Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-05
Southern California Forging
Ahead at a Great Pace.
Enterprises Of Great Pith and
Moment on Foot.
A Big Fruit Crystallizing Plant on
the Tapis Now.
Fruit, Vegetables and Mineral Products
Going Out of Los Angeles by the
Million Day by Day.

York, had purchased the old Floyd
ranch near San Gabriel, and that Mr..
Boehme was large importer of the
finest ciystallized fruits of Germany and
France. 1t was further stated it was
the intention of this newcomer to pro-
ceed with the business of manufactur-
ing these fruits here, as he had been
able to secure the rights and secrets of
the processes by which the fruits are
treated. Germany and France have had
two advantages over us in these articles
of commerce-they know the pr ocess
and they have cheap sugar. Now we
can compete on equal terms, as the
Chino factory will give us sugar, and
Mr.. Boehme has secured the secrets.
We have the advantage OF better fruit,
more easily produced.
Mr.. Boehme has not been idle. He
put himself into direct communication
with some of the solid, progressive
business men of the city, with so good
results that he has induced a number
of them to 90 into the scheme. On the
9th of March articles of incorporation
of the Pacific Fruit company were filed
at Sacramento, with George Boehme,
j. B. Lankershim, Caspar Kohn, Harris
Newmark, H. w. Hellman, 1. N. Van
Nuys and Abe Haas as stockholders.
All the stock is taken by these gentle
men, and there is not share of it for
sale. There is ample capital behind the
concern to insure its success in most
liberal measure.
Nor is it on the programme that any
ha ta
the feet OF this great enterprise. Th6
stockholders elected a board OF direct
ors, then proceeded to organize by the
election of J. B. Lankershim, OF the
Main Street Savings bank, president,
the corporation. A liberal assessment
was then levied, and as the stockholders
are all forehanded it was promptly paid
in and is now in bank. Plans were
drawn, site secured and yesterday
ground was broken at the corner of Ala
media and Seventh streets for the erec-
ton Of the building. Several considera-
tions combined to make this site most
desirable. 1t is near the Southern Pa
ciic depot, right on its tracks. 1t is
near the Electric Belt Street Car COM
pany's power house. Central avenue
leads out into the great fruit-growing
district of Vernon, and Seventh street
bisects the city into two pretty even
parts.
The building will be in the shape of
a-college quadrangle, with one flank on
Alameda street 100 feet long, and one
on Seventh street $50 feet long. The
inner parallel sides will be of like
lengths. In the center will be a wide
area or court. By the time this season s
fruit crop is ripe the plant will be
ready for operation. 1t will, when
complete, employ 200 to 800 hands all
the year round.
The importance of this enterprise can
not easily be overestimated. The men
who are in it are not making an expert
ment. They have long got beyond the
stage in business where men take great
risks to make stake. Several OF them
are already millionaires. All of them
have business interests that occupy all
their time. But they are shrewd, prac-
tical men with large business expert
ence. They see here an opening to in
vest money in very safe enterprise
have in Mr.. Boehme man who knows
all the ins and outs of the undertaking,
and he is to have full charge of the prac-
tical operation of the factory. Every
child here knows OF the abundance and
excellence of our fruit products. The
Chino sugar factory will furnish cheap
sugar for the fruit factory, and SC
one industry begets another. This
fruit preserving establishment will be
the means of putting up pottery and
glass factory here as sure as fate. The
raw materials are all here in abundance
and of the best quality. These pre-
served fruits, jams, jellies, marmalades
and what not, will call for no end o
glass and pottery jars. And so the great
ball rolls on.
Another great note of prosperity here
, is heard from the fruit and vegetable
producers that are coming money in the
sale of their crops. All readers of the
papers know that about fifty cars O.
oranges are going daily out of the
country. Navels are selling on the track
!, here at $4 to $3.50 per box. That is
$1,000 and upwards per carload. The
market is very stiff at these prices, for
the reason that the bulk of the navels
are gone forward already.
The seasons campaign in cabbages
will clear up at least 1000 cars. Prices are
not so high as last year for the reason thai
our cabbages compete with those of home
grown III Cne eaSG. LaSC year we nau
the market all to ourselves, on account
of the failure of the eastern crop. The
prices paid here this year average about
$40 ton. At that rate the grower
makes neat profit of $3.50 an acre
where he has done his work properly
1t is quite certain that the shipments o.
potatoes this year will aggregate 200(
cars. For those marketed in May and
early June prices will be very good. The
snow storms in the east are making a
late spring, and that means more de.
mand for our stuff. Green peas, beans,
tomatoes, peppers, cauliflower, and as
paragus are all going out as they have
done for weeks past. Yesterday the
irst carload of maltha, a refined pro-
duct of asphaltum, was sent to New
York with more to follow.
So the good work goes on. Shipments
of all kinds of products from this sec
ton will increase largely year by year
Where one car goes now, ten will &c
next year, and 100 the year after. In g
J few years the country will all look to us
for her fruit and early vegetables, ane
thousands of products from our soil
Yes, the world is ours
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