Larry Strawther One of the best things about Google’s effort to digitize library book collections is that much information on the early days of Los Alamitos has popped up in a number of very unexpected sources. Extensive information which we have been already sharing on this site has been spelunked from the three major beet sugar industry … Read more
What is significant here is that the article indicates the strong presence of Mexican workers, who had apparently already replaced all the Japanese, and non-Hispanic whites in the fields. “In every field there may be seen bands of thinners, mostly Mexicans, and the farmer himself, with horse ahd cultivator, followed by bands of helpers with … Read more
Susan Hathaway Bixby loved her Rancho Los Alamitos adobe, but positively hated the stench caused by the effluent from the new sugar factory. What this article would most significantly seem to indicate that Lewellyn Bixby was the main Bixby contact for the sugar factory, when it says, “In June 1896, J.Ross and W.A. Clark entered … Read more
April 4, 1900 — Bixby Land Company minutes book- , the minutes note that the company borrowed money from Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles. By February 1901 the debt had grown to $15,000, and the land company also owed the Palos Verdes Company $2,551.98 for “Sundry notes” given by tenants to that company … Read more
14 SEP 1898 – Dinkelspiel, Towers of Gold, p.185 – In 1898, I.W. Hellman heads a syndicate of San Francisco bankers which backs Henry Huntington in his $3.5 million purchase of the Los Angeles Railway System (the LARy). The LA Times at first incorrectly reports that the Southern Pacific had bought up the private urban … Read more
The December 1897 issue of the Sugar Beet Planter’s correspondent had a couple references to s activities at the Los Alamitos Sugar Factory. In the first he wrote: The [Chino] Champion says that the sugar company …has arranged to get molasses from the Alamitos factory to treat in the plant here.” Later he made a … Read more
This article covered the end of the very first sugar beat season for the new Los Alamitos Sugar Factory. The Los Alamitos Bee was the town’s very first newspaper and was in operation as early as mid-July, when the factory was nearing the completion of construction. Los Alamitos, California. On Monday of last week, or … Read more
This article was originally printed in the Nov. 3 issue of the Lehi, Utah Banner. Lehi was the site of another sugar factory that had been constructed by E.H. Dyer & Company, the same company that had constructed the Los Alamitos factory as well as the Alvarado Sugar Factory in 1870, the first successful sugar … Read more
The Anaheim Gazette was the major newspaper covering Orange County from the county’s formation through the first two decades of the 20th Century. Copies of it are available on microfilm at the Anaheim Historical Library. Much of the paper’s coverage of sugar beet news was reprinted in beet industry publications such as the Louisiana Planter. … Read more
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