Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-26


fruit stores and peddlers serve the pub
lie are the poorest and highest priced he
ever saw. The fruit to which he has
given the most attention are peaches
which, he says, are about the size OF
plums, sour, and in other respects,
havorless. "They are grown near the
coast, where they do not have the sun
shine that gives to our peaches their
beautiful color, great size and delicious
flavor. Ii you conclude that those lit
tie, sour peaches are better than none
and decide to buy some, you will
be given FIVE pounds for twenty
five cents; If you want the best you will
get three pounds, and they are not COM
parable to the smallest and poorest we
have. He saw no good reason why San
Francisco should not be supplied with
the best fruit in the state. AS it is, a
very bad impression is made on the Wis
itors from abroad, of whom, at all times,
there are so many in the city. At the
prices paid for peaches, that would be
considered absolutely worthless in Kern
county and left to rot on the ground, he
saws, there should be more remunera-
tive market there for large portion at
least of our peach crop, than in eastern
cities. The board of trade of San Fran
cisco could do no better work than to see
to it that the market of that city is well
supplied with good fruit.
MANGEL-wURzEL BEETs.
But won't the Chicago peoples eyes
open out when they look upon the man
gel-wurzel beets grown in this county,
near the Orange depot of the Southern
Pacific, by P. P. and q. G. Field. We
were shown six of them last evening, the
respective of weights of which were 66,
5715, SO, 50, 80 and As pounds. They are
to be sent to the Chicago exhibit. The
seed was planted about the middle of
last February, and in field of an acre
or more a great many just as large as
these are to be found. For vegetable
beets they are large, being nearly as
hefty as some of the dead beats of the
country.-Santa Ana Blade.
CONTRACT FOR LARGE PEACHES.
The peach contract entered into by
G. A. Maui, OF this place, still attracts
notice, and some expressions of incred-
ulity have been heard. The facts of the
matter are simply these: Mr.. Maui has
made contract with responsible firm
to sell to them all his orange cling
peaches that are two and one-half inches
in diameter and over for $40 ton. The
orchard produced eight tons to the acre
last year of such fruit as this, and will
have even larger crop this season. But
at the same rate as last year this would
give gross return of only $500 an acre.
All the labor will not amount to $50, SO
there will be a net profit Of at least $500
per acre for the entire orchard of twenty
on,oo Tb;e MT En,vripr q profit nr,
one tree or one acre, but it is the actual
average for twenty acres, and not for
this orchard alone, but for others as
| we'll. Kern county peach growers
would like to hear from any other sec
ton that thinks it is ''some on peaches" 5"
Certainly nothing better than this has
been heard of in long time.-[ Bakers
field Cor. Fresno ExpositOr.
ALEssANDRo.
About 450 inches of water are being
delivered upon the Alessandro tract to
irrigate about 1000 acres of land planted
to fruit trees this season. Fifty miles of
distributing pipes have been laid, and
the 24.inch pipe line with capacity of
500 inches will be completed to Perris on
August 1, 1891. One hundred inches of
water will be delivered to the Perris
district this season, which will be in
creased to $50 inches in 1892. Fifty men
are at work building roads and survey
ing preparatory to the work of deliver
ing the waters of Whitewater to Ales-
sandro valley. Also large force of men
are at work with day and night shifts,
building reservoir in the valley of the
Santa Ana, near the Lewis ranch.
NEW PIPE LINE,
The San Fernando Land and Water
company have in course of construction
new pipe line, beginning at the juno
tion OF the big and little Tejunga rivers.
A 13-inch pipe will be laid from the point
of beginning to point ION Lincoln ave-
nue., Just east of Thomas Staker's place,
South Pacoima. and will there
connect with 6-inch extern
sion from Pacoima. THE intention is
to furnish water through this line for
all the company's land south of Fourth
street at Pacoima, and will reach large
body of land which could not be reached
by any of the other lines. This
will benefit San Fernando, for the rea-
son that all the water now being used
for Pacoima and vicinity will hereafter
be used in San Fernando, if so required.
w. H. Flor is doing the greater portion
of the ditching and delivering of the
pipe along the line, having commenced
the work last week with large force ol
men and teams; work is now we'll under
way and will be completed within three
weeks. The length OF this line is nearly
three miles and will require several
thousand feet OF pipe.-[San Fernando
World.
! BANNING WILL EXHIBIT.
| Banning is now preparing fruit dis
play for permanent exhibition in the Los
Angeles chamber OF commerce. The
chamber has voted to receive five of Ban.
ning's citizens into its membership
The exhibit will include not only
fruit but grain and other productions,
also gold and silver ore from the
mines depending upon Banning as a
base OF supply. A duplicate exhibition
will be arranged for permanent display
in the Banning town hall.
/ The Banning fruit crop is very abund-
ant. In all there will be nearly 1000
tons to handle. A most excellent yield
considering the youth of the colony
The drier is still running to its full ca
pacity on the apricot crop. The growers
are realizing handsome profits. much
greater than sale to the Gamers would
afford.