The herald., 1894-01-01


last stages of consumption can be cured
by the climate of Banning, but If ono
goes to the place with any lung left at
all he can proIong his life. Situated aa
it is upon the east slope of the noun
tains. it gets the warm, dry air of the
desert, which is very healing to sick
lungs. Such an eminent authority as
DR.. Frederick G. Knight of Boston in
variably recommends patients suffering
with lung troubles to Banning. More
than half the population OF the place is
composed of people who came there In
search of and found their health. The
talented founder of the Banning Herald,
the late Louis Munson, thus expressed
himself regarding the climate OF Ban
ming:
''There is prevailing in this pass at
this time npell OF weather that must
tempt angels to leave the aspho-
del-starred shores OF their high
abode. The sunshine IN as warm and
comforting az a mothers love; the
shade as refreshing as umufer shower.
The nights sre resplendent with moon
shine. Through the day there sweeps
by the breath of the desert, smooth and
furred like lambskin. AT night
faint STRINGS of the medicinal ether
that serves uB for an atmosphere Eug-
gest the whirr of spirit wings and the
voices of angel visitants. The hills ao-
proach in their distinotness, and like
the devotees in the confessional lay bars
their every fault. The dark line of the
hill creets against the lucid sky as dis
tinct as penciiing on ivory. From matin
bell to matin bell every hour is sweet
legacy, and sleep is robber who de-
spolls us of SO many hours OF glory.
To those who live in Banning there
is no exaggeration in the above picture.
BY the way, the Banning Herald has
done much to make known the mxni-
fold charms and advantages OF Banning.
II. W. Patton was its editor for two
years and gave the paper state wide
and almost national reputation. 1t Ia
now well conducted by J. L. Edmund-
| son.
! BANNING FOR PROFIT.
Citrus fruit growing has go far overs
shadowed everything else in Southern
California that few people know the
steady and sure profits to be made from
deciduous fruits if grown in favored
| localities. Two hundred dollars per
acre is the average net profit from
peaches, prunea, almonds, ETC.,
at Banning and under existing
conditions, There is no reason why
any industrious, capable man should
be without pleasant and prontable
home. For instance, the land company
is selling land, with water, at from SIZE
to $3.50 per acre on five years. time, 81
per cent interest. No payment down
1 is required, and none of the principal is
due until at the expiration OF five years.
A gentleman bought 10 acres at $l25 per
acre and planted it to peaches. The sec
ond year he sold enough fruit to pay hia
interest. The third year his crop snfiiced
to pay for planting, cultivating and in
terest; and tbs fourth year he made
enough to pay for his land. Now that
man is out neither time nor money.
He hireHsall his work done, paid for II
| out OF his crop, and also paid
for his land. MI. O. s. Young,
Of San Francisco, who has probably en-
gineered more successful colony schemes
than any man in California, is in charge
of the sale OF Banning lands, and under
his skillful management they are rap
idly being closed out to a progressive
and enterprising class of people.
Invalids and homaaeekers going to
Banning win find hotel lar superior to
those usually found in towns OF that
size, and class OF residents equal in
culture and refinement to those Of any
community IL Southern Calllornia.
California is to have an experiment