The oasis., 1893-08-10
PROFIT IN ALMONDS.


 Woodland Mail:
 This year from l90 California paper ''shell almond trees five years old) towering two and iiye-seyenths acres. ''I gathered 3,502 pounds of nuts, that ''sold in Chicago at twenty-two cents ''per pound. This is S3l4.S2 10 the acre "a little oyerS4 to the eighteen pounds to the tree. When these same "trees were four years old they aver
 aged about three pounds and at eight years they will double what they bore ''at five. They will at eight years bear ''fully forty pounds to the tree without ''the least exertion. This at seventy ''trees to the acre, and reckoning at ''twenty-two cents to the pound, is ''sl ,j40.00 per acre. Now these are nothing but plain, bare. raw facts
 Almond trees live and do well for fifty years, and in some places in Europe when fifteen years old bear "from ljO to POO pounds per tree
 The same results attained in the cul- ture of almonds by Mr. Treat. can be reached in Southern Arizona. Devoted to the culture of Almonds very small acreage would yield handsome reye- nue. What better investment can be made than in a five or ten acre tract in the Arizola colony planted in this valuable tree? What has been done at Davisyille may easily be repeated here. Land that can be bought at prices at which the colony tracts are selling that possesses such splendid product i've capacity is surely a gilt edged in- vestment. At the figures quoted, in the fifth year ten acres will yield gross revenue Of more than 5000, and deducting freight and other expenses the net return will very near equal that sum: while at eight years the net revenue from the same ten acres will he close to sl5,000.O0. What better chance to acquire competence can a man of limited income expect than by investing his savings on the install ment plan iE five or ten acre tract in the Arizola colony, and have If planted in almonds and cared for by the com pany? By the time the last payment is made the fortunate investor will have home and q handsome property which will yield comfortable living with very little care and attention; with an assured annual increase that in q few years will make the reyeoue almost prlncely.
 Such investment can be made with out fear Of any material change in the value of the product as the years pass. In other words there is no reason to a reduction in profits from nyerproduction. That subject was thoroughly ventilated in recent arti- cle in the Arizona Magazine, copied by TIE OASIS. The writer had called on many dealers in nuts In eastern cities, and had corresponded with importers fin Boston, New York and Philadel- phla, invariably leyeling his inquiries upon the single question involved. He fouud all agreed that there isa very large and rapidly increasing demand for almonds to satisfy which will re- qulre the product of many thousand acres. It Is doubtful whether there is enough land that will produce the almond to satisfy the growing demand and shut off foreign importation. In this light 1t is self evident proposi tIon that the far-sighted planter of an almond orchard plants for lasting profit and permanent prosper ity. Anyone looking for propositions of that kind win find plenty of them right here at ArIzola. Come and take
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