Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-08
WHAT THEY SAY,

WHAT THEY SAY.
Gleanings From the ssHerald,s,, List
of Local Exchanges.
F. H. Wiswell, recently of Los Ange.
les, is looking around for place to rent
for q year, and will probably take the
Hook place. Mr.. Wiswell came to the
State in search of health for some MEM
bers OF his family, who, advised by Los
Angeles physicians to locate in Sierra
Madre,. came up and investigated for
himself, and at once decided that this
was the place he was in search Of
Sierra Madre Vista.
Last week A. s. White, who owns a
forty-acre orange orchard on Magnolia
avenue, in Riverside, had cash offer of
$4,000 for his property. He held his
price at $1,000, but inasmuch as the
offer was all cash and he could use gold
coin to advantage, he offered to come
down to $4,000. This property today is
yielding an annual income of from So 900
to 10,000.-[San Bernardino Times.In
dex.
The Outlook takes the liberty of ex-
tending unanimous vote of thanks
from the people of Santa Monica to the
Los Angeles Times and HERALD for the
able, gallant manner in which they
fought against making our seaside place
dumping-ground for the city's sewage.
Thank you, gentlemen, in the name of
every man, woman and child in the
town. We are aware that you opposed
the project as great wrong to your own
city, but it was none the less a protec-
ton to Santa Monica. Your effective
work will long be held in kindly remsm-
brance.-[Santa Monica Outlook.
1t is reported that the Santa Fe Rail-
road Company intend to run their road
into Whittier within short time. We
hope the report is true. - Whittier
Pointer.
So far about ST., 900 has been paid out
on account of the new public school,
When the building is completed it will
be the finest school building in the
county. We will then give description
OF this magnificent structure, with an
itemized account of all money spent
Whittier Pointer.
The Pomona correspondent of the San
Francisco Chronicle is authority for the
following:
The largest fig orchard in the United
States is about to be set out in Pomona
valley, between this place and Ontario.
1t is to be the property of syndicate
of Chicago, one in Philadelphia, and
two fruit growers in Pomona. The land
has been contracted for this week, and
the planting will begin next winter,
when the land will have been prepared.
/ hn IN hoo hod
making experiments in growing fig trees
years, and is convinced that California
from the eastern market. The orchard
and So 900 Smyrna fig trees planted 80 to
will be erected for drying and curing figs
for market.
The San Bernardino National Bank
has paid out for dried fruits during the
past three weeks 100000 to the fruit
Cotton cannery has paid to the fruit
over $4,000 for green fruits during the
present season. Including the cost Of
labor and transportation, over 100000
Aao oO0A pun Auuo SOuoIdA CIICuldtlOu
here for the fruit crop within couple of
months. And this represents but small
part of the value of the deciduous fruit
crop.-[San Bernardino Courier.
Henry Kroeger is in receipt of letter
from the Western Beet Sugar Company
at jacksonville, to which several SAM
pies of beets were sent for polarization,
with the following result: Five beets
sent by Mr.. Kroeger had an average
weight of 146 ounces; total solids, 49,
per cent. polarization, 1878; not sugar,
1882. Beets Of F. H. Keith-Total solids,
15.4; polarization, 1924; not sugar,
SIG; co-efficient of purity, 1914. Beets
of R. Parker-Total solids, 1874; polari-
cation, 1885, not sugar, 3.87; co.effi-
Gent of purity, 80.
The letter says: "We should be pleased
to have another lot of samples from you,
but each sample should fairly represent
the patch from which it comes, and
should contain not less than three beets,
not less than four pounds in weight. If
only three beets are sent, they should be
one large, one medium and one small.
They should be sent to US as fresh as
possible, and the tops cut off,"
The test of Mr.. Kroeger's beets shows
polarization of per cent. over the test
made last week at Chino, showing that
the beets we're ripper and they conse-
quently attained a higher degree of
saccharine qualities. Another test will
be made shortly. [Anaheim Gazette.
1t is undoubtedly true that the main
value of great deal of the land in the
Pomona valley lies in it's adaptability to
produce the orange, the lemon, the olive
and the fig. Either of these it can and
does produce in profusion and perfection
that is unsurpassed anywhere. That
the growing of these fruits pays a re-
markable profit is attested by thousands
who have advanced over this easy road |
from poverty to afauence. First class |
uncultivated land, with an ample water |
right, can be bought for from $3.50 to |
5000 an acre, making an average ten |
acres cost about $1,000. Experts, men |
who know from experience, figure the |
entire cost from this initial point to a |
grove of five-year-old well cared for trees
at $40, 000-a total cost of $500. Of
this 81 1000 represents labor, much of it
30 light that an invalid would find it but
q tonic, and the remaining amount will
be reduced by the value of the fruit
which will not be inconsidera ble-that
the orchard will yield in the last two
years, and the small fruits, potatoes, etc.
which of themselves may be made to
bring in decided income. After the