Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-01
WE ARE GETTING THERE.
4 PLANT FOR PRESERVING yRUIT
TO BE ERECTED.
A Fine Tract Of Land In the San Ca
briel Valley Secured for This Fur-
pose.

A deal was closed on Friday for the
purchase OF tract OF land in the San
Gabriel valley that is Of great impor-
tance to this section. The Messrs. Fran
cisco h Stewart conducted the negotia-
tions, which transferred from the hands
OF several Los Angeles gentlemen to
those OF David Boehm, Of New York,
100 acres OF iine land with three inches
OF water, perpetual flow, for 1872 900.
The land lies q little more than mile
due south Of the new San Gabriel hotel,
and adioins the great ranch OF Richard
Garvey on the north. 1t includes the
old Floyd place and some other prop
erty. The land sold without water
right in 1887 for just half the money now
paid. for it. The water comes from the
old fNtus place, some two miles due
north. The water is worth not less
5000.
Who 81 Mr.. Boehm? And what will
he do with the land? The answers to
these questions are very significant.
Many people regard the fruit prepara-
tidnH Of Cross 4 Blackwell, and other
English packers, as the best made. But
they fall far short Of the goods put up
by the Germans and French. AS a mat.
ter Of fact, great deal Of the fine Eng
lish conserves, preserves, marmalades
and other fruit preparations in use and
SO much esteemed have not particle OF
fruit in their composition. They are
made of glucose, syrups and similar
cheap sweets. Even those that seem
TO be the most genuine, because of the
seeds of the fruits they contain. are said
to be of the most fraudulent prepara-
tion. The seeds are said to be nothing
better than timothy hay seed, tons Of
which are used in London to make glu-
cose and syrup preparations pass for
raspberry and blackberry jams.
The German and French fruit is usu-
ally put up whole, and therefore must
be honest. Passing along Spring street,
one may see in any of the hrst-class
grocery stores bottles of beautiful straw
berries, cherries and other fruits. con-
served in the most delicious manner.
The fruit is perfect in shape, and per-
iectly transparent. All sorts OF small
fruits are thus put up in many cities in
Germany and France. They are worth
here about rs cents for q very small
glass jar full.
Now, Mr.. Boehm is large importer
OF these goods, and he controls for
America a number of very excellent
patents for the preparation of these
goods. He comes here to put up plant
for the purpose OF making Just such fruit
preparations as these. He will import
skilled workmen from Europe who un-
derstand these processes and he will put
in the best machinery known.
There is little doubt that this new en-
terpriee is q direct outgrowth of the
Chino sugar factory. Cheap sugar is an
essential element to such q factory as
this. The duty on the imported jams
and fruits is about 80 per cent. ad val
orem, and that on the glass in which
they are packed is about 35 per cent. The
sugar costs more here than in Germany
and so does the labor. But with the
angar factory at Chino, that necessary
commodity will be cheap here, and
hence the possibility of competing with
the foreign goods.
The next thing to be done in this con-
nection will be to induce capital to put
up plant for the manufacture of glass
and fancy pottery, jars and
bottles to pack such goods in. The
silicon for the glass and the kaoln for
the pottery exist here in inexhaustible
quantities. :
In London it is said rs, 900 people find
employment in preserve, pickle and jam
factories, and in Kent IL, ,00U people are
engaged in the raising Of small fruits
for these industries. Los Angeles can
discount Kent 1000 times in these lines,
and with cheap sugar, cheap glass and
pottery vessels, these industries will
grow to great dimensions, and enrich
the land owners of the section more
than ten artificial booms.