The oasis., 1893-08-17
PROFIT IN ALMONDS.

mia, an authority on almond culture, has contributed the following to the Woodland Mail:
 '"rhis year from l90 California paper ''shel almond trees five years old) covering two and flye-seyenths acres, ''I gathered 3,502 pounds of nuts, that "sold in Chicago at twenty-two cents ''per pound. This lss3l4.s2 tothe acre "--a llttleoyer s4 to the tree eighteen ''pounds to the tree. When thcse same ''trees were four years old they aver ''aged about three pounds, and at eight "y9ars they will double what they bore lat five. They will at eight years bear ''fully forty pounds tothe tree without "the least exertion. This at seventy "trees to the acre, and reckoning at "twenty-two cents to the pound Is "sl ,540,00 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 l50 to POO pounds per tree
 The same results attained in the cul- ture of almonds by Mir. Treat, can be reached in Southern Arizona. Devoted to the culture of Almonds a very small acreage would yield a handsome reye- nue. What better investment can be made than in a five or ten acre tract in the Arlzola colony planted in this valuable treey What has been done at Dayisvllle may easily be repeated here. Land that can he bought at prices at which the colony tracts are selling that possesses such a 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 S3,000. 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 be close to si5,O00.00. What better chance to acquire competence can a man of limited income, expect than by investing his savings on the install ment plan in a five or ten acre tract in the Arizola colony, and hayeit planted in almonds and cared for by the com panys By the time the last payment Is made the fortunate investor will have a home and handsome property which will yield comfortable living with very little care and attention: with an assured annual increase that in a few years will make the reyeoue almost princely.
 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 apprehend reduction in profits from oyerproduction. That subject was thoroughly ventilated in recent arti- cIe in the Arizona Magazine, copied by TIE OASIS. The writer had called on many dealers in nuts in eastern cities, and had corrcsponded with importers in Boston, New York and Philadel- phia, invariably leveling 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 quire 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 of 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 tlat kind will find pfrntp of fhpn,