. California and Alaska, and over the Canadian Pacific railway . the partywent to a hotel for lunch. Los Angeles is the oldest and largest cityin Southern California. It is situated in anarrow valley, on a river named after the town,and is about twenty-two miles from the the banks of this river, for miles, arevineyards and orange groves, which are thepride of the place. The town has grownwonderfully during the past few years, onaccount of its reputation as a health and there may be seen one-story houses,built in the Spanish style, their flat roofs cov-ered with asphaltum,
. California and Alaska, and over the Canadian Pacific railway . the partywent to a hotel for lunch. Los Angeles is the oldest and largest cityin Southern California. It is situated in anarrow valley, on a river named after the town,and is about twenty-two miles from the the banks of this river, for miles, arevineyards and orange groves, which are thepride of the place. The town has grownwonderfully during the past few years, onaccount of its reputation as a health and there may be seen one-story houses,built in the Spanish style, their flat roofs cov-ered with asphaltum, which abounds in theneighborhood. There is a rich tin mine atTemescal, about sixty miles distant, and the 45 46 To California and Alaska. San Gabriel placer gold mines lie about twentymiles to the northeast. The business portion of Los Angeles isquite handsome, and it is only in the Ameri-can portion of the town that the streets arelaid out with that painful regularity commonto most American cities. The original Span-ish quarter, not now, however, occupied by. many members of that nationality, is separatedfrom the American-built part of the town bywhat is called the plaza adjoming a good-sized hotel. There are large mercantile houses,bank buildings, and pretentious-looking hotelsthat line the broad main street, the regularityof which is occasionally broken by the appear-ance of a small adobe house. The oranee-trees at Los Angfeles bear at Los Angeles. 47 from seven to ten years of age ; from the ageof twelve until they cease bearing they aresaid to average twenty dollars per tree perannum. At this rate, sixty trees to the acre,allowinof one thousand orancres as the averageyield per tree, would give a gross result of twelvehundred dollars. Trees, in well-kept orchards,occasionally average fifteen hundred orangeseach. It is said that an American settler hasa grove in this place containing two thousandtrees, which, when sixteen years old, averagedfifteen hundred oranges per tree,
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