Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-16
lodge of Forresters and five stores. d

at his place, and does good business.
Above the town is the ranch of w. b.
Cullen, who few years ago served the
public well as county tax collector. He
has seventy acres of high mesa land,
forty of which are planted to oranges and
vines. Mr.. Cullen had just shipped a
carload of excellent claret to firm in
Los Angeles. Just east of his place DR..
Chas. De Szigethy has 100 acres of foot
hill land, part in vines. Mr.. Cullen sold
this during the boom, and came near
selling the rest of his ranch. He re-
fused $1,000 an acre for some
San Gabriel, said to him: "Cullen,
you have prime orange land with plenty
of water 1t is worth in the raw state
$1,000 an acre, and will bring that price
some day. Plant it to trees, and it will
pay an interest of 10 per cent per annum
on $4,000 plus all it will cost to bring it
into bearing" There are many people
who think as Mr.. Chapman thinks, and
they are the people who are right. Mr..
Cullen had an apricot tree near his
house on which he said there were 500
worth of fruit when dried. Mr.. Cullen
has twenty acres set to navel oranges.
Mr.. H. D. Engelhardt has fine place
west of Mr.. Cullen's. All the people on
the place were busy drying fine april
cots. His twenty acres of orchard in
clude peaches as well as apricots, and all
the trees are loaded with fine fruit.
Just above the town of Glendora is
the charming home of Col. Geo. D.
Whitcomb. He is the president of the
Glendora Land and Water Company.
This company has large body OF the
best foothill land. Besides citrus fruits,
there are vineyards of the raisin grape
On the place. There is large orchard
of lemon trees. Winter vegetables are
one of the great industries Of this foot
hill country. Caulihower, asparagus,
green peas and tomatoes ripen here in
January. The wild blackberries in the
caf1ons are in blossom, and bear fruit ali
winter long. The breath of frost never
touches this country. Perhaps it would
be well to give Col. Whitcomb's views
of his district in his own words. They
are every one the expression of prac-
teal and very intelligent man, who is
backing his opinions with all he is
worth. Here they are:
81 refused to sell my best foothill
acre property at $500 to $1,000 per acre
when predicting areaction from the then
boom" prices, as l am one Of the num-
ber who believe there is too little terri
tory under our flag where new vegeta-
bles, ripe fruits and fresh flowers can be
gathered every day in the year, not to
have it iIf time become so high appreci-
ated as to approximate in value nearly
to that of ordinary residence property in
cities especially 80 in the sheltered foot
hills and gl!ens where the rare excellence
of the climate is such as to be balm to
fhn 10 fr11l
most of the infirmities caused by the
rigorous climate of our northern and
eastern states. This climate has done
much for me in this respect, therefore a
desire to remain and see the country be-
come productive and support it's popula-
ton. With this object in view l have
encouraged the production of winter
vegetables, small fruits, etc. also con-
tributed money and furnished land for
an evaporator now curing ten to twenty
tons of fruit per day, and hope to see a
cannery here in the near future
that will can the last of the
green peas, tomato and berry crops
after they become too abundant and
cheap in the northern and eastern mar
kets to be profitable for shipping.
These industries enable the growers to
earn support while growing orange
groves, orchards etc., also employ a
large number of men, women and chill
dren and are especially helpful to the
young, also to partially infrm adults
whose condition units them for doing a
standard days labor, as the work of
picking, cutting, packing etc. is done by
the pound or piece. The result is that
the residents of Glendora are generally
prosperous, children have money OF
their own to supply many of their needs,
the dwellings are occupied and more be-
ing erected. 1t is my Judgment there is
in the aggregate many acres of sheltered
foothill land where it is safe to engage
in the cultivation of winter vegetables
for the northern and eastern markets, but
their shipment by past methods il
unsatisfactory, ordinary freight being
too slow and subject to damage and loss
while express freight 80 increases theil
cost at destination as to make them toe
expensive for general use-therefore SO
limits the amount for production as te
become impracticable for a large bust
! ness. We have made local experiments
with cold storage, and believe if grown
on large scale and shipped in car lots
in special cars and fast freight, with
such suitable conditions as the nature oi
tIc pIOuuClb Hldy require, W. lllu6CTdGC,
l will refer to methods of shipment OF
fresh meats) they can be put into the
eastern markets and wholesaled at rates
that will give the growers, carriers and
dealers satisfactory reward, and enable
the consumer to procure them at such
moderate prices as to create sufficient
demand to take all that can be grown
here, for delivery during the months Of
January to April, inclusive, and add tc
our commodities for exchange with the
north and east an aggregate value Sec
ond only to that of citrus fruits, and
help to solve the problem of what Can
be done to earn living while growing
an orange grove
With this in view the HERALD re-
porter interviewed an official of the
Santa Fe Railway Company, who said
that his company would do all in ita
power to encourage the shipping of win
ter vegetables to the east. He said he
had seen pears kept in cold storage here
for three weeks, and were in perfect con-
dition. They can be laid down in Den
yer in four days and in Chicago in six OF
seven days. To points where straight
carload will not be salable, the company
will allow shippers to put in a
mixed carload of citrus fruits and early
vegetables, so that they may be capable
of handling. Here is the prime oppor-
tunity OF the foothill lands like those at