The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-05-24
Country Property

FOR SALE y
81 acres miles from Downey: all to a.
falfa 20 acres was cut times last year:
800 per acre.
10 acres, Y mile from postoffice: ~
acres TO blackberries and strawberries:
fine location; 800 per acre.
20 acres, miles from Downey: to al
falfa, to barley and beets to softshell
walnuts. interset to apples. peaches, APP
ricots, prunes and Kelsey plums; new
wagon, work horses. fine mich cows.
! harrow. ] pillow, 4-room house, barn,
crib, stable, . wells; $4,000.
The finest alfalfa raSch in the state: 40
acres. mile from Dooney. to 12-year-
old softshell walnuts; 80 acres as fine
alfalfa as there is in Los Angeles county.
sowed in March last year: cut times
last year; we are cutting the second time
this season; ii cuts tons per acre each
cutting and will be cut times this year:
4-room house. barn. crib and stable; 5000
per acre; $1,000 cash, balance /, and 3
years.
When the hot, dry weather comes on,
every farmer in the state will want a
ranch i'll this valley. Pay no attention
to any agent who talks against this val
ley. Come and see for yourself.
After a residence of years here | say.
without fear of contradiction. that this
is the most productive valley for all pur-
poses in the state.
We have thousands of artesian wells i'll
this valley from 100 to 500 feet deep. with
n never-ending flow of pure artesian
water. 1t is the finest section in the state
for the dairy business. This valley has
10000 milch COWS and more coming. In
radius of miles we have II creameries
and cheese factories.
We have no mosquitoes in this valley,
no northers, no cyclones, no sunstrokeS,
no thunder storms. no blizzards no snow,
no chills nor masmatic fevers of any de-
scription. We are ~ miles northeast Of
Long Beach. the finest bathing and sum-
mer resort in the world. and we are liv-
ing i'll the best all-the-year-roun cli-
mate on earth.
rake and haul alfalfa and barley hay,
husk corn, handle 200 10 pumpkins, 100 10.
citrons and watermelons, feed chickens,
gather the eggs. get up early, feel happy.
and want to make money. come and get
you ranch while land is cheap.
100 miners inches of water goes free of
cost with every ranch I SELL and only
costs Toe an hour each time you irrigate
miner inch of water is equal to IL gal
Ions per minute. The farmers of this
section live easier work less and make
more clear money than any place In the
state. Some of them have cut their al
falfa times already this season, 1la tons
to the acre each cutting.
In this valley alfalfa is king. We cut II
: TO times year to 2 tons per acre
each cutting. 1t sells from Sc to sl2 ton.
loose i'll the field. Within radius of 9
miles we have II water companies all
owned by the farmers; IL you can't make
money farming in this valley, better quit
the business.
There is more clear money easily made.
with no risk, in raising alfalfa. cows.
hogs and corn. than anything in Cali
fornia The alfalfa farmers always have
money, and still we raise everything you
can think OF in this valley.
We raise to tons barley per acre, II
sells from IS to SIG per ton. Corn when
planted early will turn out 10 TO 100 bush
els per acre and sells from SOC to 60c per
bushel. Los Angeles and Pasadena vir-
tually get their support from this valley
After cutting the barley off we raise 81
to 50 bushels of corn to the acre oil the
same land the same year, besides the
pumpkins, beets, citrons. pie-meiOns
muskmelons and watermelons-ther IL
no end to them. and for alfalfa. cows
hogs, chickens. turkeys. ducks and geese
this valley beats the world.
This valley shipped 1l5 carloads of wal
nuts in 1894; it produced oyer GOO, 900 tons
of barley and alfalfa hay. We shelled and
sacked 100000 bushels of eorn,i in 1894 and
2lo,000 last year: this year we will shell
100000 bushels. Downey shipped 50 car
loads of oranges last year; many Of them
could not he eXcelled by Riyerside, Ri
vera shipped l25 cars. We expect to ship
800 carloads of walnuts this year.
Rivera and Ranchita, 3 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, ounces, pomegran-
ates. grapefruit. currants, gooseberrtes
mulberfies. raspberries. peanuts. and we
grow cotton and tobacco 6 feet high.
Watermeions pay from 800 to $3.50 per
acre. The mocking-birds sing In this val
ley during the spring and summer
months all night long.
Downey, - miles southeast of Los An.
Geles, has bank, hotel, creamery,
winery, / cheese factory, lumber yard
l bakery. l restaurant, / harness shop.
cobbler shops, livery stables, 2 black.
smith shops, barber shops. churches
and IL or 90 stores. Her lodges are this
Masonic. Odd Fellows, Rebekah, A. O
L. w. Good Templars. Foresters, Chan.
of miles we have public schools, and
We expect a high school this fall.
Only 55c for a round-trlp ticket to Los
Angeles, the city of 100, 900 Inhabitants
which is destined to be the largest west
of the Rocky mountains. and furnishes
Us with market for everything we raise
We have daily passenger trains in and
out of Los Angeles. A number of people
do business in Los Angeles and live In
Downey. Many of the young men and
young ladies from this town and Vicin'
ity attend the business college daily In
the city. returning at night.
q r. NJ. BLYTHE, DoWney Cal.
FOR SALE-MY AID, IN THE TIMES
last Sunday did not get me a satisfac'
tory offer; | now make this offer:
For $4,000, $500 cash, balance on tima
to suit purchaser. | will convey to any