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Scai-Tnopir: Los Angles [ 
_ s long bcrn famous for bw 
capacity for (lit producible i'f tint It 
tropical fruits—finch as orange#, lemons, \ 
bines, figs and grap* -nml «l*n fur the 
whole rung*- of the fruit-. of (lie (emji*HHto 1 
.■.ones; Imt those* who pure base loud «nd 1 
net out plantations of these vnrinufc fruit* 
require considerable caj.ital, which must ; 
be invested ill tlie start, nml must, iu ad¬ 
dition. have the means on w hich to live 
whilst they urn waiting there four aud five j 
years, until the plantation-*, la coni' pro¬ 
ductive aud return an iucomn. tnd as 
the greater part of the immigrants who 
reach California are inen of small menuA, 
they must nonoHhai ily seek a country where 
their lahor w ill produce them on ta< in *'</m>/*- 
ninin. The first consideration with thorn 
is fund, xhtliiT mill < iW/iini; fur themselves 
uud families. If they come here, they 
must lie satisfied beforehand that their 
families will not suffer from want of the 
nt*c*'«aariea of life—the luxuries they can 
wait for, but a eoiufortntde living they 
must have. Now, lie -n is just where LiUS 
Angeles County lin« the ad van Inge over 
other sections of this State, paiTn-iilarlY 
the northern portions, Here it 1 * ahuii-, 
daully proved by n murrain* i 11 *t«nces. that 1 
live acres of irrigable land are ampin fur 
the support of a family. Plant. »ay. two 
acres in alfalfa, two null a half acres in 
vegetables, potatoes, and grain fur poultry, 
rtujeivoig half an acre for the lions'.*, 
corral, etc. The alfalfa will yield its fuel 
doji in three mouth* from lie* seeding, 
mill can bo cut Monthly afterwards, and 
will afford abundant food for five cow'd 
which should nertiiiuly yield an average of 
one pound of butter each pm day during 
the year. This i- not a large ’estimate, 
when it is uude ratooH that these nows iu* 
lu lie fell a full supply of the must uu- 
tritiouKoflresh, green altolla all therein. 1 
will suppose that this Iniltor, if it e. well 
tl^uied uad properly made, will average 
•JO cents per pound by tin year—not a 
hue,* estimate, as, allLunigh built 1 falls 
lower during the spring and early summer, 
it IS fully ai much higher dutiug fcUv full 
met winter; la sides, tin Aij/onu market 
will h. i.uft.r afford a steady market for 
nil out surplus In odd] I mu to ll|i* co ws, 
l"0 good hens should I ic kept, principally 
■” ..“ tf», which pay much bettor than 
nke un immodeaU) niturn, and 
fin the 
l-'.ullrv, 
laying breeds, if properly cared for, will 
easily average three dozen eggs per day 
for tiro year, and certninly average twenty* 
cents pm- dozen by the year. These two 
itcnib -tin. cows and the liens—will by 
this calculation return an income of $5N4 
per year, with the advantage that this is 
an imHuiUi'tr uif.iint, 1 have made no 
account of sales nf calves or poultry , or *>f 
the hogs, that can l»* fattened on the 
sour mill, slops from the house, and roofs 
and other produce from the garden, the 
returns from which would serve to increase 
t he inc ome, or at all events to supply any 
deficiency tlmt might occur. As most 
immigrants m> men with families, after 
tin* place had been started, the business 1 
could be left to the rare of the wife uud 
i children, and the father could sect em¬ 
ployment at good wagt’s away from home, | 
and what lie thus ooriicd could be applied 
to the purchase of more laud In two or 
three years he could, from his wages 
alone, be able to purchase at least HI 
acres, which he could devote to plunta 
lions or such other crops a* he should find 
to be most profitable. And now comes 
the question, how much capital will be 
required to purchase, put iu cultivation 
aud stock tin five acres of laud upon 
winch In* is to make hie home. If the 
land i* to be watered by a ditch, he would 
probably have to pay for land and water 
right from $75 to $100 per acre, and after¬ 
wards pay -11 much for water per hour 
whenever he wanted to irrigate. In ad¬ 
dition, ho will he liulih* fur assessment* to! 
pay current expenses, if the sales of water 1 
are not anllleii ill to do it, and also lor 
repairs ami breaks Ihal are always liable 1 
I" occur. A man who gets water from a 
ditch uevm knows what his water r-odtn * 
him until the end nf the year Still, on 
certain lands ditches are indispensable, 
thirl bring the only way in which water 
can be got, and water must be hud on 
iho.i lands, no mutter what it costs, ur 
eiillivatiou must cease iu my opinion, 
the best lands for tie poor man. on which 
to locate hi; home art.* the moist and fer¬ 
tile valley lands in the Santu Ana and ,S«n 
< in bind valleys, eil her in ur adjoining to 
the flowing arteflian well belt, Those 1 
I nid : being naturally moist, only 1 , small 
quantity *>f water (or irrigation is required, 
ami then only in the sum titer for the 
•rcon'l m,d 'hi"/ rnr/m; fur the cultivators 
of small tracts me nut, content with one 
’' '1 1 * l '" 1 •“■•>P their land in n coiiatunl 
► tale of cultivation. When the first crop* 
is taken off, tlie land is irrigated, ami 
another planted, and so on through the 
Five acios irrigated in thin way I 
vem 
r,i«l 1, 
also jay, and 
sent from tt 
where they 1 
tor^truusporiutiuu link puuUry 
1 *rg* quantities me annually 
county to Hau Prancuco, 
best lircfib 
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of | 
liio vt?ry 
poultiy— 
ducks, and 
liy and me , 
chid 
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are 
f without 
I*. COttH- equal IU product to TO Heron th.it 
are dependent on nun, upon which only 
one crop per annum can be rawed, and 
Hornetim* i if the ram fail*, the crop’fails 
also. On irrigated hind, 
OWps are a 
Ouc hundred In n* of good 
nml lioninticnl certainty. Such ’land ns I 
am describ.Mg co. easily be bought for 
(f JO) thirty dollars per ocra, cash, or one 
f.rurtli cash, with three equal, uiinual dc- 
{' """I P®.' ""’Ills, with tell per cent j„. 
t. vent fo. the balune*.; but, ,f possible, , t 
w be tier to pay cash. A mans home 
should be his own. aud be all paid for; 
and if that home is aide to support his 
family, then the fathers mind ia easy; 
their future is provided for, no matter 
! what happens to loin. 
To provide water for this land by a 
flowing well, of three or fuuiMiioli bore, 
will cost from $150 to $250, depending 
Upon the depth bored; but as one of these 
wells Usually flow:-, sufficient to writer 
twenty to forty acres of land, one well 
would la- sufficient, for several small homes, 
provided they purchased near tunili other. 
Hilt 1 will proceed on the presumption 
that each party has his own well. This 
would make the laud and water cost $300 
or $400; but it must lit* remembered that 
here expenses stop—Mir tvnlrr ho • lire it /mill 
fur; Ihri’i nn un future . vy.. a*, os with 
•hhlii’y. If the land is outside of the flow¬ 
ing well belt, just too high for the water 
to flow, si ill the water rises near the sur¬ 
face, and but litlh expenditure of power 
ia required !o raise it. The depth required 
for n jmmping well is less Mmu for 11 flow¬ 
ing wall, and, in consequence, it costs 
much loss, snv $ 100 . The windmill and 
pump to supply five or ten acres with 
abundant water will cost from $100 to 
$150, bo that the cost will be about the 
same in either case, and abundance of 
water will be assured. In fact, there is 
11*1 limit |.o the water supply from these 
artesian wells, ns is evidenced by the fact 
that a seven-inch pijie near Florence, lit 
Mi. Vimpk-iii*' place, ha* furnished 25,000 
gallons per hour for ten hours, pumping 
with a IfeaU nml Ctwo pum/i, aud during 
the time the water in the pipe was only 
lowered three feet. Had the pipe been 
ten inches bore, it is probable that, the 
wuti l- would not have been lowered three 
inches. Twenty-five thous,and gallons will 
irrigate one acre of loud, and as the ex¬ 
panse of pumping was thirty cents per 
hour, this is cheaper tlmn ditch water, 
with the advantage that you have it when 
you want it, and don’t have to wait for 
your linn, nml then have some ouc above 
you Heal yr.mr water, as is generally tin* 
case. Meu who are considered honest in 
tlm ordinary relntiona of lift* cannot reeiaL 
llu* temptation to steal the water flowing 
*y them to tlinfi neighbor*' land Some¬ 
how the ditch accidentally breaks just, 
id*icu*l of tin* |am| thot wants water, and 
before the break |,a slopped hi* land 
is irrigated, ami the neighbor Inis lost Ins 
water, Them- water qmim.lM arc ho coii- 
'bml, and mi ..firm lend to bloodshed ami 
murder, that I consider urUnuun wella, 
ciilior lit.wing o, pumping, not only 
duuper, but decidedly 1.. it. , Winn a 
man own- bull, h„d and water, In* ia in 
' * I" nd"lit of iTuvideilco and nvei v one 
" 1 "' 4 f( he fail* to raise cions, it is ins 
own fault I,, tl,,-, climate, faimlica live 
comfortably in n common board Mlmufy, 
"inch they build tlu>uiHi‘lv«», the bnanla 
and nails -,f which cost from |SU to f 1(111. 
'Oil put tin- coal of lioiiMii, *l,d,|e. corral 
aa*j clueken bouse at $ 150 ; om* home, 
'alriOKS. light Wagon, plow, l.arruw, cul- 
t""tor, etc $2111); HOC. 1)1, $25; | J0Mtl ... 
tor three uiontliH, $35. 
