The herald., 1895-08-18
FOR SALE-.-REAL ESTATE.
Country PrODerfy

year-old soft and hardshell walnuts. TO
3-year-old soft shell walnuts; 3 to alfalfa !;
3 to corn and all sorts of fruits; 4-room
house, crib and sheds; moving machine
and hay rake; $s000-half cash.
10 acres. northeast of Downey mile !;
sl1 acres to 6-year-old soft shell walnuts
in bearing; no house; will sell for $4,000
inside OF 2 years: price 5000.
acres. adjoining the 10 above 6-room
house, barn, crib stable, windmill and
tank. all new; acres to variety of fruits
to pasture, to alfalfa in corn; 1
vator, fine milk COW, | set of harness,
all the small implements and $50 chick
ems; for $1,000.
| am agent for the Crawford property
adjoining Downey; II acres, $500; 20
acres, with the old home i'm provements,
$3.50 per acre; or 30 acres with old home
improvements. $125 per acre; As acres
with small house, north end. $4,000; 81
acres and old homo residence, $4,000; 100
acres and all improvements, l mile north
OF Downey. $8500
ITO acres in Ranchita; 42% to II and a.
year-old walnuts, 800 sacks last year !;
will get 700 sacks this year; 10 to corn
and pumpkins; so acres to pasture; ~
acres to oranges, which produced 5000
boxes last season; 7-room house, barn,
crlo, windmill, tank and walnut house;
this ranch will pay $4,000 year; $40, 00O-
I"o casn, balance Oh time.
100 acres, mile from Rivera; about 40
acres TO hard and soft shell walnuts, ma
Jority 10 years old; 4 or acres to oranges
and all kinds of deciduous fruits; 10
room, 2-story hard-fnished house, wind
mill tower and tank, walnut house. barn.
crib and stables this ranch will pav $4,000
year; $40, 900.
10 acres . miles from Downey; 3 to
young walnuts; to alfalfa; 3 to corn and
pumpkins; l to grapes. raspberries. black
oerries, strawberries and vegeta bles; A.
room house, barn, crib, BILE and chick
en- house; horse and buggy, 3 milch
cows, moving machine and hay rake, 1
harrow, 2 plows, 2 sets of harness and
about 800 chickens; everything goes for
$500.
have land for sale which has produced
300 sacks of potatoes. 100 pounds to the
sack, and 100 bushels of corn to the acre
the same year. Now is the time to sec
the immense crops growing in this valley.
There is good money in alfalfa, cows
now is the time to buy good improved
land IN this locality for 500, $3.50 and 500
per acre. 1t is bound to go higher.
Walnuts nay from $50 to 5000 per acre.
according to the age of the trees.
Rivera and Ranchita, 3 miles above
Downey. is the finest walnut country on
the face Of che earth. We raise in this
valley oranges, grapes, figs, prunes, olives,
lemons, apples, peaches, pears. apricots,
nectarines, plums, cherries, loquats, per-
simmons. ounces. pomegranates. grape
fruit, currants, gooseberries, mulberries,
raspberries. peanuts, and we grow cotton
and tobacco 9 feet high. WatermaIons pay
from 500 to $3.50 per acre in this valley.
The mooking birds sing in this valley all
night long.
After cutting the barley off we raise so
to 6O bushels OF corn to the acre on the
same land the same year. besides the
pumpkins, beets and citrons-there is no
end to them; and for alfalfa. cows, hogs, 3
sheep, goats, chickens, turkey. ducks and
geese this valley beats the world.
This valley shipped 175 carloads OF wal
nuts last season. 1t produced over 6O0,-
600 TONS Of barley and alfalfa hay. We
shelled and sacked 250. 900 bushels of corn.
in 1888. and 3O0,0 900 last year. Duwney
shipped 90 carloads of oranges this sea-
son. Many of them could not be excelled
by Riverside. Rivera, 81 miles above,
shipped l25 cars. Fl rrt 7g',
Our alfalfa land will produce to 2 tons
per acre each cutting. We cut to times
a year, and it sells from IS to $12 per tor.
1t is selling now, loose in the field, for
IN the bale. Barley, 3 to tons per acre,
and sells from $S to SIG per ton. Corn,
when planted early, will turn out 75 to
100 bushels per acre, and sells from SOC to
60c per bushel. 'F- @
We raise everything in this valley. We
pluck IiI oranges from the trees every
day in the year. Los Angeles and Pasa-
dena virtually get their support, from this
valley. 1t is the finest section in the state
for the dairy business. We have II cream
cries and cheese factories in radius OF
miles, A water right of 100 miners
inches goes with every ranch | sell, and
costs l3c per hour while irrgating. |
The lands of this valley are not incum-
bered by school or irrigation bonds. All
the water companies have money in their
treasures. We owe nothing on our roads
and we have some 10 or II miles of our
main irrigation ditch fiumed and paid
for. A II this speaks well for this locality,
and but few valleys in the state can say
as much.
In southern California. water-not land
is OF the Fl st importance. Irrigation
lnsures crops and is the foundation of
successful horticulture. The Lo, Nietos
valley offers perhaps the best all round
water supply in the whols southern part
OF the state. and this should be remem-
bered by intending settlers. Ii you SO k
a home IN California visit the Los Nietos
valley, whose varied interests assure it,
under any and all circumstances, a large
ana ever growing prosperity IN the years
which lie before it.
We have nj ore water for Irritating than
OF miles We have 1S water companies.
Downey, IL miles southeast of Los An
glees, between the Old and the new San
Gabriel rivers, OH the Southern Pacific
railroad. with about 1900 Inhabitants is
located in one Of the richest and most
productive valleys in California. known
as the Ranchito or Los Nietos valley.
We are II miles northeast of Long
Beach, the finest bathing and summer
resort in the world.
A milder, more delightful climate can
not be found in the state. We have
black berries. Strawberries and nearly all
kinds OF vegetables the year round. All |
vegetation is green in this valley the en-
tire year.
Downey does more BUSINESS in one
year, Tor Its size and looks, than any
place in California. and more social set
of people never lived on earth.
Downey has bank, hotel. 1 creamery,
winery, cheese factory, ium Der yard,
l bakery, 2 livery ables, 2 blacksmith
shops, barber shops, 3 saloons. 5 |
ch Jrches and 10 or 20 stores. Her lodges |
are the Masonic. Odd Fellows, Rebekah,
A. 0. U. W., Good Templars, Foresters. |
and Maccabee Within a |
radius Of miles we have public schools. !
Only Soc for round trip ticket to Los |
the city of 100, 900 inhabitants. |
which is destined to be the largest west |
of the Rocky Mountains. We have daily |
passenger trains in and out of Los An |
geles. number of people do business
in Los Angeles and live in Downey.
Many OF the young men and young ladies |
from this town and vicinity attend the |
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