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and along the principal streets inside. During a large part of 

 the time he hired fifty laborers. The total expense for the 

 two years was seventy thousand dollars, or one thousand four 

 hundred dollars per lot of twenty acres, including eight acres 

 of vine. The owner of a vineyard lot had a little town lot of 

 half an acre besides. In December, 1859, the property was 

 divided by lot among the members, many of whom afterwards 

 moved to the place and made their homes there. Anaheim 

 has some advantages over Los Angeles in the regularity of its 

 plan, and perhaps, also, in location, (for it is nearer the ocean, 

 and farther from the snowy mountains) and in the extent of 

 rich land in its neighborhood, and in its location near the 

 direct line of travel between Wilmington and San Bernardino. 

 It is almost as beautiful as Los Angeles, and in "many respects 

 bears a great resemblance to that town. The population was 

 881 in 1870. 



52. Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, in latitude 34 24', 

 on a shore that runs east and west, 50 miles eastward from 

 Point Argiiello at the southern base of the Santa Inez moun- 

 tain range, which shelters it from the north winds, is now one 

 of the most prosperous towns in the State, having more than 

 doubled its population in the last five years. The number of 

 inhabitants in 1870 was 4,000. Its chief attraction is the 

 climate, and many of the new settlers are invalids from the 

 Atlantic States. Congress has ordered an examination of the 

 estuary of the town, to determine whether an artificial harbor 

 can be made there. The town has excellent hotels, and nice 

 gardens. 



53. Petaluma. Petaluma, forty miles north of San 

 Francisco, and ten miles from the mouth of Petaluma Creek, 

 is the main town of a rich valley, and in 1860 was the eighth 

 town of the State, and was growing with great rapidity, being 

 then the only outlet of Santa Rosa and Russian Valleys. But 

 it was a slough port, and when a railroad was built through 

 the valley with a terminus four miles below the town, it began 



