The Arizona sentinel., 1893-09-16
Robert Raymond, Yuma, Ariz.
Son Robert:-


 Enclosed find $l9. I will senc you more during the week. Youl request about wearing apparel, will hand to your mamma so it will be answered by her. You are using more ability now than you had in the Kerne co. If you had done that way, we would have never had the trouble we have had. 1 want you to attend strictly to business while you are there and I want you to see that this fellow carries out his contract. will enclose you contract copy of the one he has signed, so he will do just what he agreed. I am glad Birdsoll is ready to help you. Now see about the water machine on the trial plan We have several articles that we are to send you.
 On Sunday sent you the cherry sticks which you can keep till you are ready to try for water. Remember l have two other tracts, one I am sell ing now, that want a man to take care of. I am sending new tract to the Kerne Go. man, so 1 will push that harder yet. Now don't you waver, attend strictly to business and take advantage of everything that will do any good. Send me Cali fornia and Ariz. papers to the house.
 l will see that you have your ex- pense money now hereafter, as busi- ness is picking up some. Il got let ter from the Los Angeles Board of Trade about their fertilizing. Go and get good size package of earth from the sections you are working on, send it to O. M, Wells, by express prepaid, l43, s. Broadway, Los An geles, Oal. Enclose a note stating that l requested you to send the earth so that he could see for himself what it was, as we want fertllizing placed around our trees when we put them in. I will write you again Friday. WALTER J. RAYMOND.
 $25OO enclosed. Say you get it or it's arrival.
 The letter head upon which the above letter was type written, reads Walter J. Raymond, owner, planter and cultivator of California land, 42 E. Second street, Dayton, O. On one corner is printed: California land, 8 down, S4 per month. $I0O per acre, $50 profit after harvest of first crop, or all money returned. The other corner reads: Wonderful California. Cherries grow 3 inches in circumference, carrots weigh 37 pounds each, cabbage weigh 75 pounds each, onions weigh 5 pounds each, watermelons weigh 85 pounds each, beets weigh 200 pounds each, straw berries weigh 2 ounces, pumpkins weigh 34 pounds each, potatoes weigh I5 pounds each, cornstalks 20 feet high, flowers bloom in open air every day the year round, redwood trees 300 feet high, 21 feet in diameter, corn 150 bushels to the acre, crops each year and alfalfa 6 crops each year. The second letter is dated Fort Dodge, Iowa, Dec, 7th, 1891, and reads: Walter J. Raymond,
 Dayton, Ohio. Yours of the 2d int. reed In reply would say that after re-reading your former circulars, 1 have decided | to have one-ffth of my land prune The four ffths you may di- vide equally between figs and olives, ,r give three-ifths to figs and one- fifth to olives.
 Signed. THEo. W. FRENCH.
 W. J. Raymond,
 Dayton, Ohio.
 Dear Sir.-Enclosed find check for Iix (6) dollars on four (4) acres as per Iced and contract 'Sl. I should be 7ery much pleased if your son would end me a rough sketch of my tract as ,ou suggest and I will notify you when l change my address.
 Yours truly.
 Signed CHAs. s. THOMPSON,
 N. H. Hospital, New Haven,
 Conn. P. S.-Keep and write him when you hear from me-