Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-12
Chicago s13 Limited.

Lots in the new town OF Chicago Park
South Monrovia) will be placed ON sale
Friday morning, January 18th, for the
nominal sum OF $13 purchase price, and
$15 conditional, bonuses as follows:
$500 cash.
$500 February 10, 1888.
$500 March 10th, Provided the track is
being laid and part of rolling stock is deliv.
ered for the Monrevia and Chicago Park
Railroad.
$500 April 10th, Provided twenty-five
buildings are up or IN course OF erection in
$500 May 10th, Provided school build
ing. church and hotel are under course Of
construction. and street car line completed
and in operation.
So 90 on delivery of deed together with
printed copy OF abstract, subje.t to com
parison with the original
Thus, If improvements are not made pur.
chasers secure their lots q $13. 90 each, and
If Improvements are made they then cost
less than acre property north, south and
west OF tract
How can do this? Listen; own nearly
1000 acres of land about nine and a half
miles east OF Pasadena and one and one.
fourth miles south of Monrovia station, and
adjoining Lucky" Baldwin's ranch, and
| nearly joining the worldrenowned Duarte
| orchards. About 400 acres of this is
| barley; part is an old cornfield; part il
wild, and there are two small orchards
| intended this for colony purposes, but
have finally decided to lay out a suburb tC
| the lovely city of Monrovia sell off the lots
at low acreage price, and make my money
out OF the live and ten acre lots adjoining
Many people consider town property en-
| tirely too high, and hesitata to pay as much
| for a lot as their house will cost, so | eXpecj
this sale will result in the building of 8
| lively center surrounded by lovely homes in
| this loveliest part of the San Gabriel Valley
| The townsite is laid out on the decided por
tIon OF the tract and is almost perfectly leve
| and nearly free from stone. Splendid fruit
land and no alkali. mountain wash finds
its way across the tract l have reserved
| one hundred mason and builders lots fol
| wash bed, to which it will undoubtedly
some day be confined. Some OF the lots tt
| be sold are in the present wash, but | guar
| antee over one thousand OF them to be beau
tiful rich loan mot 'dobe), almost absolutel,
| free from stone; the remainder outside O.
the wash, are lighter soil, but smooth, some
what gravelly mot stony, and better lanC
than thousands of acres of $500 per-acrC
| land in the same valley
| do not guarantee that improveme
| mentioned above will be made, but | an
willing to forfeit over one-half of the in
significant $2S per lot if they are not made
besides makinga sad failure of my sale ot
adjacent land.
Lots are numbered from north ives
corner in routine, for purpose of receiptinl
only. Twenty-three lots are reserved fO
| scuuol SrOuHus, cnurcneS, Tree library, no
tel and three business houses already agreed
upon. These lots are designated by letters
When all other lots are sold a meeting O
lot owners will be called, IA map of trac
placed upon the wall face in
a target-gun placed in the hands of som,
poor marksman, and when he or she sue
ceeds in hitting said map the lot perforate,
by the bullet shall be lot one and will fol
low former routine of numbering excepting
one hundred reserved wash lots and lettere,
lots. This will preclude the possibility @
any, unfair treatment OF purchasers, an,
will be the quickest way of deciding tn
matter. After the lots are thus properl
numbered all owners are particularly re
Iquested to at once plant trees in front O
their respective lots, which in short tim
will make Chicago Park park indeed.
For one dollar per lot ] will have thre
trees planted in front of lots outside q
wash; and taken care OF for two years.
WILL BEACH.
Further particulars and photographs n
tract at my Office, IA South Fair Oaks ave
under Lodging Directory, Pasadena, or