The herald., 1895-11-11

OF U,VUU lO08 Dlt0t Is, tue pIoPVSAtlou
becomes doublv allu ing.
Today the great factory Of the CHINO
Valley Beet Sugar company is hive in
dustry in the hands Of $50 skilled work
men who draw from Is cents per hour TO
the highest wage known to their class In
America far twelve hours per day. Nine
hundred tons of beets are consumed daily
aid 100 to $50 tons of GRADUATED sugar
are made every twenty-four hours.
train load of sugar leaves the factory
every evening of the year for market.
Six hundred barrels of crude petroleum
are daily required to feed the Unsuitable
appetite of the raging flames beneath the
endless battery of boilers in which is
generated the enormous energy required
to m owe the million and quarter dol
lars worth of ponderous m Machinery OF the
plant; 100 tons OF lime rock is passed
lone of the greatest kilns in the world }
every dav in the year. and the. product
utilized in the daily process of the In.
stitution. Ovsr 5000, 900 gallons Of
water or more than the consumption OF
the city of Los Angeles. are consumed
discharges 81. oc0 tons of baet pulp an
nually, which is capable of fecdinG the
30 coo cattle upon the adjacent ranches,
with the addition of alfalfa, for a short
period. A stream of S,000,0oo gallons OF
lime water. capable of irrigating 1000
acres OF lunu Win tu0 RIehtcSt lcr'liiSCi
known to SCIENTIFIC agriculture, is dis
charged from the plant every twenty
four hours. This company pays out an
nually in the town of Chino, in the center
of the ranch, $500, 900 annually for bets
and labor. Farmers are paia regularly
upon the 18th of every month for their
product, in proportion 20 the quantity
and saccharine value Of the beets deliv-
erfd.
The price paid for beets. as has been
said. varies in proportion to their value.
thus insuring to the farmer the most
equable compensation for his labor. The
reversal of the sugar bounty provision
will work slight reduction in the mar
ket price for the coming crop of 1876. 1t
is matter for national regret that so
great and so important an industry
should ever be crippled in its infancy and
should he treated IN a narrow-m.nded
spirit Of indifference or selfshness. The
farmers VINO have invested their all IN
beet culture, as we'll as the company
VIII :ch has erected plant at cost of
N :li,ons OF dollars. are alike entitled to
generous treatment. The success OF the
industry means the development OF one
of the largest industries III which Ameri
can capital and American ingenuity
could possibly become engaged.
Upon basis of the reduction of the
price of beets due to the repeal Of the
bounty, the farmer will still be offered
IN sugar beet culture field tor his activ-
tiles which surpasses in promise OF re-
ward any agricultural avocation known to
American husbandry. AS proof OF what
is actually promised, the following letters
are appended:
San Bernarnino county, March %, 1895.
W. Ii. Holahird. 404 South Broadway,
Los Angeles, CAL:
Dear Sir:-lt affords me pleasure to
give you my experience as farmer on
the Chino ranch. arrived in Chino
April ~ 1891, out did not do much that
year, 1T being too late to go into the beet
business. In 1892, however, l made my
l realized altogether $1,000. This pleased
me so, that the next year, 1898, l put in
25 acres. I was not very happy 10 my
selection of land as 10 acres OF this was
fruit land, which gave but poor re-
turn in bsets. though I made good wages,
but the other Is acres paid me equally as
we'll as in 1892, and my total returns
were over $1,000. From 5N acres realized
$525. Last year was dry year and We
were not supposed to do so we'll, yet from
40 acres my returns were $500, which.
after paying all expenses. left me and my
two boys $1,000 for our labor. The average
tonnage was 1871 tons to the acre. and
SONS have shown 81 tons per acre. My
percentage of sugar has been from IA to
is per cent. This country is the best
place have come across yet, either for
beet farming or general farming. This
last year had 8 acres of alfalfa; from
TINS I have fed horses and 4 cows and
sold $40 worth OF hay. The average tom
mage was IL tons per acre each cutting,
and took off five crops. l find plenty
of outside work to do and this amply pays
all expenses of raising M beet crop.
Myself and two boys do nearly all the
work; one boy is little over and the
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putting in As acres of beets for the COM
ing season, and l know no crop that pays
SO we'll for the work put upon it. Yours
very truly. u. M. ID.
CHINO. CAL, March 6, 1895
W, H. HolaUird Gen. Mangr. Chino
Ranch Co.. 4o4 South Broadway, Los
Angeles, CAL:
Dear Sir Seeing your request In the
Chino Champion for letters from sugar
beet raisers, beg to submit the follow
ing bit Of experience:
In February, 1891. left Chicago. broken
in health and climate refugee. When in
Los Angeles I heard of the sugar beet
industry and resolved to cast my ut with
the beet raisers, although | knew nothing
abont farming. In March OF 1891 ar
rived III Cnino and bong bit land from Mr..
Grid at S175 per acre. made small
payment on the land and planted it in
beets. My first crop netted me 1912. so.
NV second crop nette0 me S4UU. MY third
crop netted me $493o2; and last year on
So acres of ground my crop nstted me
$500.
Now to summaries: Starting IN 1891 on
almost nothing, IN four years l have
ra sed enough beets on my ten acres to
pay for it, besides working out enough
to make my own living ana sending
money back east to pay for schooling my
TWO little boys. California has done so
much for me both physically md fnan-
cislly that feel like recon- ru ending it 10
others. Yours in the interest OF beet
culture, X.
CHINO, CAL, March % 1895.
W. Fl. Holabird, 404 South Broadway,
Los Angeles, CAL:
Dear Sir:-In reply to your inquiry as
to the results of beet sugar farming on
the Chino ranch, l will give you little
data connected with myself. For reasons
unnecessary to expl ain, l have been I'M
able to farm my land myself. SO have
rented it out to 9th ers. Last year my
rental from 1S acres III of the crop) was
$37O.77. l was offered $500 in cash this
year for the same land, but would not &C.
cept it, intending to cultivate the land
myself, and | am well satisfied that l can
clear over all expenses $1,000 or more. I
think average land on the Chino anch
will pay a rental of SIC per acre, after it
has been brought under thorough Guilt
Walton. Yours truly, -.
The Bearing Rein
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