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Title: The city and county of Los Angeles in southern California
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Brook, Harry Ellington
Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Description Los Angeles County (Calif.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Press of Out West company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rticultural product of the county is the orange. Besides theorange and lemon, the principal fruits raised in Los Angeles countyare the almond, fig, prune, apricot, walnut, peach, pear and berries. The shipment of citrus fruits from Southern California pointsduring the season 1900-1901 amounted to 24,100 carloads, of which21,173 were oranges. East season they were somewhat less, but thisseason they are expected to be fully as large. A large proportion olthese shipments were contributed by Los Angeles county. Decidu-ous fruits are shipped, fresh, canned, dried and crystallized. Aspreviously mentioned, an active demand for our dried Emit lias grownup in Europe. Each section of the country, as a rule, has some agricultural orhorticultural product of which it malces a specialty, although in somesections almost every crop raised in Southern California is grown.InLos Angeles county the leading center of orange culture is alongthe foothills of San Gabriel valley. Around Pomona, both citrus 37
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and deciduous fruits are raised, and a specialty is made of the olive.The lemon is raised at Whittier, in the San Gabriel valley, and backof Long Beach, as well as in the Cahuenga valley. The olive alsoflourishes in the San Fernando valley, and the almond thrives inthe Antelope valley, where they have cold winters and land is cheap.The country around Downey is an all-round farming region, wherelarge quantities of pork, butter, cheese, corn, and vegetables areraised. The walnut does particularly well around Rivera, just southof Los Angeles city. Strawberries are made a specialty at Gardena,Azusa and Glendale. Alfalfa, which is largely grown for hay, is a most valuable forageplant. It is cut from three to six times a year. Large quantitiesof wheat and barley are raised. Los Angeles county corn some-times grows to a height of twenty feet. Pumpkins have been raisedweighing over 400 pounds. There is a beet-sugar factory at Alami-tos. Los Angeles honey is celebrated all over the country. In

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