Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-09
ORANGE LANDS.
SEMI-TRoPfC LAND AND WATER
COMPANY.
Location of Lands, With Description Of
Soil and Climate. and Comparisax OF
Prices With Other Lands of Similar
Values.

The original purchase of these landi
comprised $4,000 acres, situate immedi-
atcly west OF the cities of San Bernardine
and Cotton.
Two transcontinental lines OF railroad,
the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific, trav-
erse east and west these lands, exactly
two miles apart, giving us two townsites
and stations upon each road, the stations
being four miles from each other, thereby
giving us unexceIled shipping facilities.
Our land extends to within three miles
OF San Bernardino, one and one-half OF
Cotton on the east and five miles OF
Riverside on the south.
Our average altitude is about 1900
feet above sea level, with gradual ard
regular slope from the mountains on the
north, with just fall enough to irrigate
conveniently.
We are 400 feet higher than Riverside
and 200 higher than San Bernardino,
which exempts us almost entirely from
frost.
Our lands are peculiarly adapted to
citrus fruits, being right in the heart of
the best orange producing country in the
state OF California. Our subsoil is the
same that has made Riverside famous
the world over, with this advantage-we
are fortunate in having top dressing Of
decomposed granite ranging to depth
of from six to eighteen inches, which
holds the moisture, always being in good
condition for cultivation and readily
furnishing the proper nourishment for
starting the growth of freshly planted
trees and vines.
Irrigation may be INDUCED in to any
degree without fear of injury to the trees,
vines or vegetables, or the risk of getting
the ground in bad condition, as frequent
ly occurs on land less favored.
Our water rights are unsurpassed. We
own and control almost all the water in
Lytle creek, the fourth largest stream in
Southern California, besides which we
have a large scope of artesian water
bearing land where we have thirty fine
flowing wells emptying their sparkling
waters into pipes which conduct it to the
rich lands below for irrigation, and to
our streets for protection against fire,
and to our dwellings for domestic uses.
We are boring more artesian wells con-
stantly, never failing to secure fine flow
Of water, SO that we have no hesitancy
in saying that we have great abundance
of water for all OF our rich lands.
Of the $4,000 acres originally pur-
chased we have sold about 5000 acres at
5000 per acre, which leaves us about
10000 acres yet to be disposed of.
For the past two years but little land,
comparatively speaking, has been sold in
Southern California, on account of the
depression in the money market, and the
collapse of our boom, but now we think
we see the dawn of an era of prosperity,
such as has never been known in this
country, and in order to attract the at
tention of the world to our superior loca-
ton and lands, we have reduced the
price to figur below the price of the
cheapest agricultural lands in this
country, and propose to sell about 1000
acres to actual settlers and people who
will improve the land, at SIS to 500 per
acre, with 20 and 25 per cent off for inn
provements made within one year from
purchase, making the land but $50 to
$75 per acre to the man who in good faith
improves the land, and on terms within
the reach of all, to-wit: $40 per acre
cash on delivery of contract, balance in
three equal payments, due in two, three
and four years, at per cent. interest.
Think OF it The best orange lands at
$50 and $75 an acre. Go all around us
and ask the price of land not so good as
ours. At Riverside on the south, at
Redlands and Highlands on the east and
northeast of US, all famous orange pro-
ducing districts, the price OF unimproved
lands ranges from $3.50 to $500 pei. acre,
and fol orchards five years old from $1,000
to $4,000 per acre are being paid, and
they are well worth the money invested.
The water for irrigating these lands is
furnished under the "Wright Irrigation
Law" of this state, and costs the land
owner only ~ to $4 per acre per annum.
Rialto, where is located the home
office of the company, is smart little
town of, perhaps, 200 people, situated
on the main line of the great Santa Fe
railroad, four miles west of San Ber-
nardino, and we have fine depot with
telegraph and telephone communica-
tions with the world. A fine large hotel,
the "Semi-Tropic," elegantly furnished
and well kept, occupies a square in the
center OF Rialto, and one of the fine
school buildings for which Southern
Californiais famous, stands upon another
square of the town. Two church organ
izations are in a aourishing condition
the Methodist and Congregational.
A pleasant ride of an hour and half
through the beautiful orange groves of
Los Angeles and San Bernardino coun-
ties takes you from the city OF Los An
geles, the metropolis of Southern Cali
fOrnia, to Rialto.