Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-01
SMALL FARMER IS
MUCH INTERESTED
BANQUET UP AT BEAUMONT WAS
A HAPPY FUNCTION
Department for the Benefit of
Buyers EIicits Praise
from Guests

The @emand for land In Southern Cali
fornia suitable for intensive farming and
small individual holdings is amply illus
trated in the report of Beaumont Land
and Water company of sales for the past
week, aggregat,ng $780, making the total
to date in excess of $4,000. In the sales
of the past three weeks the movement
of five and ten acre tracts has exceeded
the sales of lots three to one 1t all in
dicates a gratifying turn of public senti-
ment. for. after all, it is the long line
of little individual ranch owners and
home builders that go farthest todard
building up a solid community
At banquet held at the Hotel Edin-
burg in Beaumont last Tuesday these
facts received special attention, evoking
much enthusiastic comment. The COM
pany entertained comprised many repre-
sentative members of the Riverside cham
Der of commerce. Redlands board of trade
and other commercial bodies; Francis
Cutie and III. M. May, representing Riv-
erside. and p. Kingsbury and Mont
Chubb. Redlands. In a general discus
sion of good roads, better fruit develop
ment, improved business conditions and
other subjects pertinent to the time and
the occasion, the matter of small fruit
orchards and independent individual
owners received a large share of atten-
llDlI, lilOSe pTeSGUt that Liz
method of building up Beaumont was one
worthy of general emulation.
The horticultural department instituted
recently under the direction of Prof. d.
Ia. Burson was briefly explained. Prof
Burson gave in detail the plans in pros
pect, explaining that parties. purchasing
fruit lands in Beaumont could have their
property developed to the utmost against
the time they wished to occupy it or to
sell it at advanced figures for profit. This
feature of the companys business proved
of unusual interest and elected praise
from all the visitors for the public spirit
ii manifested. The work on the water
system is nearly completed and new wells
are being bored by q Los Angeles con-
tractor.
Many Sales Made
The following sales are reported: A. H.
Mutt, lots and 5. block 80, $40; Leslie
II. MacRobbie, lots 10 and II. block SO,
S12O; H. Buxton, lots 81 and %, block %.
1856; Henry Formulas. lots 2 and 4, block
80, S1S5; same. lot 6, block 33, $50; p. r.
Davidson lots O. and g. block 3S, $3.50.
Luther NJ Miller lot 1, block Sc, SIPS; E.
A. Stallsmith. lot "A, block so, S125; John
Koehly, lots and s. block As, $40; Fred
Reese, lots II and IA. block AS. S56; Frank
Haub. lot 7, block 80, $70 C. ]. Henry,
lots Is and Is, block 56. $3.50; Frank G..
Clark, lots 2 and A. block 81, $3.50; Mary
q. Davidson. lot 4. block 62. $3.50; George
NJ Grant lot 20. block %. s4i6; Miss H. f,
Robinson, block 81, $1,000; Leopold Wigand,
lots IS and 10, block sc, $3.50; Clark Nc
Kay, lots and 5, block 81, 1920; Mrs. C.
L. Burner, lots II and 16 block 3S. $40;
Mrs. S. Payne, lots 10 and IL. block 3s.
$40; Adolph A. Eder lot r. block 5, s75;
Rome Mason, lot 9, block 49, $50; Thomas
Ash, lots and Z. block 81, $780, Adolph
A. Elder. lot "a, block 22, $40; w. H. Wal
lace, lots and 4, block 9O $175; Mrs. Maud
w. Sandy. lot 16. block as, $75; J. II. Mo-
sher lot 6, block 49, $751; S. l.. Bettis, lot
L. block 6. $685. j. @. Ayers, lot 4, block
Is, $50; Charles Sizelove. lot 10, block 96,
$3.50; Robert L. Kenney, lot 5, block 8. $50;
Mrs. Nina j. Winters. lot 8, block So.
500; F. s.. Grant, lot 2, block 50, west
half of lot 2. block So, S222; Mrs. s. I.
Belts, lots G. T. 8 ard 0. block III, $3.50;
B. W. Fitch, lot 29. block %. S442; Walter
N Netzley. Lot 2, block 35, $222; F. L.
Grant lot 1, block 35, s420; D. j. Jackson,
lots 9. II, 10 and 15 block 60, $425; ]. j.
Otteson, lot "a block 62. $3.50; j. N.
league, lots 23 and 25. block 115, $3.50.