118 RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA. 
them speak English fluently. The English language will be 
the predominant tongue, although German will long be cher- 
ished. The number of residents is now three hundred, with 
a certainty that they must rapidly increase. Anaheim is a 
tract of land a mile wide by a mile and a half long, in the 
valley of the Santa Anna River, Los Angeles county. It was 
unoccupied, and supposed to be of little value in 1857, when 
it was bought for two dollars an acre by a German company 
of fifty members, mostly residing in San Francisco. They 
were incorporated as a joint-stock association. The land, con- 
taining one thousand one hundred and sixty-eight acres, was 
divided into fifty lots of twenty acres each, with a little town- 
plat in the middle, and convenient streets. The place was given 
in charge of a superintendent, who held his position two years, 
in which time he planted and cultivated eight acres of every 
lot with vines, and put willow hedges (nearly all the fences in 
Los Angeles county are of willow) all around the outer boun- 
dary of the tract, and along the principal streets inside. Dur- 
ing 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 have now removed to the place and made their 
home there. There are nearly six hundred acres lying vacant, 
and the welfare of the vineyards requires that this land should 
be cultivated, for now it is covered with weeds and brush, and 
is the home of innumerable hares, squirrels, and gophers, which 
eat the vines, young trees, and grapes. When cultivated and 
irrigated, these pests will be drowned out and driven off, and 
the labor of the vine-grower will be much reduced upon the 
land now under tillage. When the whole tract shall be filled 
with bearing vines, it will produce twice as much wine as the 
town of Los Angeles does now, and nearly as much as that 
town will be able to produce when all its present vines shall 
