Los Angeles herald., 1890-11-16
Notes of Progress From Many
Nearby Points.
Walnuts Being Sold and Prepar-
ations Making for Oranges.
Planting of Many Trees the Busi-
ness of the Coming Winter.
The Beginning of an Era of the Greatest
Progress Ever Witnessed in South
ern California.

j. F. Isbell of Rivera was in the city
yesterday; he said to HERALD reporter
that the walnut crop was about all
gathered and marketed at that place.
The Walnut Growers association has
landed about forty cars of the nuts.
Outside of the association there are
about fifteen carloads; this is total OF
fitty-five carloads OF 20, 1000 pounds each.
Here is total of 100000 pounds OF
nuts. That may be a little over esti-
mated, but the value of the crop is be-
tween $50 900 and 100000 to the growers.
All these nuts come from an area en-
closed in circle whose radius is not
more than three miles, the center being
at the Rivera depot.
Now the people are turning their at
tention in that locality to the orange
crop. Most of the trees there are seed
lings, and they are loaded. Mr.. Isbell
estimates that the crop will fill 200 cars.
This is much greater crop than that OF
last year; but that season the seedlings
bore light crop. This year there is a
prodigious crop, as the trees 1owered
heavily and no influence followed to mar
the bright prospect at any moment to
the present hour. Buyers are in the
field, but thus far are too coy to tell the
grower how badly they want the crop.
Good seedlings are worth $3.50 on the
tree right now. If Rivera has 200 cars
at 800 boxes to the car, there are 10000
boxes, and at $3.50 per box there are
800, 1000 to add to about a like amount
for nuts. How is that any way for a
three-mile circle of territory! Nearly
5000, 900 to go into the pockets OF few
farmers
Mr.. Isbell reports an active demand
for land. Within short time one small
farm of so acres, the property of Max
Wade, sold for $4,000, Homer Judson
sold seventeen acres for $4,000, and 2.
N. Yonker sold ten acres for $4,000.
and not many sellers at present prices.
Rivera is not alone in these respects.
A HERALD reporter spent last week in
the country, one day at Anaheim. He
found that the walnut shipments from
that point will amount to about ten
| cars at least. This crop will bring in
there nearly $40, 900. A fine crop of Or
anges is now on the trees at Anaheim,
and the buyers are in there TOO. 1t is
estimated that there will be sixty cars
TO 60 from that district. This will be
$4,000 boxes, worth nearly 100000.
Think of so small place getting $50, 900
from a sale of two crops. In all parts OF
the country about Anaheim land is being
sold rapidly. One agent said his office
had made sales amounting to $4,000 or
$4,000 in September. Small villages
are being built of half dozen to half a
score of homes in each. Piles of lum ber
are lying on the ground preparatory to
putting up these little homes. Timothy
Carroll, the nurseryman, said to the re-
porter that he had been at Anaheim
for years, and that knowing, as he does,
all the country, he thinks Anaheim is as
good district for oranges as any in the
land. while for walnuts it is the peer of
the very best. He predicted that the
time is near when all the country around
there will be planted thickly with
orange and walnut orchards. He points
to the sale of trees as proof of this
| The growers of trees are selling by the
| thousand, and the total for the season
will be something simply prodigious.
One colony bought 5000 walnut trees,
two years old, at a clip. At twenty to
the acre these will set 250 acres. In five
years, Improperly cared for, they will yield
$5 worth of walnuts to the tree, or 500
an acre, or $25, 900 worth of nuts. There
will be as many oranges set as nuts in
that district. There is good demand
for good lands about Anaheim. good
many people in Los Angeles and Pasa-
dena are trading city property for that
in the country. They are getting the
best of the bargain by far.
Another place where the reporter
spent dav was at Pomona. 1t is
amazing the amount of fruit that has
gone from there during the past year.
Prunes, peaches, pears and apricots,
with grapes, are the chief items.
Now the orange crop is coming on, and it
is good. The fruit-growers have taken
in all the way from 5000 to $3.50 an acre
for their crops of fruit. The orange
crop will be the best of all. Most of the
fruit at Pomona is OF the budded varie-
ties, and the oranges will sell for $3.50
per box. The crop ought to amount to
say rs cars. That will be 22,500 boxes,
which, at $3.50 per box, will come to
nearly 10000. Newcomers are flock
ing daily into Pomona, and lands are
selling freely at good prices. The buy
ers all proceed to put up neat cottages