Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-24
BEA UMONT rs TO
GIVE BIG BANQUET
SOUTHERN PACIFIC is MAKING
MANY IMPROVEMENTS
horticultural Department Is Estab-
Ilshed to Render Assistance and
Advice to Purchasers In Fruit
Tree Planting

There Is no brighter spot in the South
ern California real estate situation thar
the Beaumont fruit colony, where will
irresistible progress the Beaumont Lant
4 and Water company has piled I'D sales
of about $4,000 In fruit lands and city
lots since September IA. AS they put it
1--WE started with good proposition and
did not hide our light under a bushel.'
| The L. W. Blinn Lumber companys
yard and office has commenced at Beau
mont and the material Is rapidly arriv-
ing on the ground. 1t is expected that
the new round house and tanks for the
Southern Pacific. which has ten
''pusher" engines now employed at Beau
mont, will soon be started as well as
other improvements to cost upward of
$4,000. This will aid in vitalizing the re-
sources of Beaumont to a large extent,
as large number of men will be neces-
sary. The present wage is about $4,000
month which it is expected will be
| greatly increased
| Prof. D. C. Burson, a Pasadenan of
local reputation and also famous through
out the country for years as an expert
in tree culture, has assumed charge of a
new horticultural department which is to
| be installed by the Beaumont Land and
Water company. The new department
will render necessary advice and assist
ance to purchasers in regard to fruit tree
planting. A nurserylilSe park will also be
laid out and improved, and eucalyptus
groves ipropagated
On Tuesday, November &c, at p. M, a
banquet will be held at the Edinburgh
| hotel at which 100 prominent citizens of
| Riverside. San Bernardino and Los An
geles county will be the guests of David
Cochrane. Representatives of the press
and officials of four counties will be
present.
Sales Numerous
Another special train excursion leaves
today for Beaumont with 100 local and
eastern investors aboard. Another train
will be run Wednesday, November q,
the day before Thanksgiving, at 81 for the
round trip. Over 800 people a week are
now visiting Beaumont and the guest roll
at the Edinburgh hotel is steadily in
creasng. Hundreds of people with hay
fever, catarrh and asthma are being sent
to Beaumont by physicians of Southern
California, who declare the climate is q
sure cure for these and kindred ailments.
Sales for the week are reported as fol-
lows: Jacob Marshall Long, lot 8, block
1876, $10O6; Anna Josephine Green. lot 16,
block ia; Alice Stone. Eleanor c. Mori-
son. lot 4, block Ga, $780, Mrs T. r. Wal
hSAt lOl Z, DiOch p1, SlOO, CuuTleS II. 1tdr-
ris lots 20. p, % and %, block 50, 1920;
Leslie N. MacRobbie. lots ii and 16, block
So, $l45; S. t. Dawson. lots 1, and 8,
block 5, $195; Mr.. and Mrs Hugh Masas-
kell lot 4, block l0S, $3.50; p. j. Carter,
lot 2, block 62, $500; ]. N. Smith. lot 2,
block 1888, $685. r. A. Hagenbaugh, lot
IL, block 4s, $50; r. T. Taylor, lot /,
block 1876, ss19; G. NJ. Kimball, lot /, block
lO5, $3.50; w. j. Sears, lots 6 and s. block
40. $3.50; Mrs. Elizabeth II. Stalsmith, lot
"a, block 81, $125; Thomas Burey, lots 49,
H. 10 and l6. block 81, $3.50; Henry Form
halls. lots ., and G. block SO. $195.75; CAL
win Chrismore. lot 1, block 1877 sS91; Rich
ard Carter, lot 3, block $50. $527; A. II.
and H. M. Mutt, lots and 5, block 49,
$40: Mrs. Edith b. Lewis, lot 0, block &C.
500; Riverside Title and Trust company
lot is. block 115, 5000; Adolph A. Eder
lot 12 block 5. S75; Leopold Wisand, lots
IS and 10, block Sc, $3.50; George w. Grant,
Detroit Mich, now at Pasadena, lot 20,
block 20 2.21 acres. Sl46.