The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-03


annum on their money in the East, ana
they found when they paid the figures
quoted above for orange orchards they
were getting three or four times as
much for their investment as they could
get East and the property increasing
in value as the trees increased in size
and production. So, while the Original
settler smiles and talks of the fabulous
prices realized for orange groves IN
the south, the owners draw good rates
of interest year after year, and their
holdings increase in value.
The party that commences the culture
of the orange with but a small capital,
expecting to get along somehow TIL
the trees bring him a revenue, usually
winds up a disappointed, if not thor
oughly disguised man; so disgruntled,
sometimes, that he is ready to curse
the country and it's people and espe-
cially orange culture. This immediate
locality presents fine opportunity for
the growing of citrus fruits, figs and
olives, but it requires money to ma
ture trees. They must be we'll irrigated.
cultivated and fertilized-no tree re-
spends to good treatment more readily
than the orange, and, on the other
hand, it shows bad usage just as quick
ly. We have the climate, soil and wa
ter for growing and maturing oranges
that ripen from four to six weeks earlier
than they do in Southern California,
and We get better prices for our fruit.
There are orchards here that pay 80
per cent. per annum on valuation OF
81 900 an acre.
Oroville has few business men, and
men of business, who are reaching out
quietly and buying the orange groves
Of the disgruntled owners, and will reap
rich harvests from their investments.
They have secured a few of the 'plums"
hanging on the lower branches, ana
when the few remaining ones are gone
their neighbors will wonder why they
were not keen enough to catch on"
But many of our best groves are own
ed by non-residents who pocket their
revenues without talk and will not sell
their property. Yet orange culture viii
come to the front in our favored To-
cality in spite of all that can be said
by the ''croakers.'
Last season about one quarter of j
million dollars was paid for oranges
raised about Oroville and Palermo.
MOUNTAIN ROADS.
Red Bluff News: H. B. Lakey of the
Paynes, Creek section was in town on
Tuesday and tells US that he returned
on Friday last from a trip across the
mountains to a number of valleys in
Lassen County, going by the way OF
Hat Creek road, and says that travel
to all parts of the country across the
mountains can now be easily made
with the, exception, perhaps, of the road
by the way of Morgan's Springs, he
believing that road is impossible on
account of snow and impediments in the
way of washouts and fallen logs He
started across on the 18th ult.; at that
time the Hat Creek road was muddy
and rough in places. but now it is easy
of travel for the season
Mr.. Lakey says that the mountain
people have immense crops of hay and
grain this year, and they say that the
winter has been SO open that travel
from all the valleys to Susanville has
been permitted throughout the winter.
A BIG TROUT CATCH.
Santa Rosa Press-Democrat: John P.
Overton, County Recorder Fred Il
Wright, ]. E. Hill and T. T. Overton
are home from their fishing expedition
to the RED Slide" near Cazadero, and
the waters of Austin Creek. Although
the gentlemen have turned their mem
DRY time dial back and reviewed for
mer fishing trips, each confesses the
trip from which they have returned
stands foremost.
The trout bit like sixty in response
to their tempting flies and in round
figures these four crack anglers say
hkaU OF
big baskets Of the results of the expedi-
ton arrived home with them In con-
nection with this expedition it is stated
that John P. Overton's appetite for
trout at one of the camp meals was
manifested in the disappearance Of
eighteen good sized speckled beauties;
that each of the anglers took their turn
at cooking, but that Tai Overton proved
the best chef, especially when it came
to cooking bacon and fish; that Ed Hall
supplied the party with ''joshes," and
at the same time did expert work with
his rod and line; that Recorder Wright
had the best time in his life The
fishermen did plenty of walking ard
climbing, and one day surprised them
selves by walking seventeen miles.
A NEW SEEDING PLANT
Santa Cruz Surf: William Forsythe,
the wellknown raisin grower and pack
er of Fresno, will begin the erection Of
a new raisin seeding plant and packing
house next week, to replace his hand
some structure that was destroyed by
fire last summer. The new plant will
cost about $4,000, and will have a ca
pacity for turning out five carloads of
raisins daily. The plant will be COM
pleted in time to handle this seasons
crop of raisins.
A FORESTRY EXPERIMENT.
Riverside Free Press: T. P. Lukene,
, one of the pioneers of Pasadena, and
one of the most public-spirited citizens
of that city, has undertaken a little
forestry experiments on his own hook
with a view Of developing mountain
trees that viii withstand fire. Mr. LUX
ems says: II have an acre of ground
at Pine Lake, in Bear Valley, and on
this Evil make some experiments vita
evergreen seeds. On the slopes below
me l will collect seeds of pinus tuber-
culata. cart them home, take the seeds
out by. a process of fire, take care of