Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25
RIALTO.
No Frost to InJure Fruit-News and Per-
sona1 Notes.

No Frost to InJure Fruft-News and Per- |
sonal Notes.
RIALTo, Dec. 24.-The Ria!to lemon |
company, formed Of Los Angeles capital
lists, purchased of the Semi-Tropic Land
company this week 100 acres on Merrill |
avenue. the most of which they will at
once plant to lemons, believing that this
is the best location for lemon growing in
Southern California, and is to be the
center of the lemon industry on account
OF its entire freedom from frosts, as ex-
empifed both during the freeze in other
localities last winter and its freedom
from frost during the recent con-
tinued cold snap in Southern Cali
fornia. The Morris nursery has the
contract for supplying and putting out
the trees on the tract. While it will be
nearly all planted to lemons they will
put in 40S citron and a quantity of
Mediterranean sweet orange trees.
E. l. Mack sold this week to w. S.
Hooper of San Bernardino lots 224 and
237 of the Rialto tract near the South
ern Pacific road, comprising 32 acres. for
$4,000.
Rialto is tie banner prohibition town
of the county if not the state, and w. Ii.
Mills of this place has been chosen
chairman of the county central commit
tee. They expect to resume active work
with the beginning of the new year.
Squatters are coming in rapidly and
taking up all the odd sections of land to
the north of town, taken from the
Southern Pacific by the recent decision
of the supreme court. AS most OF the
land has been sold by the railroad COM
pany to other parties there are lively
times probable in the near future and
plenty of work for the law sharks.
Another illustration of the location of
Rialto within the frostless belt was
given last Monday, when the ther-
mometer marked 80 above, while at
Riverside, San Bernardino and other
neighboring cities it went down to "a.
The most tender shoots on the orange
and lemon trees and the young nursery
stock is, 30 far, this winter entirely un-
touched by frosts, and last winter was
equally fortunate in the great cold wave
that did such damage in this section.
Young lemon trees, only year old on
the Rialto tract, are putting out fruit
buds and nearly ready to blossom, un.
touched by cold or frost.
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here. W. p. Martin of Cottonwood
Falls, Kan, whose family arrived some
weeks since, writes the Orange Belt
"While my wife and children and best
wishes are with you am here under 6
foot of snow and sleet, but hope to join
you and the loved ones ere long. We
have had two billiards. within the past
10 days, and ice on creeks and rivers
to 8 inches thick" He has several
thousand head of cattle and hogs to dis
pose of, when he will come to Rialto
and build fine residence here for 9
permanent home. He is expected in
February.
Christmas is to be duly celebrated a,
the churches in the usual manner, the
NJ. E. society holding forth ON Saturday
and the Congregationalists on Monday
night. The Christmas tree and Sunday
school exercises will furnish the enter
tainment.
On account of the rush of business in
the land department, j. W. Tibbott has
sold out the grocery and hardware store
OF Tibbott Bros. to l. II. Kingman
Co., who have put in a stock OF dry
goods, clothing, hats, caps, boots and
shoes, and will run one Of the largest
general merchandise stores in ths
county.
L. NJ. Holt OF the Orange Belt is one
one of the most busy men in town, add
ing to his editorial duties and land bust
ness large amount of active work fol
the state citrus fair at Cotton, and the
worlds fair.