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We elip the following from the Anaheim Cosette of February 28, 1880 :--
AGRICULTURAL NOTES FROM GARDEN GROVE.
The question of making sugar from sugar-cane is attracting consider- able attention here. Mr. John Sinclair and Dr. Ilorace llead have sent for seed, and iutend to plant about twenty acres. They intend to send for a mill to Nashville, Tennessee, as Mr. Sinclair has had considerable experience in the manufacture of syrup from the cane. 1 have beard that the following named parties inteud to plant quantities of the cane, and proenre mills, evaporators, etc .: B. F. Town- send. F. A. Gates, and Messrs. Young & Silkwood. It is to be hoped that this new industry will prave a success, for if we can produce our own syrup and sugar from the same soil that has heretofore pro- duced corn, two beneficial results will follow. The money which is now sent out of the county for sugar will be retained here, and if a less acreage is planted to corn, the production will not be so large amd the price will be better.
Would it not be a good plan for all those who intend to plant sorghum to mect together and exchange views as to the best kind of seed to plant, the best age at which to ent the cane, and also tu see if they cannot combine together and obtain some cheap machinery for manufacturing sugar ?
I bave sent for prices of machinery for making sugar and for pressing the juice from the cane, and when I receive the price list will make a further report.
The Commissioner of Agriculture states in his report for 1879, a copy of which I received from Hon. R. Pacheca, that a maunfactory can be built and equipped fur ten thousand dollars capable of mak- ing a ton of sugar per day from syrups averaging eight lo twelve ponds, The syrups can be manufactured for, sny twenty cents a gallon. About sixty per cent of this can be made into sugar, and the remaining forty per cent will be first-class syrup. To be explicit, one gallon of syrup weighing twelve pounds, will yicht seven and two-tenths pounds of light brown sugar, worth now in the market niue cents per pound; and four and eight-tenths pounds of clarified syrup, worth now about five cents per pound in the market.
Number of acres of Anahein whent sowu in Garden Grove preciuct, crop of 1880 :-
ACRES.
S. L. King
50 |Bessouctt & Silkwood
90
J. W. King.
15 J. Beckett .... 10
N. S. Averill
Frank Rugers . 6
R. P. Johnson
l. M. Wallace (on .1.Gregg's farm) 25 S. N. Cochran
J. N. Harmon
J. W. Young. .
W. McCrindle. .
J. W. Hawkins
The ninety acres sowo by Bewonett & silkwood is on the farm of Mr. B. F. Seibert, and I think has been previously reported.
ANAHEIM LANDING
Anaheim Landing is sitnateil in Westminster township about four and a half miles lue west from Westminster, an lis usul as # coast landing for purposes of shipping There is a good warehouse and a wharf on the inlet.
The Anaheim Lighter Company was organized in 1864. as an incorporated company. to ship the produce of this section, and import the necessary supplies. The Legislature granted the incorporation the franchise to erret a wharf and ware- houses on the water front of Michael Reese's land, at that point in Westminster township known as Anaheim Lamling. The. Supervisors granted the company a right of way over the adjoining lands. Necessary warehouses and lighters were erected in 1864. Four lighters have been built in all, costing about seven thousand dollars. One was wrecked in 1967. There are three now on hand. It is a stock company with two hundred shares at on hundred dollars per share, twenty thon- sand dollars. The stock is owned principally in Anaheim and Westminster. The coast steamers stop regularly.
Since the railroad has reached Anaheim. the business of that town with the landing has largely diminishel, and much of the stock has been transferred to Westminster, which now owns the lailk af it.
We copy the following in regard to this landing from the News of December 31, 1864 :-
A commodious warchouse, permanent wharf, and new and safe lighters, have been constructed by the Anahena Lighterage Company for the necommodation of shippers of Anaheim and the surrounding country. The shipment of wine, wool, etc., from that locality in years past has been quite extensive. It is estimated that the amount will be increased four-fold the coming scason. 'The coast steamers and otber vessels make regular trips to the above port.
The News of October 25, 1871, says :-
The Anaheim Gazette makes the following report: List of shipments from Anabeim Landing for the year ending September 30, 1871: six hundred and twenty-eight bales hay, three thon and one hnudred and eighteen pipes wine, two thousand three hundred and eightren bates woul, four thousand six hundred and fitty bides, thirty-four thousand eight hundred und seventy-one sacks corn, barley aud meal. At the same puint there has been received three million feet ut lum- ber aud two thousand nine hundred and ten tons general merchandise.
Anaheim Gucette, January 24, 1880;
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS FROM ANAHEIM LANDING FROM MAY 1, 1879, TO JANUARY 1, 1820.
EXPORTS.
C'oru, Its ...
500,698
Barley, it's.
59,025
Wheat, Il's.
Beans, lbs. 29.480
Rye, lbs. . 3.265
1,035
Oats, Ibs
17,505
Pop-corn, Is.
Mustard seed, It's 6,775
Wool, 1bs.
58,500
Bacon, Ils
I.ard, Il .
1,000
Butter, to-
Fres, doz 10,511
Potatoes, It-4
17,070
Raisins, botes
Muwers and reapers
Wine, pipes
1:1
Wine, barrel4
Bramly, barrel+
Vinegar, punchcon
1
Punttry, coupe
('astur- beans, Ile
Merchandise, pky-
.).
Household goods, pkgs
General merchandise, tons
111
CHAPTER XLIII
FOUNTAIN VALLEY TOWNSHIP.
Ranches in the Townabp- Tapugraphy Scanty Population Artesian Wolla.
FOUNTAIN VALLEY THWWASHIP
CONSISTS of large portions of the ranchos La Bolsa Chira and Las Bolsas These rauch's are owned by the Los Angeles and San Bernardino Land Company, and the lowuship contains some thirty -six thousand acres in round figures. A large por- tim of this land has been settled upon by squatters, lost the Courts having derided against their rights, many of them have left, while a few have forchased the land aml still remain This township is largely composed of tule and swamp land. A portion only is fit for agrienftural purposes. There arra frw sheep in the township Westminster and Fountain valley comprise the principal artesian lands of this portion of the county. They have between than from three hundred to fonr hundred artesian wells.
CHAPTER XLIN.
SANTA ANA TOWNSHIP.
List of the Hanches in this Tuwunhip Description of the Principal Ranches -I'resent Combtian af the Township Water Supply -The Santa Ana Irrigating litch Props -Fruit Live Stock Been - Tostin City Santa Ana- History of the Town-Churches - Societin Schools - Gospel Swamp-Crops-Fruits- Mormon Settlement - Orange Fruits Crops History of the Settlement Newport-A Disanter.
Santa Ana township contains the following original grants of land :-
NAMIE.
ACI:F8.
TO WHOM CONFIRMED.
San Joaquin Rancho .
Sautiago De Santa Ana Rancho Lomas De Santiago Rancho .. Canyon De Santa Ana Rancho.
18,803 16.100 Jose Sepulveda.
62,516 57-100 Bernardo Yorba, et al. 45.226 61-100 Teoducla Yorha. 13,328 53-100 Bernardo Yorba.
24 B. Silkwood
18 Jno. Harris ..
-
55
37 Total
130
.3,049,865
ACRES.
.100 J. W. Silkwood.
130,903
162
HISTORY OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY. CALIFORNIA.
Of these the San Joaquin Rancho and the Lomas de San- tiago Rancho now form principally but one ranch, being both owned by James Irvine of San Francisco.
The San Joaquin Ranch contains forty-eight thousand eight hundred and three acres. One-third of this is plain and mesa land, adapted to agriculture. The remaining two-thirds con- sists of rolling hills and cienega (swamp) land, fit only for grazing purposes, About two thousand acres only is under actual cultivation. There are three artesian wells on the ranch.
The Lomas de Santiago Ranch contains forty-seven thou- sand two hundred and twenty-six acres. About nine thousand acres of this is fine wheat and corn land. The. remaiuder is hilly, but a large proportion is adapted to stock. About four hundred acres ouly of this ranch is under cultivation. The Santiago creek runs through the ranch, and is dry a portion of the year.
These two ranches are said to be capable of supporting one hundred thousand head of sheep in ordinary years. Mr. Irvine has thereon some thirty-four thousand Spanish merino sheep, and about one hundred and fifty head of fine American cattle. The Irvine claim covers an area about nine and one-half miles in width by twenty miles in length, and if cut into small farms this land would support at least three thousand families in comfort. As it is this enormous tract lies idle and worthless in the hands of one man, he refusing to sell at the present prices obtainable. Is further comment necessary while the poor of our cities cry l'or bread ?
In the extreme nurth of the township is a little tract of Government land, which is quite broken and hilly. Here are known to exist extensive coal deposits.
The Cañon do Santa Ana Rancho lies in the north-west of the township, and is owned by the Yorba family. This ranch is principally hilly and mesa land, adapted to stock only, but some of the small valleys thereon raise good grain and grapes. Mr. John W. Bixby has here some fifty-eight acres of good corn land well watered.
The Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana contained originally about sixty-five thousand acres of land, of which some ten thousand acres in the north-eastern portion is hilly land snit- alle for grazing. About eight thousand acres in the southern portion of the ranch is llat moist land, known as Gospel Swamp, and used principally by the inhabitants for raising corn and hogs. About three thousand acres immediately on the coast is mesa land, suitable for wheat, and can be covered by artesian water. There are several large artesian wells now there. This land is owned by a few parties in large tracts, and is so far used principally for sheep pasturage. The remainder is all first-class agricultural valley land, which is being fast settled up and used for growing wines and semi-tropical fruits. This tract ineludes the towns of Tustin, Santa Ana and Orange.
There are about two thousand five hundred acres of the La Bolsas Ranch within the western limit of Santa Ana township. This land was squatted upon by settlers, but the courts having decided against their right, many of them have bought their land from the Los Angeles and San Bernardino Land C'om- pany, who own the title.
With the exceptions mentioned, the rule throughout the township inclines to small holdings of from sixty to eighty acres. The settlers are principally American, but several Mex- ican families yet linger on the Upper Santa Ana.
The present condition of the township is well described in the following erlitorials, clipped from late numbers of the local papers. (The first is from a late number of the Santa Ana Herald; the second from the Santa Ana Times of January 15, 1880 : )-
OUR HOME.
The new comer to the Santa Ana valley is struck with the great extent, variety and productiveness of its soil. In extent this valley is about twenty five by fifteen miles-au empire within itself-embracing some of the most remarkably productive soils to be found in the State, and its various qualities of soil offer a field for every variety of agricultural and borticultural enterprises.
About eight miles west of Santa Ana is situated the town and colony of Westminster, in the center of a large and highly productive section of land, producing corn, barley, wheat, and the various other farmi products as well as the finest quality of the various kinds of fruit, especially apples, peaches, and other northern fruits. Artesian water is easily obtained, which renders this section comparatively free from the evil effects of drought. There are many fine homes in this colony, indicating that the people are a sober, an industrious, and an enter- prisiug class. The town of Westminster is a thriving little town, with tbree or four stores aud other business houses, hut the especial attractiou of the town are its churches, of which there are three, the Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalists, all of which are large and comfortable, and are fiue specimens of architectural beauty.
Two miles north-east of, and adjoining the Westminster colouy, is the pleasaut and flourishing settlement of Garden Grove in the midst of a fine body of productive land similar to that of Westminster.
South and south-west of Santa Ana, at a distance of six to eight miles and extendiug along the coast, is a fiue hody of mesrt land especially adapted to the growth of wheat and barley.
The region known as Fountain valley, from the numerous artesiau springs and the ease with which artesian water is obtained, is one among the fine bodies of land iu the county. The land is moist, emi- nently adapted to coru, alfalfa, and other productions requiring a strong, rich soil. It is the land of this section which has been in dis- pute, the settlers, numbering about four hundred, having for four or live years been contending for the land against the graut claimants- the Bolsas Land Company. The people have been defeated and about two bundred and fifty or three hundred have but recently removed, a few ouly being able to buy their homes at the figures at which the land is held. When this tract of laud shall have been divided up into small farms and occupied by actual and industrious settlers it will be no small factor in the business prosperity of this valley. The body of land in dispute would comfortably support fifteen hundred or two thousand families.
It would seem useless to refer to the well-known Gospel Swarup regiou, already so famous iu its mammoth productions, its fame not being confined alone to local and adjacent regions, but beyond the Sierras and throughout the old Eastern States, Gospel Swamp is known as the Egypt of America. Corn is the great staple; eighty to oue hundred and thirty bushels per acre being produced, and at the same time between the rows of corn are raised large yields of potatoes and pumpkins, which latter form an excellent feed for horses, cattle, and lrogs. Not uufrequently farmers after harvesting a crop of harley,
getting from sixty to one hundred and twenty busbels per acre, plow the land up and plant tn corn, thus getting two crops per year. The land is moist and artesian water is obtainahle at a depth of fifty to one hundred and fifty feet. It is needless to say that the farmers ol this section are energetic and thrifty.
Two miles east of Santa Ana is the little town of Instin, so named in honor of its founder, Mr. ('. Tustin. It is situated in the midst of a splendid farming country, but the leading imlustry, judging from the adaptability of the soil, promises to be fruit-raising. hu addition to northern fruits, great and successful attention is being paid to orange, lemon, and grape culture, aul the probabilities are that Tustin will contribute liberally to this profitable industry.
Three miles north-east of Santa Ana is the town of Orange, nestled among its orange groves and vineyards, The culture of semi-tropical fruits is receiving especial attention in the Orange settlement, and the most gratifying results have followed the enterprise and the labors and waiting of the people are now being crowned with success. The Orange section, although producing the various cereals successfully, is eminently adapted to the growth uf tropic and semi-tropic fruits. Grapes are being extensively cultivated and grow to perfection. A fine quality of raisins are nunfactured by many of the vineyardists, and the prospects are that in a few years raisin culture will be one of the leading features of the Orange settlement.
Santa Ana, the principal town in southern Los Angeles county, is situated about thirty-six miles south-east of Los Angeles, and is the terminus of the Santa Ana and Los Angeles division of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Its location and surroundings are in the highest degree picturesque. It is situated on a slight rolling eminence, while ou every side stretches away the fertile valley, on the east to the Santa Ana mountains; on the north to the sandy plains of Anaheim and viciuity; and on the south and west to the Pacific ocean, Ity orange groves and vineyards lend an additional and a substantial charm to its beautiful and attractive surroundings, while its growing importance as the center of one of the largest and most wonderfully productive regions on the coast, renders it and its tributary sections most desirable to those seeking homes. Santa Ana bas a population of about fifteen hundred, and is steadily increasing in population. With such mag- nificent and important tributary sections as it possesses; with its spleu- did little harbor at Newport only six miles distant ; with its railroad connections being near to and the shipping point for the splendid coal-mines of the Sautiago region: with its mold and healthi'nl elimate, Santa Ana is destined to become a town of considerable magnitude and importance. Artesian water can be obtained in any portion of the Santa Ana valley, which, together with the splendid canal of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, afford, sullicient water to insure all portions of this section against the evils of drouth.
OU'R VALLEY.
Very often through the columns of the Times we have set forth the many aud superlative advantages of the Santa Ana valley. We have ofteu claimed that in regard to exports the Santa Ana valley surpassed any locality in Los Angeles county, outside of Los Angeles City. This certainly now is a question beyond dispute, as we are prepared to show by the following statistics of the exports from Newport Landing and the Santa Ana depot for the twelve months ending Jannary 1, 1880. This valley is certainly one of the most prodnetive localities in the United States, and more produce can be grown upon one acre of good land here than can be grown on five acres in many localities on the Pacific coast. To the proposition that it takes a mint of money to buy a farm in California, we answer, that this is like all other States in that respect, the price of land depends upon the locality, iui- provements and adaptability of the soil.
The geographical position of our county is most fortunate, and the healthfulness of our section is unsurpassed by any locality in the world. The productiveness of the soil excites the admiration of our people and the wouder of strangers, Two crops from the same land in one season may be raised, while as many as four crops have hcen produced. Nature has lavished her richest blessings upon our county and upon none more generously than the Santa Ana valley. Every kind of produce grown in the temperate zone of America and Europe flourish here, unexcelled in size, quality or quantity, while products adapted to tropic and semi-tropie zones attain rare perfection aud luxuriance in this favored spot of God's universe.
TENANT HOUSE ON RANCH NEAR WESTMINSTER.
HOUSE " LOT IN VILLAGE OF WESTMINSTER.
PUBLISHED BY THOMPSON & WEST.
FARM Mº RESIDENCE OF SAMSON EDWARDS, WESTMINSTER, LOS ANGELES Cº CAL.
163
HISTORY OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.
As we have said before, the productiveness of this valley is unsur. passed by any locality in the State, and we give below for the benefit of our readers and the public in general, the exports from this val- ley for the twelve months ending January 1, 1880.
'The following are the exports at Santa Ana depot:
POUNDS.
Eggs
1,603 сачев.
104,100
Merchandise.
2,101 packages
177.900
Fowls .
31 coops
5,433
Oranges and lemans
686 boxes
48,543
Hides and pelts
507 packages
13,525
Corn
19,048 sacks
2,419,795
Potatoes
1,322 sacks
140,278
Wheat
824 sacks
75,763
Beans
312 sack*
21,250
Flax seed
42 sacks
4,449
78 sacks
6,774
Wool
2,493 bales
855,111
Hops
153 bales
20,329
Lireen
69 packages
5,550
Trees
571 pkgs and
11 cars .
23,504
Coal
18 cars
432,850
Ore
1 car.
20,000
R. R. material
10 cars
200,000
Hogs
84 cars
Sheep
19 cars
Cattle
13 cars
2,407,500
Mnles
184 cases
30,470
Iloney
Raisins
2,858 packages
26,520
Total
The following are the exports from Newport Landing during the same period :---
POUNDS.
Corn
32,980 saeks.
5,537,773
Barley
3,134 sacks
36,768
Eges
151 cases
9,852
Fowls
40 coops
6,120
Houey
366 cases
50,411
Wool.
184 bales
42,775
Butter.
19 boxes
1,550
Wheat
25 sacks
3.133
Outs
52 sacks
4,585
Fish oil
54 barrels
5,750
Rye
1,253
Ore
1,325
Merchandise
11 boxes
2,455
Beeswax.
114 head
26,220
Hogs
107 sacks
482
Mobair.
2 bales
275
Hides
1 bale.
3,486
Hops
145 packages
23,333
Castor-beans
233 sacks
36,407
Alfalfa seed
547 sacks
31,345
Beana
2,300
Flax seed.
63,758
Dried fruit
19 sacks
2,000
Peanuts
263 boxes
5,260
Raisins
Total
Adding together the above amounts it will be found that the amount of exports from the Santa Aua valley l'or the last twelve months will reach the enormous total of thirteen million, one hundred and sixty- five thousand and nine pounds. We would here like to ask what locality in the state of ('alifornia, of the same area, can even equal the above?
The following are the import", ru Southern Pacific Rai road, for the past twelve months :-
POUNDS.
Merchandise
1.525,510
Lumber
7! cars
.1,5801,100)
Total
3,105,610
It will be seen by the above that our exports are nearly five times as much na our imports, which is certainly a very ati-factory showing for the above remarks.
WATER SUPPLY We clip the following from the News of August 27, 1870 .-
The farmers of Santa Ana township have surveyed and commenced the construction of a ditch to convey water for irrigating purposes, from the month ol the Santa Ana canyon, near the property of Manuel Feliz. to the plains in the lower part of the valley. The ditch will be four l'eet wide at the huttom and ten feet wide at the top, with n depth of two and a half feet, and will carry water xutheient to irrigate five thou- sand acres.
The Santa Ana river runs about a mih aml # half wist of the townof Santa Ana, but owing to the quantity of water used above for irrigation, the streamn is usually exhausted before it reaches this point, except in the winter season, after heavy rains, when a considerable stream passes here.
The Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company's ilitch furnishes the town with a usually abundant supply of water for irriga- tion. This ditch is fifteen miles in length and runs thrungh the Santa Ana valley, conveying the water of the Santa Ana river. It cost from forty-six thousand to fifty thousand duallars, and was completed some years ago. It is the property of a joint stock company, incorporated. The stock is hell by the owners of the land benefited, each share covering an acre of land, and it is divided into a sufficient number of shares to cover all the irrigable land in the valley. (Twenty thousand shares at five dollars per share-capital stock one hundred thousand dollars.)
There are some lamls south and south-west from the town which are not reached by this ditch, but are irrigatedl wholly from artesian wells, several of which are in this neighborhood. The Santiago creek runs through the Santa Ana valley, and in winter is frequently impassable, but in the summer is dry.
We clip the following from the Anaheim Gacette of April 17, 1876 :-
THE SANTA ANA IRRIGATING PITCHI.
The ditch is fifteen wiles long and teu feet wide on the bottom throughout its entire length. The grade is forty-five buches to the mile, and the water will bave a velocity of three and one-half feet per secoud. It is intended that the ditch shatl convey to the plains below six thousand inches of water, miners' measurement, filling it to a depth of three feet, which is within six inches of its full capacity. Wherever a wash from the hills comes in coutact with the ditch, a culvert has been substantially constructed, either of stone ur indestructible red- wood. Altogether there are eight wooden culverts, seven stone cul- verts, seven bridges, two sand gates and two water gates. The ditch has been made as straight as possible, and in several iustances has beeu blasted through solid rock. Some of this rock was so tenacious tbat it required twenty-five pounds of powder at one hlast to force it asunder.
The tunnels are splendid pieces of workmanship, and escort praises from all who inspect them. The abort tunnel is two hundred and twelve feet in length, and the long one six hundred and ninety -seven fert, making nine hundred and niny feet of tunneling altogether. The tunnels are heavily timbered overhead with selwird lumber, the walls are lined with two-inch planking and the bottom covered with flooring an inch in thickness. Jenes the bottom stretchers are placed every three feet, and every precaution taken to msure durability. The whole const ol these tunnels amounts to five thousand five hundred dollars. Between these two tunnels a wash comes down the hills, from which the ditch is protected by a stone culvert eighty frot in length. The lower end of the larger tunnel spens out near the old reservoir belonging to the former dutrh company. Here there is n tract of land consisting of twenty seven deres, which the Santa Ana Company have purchased and intent to sell for the atre of manufactories. And. indeed, I know of no place in all southern t'aiforma so well adapted for manufacturing purposes as this. From the end of the tunnel to the plams below is a tall of fifty is fert, and six thousand mches ol water, let down by means of " drops," will afford a splendid wirths power, capable of running ix pandsized mannfor tories. Work wie commented on the ditch on the 19th of last th tober, since which time one hundred and fifty white men und Chinamen, und from tifty to sixty horses and mules, have bren continually employed. At the present time there are about seventy-five white laborers und fifty Chinamen working for the company, and about sixty homes ary book uscil. When completed, the entire ditch, melnding the tunnel, will Cost something over forty thousand dollars, und be capable of irrigatig twenty thousand acres of land. The company building this ditch is known as the santa Am Valley Irrigation Company. It is Incorpo. rated, and its nihairy regulated by a Board of Directors elveted by the stockholders, who generally are farmers through whime lands the ditch passes, or whose lands the water carried in the dutch will Irrigate. A. a consequence of this no " jobs " have been put up, or shouldy contracts effected, It the work has been carefully planned and hoursLly rxe. ented. The Board of Directors consists of A. B. I'lark, the Present, J. W. Anderson, the Freretary, James Huntington, Dr. E. F' Green- leaf, W. A. Med'lay, and Nathan Fletcher. The officers in charge of the construction of the ditch are t. t. Miller, chief rugineer, and G. O. Nrwman, mperintendent, whose numurs I have already lind over- sion to mention, J. Stur hrad foremnu, and A. 1. Sanders, chief en. penter. The stock of the company is divided into twenty thousand shares, the par value of which is five dollars per share. It wie the intention at first to throw this stock on the market, but this was found to be unnecessary, as third parties who were not deeply interested in the anecrss of the ditch could easily take all the stock themselves, Each share of stock entirles its holder to the privilege of irrignting ane acre of land. It is expected that this stock will pay dividvudn in the future. The dutch will be completed about the first of May, at which time a barbecue and dinner will be given by the directors to the friends of this enterprise, and a jolly time Is expectedl.
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