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DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURE. HORTICULTURE. AND THE DEVELOPMENT 
OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 
Vi Hi. III. 
I.OS ANGELES, CAL., FEBUI'Alty, 
1830. 
No. 2. 
LOS ANGELES COUNTY. CALIFORNIA.' 
I OS ANOKI.ES COUNTY, Cul., front* 
I J on the Pacific ixuiiiii, wit)i u frontage of 
nlxmt It'll milt'd. It linn south of San 
l''i uui’inco 306 I'V idcntncr and 37.' miles by 
railroad. Linesof sh-umi-rsuml soil vesuris 
emistntitly |>ly between (lie I.uH Angeles 
porta and ntUer a.tut roial pninlft. Pivu 
lines of railroads are in tin? comity, one v\- 
I ending north »o San Francisco, and con¬ 
necting with tlm entire kv->U<iii of railroads 
hi the United Slate*. Onti line extends 
from Lu* Angeles city. 21 miles to Wil¬ 
mington Imrlior, another extends 36 miles 
Holdberly towards Sun Diego, another 
extend* from Los Angeles city east into! 
Arizona, and is fast pushing rm to a nan-1 
nectiou 'sitli tbe o vpiluiid sootliein rail¬ 
roads. This connection "ill be made, as 
unriiniiieed by the owners of tbii mail, 
within fifteen months from October, 1X70 
Another road extends west to the ocean at : 
Sunlit Monica. These five railroad* radiate 
from Los Angeles city through the pro¬ 
ductive parts of the county. One runs 
north, one went, one south,one sunlli-eust 
and one east. 
i.oh AKOXijta vaii.it. 
This valley fronts on t he ocean ovor 100 
miles. Tim high mountain* on tlm mirth- 
r ust, and Buutb-onKt form ulwmt one third of 
a oitele, reaching the ocean on the north 
and sooth of the Valley, and extending 
hack from tile ocean at. tlm farthest poiut 
About 10 miles. Tim slope id tlm land 
is from these mountains south-west to ihu 
ocean, with a fall of ahmil 200 feet. Tim 
highest parts of the mountains are over 
0,000 feel above (lie ocean. 
Tilt lltllUmU'.AL HihMciloK Of TIO VAIt.KV. 
Artesian wells have been sunk III VuriilllH 
pails of this V .llcy, and from Ibis vrorli it 
appaors that tlieie me several blue , hiy 
f"i'illations undeily iii L > t|,e whole valley.! 
1 Iipm forniutioiiN, apparently, form several 
parallel basins, tbe rims of which crop out ; 
at tlm foot of the mountains and along the 
"• eaii coast. The upper basin is about 
lf» fell In low tbe lowest part of tbe sill • 
fun oi the valley ami might be called a 
vast bike of vruti. i filled with soil wusbvd 
from Ihu mould ftin*. with uu upper uui- 
doptli u 
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, gravely, 
ia lily over 
>ncbt* it, 
1 ti.tpii to 
face irregular and forming hills, Uhlo can l«? had on all this Uml at 
lands and low lauds. | a honl 10 l feet. 
The water level is very nearly the samel The next grade of soil rep res, 
all over tin? valley, henee the depth to face which is from 12 to 20 V, t 
water depends upon the surface of the water lev,d The -mil i* % h, 
ground, it being a greater distance to iv,mn -mil; of this there ire pro 
water from tlm tops of th« lulls, ridges or *2 dljlim „ creS- p r ,, 4t , 
lublc land than from the surface of the low and tl.cn ver\ ligluh It . 
' ftnd8 - '* '••vers or moun- the growth of all veg.tUfioH, sorb a* nm 
bun streams— the him Angeles liver, I lie tree*, oh,, which hi- Ion - Willi 
S;m (tiilimd river and the Santa Ana irrigation hy windmill* or m,, . , ,i 
river Mow down from tho mountains and pro,lu r , ,||' „hoit rooted t. •, ' it, , , On 
empty over the runs of the day basins, this soil ulUomi-tropio fnus"d„ w II 
thiiH keeping the basins always foil of Tin- next gru U of - oil i-U'-l • I .«,< I u d 
water. I he Surplus ovnrllmvs the lower Ini n, am| foot land, of the 
run into the •menu Purl of this water. The surfa,- of the «oil ts fr . , 2 • t ■ hi 
nil.h other Waters, flow luhi t.lm lower feet above Min water level Willi „ , , , f , r 
clay basin, winch is notaowbiit parallel to irrigation, this eonstimt. , «(,. . i, .... | 4 , 
lli«. upper, and distant 50 to loll feet from of the eou.it v for ill li „■a,, oltur ,i |. ,< 
it Dun probably cruAtiug the supply for 'from lb» lianainup t . the . tb-r, n 
the ariosi in wells. In |»*ldition to Dm fore -1 On porti its of this land im front . 
going general geological formation of The tomato vine will 1,1....,, | l 
basiio., thuie are severaUmull local basins wil d.? v„ar round On tbe n-,t 
111 JJ»«»0* IIh ; J gradt of land only th. i 
If the reader will lakti a pan, say 1<> f„,»t „,, „ j„ 
iiichcs u, di ui.cleraud (i Itidms deep, and also the wheat land ,,f Hi* 
111! it half full of dirt; then tnkn a 12 inch Tin l,i,t K ,.,|„ t . , 
pan. place ,t, i„ t|,e lirst, and till it with rough, rock, and tool.,-, 
ill It to the surf,ic„, „nd then ttlki? several 1 IiusIum. uu, 1 bru-it and st,i 
small saucers and place them m ttin second \. |,„ ami d „pi„. I 
birsiu at dilTuiotlt points; Hum rover it all aorlht. ,,, , i the wnt 
with dill so as to represent hills, lahlc e.ml mis tin, gi, ,t, ,i 
bind ami valleys, an approlimatc i leu of p.i dluliim, of „ 
•I’" Loh Angeles vaUitv may lie bad. Fill I only awaits Hi, 
all with water and elevate out, side, slant- nvo'lwd from -,o 
iug it. lu tlm south and west, and tbe render ev cution in tlm 
■•an tlnoi iiiiderstaml tbo relation of the this iigli’m . -■ 
water to tbe surface of tlut soil, 
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wlieiii Hie Wat. 1 Ih from :i to I’J fe, ( from 
Mm stirf lice. This is mostly a tb-nii, m b 
hiuiiiy soil, flee from clay* niul ol ,d |, no 
turial, and is well uduplc 1 to the pi. du- 
fion of all vegetation imcduig nuieb 
moisturo and having mliort mote Coin, 
b, et.s. alfalfa, nml all similar pru-be ts, 
grow and produce mast abund intly on this 
land This land i < *a|,j, cl to ,» | t ,y> f«, si- 
hctwio ii llecMiol" r alul Vpnl of , , h yisir, 
1 pography of the tail, v »nd it. fonaiUi. 
illal nearly evi-ly |.f. , |,ii | known to m 
front the tropi, to lb*: temperate emits r 
find a luiiabU wod in tin. pi*, li- o-. 
ill iithei place#, it r. j,u,, , »r*i, m.lo-H 
ccuHoiiiy. and s«*n.*w to make * auri 
If the iudivid’ixl will •het tin? * 
nl.ipti I t«i the prodi, im wisl to* torsi- 
and so cultivatc im It, ^iw nature w prop 
i'Iimi,-#, Hie yod.l will Is- enttrviy - ,’i-., , 
and on it should not be cnltival, I - n h 
t'*lk ft III »1 t'J Ii i *r, * 11, i , i , 1 t <1 lit 
things as IroaU will kill. AiUsum wulls 
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any I'tln i laud R, M We mi. 
