1901 – Early work of the Congregational Church among the Mexican laborers
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…
May-Sep 1900 – late rains salvage Alamitos sugar hopes
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…
Sep 30, 1900 – Clarks sue Bixbys over right of way for drainage of factory waste
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…
April 4, 1900 – Bixby Land Company struggles to raise money
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…
Sept. 14, 1898 – Hellman, Huntington syndicate buys LA Railway system, begins to piece together the PE & “Big Red Cars”
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…
December 1897 – Sugar Beet report on Los Alamitos
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 Champion…
October 31, 1897 – Alamitos Campaign Closes
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…
July 1897 – Anaheim Gazette coverage of the new Los Alamitos Sugar Factory
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…
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