The herald., 1896-07-05
FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE
Country Property

FOR SALE
] acre, u mile from Downey. $3.50.
! acres acres, mil mile from Dcwney' $3.50.
4 acres. IA mile from Downey. $500.
6 acres, n mile from Downey. $3.50.
fas acas 2 acres 1ss we're ,'o out times I Year.
g acres. about IS to alfalfa. rs for corn.
II enoed anS crcs;
20 acres. to fruits and berries 2 fine
artesian wells; Il acres to corn and beets;
house and smoke house; s225o.
20 acres. II acres as fine alfalfa as you
ad yosp on Ras
now, in corn; " acre to variety fruits;
good broom I., house s.sod barn, crib stable and
20 acres, 8 TO alfalfa. 8 to barley and
beets. 8 to softshell walnuts, interset to
apples. peaches. apricots. prunes, and
heseS ne p,umis mic COWS ew "Ibsg "1T blow
room house, barn. crib, stable. wells;
$4,000
The finest alfalfa ranch in the state: 40
acres, to 12-year-old softshell walnutS:
35 acres as fine alfalfa as there is in Los
Angeles county sowed inMarch last year.
cut times last year; has been cut four
times this season; 1t cuts tons. per acre
each cutting and will be cut times this
year: 4-room house. barn. crib. and sta
Bile; 5000 per acre; $4,000 cash and balance
j, ana years.
We have no mosquitoes in this valley
no northers, no cyclones no sunstrokes,
no thunder storms, no billiards., no snow,
no chills nor miasmatic fevers of any de-
scription. We who have lived here for a
number Of years do not know how to ap-
preciate thfs climate.We are 12 miles NE.
Of Long Beach, finest bathing and sum-
mer resort in the world and we are liv-
ing in the best all-the-year-round cli-
mate on earth.
Rivera and Ranchita. miles above
Downey, is the finest walnut country on
the face of the earth. We raise In this
valley oranges, grapes, figs, pruneS,
olives. lemons apples, peaches. pears,
apricots, nectarines. plums. cherries. To-
quats. persimmons. ounces, pomegran-
ates. grapefruit, currants. gooseberries,
mulberries. raspberries. peanuts. cotton
and tobacco. Watermelons pay from SIS
to SlO0 per acre in this valley. The mock
ing birds sing in this valley during the
spring and summer months all night
long.
Walnuts pay from $50 to 5000 per acre
owing to. the age of the trees. Softshell
walnuts, begin bearing when years old:
hardshells at 7 years, and continue to in
crease in fruitage until maturity, which
This valley shipped 5000 6ooworth Of Of wal
of barley and alfalfa hay. We shelled and
sacked 100000 bushels OF corn in 1894, and
$50. 900 last year: this year we will shell
100000 bushels. Downey shipped 80 car
loads of oranges last year; many of them
could not be excelled by Riverside. Ri
vera, miles above shipping 125 cars. -.
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
pumpkins, beets, citrons, pie-melons,
muskmelons and watermelons-there is
no end to them, and for alfalfa, cows,
hogs. chickens. turkeys, ducks and geese
this valley beats the world.
Our alfalfa land will produce to tons
per acre each cutting. We cut 5 to times
year and sells from Sc to s12 per ton
loose in the field; barley 2 to tons per
acre and sells from $S to SIG per ton. Corn
when planted early will turn out IS to 100