The herald., 1897-10-24
Rare Riches @md Resources

Pythian hall, the finest in the state, the
Southern Pacific offices, ETC.; the Frost
block, in which is the armory of Com
parry M, one of the crack military
organizations of Southern California; !;
and other smaller business blocks in
great number.
Building operations are active at pres
ent on every side in the matter of resi-
dences, packing houses, additions to
hotels and BUSINESS blocks, showing that
prosperity is a reality and not an ignis
fatuus in Riverside There are no idle
men now and in few weeks. when. the
orange crop is to be handled, the ne
cessities of the case VIII bring in de-
mapd all the assistance that can be OBJ
tained from young and ol0, experts ags0
uninitiated, at the work.
NATIVE WEALTH
The good housewife, when she has
company" saves the best to the last,
and so after touching briefly on the
various points of Riverside, the writer
comes to the orange business. In that
he feels lost in the immensity of the
subject for it is not small matter to
take within mortal ken the entire out
put of the groves of Riverside. Year by
year they have increased in volume un-
til the coming season the crop will take
at least 1000 cars to carry ii to market.
That means 1900, 900 boxes and at least
$50, 900, 900 oranges, or about four oranges
for every man, womar, ard child in the
United States. These cars if all in. oris
train would reach half way from
Riverside to Los Angeles. This is
very conservative estimate of the out
put of oranges for the coming sea-
son. Many of the well informed put the
figures at 5000 carloads With the
prospective ruling prices unGsr the one
cent-a-pour@ tariff this ahourt of
fruit will bring to Riverside nearly s5,-
100000 for the approaching season.
Much of the success in orange { W.
ing of late years is found in the exist,
ence of the Fruit exchange, and in ev-
cry district handling its local crop iri,
a systematic marner, instead of the old
fashioned way of giving the middle man
the whole control of ii and trusting TO
his honesty These unions of growers,
by conservative management, have
built up asS enviable reputation for
Riverside fruit, that had been badly
damaged, by the former manner of corr
ducting business. In quantity Of fruit
and quality combined, Riverside coll
trolls the markets of the United States,
ARID is reaching out for a market ON the
other side of the Atlantic. This is the
point to which all look for instructions
in the handling of the orange crop, and
so far the local exchanges have been
very successful. The crop this year is
large in navels and very fair in seed
lings and other varieties. But the na
vel is the pride of Riverside ard with a
plenty supply Of that unequaledi
fruit and at prices such as promise to
rule the coming season, Riverside will
reap bouEtiful harvest
But now comes the dark side of the
picture-the frost. 1t is useless to ig-
more the fact that frost will sweep down
from the tons of snow cached but few
miles away on the mountain range, and
when the frost does come the parable of
the wise and foolish virgins is brought
home to every grower. Keep your
lamps burning and watch" is the COM
mand that is peculiarly applicable to
the orange grower. Frost may not be
entirely averted, but by the use of
proper appliances it's dangers can be les
Sened