The herald., 1897-05-23
Fok SALs-RsAL ESTATE
cosntrv Prepsrsy

Q acres In Downey. with good Groom
house; bearing fruits Of general variety;
fine well and good location; unoer
fence for $3.50.
1t must 60; 8 acres, one-half mile from
Downey: 8 acres to pumpkins, beets,
watermelons and citrons; 2 acres to bar
ley: 10O-foot well: q nice new 7-room
house and barn; fine cows, hog, $ioo
worth new furniture; all farming tools;
IN tons Of hay and cords Of wood; I'M
portant business calls the family east;
this Is q sacrifice at $500.
40 acres; Is acres to alfalfa. balance to
barley: small orchard; common broom
house, barn, SoO-foot well; milch cows,
work horses, spring wagon ana har-
ness, 2 plows, moving machine and hay
rake: so chickens, 4 hogs and 10 shares of
water stock; will sell everything together
and give possession at once; price $4,000.
$1,000 cash and balance to suit purchaser.
% acres near Downey; good apple and
walnut orchard; good stand OF alfalfa; !;
fine barns stables, cowsheds, chicken
corrals: we'll fenced, good water right;
Groom house; 8 fine work horses, sets
harness, Q wagons, fine buggy, moving
machine and rake. 10 tons of hay, plows,
cultivator, harrow. hoes, shovel, tap
poons and about 800 thoroughbred white
and brown Leghorn chickens; every
thing new, and 1t all goes for $4,000.
Downey has a cigar factory making as
fine cigars as were ever made IN New
York, Cincinnati or Chicago, from to-
bacco grown at Downey.
After residence Of 10 years here say,
without fear of contradiction. that this
is the most productive valley in the
state
Pumpkins sell for $3.50 and citrons and
v>to No, Inn NOES
and cattle get fat on them and they pay
from $50 to 500 per acre.
have often seen growing in this valley
a crop of walnuts, corn, beets. pumpkins,
citrons and pie-melons all on the same
land at the same time.
Walnuts pay from $50 to $500 per acre.
owing to the age Of the trees; softshell
walnuts begin bearing when years old
hardshells at years. and continue to
increase in fruitage until maturity,
which. in this valley is about 80 years.
Downey, 12 miles southeast of Los An
geles. between the old and the new San
Gabriel rivers. on 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 12 miles northeast of Ions
Beach, the finest bathing and summon
resort in the world, and we are living In
the best all-the-year-around climate on
earth.
LOS ANGELES,
The city of over f00. 900 inhaitants, which
Is destined to be the largest west of the
Rocky mountains, furnishes us a marke,
for everything we raise; we have daily
passenger trains In and out of Los An
geles; a number of people do business IL
vno nd vya tn havr ov1v
of the young men and young ladies' from
this town and vicinity attend the bust
ness college daily in the city, returning
at night.
Nature supplies this valley with water
whether 1t rains or not-from the San
Gabriel mountains, conveyed by the old
and the new San Gabriel rivers.
We have no mosquitoes in this valley
no bedbugs or red bugs. no northers, n,
cyclones, no sunstrokes. no thunder.
storms, no chills nor miasmatic fevers
of any description.
If you can milk cows. call hogs. cut
rake and haul alfalfa and barley hay
husk corn, handle 200-pound pumpkins
and 100-pound citrons, feed chickens
gather the eggs, get up early, feel happy
and want to make money, come and ge;
you a ranch while land is cheap.
100 miners inches of water goes free OF
cost with every ranch 1 sell, and only
costs 10 cents an hour each time you irri
gate; a miners inch Of water Is equal te
II gallons per minute.
The farmers of this section live easier
work less and make more clear money
than any place in the state; some Of then
cut their alfalfa times last season ant
times this year-11s tons to the acre
each cutting.
In this valley alfalfa Is king: we cut 4
to times O year, to tons per acre
each cutting: 1t sells from Sc to $12 ton
loose in the field; within a radius of
miles we have II water companies al
owned by the farmers; II you can't maxi
money farming in this valley, you can
make it farming anywhere in the United
States. This valley shipped $225. 900 worth
of walnuts and 225 car loads Of orange
last season.
There is more clear money made will
no risk, in raising alfalfa. cows, hogs
corn, turkeys and chickens than anything
in California; the alfalfa farmers Away
have money. and still we raise everythin,
you can think of in this valley.
Come and see for yourself.
% B. NJ. BLYTHE, Downey, Cal