Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-31
FIVE CENTS.

has been badly damaged and prices are
advancing rapidly. Six dollars and
fifty cents per box for choice stock is
asked in the east at present. Dealers
predict that much higher prices will
rule. One shipper claims that choice
lemons in midsummer will sell at $40
per box.-[Californi Fruit Grower.
In Santa Barbara there is some inter
est being manifested in the Choco, a now
plant or vine, well known in the island
of Samoa. The fruit weighs on the aver
age about three pounds, and has the
flavor of chestnut. 1t ripens in about
ninety days, and has been known to
grow to weigh twenty pounds. If it can
be grown in Santa Barbara it can be in
Riverside. A chestnut weighing three
or four pounds would be quite curius-
ty.-[Riverside Press.
The 1300-acre ranch of Dixie Thomp-
son, just below town, will produce more
value this season than many whole
counties in Kansas. At fair estimate
it will produce 2,0o0, 900 pounds of beans,
which at the present market price of
three cents pound will make Mr..
Thompson gross sum of $60,000 1t is
safe to say that he made more than that
sum from his Ventura county ranch last
season, and he can truthfully say, with
others, that there is money in beans
Ventura Free Press.
To the question by a representative of
the Santa Barbara Press, who visited
Ellwood the other day, Mr.. Cooper said
that it was just one year from the time
the olive is in bloom to the time the
olive is ready for market, on the 30th of
May. Mr.. Cooper's olive orchard now
comprises about two hundred acres, and
the output this year will be equal to
twenty-eight thousand full bottles; that
at one dollar a bottle wholesale, is GER
tain OF considerable business.
Some of the Southern California fruit
growers who have learned the art of
curing lemons properly for market, are
getting $3.50 box for their lemon crops
in New York and Philadelphia. The
receipts of Mediterranean lemons in the
former city only last month were $1,000
boxes, and the receipts there will un-
doubtedly be over 100000 boxes this
month. So it does not seem that the
lemon owing industry in California for
the American market can be overdone
for many, many years. Pomona Pro-
gress.
Those who contemplate the proba-
bility of the orange business being over
done, should take into consideration the
population about 15,000,000 every ten
years. Admitting that California ships
today 1000 carloads of oranges of 300
boxes to the Car, it would give only one
box per year to every ten persons who
will come to this country in the next
ten years. to say nothing of the IS ,000,-
600 who are already here.-San Bernar-
dino Times-Index.
The strange and very destructive
grape vine disease, that caused the ruin
of thousands OF acres of vineyards in
Southern California in 1887, 1883 and
1889. has certainly run its course. A
few vines in Pomona died of the disease
two and three years ago, and for time,
the owners of vineyard property were
somewhat alarmed. During the past
year, however, there has been no in
crease IN the disease in this locality,
and the best kept vineyards have never
looked better than this season.-[Po-
mona Progress.
The Importance of our local bee indus
try is usually overlooked and yet con-
stitutes an important element in the
natural wealth of Southern California.
The season this year has so Jar been very
favorable in its cool weather for the de-
velopment of honey in the white sage,
the most valuable of our honey producing
plants. In the foothills in the vicinity of
Pomona are from ten to twenty bee men
with stands of bees ranging from fifty to
six hundred swarms. The total number
of stands is estimated at between two
and three thousand. AS each swarm
will produce usually from fifty to two
hundred pounds of honey in season, it
will be seen that, at the usual prices. the
Pomona honey crop will be worth from
$4,000 to $4,000. Pomona Progress.