Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-01
To HoME-sEEKERs.
Coming Land Sales in Kern, MERGED and
Placer Counties.

Placer Counties.
Commencing on Monday next, May 9Th,
and continuing all the week. Briggs. Fergus
son & Co. will hold daily sales of fruit land
in the vicinity of the wonderfully thrifty
and growing town of MERGED, in the heart of
the San Joaquin valley-the great raisn
and fruit district. Some 10000 acres will
be sold in subdivisions suitable for orchards
and vineyards.
This sale is the initial offering of subdi-
visions of the immense landed estates in
the vicinity of MERGED, and the Croker
Huffman Land and Water Company, own
ers of the great irrigating canal, have
adopted most thorough and carefully
organized plan to interest at once many
people from all parts of the United States,
and thus Immediately make their great
water system, which has cost over s., 500 000,
a paying investment
Investors at this first sale will reap the
benefit of their extensive advertising and
well organized efforts to thickly settle this
district
The sale will be held under the auspices
of the Pacific Improvement Company. The
colonies have been organized by the Colo
nization Agent of the Southern Pacific
Company.
Excursion trains will be run free for all
who desire to attend the sales For terms
of sale, etc., see advertisement.
GREAT SALE AT BAKERSFIELD.
On Tuesday, May 18th, and on following
J days, McAfee & Baldwin will sell at auc-
ton, without limit, by order of j. B. Hag-
gin, some 1900 acres lying contiguous to
the growing town of Bakersfield, Kern
county. in tracts of 10, 20, 40, 160 800 and
$40 acres each. These lands are suitable
for fruit. alfalfa and general farming, and
are all under the most complete system of
irrigation, being portions of the following
| ranches: Mountain View Dairy, Greenfield
Ranch, Cotton Ranch and Jewett Ranch.
Also, line of desirable town lots and
blocks in Bakersfield
Excursion trains will be run from all
points between San Francisco, Sacramento,
San Jose, Stockton and Los Angeles to
Bakersfield and return for 50 90 for the
round trip. Tickets will be good on trains
leaving San Francisco Saturday. May 18th,
and Sunday, May 18th. at $50 A. NJ and
P. NJ; and on trains from Sacramento,
Stockton and San JOSE connecting there
with; and from Los Angeles on train leav-
ing Sunday, May 18th, at LOO P NJ Re-
turning, tickets will be good on all regular
trains leaving Bakersfield May 10th, 18th,
18th and 18th, 1889.
Parties DESTROYS of visiting Bakersfield
before the excursion. to examine the land,
can do SO, and the difference in cost be-
tween the regular fare and the excursion
rates will be refunded them if they become
purchasers at the auction sale.
Further particulars will be found in the
advertising columns.
TOWN AND VILLA LOTS AT LOOMS.
AT the charming village of Looms, Just
at the beginning of the great foothll belt
of Placer county. J. J. Morrison will. on
Saturday next, May 4th, sell at auction
some 200 town lots and several choice five
and ten-acre villa tracts adjoining the
town. Loomis is the center OF a thriving
fruit section, and a most desirable locality
for homes and business. The sale is pos
tive, and will take place, rain or shine, on
Saturday.
Parties DESTROYS of attending can take the
$50 train on the morning of the sale, or
any of the regular trains prior thereto.