Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11

ifornia and thousands of
strangers coming to the Pa Z HARN
cific slope every year from .z..s.*s..,
distant points in the east are
looking for homes, for a sure means of
income that assures independence and
leads on to fortune.
Southern California offers the best
opportunity for the full realization Of
the hopes and desires of the home
seeker and those who would accumulate
a competency speedily from the
products of the soil.
The famous Chino ranch, rich in
boundless resources, embracing 5000
acres, lies south of Los Angeles on the
line of the Southern Pacific railroad,
thirty-nine miles distant, with the town
of Chino as the largest town on the
acreage.
Since last December 5000 acres were
sold to actual settlers, who occupy the
land and are prosperous beyond their
widest dreams.
The Chino ranch is not isolated; it Is
within easy distance of the best mar
kets in the southwest country, and the
demand for the products of the land are
far in excess of the supply. There are
now over three thousand acres in small
ranches, cultivated to the highest state
of development and interspersed by
lands that are still in the market.
The soil of the northern portion of
the ranch Is a rich fertile, reddish
deposit, everything the original strata
of vegetable mold; in the southern por-
ton the soil changes to a sandy loan,
everything a species of mari, which, on
being exposed to the atmosphere, shows
marked fertilizing qualities. The soil
in general is composed of disintegrated
granite and decayed vegetable matter
washed from the surrounding noun
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adapted to the growth of all vegetable
life.
Abundance of Water
In the picturesque Chino valley the
water problem is settled for all time.
Numerous artesian wells, flowing in
great abundance, belong to the settlers,
and supply immense quantities of pure
water for irrigation and domestic pur-
poses.
Alfalfa is one of the chief products
of the ranch lands of California. The
Chino ranch acreage is especially
adapted for the growth Of alfalfa, for
which superior forage feed there is
a sharp demand at all seasons. Alfalfa
thrives in the rich soil of the Chino
acreage, giving six to eight cuttings a
year, yielding one and one-half to two
and one-half tons per acre. The product
sells at $40 to $40 a ton.
Wonderful success has attended the
growing of sugar beets on the Chino
land, which is also marvelously pro-
ductive for walnuts onions and onion
seeds, and the ranch is the natural
home of citrus and deciduous fruits.
Egyptian corn is raised with great
success and vegetables are produced
every day in the year.
Dairying and poultry raising enter
prises flourish.
In brief it may be emphasized that
"Chino is a golden opportunity to buy
land at low price in the heart of
fertile valley-where the water supply
Is one of the most bountiful in the state;
where the people are highly civilized,
refined and willing to help each other;
where there are beautiful homes and
productive farms; where the settlers are
happy and prosperous, M lie so by the
products of the soil ITSELF.
Views of an Expert
William M. Smythe, author of Con
quest of Arid America" and world
renowned irrigating expert, In recent
issue of the Pacific Monthly wrote
The owner of a ten-acre tract on the
Chino ranch can enjoy practically
everything that he will find upon the
bill of fare of the best hotels, from
olives and radishes in the first course
to fruits, raisins and nuts in the last
II looked over the place of a man
who went to Chino with nothing, man
aged to get forty acres in alfalfa and
now says he would not sell the land at
$1,000 an acre.
Evidence of Prosperity
In the columns of Los Angeles pub
lication appeared these comments:
"Chino has taken on new life, the
great beet sugar factory is running full
force, both night and day, thousands of
steers have been brought in to be fat
tened for the Los Angeles market, and
grain is being harvested.
"As whole. the Chino ranch is said
to be the richest water bearing tract
in Southern California. There are now
on the ranch 150 wells, a number Of
them constantly flowing Combined
they furnish 5000 inches of water, or an
amount exceeding the supply of Los
Angeles, but nevertheless about 150 adj
ditional wells will be developed for the
operation of which the Edison Electric
company of Pomona will extend it's
lines to the ranch.
Sugar Beet Industry
zone of the great industries of the
ranch has been the cultivation OF the
sugar beet to supply the factory which
was built In 1891. This factory, which
is one of four comprising the American
Beet Sugar company, now is running
night and day, with an average capacity
of 500 tons OF beets and an output OF
1000 bags of sugar Of 100 pounds each
Growers are paid an average of $3.50
per ton and the yield is from fifteen to
twenty tons per acre Fifteen hundred
acres were planted this year to beets
which supplied only 20 per cent of the
amount necessary for the operation Of
the plant, which consumes on am ave-
rage $4,000 tons during the operating
season Of three and half months. The
factory which is under the manage
men. 1t uses 10000 tons of limerick
each season, 1000 barrels of oil are re-
quired to feed the battery of twelve
boilars of 0b0 horseDOwer each while