The herald., 1895-08-19
FOR SALE..-REAL ESTA TIE.
Country Property

one of the best alfalfa ranches in Sout b.
ern California; under good plank fence
$780,
26 acres, 1 mile from Rivera; - to 10
year-old soft and hardshell walnuts: tt
3-year-old soft shell walnuts; to alfalfa
3 to corn and all sorts of fruits; 4-room
house, crib and sheds; l moving machine
and hay rake; $s000-half cash.
10 acres. northeast of Downey 4 mile
81 acres to 6-year-old soft she'll walnuts
in bearing; no house; will sell for $6Oot
inside of years: price $1,000.
7 acres. adjoining the 10 above; 6,room
house, barn, crib stable, windmill and
tank. all new: 2 acres to variety of fruits
to pasture, 1 to alfalfa, . in corn;
horse, l surrey, l buggy. / plow, culti-
vator, fine milk COW, l set of harness,
all the small implements and $50 chick
ems; for $1,000.
am agent for the Crawford property
acres, with the old home Improvements.
$3.50 per acre; or 30 acres with old home
improvements, $l25 per acre: 46 acres
with small house. north end. $4,000 "a
acres and old home residence, $4,000; 10a
acres and all improvements, l mile north
OF Downey. $500.
ITO acres in Rancbita; 42lS to 10 and a.
-ear-old wanuts. 600 sacks last year
will get 100 sacks this year; 10 to corn
and pumpkins; so acres to pasture; ~
acres to oranges, which produced 600O
boxes last season; 7-room house, barn.
crio, windmill, tank and walnut house
this ranch will pay $4,000 year; $40, 0OO-
1-3 cash, balance on time.
100 acres, l mile from Rivera; about Az
acres to hard and soft shell walnuts, ma
jority 10 years old; or 5 acres TO oranges
and all kinds of deciduous fruits; TO-
room. 2-story hard finished house, wind
mill tower and tank, walnut house. barn.
crib and stables: this ranch will pa.v $4,000
year; $40, 900.
10 acres miles yfrom Downey; 8 to
young wanuts; to alfalfa 3 to corn ami
pumpkins; l to grapes. raspberries. black k
berries, awberries and vegetables; A.
room house, barn. crib, stable and chick.
en- house; horse and buggy, milch
cows, moving machine and hay rake.
barrow, > plows. 2 sets of harness and
about 800 chickens; everything goes for
$500.
l 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 III alfalfa, cows
and hogs in this Los Nietos valley, and
now is the time to Guy good improved
land IN this locality for 500. $50 and 5000
per acre. 1t is bound to go higher.
according to the age OF the lrees.
Rivera and Ranchita, miles above
Downey. is the finest walnut country on
the face of the earth. We raise in this
valley oranges, grapes, fgs. prunes, olives,
e.nons, apples. peaches, pears. apricots,
nectarines, plums, cherries, loquats, per-
simmons. ounces. pomegranates. grape
fruit, currants, gooseberries, mulberries,
raspoerries, peanuts, ana we grow cotton
and tobacco & feet high. Watermelons pay
from 500 to $3.50 per acre in this valley.
The mocking birds sing in this valley all
night long.
After cutting the barley off we raise so
to 60 bushels of corn to the acre On the
same land the same year. besides the
pun pkins, beets and citrons-there is no
end 10 them; and for alfalfa. cows. hogs,
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 600.-
600 tons of barley and alfalfa hay. We
shelled and sacked $50. 900 bushels of corn
in 1898, and 800. 900 last year. DUwney
son. Many of them could not be eXcelled
by Riverside. Rivera, 3 miles above,
shipped l25 cars.
Our alfalfa land will produce to tons
per acre each cutting. We cut to times
a year. and it sells from IS to S12 per ton.
1t is selling now, loose in the field. for
S6 per ton. which is equal to $12 per ton
in in the bale. Barley, to 4 tons per acre.
and sells from IS to SIG per ton. Corn,
when planted early. will turn out 70 to
100 bushels per acre, and sells from SOC to
60c per bushel.
We raise everything in this valley. We
pluck ri e oranges IRON the trees every
day in the year. Los Angeles and Pasa-
dena virtually get their support from this
iS Hnnc in a al 70 fn
for the dairy business. We have IL cream
cries and . cheese factories in a radius OF
miles. A water right of 100 miner 8
inches goes with every ranch | sell, and
costs s 1-3c per hour while irrigating.
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 1umed and paid
for. A IL 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
insures crops and is the foundation of
successful horticulture. The Los 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. If you Sc k
home IN California visit the Los Nietos
valley, whose varied interests assure it,
under any and all circums stances, large
ana aver proving prosperity IN the years
winch lie before 1t.
We have nj ore water for Irritating than
any place in California. Within radius
OF miles we have IS water companies.
Downey, II 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
wear, for its size and looks, than any
place in California, and more social set
of people never lived on earth.
Downey has bank, hotel. creamery,
1 winery, l cheese factory, 1 ium ber yard,
l bakery, . livery bles, 2 blacksmith
shops, 3 barber shops. saloons. 5
churches and Is or 90 stores. Her lodges
are the Masonic, Odd fellOWs, heDekaD,
A. o. U. W., Good TEN plars, Foresters.
Chautsuqua and Maccabees. Within a
radius of 3 miles we have 7puplic schools
Only SOC for round trip ticket to Los
Angeles, 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
gees. A number of people do business
in Los Angeles and live in Downey.
n ~
from this town and vicinity attend the
business COLLEGE daily in the city, return