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GOOD TIMES 
Avuimm. January ID, 18 H 0 . 
Si mi Titoi-n- Cm,—A lter three yeur» of 
hard times mid depression, tin* present, 
which promises to usher in tlm returning 
wave of prosperity, brings with it nbiiu- 
• Ianl rains, ami a certainty • >( i sucee-iful 
m imi. Every one s»*cin* happy id the 
favorable prospects tor the future go-.il 
crop* in the coming *oa*n» me n*nur<d. 
anil with the good crops, the cxt'-numii of 
railroads into Arizona, will. wilJi llie eon- 
Boquen I, dc vclopmcnI of tlm immensely rich 
an I extensive mines thete, nml the employ¬ 
ment of a large body of miner*, furnish im, 
in the near future, with a market for nil 
tlint we can produce. Then this part of 
California, no longer being obliged to com 
pete in the market* of Sun I ratii-isco, with 
nil the northern part, oi the state, handi¬ 
capped ns we have been with tin diwul- 
vantages of higher freights and longer dis¬ 
tances, will practically have a monopoly of 
the mink* Is of all the mining country oust 
of us, through which, within two years, 
two overland railroads will be in operation. 
The completion of those roads will supply 
cun great need, which is population. At 
pre sent all of the immigration coming into 
California, is landed in the northern part 
of the state, and unless thin* have prtivi- 
mislv determined to come to Southern 
California, t hey are easily influenced to re¬ 
main in that part of the state, or are di¬ 
verted to Oregon ami Washington 'leiri 
tury. There scenm to ho n systematic 
cflbrt in San ITaneisco to prevent settle¬ 
ment jn, nml to keep buck Southern Cali¬ 
fornia in eveiy possible way. They have 
rm fears of a rival seaport in the north, 
hut they know that it is among the pnaai- 
hiliticx in tlm south But when wi have 
an overland railroad, bringing people ili- 
reetlv into Southern California, all of tin 
traveling public will lie likely to visit our 
part, of Hie state, because toiirisla who 
tome by one route, will naturally wish to 
return by the other, Immigrant* will bn 
able to see the advantages which u» can 
oiler for settlement, ami uni vacant lands 
will siion be occupied \\V have the best, 
soil ami the lu st climate in the world, hut 
population is reipiuute to utilize them 
Are mu sensoim iduinging V Last winter 
(Inlifoi nia, in common wit hall purt-of the 
United Stall', won visited by a cold Mu-t 
fiom the iiorlh, which did min h damage to 
eiliii" fruit tn es in eritniu (Oenlilies ui all 
parts of the Mtatp. Tin illnet of it win tii 
draw the line ih lliiilely bet wren tlm lands 
where it wie- safe to plant lln-ui, nml tlnivn 
oHu i lamb vvheie limy were liable to dis 
lluctiiin from frost and cold, from eailsi■■ 
which are permanent, nml where ilcdme- 
le>< floats mi, certain whenever lliet.ru- 
pcnd.iiie falls lo it r, rbun point. 
This y< «r wo have had a repetition of Hie 
cold mail, ami altliougli it was mil so i, 
veie, and did Dot do so much dulmi-. as 
last year, still the results were serious u, 
many instances. I’m ties who have been 
illi| I llilelil enough b plant Citi es fruit tr. es 
on low valley lauds, have agalll been re 
minded of then error. So fm ns I hnvi 
I. . informed, tie damage )i i , t.. r,,n 
fined to tho- ■ localities (hut MiilT-red In -1 
year, and also that Ilia hn'alilies which 
escaped last year have hern equally evi rnpt 
in this, furnishing additional proof that oiy 
theory of tin* cause of tlm frosts, which 
created such a storm of adverse criticism 1 
last year was collect, having n-curtained 
the facts, I hr- theory Was formed lo til them, 
Slid the fact that it was emici t, only made 
those who had Mi/Turnd the more hitter in 
denouncing vv liat no one attempted to di*i 
prove. 
Last year the lowed point reached by 
tho thermometer at. Anaheim was IH 
Fahrenheit. No orange or lemon tree in) 
or about Anaheim was injured in the 
slightest degree. Tins year the lowest 
p ant, leached was III) , one degree lower, 
Olid nothing has liven injured; ami from 
what 1 can hear brum Orange, Santa Ana 
land Tustjo, no damage has been dune by} 
frost ut, cither plum. All tif these places 
me protected from the cold night air from 
the caftans of the Sierra Mini re by the 
Santa Ana range of bills that intervenes 
between us nml Hu* Sierra Madia-, and 
which are high enough to dam ofl' tlm! 
frosty air and form it to follow the valleys 
which are its until ml channels; comic- 
queutly, ill those valley.*!, where this nil 
tioyvs without obstruction, is whore the 
ihiinage was done, both this year and last, 
and vvheie it may always lio expected m 
the future, on tlm principle that " like 
oniisi s always produce like efl'eels.” The 
hill* Hint protect ns are so high that be¬ 
fore this volume of frosty air could over-' 
U"W them, it would rise and submerge 
nil of the table lands niljoining tho Sail ■ 
Gabriel and f.os Angelos valley's, eoilsi'- 
tpieutly I feel warranted in making the 
aascrtmn, that thu sent lim n end of Los I 
Angeles county is better protected again at 
frost limn any other part of the county. 
Thcsu two Inst years an* not exceptional; I 
4ho exemption noted has benn the rule for! 
twenty yuan past. I am led lo make 
these irmniks hecamye it is customary for 
, ♦ ho Los Aligob - papers to sneak of the 
| front* being eoutliuil to the valleyii, which 
is Into as regards a purl of them, but not 
I true as regards this pint. 
Nines arc lining planted extensively in 
this icetion. All doubt* as lo the future' 
i of Hid wine, brandy and raisin interests iir 
this pint id tlm Slid* have been removed, 
ami those parties who dug up their vine 
' yards II year or two ago now regret it. 
Amilmiiu win it is also being sown 
largely, nml hut ho the- scarcity of si i d 
the ana nuwii wnuld he trebled. Six 
year, of exemption from rust gives coufi 
deuce. 
Prof, tlciineil u going to give a pne- 
*• * *-i 1 test to unpin-making from dried 
I lici t TIiL-tW Pun III. no doubt of till sue 
ci “s; and when the it -Milts are known, and 
he he proved that siig ii-making in this, 
county is ii ei i Unity nml i an he can n d on 
with ri laath-iate outlay of capital, I Ihink 
it will la-admitted by all that he Inis done 
more to advance OUI pro*p<rily than any 
.mini who im ei (-nine lien- <>! ei.»ur>e he 
j Inc- met with tin usual fate of those who 
try to benefit the public. He has lx sn 
soundly nlulai t by the sugar nrno|"dist 
of H iii Francisco, w ho is evidently alarmed 
At the prospect of his succoer; and well he 
may lw, win n our dried beets yield sixty 
per cent, of sugar, 
Wo yet lack one element of complete 
prosperity. We have the ls-st dairy mini- 
try ui tin Mint* of t’llifi.rhta. >.r. for tin 
mat ter of that, in tin l Toted Hut. -. and 
if we liinl a few largo dairies h<<«\ em- 
iluctcd by ecieiilifii-. prnii< d duir men, 
nml would thus be able to show wh.it can 
lu-done in the mamifrictnro of bntt*-i and 
cheese, in a few ruuiitlis tbci© would l»- no 
eoiuplaint that our nyoial land* were • -leant 
and unoccupied. Them dairy in-n art- lin’ d 
to couvinee, and *tdl mora difficult to 
limvn. N.dhiug hilt the ptodurtiOll of 
lirnt-elnss hatter and cln-e-i and its -hip- 
rucut to the markets of Han Kr uu-e ■ ..and 
its wile at tirst-chiBs rates, mil convince 
them tlint. this is a dairy country. liny 
Will not conn* till some “ l». ||- v< ti leads 
the flock, lit Hpeetfully, 
Wii. It. Own. 
W't. (1. Li‘ Drc, T'. S. ( .inn.. ■ .Her of 
Agriculture, is sending out n large tw> nty- 
puge circular to the vimculiufi-'s nf this 
State*, with over two hundred <jue»t .ns 
and blanks to hr- tilled with aus--. r» in re¬ 
gard to tho raising id gntp— and i T u g 
of vvine, The compilation of thr—• sta¬ 
tistics in regard to grape culturr, ftonj dif¬ 
ferent persons and sections of th* i miutry, 
will be u vuluubk* work for those int. -.(• 1 
iu grapes and yviue in the Fnited States. 
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