SEMI - TROPIC CAIIF0RN1A. 
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FLORENCE. 
TIiis section of fertile and moist soil is 
so well and fully represented by its distin¬ 
guished citizen, General Shields, Hint hut 
few words of praise from us, a few simple 
facts in regard to tln-ir exposition at the 
fair, must serve our reader's purpose. The 
brilliant colors hT the apples of the Florence 
display were universally remarked by visit¬ 
ors. They ranged from bright green 
through yellow, pink, striped, to flaming 
red, uud always lempling. Florence 
showed twenty-one grapevines, swinging 
from the ceiling and stretching out then 
brandies like giant tarantulas; showing 40 
to 50 pounds of grapes to the vine. Just 
count that up, at 1000 vines to the acre, 
and $2*2 per ton for grapes, and you have 
a total annual yield of over $400 per acre. 
These vinos were not irrigated, and are bet¬ 
tor without artificially applied water. If 
the ills of too much irrigation were re¬ 
corded at length, the record would show 
many failures to realize a golden dream, 
uud the dreamers never knew the cause, 
Florence pumpkins arc not to be lightly 
regarded, for they weighed from '201 pounds 
downward. Sugar-cane, corn, pears, and 
many other fruits whose naming would 
he only a repetition of the exhibits of 
other places, graced the tables of this 
flourishing settlement. 
LOS NIETOS. 
About Downey City is a tine country of 
moist land, where a very few feet of dig¬ 
ging below the surface brings you to per¬ 
manent. water; where the roots of trees and 
vines soon find all the water they can ask; 
and oven such fust-growing products as 
alfalfa thrive excellently wit liout irrigation. 
This section of country brought into the 
fair a very fine collection of apples, ns 
large as any exhibited at the fair, and us 
luscious os palate could wish. And Los 
Nietos furnished English walnuts, which 
we arc compelled to pronounce superior to 
any wo have tasted this year. Tin lr trees, 
too, have not, the habit of shy bearing, 
which renders their culture profitless in 
many localtiea. Mr, O 1‘. Frissons is un¬ 
derstood to have mudo them vjuit' profit¬ 
able. We will lake pleasure in publishing 
the fuels, if he will furnish them. 
Los Nietos is an old Spanish settlement, 
and that means abundance of water and 
rich soil, tl means, under Vmnririiu cul¬ 
tivation, T6 to 100 bushels of corn to the 
aero. It means 10 tons of alfalfa hay from 
live crops pur year. It is the land where 
"the hand of the diligent mukclh licli. 
LOS CERRITOS. 
A ranch near Wilmington, hearing the 
above name, has been partly subdivided 
into ten ami forty nine loin, which are to 
he colonized and sold In settlers under the 
name of Tin- American Colony. Mr \\ 
E, Willmore is the manager of the matter, 
ami lie hud the good sense to show -• one 
of its products nt the lair. I p to this time 
tlieae Iiuve Ik <ui mainly grain and ve : ;,.ta¬ 
bles. There were large, Hue potato! s, 
which run in the hill si* to seven uud i 
half inches in length, and about the same 
ir. the least circumference. There was 
corn in ours nine to twelve inches long, 
large, and of deep kernel, and the culture 
of wheat, which is a rising industry in 
Southern California, is beyond its experi¬ 
mental stage on the Cerritos. The wheat 
exhibited was long, well tilled, and free 
from rust, 
ARIZONA AT THE FAIR. 
Tbe fortunes of Southern California and 
Arizona are so blended that it is impossible 
to distinguish between them. They are mu¬ 
tually dependent. The mineral wenlth of 
Arizona needs the wealth of grain and 
fruit and meat of Smithe.iu California, 
which in turn needs the precious metalu. 
•mence 
41 . t , Th$ iflfat forlwimti* iwirl of th»* cuiivi* 
We wish I k- proposed fanning colony , s t)lu ,. it 
success, atid that right speedily. rim a.. of produce shipped A 
SANTA BARBARA AND VENTURA. 
These two counties, somewhat remote 
from Los Angeles city, were Hot as fully 
Feel 
'(i ro 
TfftB. 
of produce shipped til Arizona 
I from Southern California during the Inst 
! two years has never been summed up, but 
it is something enormmm, and the Terri¬ 
tory ia good pay. Our interests nr'- niu- 
represented at. 'this fair as’w.j’ lmpo 'they r ' r f 80 ", nd ,clt - 
will be next vear, Tlicv arc two important i, E< ? na workingmen nr- largely from 
links in tliftVl.ain and nre necessurv to the 8,11,1 L ‘ r " <-"»'•. »nd manv of its 
dial riot. AH they displayed was creditn-!' , P uallst8 11 ik ', 1 . fro ' n "'"I' "’"ny 
hie. Mess is. Kellogg and Sowell of Santa Anzo »" l"»» "" i -ml,I,si. 
Pallltt exhibited some fine cream cbocse*. | l,0, t De * - Lo " Angeh-s. winch is d-lmed 
These gentlemen inform us that a gallon| 1,1 ll,at ?" w »«v pf'din-livo 
of milk makes u pound or cheese, and that 1 ! l,,nu '« l ',°" ntr y. ' vL, V 8 '"> “ hafl 
it realizes to producers 12 to 14 cents petl® 1 *' 1 Hm waning ( omstock lode ^ _ 
poutnl. They are making uome small five- 
pound chesses, shaped liken loaf of bread, 
which «rc becoming popular, because they 
cause less loss by drying out, uud families 
can use up a cheese of tin- small variety 
Air, N. W. Blanchard of Santa Faula, about Tombstone, Arizona, and brought, 
exhibited some lim- Odessa wheat, which them to the Pavilion for exhibition and 
threshed from fully to fifty live bushels to explanation Tin -< ores a- n from $100 
the acre. He informed us that one man to $25,0110 per Ion, ami tin rolUmimn in 
at, SuticOy sowed (me ton of Odessa wheat worth, ns ore, several thousand dollars, 
oil forty-three nctos Ilf laud, find reaped an It proves of great interest to the visitors 
average of thirty-one- centals or fifty -otic -it the fair. Chlorates and cai'hoontcs of 
and two tbirds bushels per acre. -ilvcr predominate, and manv "f them 
Col. Hollister, of Santa Barbara, sent show that the work of redneiion would he 
line English walnuts, and Mr. DitumicL very easy. Some of the < aiI oiiate- lire -o 
.some fine canned fiuits. beautifully In rich that a little rubbing with a hard, 
baled. Mr. Ellwood Cooper showed some smooth substance, fives them the polish 
tine samples of olives ami olive oil. The ol silver. 
Ventura refinery suit some very eleur ami Among the most prominent of fin., mines 
light-looking kerosene oil. 1 represented bv the-' enterprising gMrtle- 
_ i men art* the Tough Nut, Omni Enough, 
Thp multitudinous duties devolving on 'Iran.I Cuntral, Head Outer, Empire, 
r>. r 1 4 * Lj . . . 4 L! . I > . I I ■ I I I . 
Appreciating the situation, .'!• 
nod Kimball collected with grunt 
specimen* nf ore amounting to about 
rimes imo srau cm m>*. 
From about three hundred mini - in nnd 
the editor of the Seui-Tuopic hi connec¬ 
tion with the fair, prevented uh from giv¬ 
ing as much attention to I Ids number ns 
we should wish. The honor of editing 
the fair edition belongs to Mr l> M. 
Graham, who 1ms given his time nnd at¬ 
tention to “ writing up" the ■ xhibits. It 
would he next, to impossible for him to 
give each and every hup l ho due credit 
that the special exhibits deserve, nnd not 
miss any. It is impossible also to write 
nt length in mm immliri of our paper 
about tlm different localities, as fully as 
wo would desire, but we will make amend- 
in our future editions for any short com¬ 
ing in this number. 
Lanky Cuss, Sunset, Silver Cloud, Honker 
Hill, Western Union, Defiance, Trau- 
ipiillity, Valitov Jacket, and many others 
whoso names are becoming as him it lor to 
Loo Angulos ears n« ban* been the mimes 
Comstock to 
abuts of Sail 
Mu J. Bia-u, whose fine display of 
grasses nt the fair last month attracted 
much attention, will stop nt l.os Angeles 
for the present. He is a thorough and 
practical landscape gardpuor; has the 
agency for tu ufkuiuiihil dtrsigus for garden a 
and law ns; has a l>»re:oulleclroii of native 
grasses; also grafted Japanese persimmons 
for said cheap. Will go to any pint of 
Southern California. OiKc- at Brown's 
Auction House. 
on Hit 
I'raricuro. 
Messrs. Feel ami Kimball intend l" take 
this collection of ores on a tour through 
the Eastern cities. This will tiring the 
mines of Arizona to every miner's door, and 
iln* already great and growing interest in 
them felt by Eastern capitalists will be 
augmented. 
When it is remembered that 
ii line a ure only a small proportion of the 
i-rul wealth of Arizona, an 
tho importance of that territory wli 
now being opened to the world bj 
linentul railroads. 
Southern Culiforr 
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competing I lunsco 
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