Book/Printed Material A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ...
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Image 1 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 2 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 3 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... 1 lhn i 1- Contributor: Olden, William R.
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Image 4 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 5 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 6 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 7 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 8 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 9 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... Price £25 Cents. A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON Written lor the Anaheim Gazette, BY- Giving Statistics as to the Irrigating facilities of Southern Califor- nia, with Estimates of the Cost of Planting...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 10 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 11 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... IRRIGATION IN SEMI-TROPICAL CALIFORNIA. No. 1. The only portion of Semi-Tropical California which possesses an abundant supply of water for irrigation, is found in the valleys of the Santa Ana and the...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 12 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... a body of land to the artesian well district of not less than 30,000 to 40,000 acres to that already proved in and about the town of San Bernardino. The whole amount...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 13 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... lion is required; part of which is now- irrigated from a ditch already con- structed, and which only needs enlarge- ment to irrigate the whole. The soil is good, and most of...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 14 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... irrigate more than one-half of the land that it ought. Water in Southern California is too precious to be wasted. Public interest requires that it should be carefully husbanded. The next irrigating...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 15 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... part of which flow into and supply the Old, and the other part the New San Gabriel rivers. Nearly all the water of both streams is taken out for the purpose of...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 16 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... not once in each year, but every time we irrigate. By means of our facili- ties for irrigation, our fertilizing stream is turned on to the land at pleasure. Our land is...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 17 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... this point. And it is here that theditch of District No. 1 commences. The ditch, which is a large one, is dug out of the solid red clay, on the north bank...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 18 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... and at the same time, contiguity to, or distance from the coast varies the climate, which although good in all parts of the valley, possesses a great variety. Any one can lind...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 19 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... FARMING IN SEMI-TROPICAL. CALIFORNIA. My previous letters have been de- voted to the extraordinary facilities and resources for irrigation, which Semi-Tropical California possesses and which may truthfully be said to sur- pass...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 20 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... —10— Corn. 20 acres of corn, 40 tons, at $20 $800 00 EXPENSES. Two plowings $100 00 Two harro wings 20 00 Marking and Planting 20 00 Seed 5 00 Husking and...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 21 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... —11— what it used to be. Our virgin soil is not only admirably suited to their growth, producing the very finest qual- ity, and crops of such immense bulk, that I will...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 22 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... ditches and gates. If alfalfa is thus protected from its enemy, and properly and. sufficiently irrigated, it is peren- nial in the most extended sense of the term. I am told that...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 23 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... have had large experience in feeding stock upon it, that when allowed to mature, each acre will sustain at least doubly the quantity of stock that it will when pastured. The grass...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 24 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... 14 land. In buying large tracts, the purchaser pays for a large area that he does not want, to get^the little that he does. Land at $1 50 per acre, 3 acres...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 25 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... dairyman can either let his cows come in fresh at all seasons of the year, and keep his dairy running constantly, or he can manage so as to have his cows fresh...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 26 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... —16— FARMING IN SEMI-TROPICAL CALIFORNIA. No, 3. BENCHES REQUIRING CAPITAL. Horses and mules can be fed on al- falfa in just about the same propor- tionate numbers per acre as cows, either...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 27 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... 17— places limited, but in the latter state there is no limit but production, par- ticularly when dried by the modern ar- tificial processes now in vogue.Theseare not only cheaper and more...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 28 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... 18 single variety possessing all of these desirable qualities in equal proportion. Most varieties will not bear until the third year from the cutting, but the Muscat bears a half crop in...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 29 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... 19— dried figs equal to the best dried fig of commerce. The reason why this business is as yet untried, is that it is one of a thousand other industries that remain...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 30 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... —20— be planted by the rich, but I will en- deavor to show that this is a mistake. The land upon which they are to be planted should have a water right,...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 31 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... that the price named is probably the lowest rate, that oranges of good quality will ever sell at here on the tree (the wholesale dealers buy them on the tree.) The present...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 32 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... north of what I have defined as semi- tropical California. The probabilities are that it can be profitably cultivated whereevef the peach tree can; but ■whether the almond will be as short...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 33 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... and its sale is not confined to any par- ticular locality; it has the whole world for a market. THE WALNUT. By this term is meant the tree com- monly known as...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 34 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... —24— FARMING IN SEMI-TROPICAL CALIFORNIA. No. 6. HOPS AND TOBACCO Are two other products that do well in most parts of the State and which seem especially adapted to our soil and...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 35 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... limitless market for first-class tobacco, will, when the best system ot* curing has been perfected, make tobacco the most profitable crop of all those which have been enumerated. Think of a crop...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 36 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... belong to us, as we will be the nearest point of supply, and the value of such a market will be better appreciated when it is known that the country in question...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 37 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... building at a lime when financial depression has crippled almost all other railroad companies and stopped their operations. The completion of the road to San Francisco places us in direct connection with...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 38 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... and the port of Santa Monica a line of fast steamers are being built to reduce the time between Los Angeles and San Francisco to 24 hours. This had become a necessity,...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 39 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... —29— SEMI-TROPICAL CALIFORNIA. THE CLIMATES Of Semi-Tropical California are now universally acknowledged to be supe- rior to those of any part of the world; figures and facts prove this. I say climates,...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875
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Image 40 of A series of articles on southern California written for the Anaheim gazette ... -30- for month, 67. Shower on 29th. SEPTEMBER. .1874. Lowest. 7 A. m. Highest. 7 p. m. 50 58 77 61 Lowest three days 43, 43, 43. High- est three days 89,...- Contributor: Olden, William R.
- Date: 1875