A’ tHHI- TItOPIC' CALI FOR XI A. 
IS 
county octnld not hare loaded one irnin of 
purs * year with produce. The inhabitants, 1 
some 10,000 in number, bewailed tln“ gen- 
end dilapidation, and helplessly did nothing 
Such was the past. A new class of men 
came upon the senm -men who knew how¬ 
to handle the rich virgin a<«il. Tw 1 1 •- 
year® have gone hv, and nvn twimty towns 
and villages dot the plain*, all within an 
area of forty mill?* square. A thottaand 
farm* and orchards cover the valley and 
hills. Without irrtgnti.u*, a largo part uf 
the farmers arc harvesting luxuriant crops 
of small grain and corn fioni land that in 
IXtiK vraa aupp.wed bi he unfit fur farming, 
afmply hecatise a river of water could mo 
lie run over it. 
Hailroads extend from Lm. Angeles city 
Angelos city through the fertile portions of 
rim comity, connecting with the commerce 
of the nations over the ocean, and connect¬ 
ing with the onmtnefce of the United States 
by two hops of railroad. This system of 
traimportation makes us a commetcin! cen¬ 
ter, and furnishes a market fur all our pro¬ 
duct-. I luring the year ISKO Arizona con . 
sinned nearly the entire product* of this 
county. f)vrr 9 MyK.'U per month in agri ] 
cultural products were shipp'd to that 
market. These mining regions lire rapidly 
developing, nml u vast population is set¬ 
tling, for mining purposes, in the barren, 
mountains of Ari/oim and New Mexico., 
This increasing population will consume all! 
uf our surplus products. Last year the' 
people of Lna Angeles received San Fran-. 
Santa Harhara counties, and then did not 
have enough. Thi# establishment produced 
such a fine quality of hams and other meat 
that, it could not supply the demand, and 
was compelled to stop for want of material. 
To sum up the whole financial situation 
in a few words, tile producer ran realize 
heave r yields per acre, with lea* cost of 
production, with a hotter market, at good 
or higher prices than any other plane in the 
I idled States. 
In education, the odniiftorl school* aro 
well supplied with fine teachers. The I ni- 
vewily of Southern California, open.-d ill 
October last, is prepared to give as rtun- 
plrtr an education as call be hud. 
The Churches are well represented with 
wr.»l 1(1} miles to Santa Monica,on the ocean 
•horn; anutb miles to Wilmington bar 
l*oi ; amitbeast 4" miles to Santa Ana 
north 390 unlea to San Francis.*. there 
wmii-eting wiLt, all the railroad* of Cali for 
»na, and. by means of ih.. Central and 
l "mu Pacific Katlroad*. with tins railroad 
aytfetn of the U oiled State*. The tb.uih 
ern J'acitiv lfailroad extend* fnuu I us 
Augeh-s through Arizona and New M,V. 
*oo, and oonneeU with tU Atchison and 
fopeka Kailroad, making connection below 
the .now beii with all the railroad* of the 
boutWrn and Northern States. It will lw 
> that live railroad* radiate Irotr. Lo», 
mse.u prices for all product*, at their door* 
I Im debts of the people Ken. reducuiu over 
one half oil the average, and large mMribcr* 
paid out entirely, 
While in JXUH one train of cars could 
have earned our surplus agricultural pro 
I ueis, III I 7MI from two to three trains per 
day were largely loaded with the rewards 
of agriculture. 
Ail grain, from barley, wheat, and corn 
“I' W «ha northern fruit* and semi-tropical 
fruit*, g,ow Imre, A'pork-paukirig e'tnb. 
*“ S' " *»d ,„d 
used all the bogs raised in l»* Angel**, 
N °" San Ifernurdtuo, Ventura, and 
j goo.I congregatioii. and suitable places of 
I Worship. 1 
j Socially, there i« lo he found horfl as 
"'hue,I and cultured a .•!«-* 0 f people na 
, arc in nny part ..! i|„ ; country. In fur-t, for 
a luw i .-nr* past the mmi cncrgetio mid 
| Mtnocssfu! people fro,,, other luoahtiwa Imvo 
jbc-e.i coming Imro in large number*, tlmy 
j well seeing the film future prospect, <fo 
tbi* MiJ.'.iunt the society here k.II go far 
above thu avi.rag.! in moat other plitee*, 
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