020,00
82.25
8130,3%0
REMARKS. - Every year added to its ago increases in value 25%.
VALUE OF LAND PER ACRE FOR GRAPES TO SELL TO DISTILLERIES.
No. of Aeres.
No, of Vines per Acre.
Yield in Pounds per Vine.
Total Pounds per Acre.
Price per Pound.
Total Value per Acre.
1
1,000)
5
5,000
1 cent.
8500,00
This Table will Answer the many Questions Asked as to what the Soil of San Gabriel Valley will Produce, and Productions of Each. Besides Oranges and Vine- yards. for which San Gabriel Valley is Noted.
Yield sur ks per Acre 2
Aeres Wheat.
Acres Corn.
Acres Rye.
Acres Oats.
Yield Sacks per Acre
Acres Grain Raised
Yield Tons per Acre.
Acres Flax.
Yield Los, per Acre. 100
Yield Sacks per Acre.
Acres Tobacco.
Yi-ld Lba. per Acre 1000|
Yield Lbs. per Arre. 600,
Total No, produed 10,000
Acres Strawberries
Total Lbs, produrd 2,500;
Total No. Olive Trees.
Yield Lbs per Tree.
Total Apple Trees.
Yield BushIs per Tree "
Total Pench and
Field Bushis por Tree ~
Tutal English Walnuts
Yield Lbs. per Tree,
Total Pomegranate
Yield Lbs, per Tree
Total Almond Trees.
Yield Lbs. per Tr. C.
Total Fig Trees.
Yield Lbs. per Tree.
Acres Alfalfa.
Four Tons to Acre.
Actes Potutoes.
Yield Sacks per Acre.
COST OF PRODUCING SMALL GRAIN AND CORN, VALUE OF PRODUCTION AND TOTAL ACREAGE.
Cost of Producing Small Grain.
Cost Producing Corn.
and Total Acreage.
- -
Avrey Reaped.
K nd.
Number Sarks.
Market Value per Sack.
Total Value.
Seeding and Harvesting.
.18 cents; Seeding and Cultivation
19 cent:
8,000
Barley
.70
867,200
Sack and Sacking
.12
Shelling.
5
3,000
Com.
00,000
.90
54,000
Per 100 Lbs, or Sack ..
- .44 cents
Per 100 Lbs, or Suck
.39 cents
500
Oats.
6,000
1.00
8147,150
A great portion of the gruin crop is shipped from Savanna and Monte stations.
RECAPITULATION.
Total Tonnage Produced for 1879.
Total, Market Valnation of Produce for 1879.
43,856 Boxes Oruten and Lemons, 70 pounds per box, total pounds 3-4,400 Gallone Wine in Packages, 10 pounds per gallon.'
07,048
Brandy
=
.. sack
247,160.00
Total
24,906,980 Tutal
. 3501,857.60
HISTORY OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.
COST AND MARKET VALUE OF WINE MADE IN 1879.
Average cost of Grapes per
Number Pounds
per
Cost of Grapes per
Labor, Distilling, etc., per Gallon.
Cost for Finns TICT Gallon.
Gallon.
Callons.
or Wine made.
all kinds Wine.
Wine made.
F. JJ. Ballwin,
Santa Anita,
8 4
450,000
15
Gen, Stoneman.
Los Robles
All.
600,4MM
15
40,CH H)
266 2-3
Tutal
8,374 000
0,766,9000
15
384,400
2,563 1-15
2,607,100
15
57,940 2 3
1,448 2-3
3
1,530,000
10%, *** )
1,630,txm)
45
34.(m)
T. J. Rost ....
510
1,000
510,410
Santa Anita.
000,000
45
13.3334
1.000
200,000
3
3
420,000
25
38,000
420.000
15
9,3334
Sphinx.
A. Bringen
30
1,000
30,000
50,000
15
6,000
15
2.000
Bacon & Co.
.50
1,000
50,000
3
90.000
15
45
Mrs. Cooper
M. J. Wicks
8. Aspland.
1
H. McGregory
:
Totals
Acres.
per Acre.
Sacks.
Pounds.
Pounds.
Pounds.
Pounds. | Bushels. Bushels. 5,000-
5,000.
2,000
40,000
18,000
15,000
2,000
16,000
25,000
340
12,000
60,000
Number 10,000
25
1,000: 5
5,000 1 4,(K)) }
1,Seo 25
4,0%) 10: 1,200 15
300 50
1,000|15
Totals. 30,000sks
Sacks, 12,000
Sacks. 80,000
Socks. 50
Sacks 6,000
Tons.
Pounds.
Pounds. Pounds. Pounds.
Tone.
Sacky.
Threshing ...
11
Sack and Sacking
.12
Wheat.
12,000
1.60
10,200
Handling
3
Handling
75
Rye.
750
1.00
750
8,000 12
800 15
3,000 20
75:10
500 12
4.000 1}
250 ₴
20 15
12
Acres l'astor Beans
Acres Melons.
and Blackberries.
3,069,920 Oranges.
8 92,027.00
3,844,600 Winc
I£2,290.00
549,460 Brandy
17,475,000 Grain
130,380,00
174.700 Hocke all kinds Grain
Yield Sacks per Acre
Yld Saes Sol'd pr Acre &
Yield Sacks per Acre
Trees.
Pounds. 15,000
Total
Pounds pr Pour ds for | Gallon of Brandy.
Total Gallons
"Total
Barrols of
Sunny Slupe
1,530,{}H)
1,000
I+ II. Titus
Marengo
El Molino
W. Cogswell
Los Robles.
J. F. Crank ..
Fair Ouks
Wm. Allen
15
40,00
15
13.3334
Valne of Grain Productions at Low Market Rates
12,375
174,750
4.1
3,393 1-3
^3 1-3
. .
1,200 8 9
2-5
1-4
Number of
Total Cost per
Brandy Made,
Acres Barley.
1tHJ, 三
6,000
for Ilay.
Acres Rice Corn.
2,500,000
Mrs. Cooper
G. B. Alamy,
50)
30,000
2,500
Pear Trees.
15
132
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12
RESIDENCE &S FARM OF S. LYMAN, WESTMINSTER, LOS ANGELES C.9 CAL.
DUALISNIO OF THOMPSON & WOST.
133
HISTORY OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
EL MONTE TOWNSHIP.
Grant of La Puente to Rowland aml Workman-Erection of the Township -Its Original Limits-Present Ranches therein Contained-Early His- tory-Early Statistics-El Monte in 1866-Death of the Oldest Settler- Appreciation of Real Estate-Duarte Settlement-Industries of El Monte Township.
Ix the spring of 1842 Messrs. Jolin Rowland and Wmn. Workman, having first received permission from the priest at San Gabriel, made application to the Mexican Governor and obtained a grant of the Rancho La Puente .* Under Mexican law they might do this, having married Mexican wives, and having formally declared their intention of becoming Mexican citizens. At this time foreigners might own land in California, only provided it was situated a stipulated distance from the coast, say from twenty to twenty-five miles.
The township of El Monte was erected out of San Gabriel township by the Board of Supervisors August 8, 1853, and consisted originally of the following ranches: La Puente; Los Coyotes; Nietos, with all its lines and boundary; Cienega ; Mission Viega, with all its lines and boundary ; and San Fran- cisquito.
The township, as at present constituted, contains the follow- ing ranches :-
NAMES.
AMNES. 6,595 62-100. . Andreas Duarte.
Azusa (Duarte) Rancho Rancho Santa Anita .. 13,319 6-100. . 1Ienry Dalton. San Francisquitu 8.852 40-100. . Henry Dalton.
Potrero Grande
4.431 95-100. J. M. Sanchez.
La Merced (old Mission) 2,363 75-100. . F. P. F. Temple.
La Puente 48,790 55-100. . Julian Workman, et al.
Lugo
2,042 81-100. . M. & M. V. Ronero. 1
In the history of Los Angeles county this township has ever playel an important part. Thus we read in the "Historical Sketch," pages 58, 59 :-
The arrival of the emigrants in El Monte gave the first decided impulse to agriculture in this county, encouraged business in the city of Los Angeles, and ever since has aided it materially. This great farming tract lies along the San Gabriel river, twelve miles east of the city. The soil in general does not need irrigation. There is much of interest in its history. Suffice to say, society is as well organized as in any part of the United States. The settlers of 1831, July, were Ira W. Thompson, Samuel M. Heath, Dr. Obed Macy and son, Oscar Macy, now residing in this city, F. W. Gibson, Nicholns Smith, J. Coburn, J. Sheldou, - Chrisholm, and Mrs. John Roland, who now resides at Puente. Fifty odd families came in the year 1852, or early in 1853. We can mention hut a few belonging to these two years: J. A. Johnson, William B. Lee, samuel King and three sons tone of them Andrew J. King, Fag., of this city), Dr. T. A. Maves, S. Bennett, A. Bacon, W. J. Willis, Edmond Tyler and two sons. John Thurmnu and seven sons, David Lewis, Wm. Rubottom, Ezekiel Rubottom, Samuel Thompson, Charles Cunningham, John Guess ; Cudderhack. Boss, the Hildreths. Jonathan Tibbetts came November 27, 1853; in 1852, Thomas A. Garey, since become the great horticulturist of this county. Adjoining
El Monte, on the east, lies La Puente Rancho, of 48,790 acres, granted July 22, 1845, to John Roland and William Workman. * * * *
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Long after 1850 were to be seen the adobe ruins of the great grana- ries which the padres built in front of William Workman's dwelling, to store the grain harvested on the plain of La Puente. The original settlement exists, missing many whose kindness memory cherishes- Yharras, Alvarados, Martinez.
In 1852 the Rancho San Francisquito was owned by John O. Wheeler, who divilol the tract and offered it for sale in small farms. In October, 1856, we find the following statis- ties in the Assessor's report, indicating the then condition of the township :-
EL MONTE TOWNSHIP.
Beans 5 acres. Vines .. 1,500
Corn 1,638
Apple trees 70
Oats 60
Peach trees 400
Wheat. . . 171
Quince trees 52
Broom-corn =
Wagons, 53; mules, 42; oxen, 75; cows, tame, 386; horses, 157; mares, 55; hogs, 200.
In December of that year a broom factory was started at the town of El. Monte, which turned out fifty brooms a day.
During 1859 several artesian wells were sunk throughout the township, but without. result. In this year the village of El Monte boasted of three physicians.
July 4, 1860, we read that the patriotic citizens. of El Monte held a barbecue, and had a good time generally, while Los Angeles scarcely recognized the day.
June 22, 1866, we read in the News ;--
El Monte has a population of six hundred or seven hundred, princi- pally from the south-western States. Many of its citizens settled there as early as 1850. A great portion of the population are men, who have beeu attracted of late years by the extreme productiveness of the soil ju that locality, and the fact that crops do not require irrigation as in other portions of the State. The staple production is corn. Almost the entire lower country is supplied with bacon from that locality. The progress of the Monte, like many other settlements in this State, has been retarded hy the unsettled condition of the land titles.
The village of Lexington, which is in El Monte township, and is on the maju traveled road from Los Angeles to Salt Lake, coutains two or three stores, two groceries, a billiard saloon, blacksmith and wagon shop, livery stable, Masonic Hall, a hotel, a church, school-house, and Temperance Hall.
And again :-
JULY 3, 1866-Died, at his residence iu El Monte township, June 28, 1866, of cholera morhus, after an illness of four days, Col. Ira Thompson. He was a native of Orange county, Vermont; was horn in the year 1801, heing at his death sixty-five years old. He was one of the hardy pioneers of the West; settled in California in 1850, and located in El Monte township, where he has since resided, and at the time of his decease was the oldest American settler in that township. In the year 1853, mainly through the efforts of the deceased, a post office was established in El Monte township, and he was appointed postmaster by President Pierce, and held the position until his death.
NOVEMBER 19. 1867-The farmers of El Monte township cured and sold oue hundred thousand pounds of choice hacon during the past year, for which they received twenty two thousand dollars. This year the yield will well exceed that amount.
APRIL 5. 1869-Lanils in every portion of the county have increased in proportion to those of Los Angeles In the village of Lexington, iu the fertile district of El Monte, building lots are now selling at from five dollars to one hundred and forty-eight dollars, being an average of more than one hundred and fifty dollars per acre, for land that was considered worthless a few years ago.
MARCH 13, 1872-The sales of real estate have been very numerous lately. March 12th the Santa Anita Rancho amt some adjoining land was sold by lewis Wolfskill to Harris Newmark for the sum of eighty- five thousand dollars. The entire area sold embraces eight thousand one hundred and twelve arres in the San Gabriel valley.
DUARTE.
This settlement is on the Rancho Azusa, and under date of April 28, 1874, a correspondent of the Star says :-
The above named rancho is the site of a new settlement. It com- prises a tract of about two thousand five hundred acres, and was one year ago almint without a settlement upon it. The tract was laid off in forty-acre lota, forty of which have been already sold, nud thirty families hnve taken up their resbleuces. A new aud commodions school-house, twenty-four by thirty, has jast been completed, nud was dedicated on the 23d. Two irrignting ditches, nggregating ten miles in length, have been completed, mnking au abundance of water. A large nereage of potatoes, barley, corn, aml rye has alrendly been plauted. Some fifteen hundred orange trees have been plinted In the settlement, nud other trees planted must be counted by the thousand; also some vineyards. Landl'is held at from thirty to forty dollars per acre.
INDUSTRIES OF EL MONTE TOWNSHIP.
The San Francisquito and Santa Anita Ranches were in early days the scene of an intense gold excitement, of which we have given some account in our chapter on " Minerals." Mining is still occasionally carried on there by Chinamen and natives, but the results are small.
Corn, barley, potatoes and pork are the staple products of the township, and the yiebl of these commodities is immense. On the uncultivated lands of the township a great many sheep are pastured. Considerable wine is manufactured by Mr. Frank Temple and others, and some fruit is raised. This may be classed as a township of boundless possibilities, as yet but very slightly developed. In 1875 El Monte had a newspaper, the Observer, now discontinued.
CHAPTER XXXV.
AZUSA TOWNSHIP.
Location-Ranches included in this Township-Division of the Dalton Property -Azusa Flouring Mills-A Big Nugget-Fire.
AZUSA township lies immediately west of El Monte township. The northerly portion is broken and mountainous. The southern end of the township contains two ranchos, viz .:---
Azusa Rancho, four thousand four hundred and thirty-one and forty-seven onc-hundredths acres, confirined to Henry Dalton.
Addition to Rancho San José, four thousand four hundred and thirty and sixty-four one-hundredths acres, confirmed to Dalton, Palomares & Vahar.
· Ser biographies of these gentlemen in chapter on " Pioneers."
TO WHOM CONFIRMED.
Potrero De Filipe
134
HISTORY OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.
Iu 1851, Mr. Dalton divided a portion of his property into sinall farm lots, which he offered to settlers"on favoralle terms. A small settlenient has grown up in the neighborhood, but dis- putes regarding land titles have greatly retarded its growth. In 1834, Mr. Dalton erected large flouring-mills at this point.
In the summer of 1879, a nugget ot pure gold. valued at four hundred and ten dollars, is said to have been picked up in one of the eañons neighboring on Azusa settlement. On the night of July 27th, in that year, the principal store at Azusa (occupied by S. Cohen) was destroyed by fire. Loss ten thou- sand dollars, partially insured.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
SAN JOSE TOWNSHIP.
Topography-Ranchos included in this Township-Early History-Deserip- tion of the Valley-Ownership-The Several Settlements-Spadra- Pomona-A Destractive Fire.
SAN JOSE is the most westerly of those townships which extend southward from the base of Soledad township. It is long and irregular in outline, and is bounded on the south by the northern point of Santa Ana township. It contains within its limits, the following ranchos :-
NAME. ACRES. a part
Rancho Rincon De La Brea
1.0% Nogules.
San Jose.
22,340.41
La Puente. a part
TO WHOM CONFIRMED. G. Ybarra.
464.72 Maria de Jesus Garcia, et al.
Dalton Palomares & Vahar. Rowland & Workman.
Regarding this portion of country, we find the following passage in the " Historical Sketch" of Los Angeles county :-
Only a few miles further eastward is the fertile valley of San Jose, Los Nogales ranchito, about five hundred aeres, granted March 13, 1810, to Jose de la Cruz Linares; and next, San Jose de Palomares, of twenty-two thousand seven hundred and twenty acres, granted in the year 1837 to Ricardo Vejar, Ignacio Palomares and Luis Arenas. The grand railway trunk of the Southern Pacific runs through it to-day. It formed a connected settlement for several miles from near Roland's, chiefly of New Mexicans. This was a colony which John Roland gathered at Taos, Albuquerque and other pueblos of New Mex- ico, in 1841. Under the leadership of Don Santiago Martinez, they accompanied Mr. Roland in that year to California. A portion of them under Don Lorenzo Trujillo planted themselves at Agua Mansa. on the Santa Ana river, six miles south of San Bernardino, the rest in thi- valley. Time has made many changes since 1850, hut has well tested the productiveness of its soil, upon which towns hegin to flourish -Spadra, Pomona. Cha-huiste, or mildew, never affected the wheat of San Jose.
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