Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-30
IN THE CHAMBER.
Shipments to California on Wheels and
Other Matters.

OLuCl fAdLtCiS'
Yesterday the following donations to
the permanent exhibit of the chamber
commerce in this city were reported:
B. w. Cook, Minneapolis, sweet pota-
toes, Seeding peaches, muscat, hambury
and berger grapes, pears and corn; ) III,
Potts, East Los Angeles, twenty-five
pound musk melon; c. B. Erskine.
Troplco, figs, prunes, plums, ounces;
D. p. Long, Glendale, apples; A. A.
Wolf, Tropico, apples and beets, }. J.
Lindgrin, Glendale, Salway peach,
orange ounces: Cyrus Brown, Downey,
apples; s. G. Speer, Verdugo avenue,
grapes and tomatoes; Ben njamin Walton,
Compton, pie pumpkins; ID. Dickinson,
Norwalk, apples, plums, grapes, citrons,
prunes, flowers; j. Samuels, Carmlneta,
cling peaches.
The chambers regular shipment to
California ON Wheels, consisted of six
from T. j. Teal and Cyrus Brown Japan
plums, Rev. D. Hughes and Mr.. Brim-
bic; lemons, potatoes, apples, ounces,
J. Kern; sun flowers, =. Poikinhorn;
snake cucumber, Geo. w. Dye; abalone
shells, j. E. Smith; German prunes,
+. K. Plummer; egg plums, prunes, figs,
E. B. Erskine pears, corn, sweet pota-
toes, j. w. Cook; muskmelons, j. w.
Potts; pink beans, A. V. DeToro; pome
GRANTEES, J. Miller; st. Johns bread,
citrons, d. d. Johnson; corn in stalk, 16
feet high, L. H. Rule; one case of pam
phlets.
Mr.. Mathes writes Secretary Han
chette that the last shipments received
were in pretty good condition except one
or two articles, and that Los Angeles
was ahead in fresh donations.
AS represented in the HERALD the
secretary has sent out large number OF
circulars to get at crop reports for the
season, and among the first returns is
the following:
Name of producer, Ernest Dewey;
location of land with postoffice and
distance from nearest railway station,
Pomona; name of product, golden
cling peaches; acres in cultivation, 10
acres-7 year old trees amount pro
| duced. AZ tons-green; amount of
sales, dried at 20 cents per pound, S4 800; !;
cost of production, $243.7O; net profit,
$4,557 80; nature of soil, sandy loam !;
! irrigated or not, no; amount OF water
| GnchesI per acre -; amount of rain, 2S
inches; increase in production and price
compared with former year, 60 per cent.
Name OF producer, Ernest Dewey; loca-
ton Of land with post office and distance
from nearest railway station, Pomona;
name of product, prunes; acres in
cultivation, g. amount produced, 80
tons-green; amount of sales, dried
az 10 cents per pound, $3,147; cost of
production, $403; net profit, $2,734;
nature Of soil, sandy loan; irrigated or
not, yes; amount of water (inches) per
acre, l inch to 10 acres; amount of
rain. -; increase in production and
price compared with former year, 60 per
cent
The directors OF the chamber desire to
have it generally known that their
rooms are always open to all societies of
an agricultural, horticultural or other
kindred nature, for their meetings.
The statistical and descriptive pam
phlet gotten up by the chamber, is being
mailed to people all over the country.
1t contains about sixty octave pages, and
gives great deal OF information about
the country and it's resources.
Major Ben G. Truman will leave here
next Tuesday for Chicago, where he will
at once get to work to prepare for the
opening of the permanent exhibit in the
Realto building.