apr 3, 1880 - 1880: Orange, Los Angeles County. Citrus Industry begins boom

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“We have not progressed far enough to demonstrate whether such men as the late Hon. B.D. Wilson and Rose, Shorb and Wolfskill have lied to us as to the profitableness and yield of their orange groves or not, for we have not a tree in Orange yet ten years old. But we have not yet developed any facts to make us lose all faith in humanity, or discredit the evidence of our own eyes, as we have walked through these gentlemen’s groves and counted and estimated the number of oranges on their trees. My own opinion is not that the orange trees of Los Angeles county do not bear oranges enough, but that they bear too much"

Dimock, D.W.C. “Orange's Orange Groves.” Anaheim Gazette, April 3, 1880.
https://media.yoreanaheim.com/anaheim-gazette/1880/ag-1880-04-03.pdf

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