Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-01
RANCH LAND
CONTINUES
IN DEMAND
RIVERSIDE HAS A NUMBER OF
LARGE DEALS
other Sections of the Country Record
Several Sales, Swelling the
Total to a Goodly
Sum

the winter season. The activity Is not
confined to any particular section of the
southern part of the state, but reports ap-
pear to make it quite general.
We give below a list of practically all
the important deals of this character made
during the past ten days:
The third week in November closed in
Riverside with a very satisfactory show
ing in the number and valuation of build
ing permits taken out. The first half or
The month gave the gratifying total of
sS1,525. Thirteen permits aggregating $l2
@1 were issued during the third week by
Building Inspector Mathers. This gave
total of S42 $50 for the forty permits taken
out that far this month. The year
building to same date totaled S3S9999.
The following large sales of orange
property are reported from Riverside
Frank A. Tetley has sold to II. I. Mer-
ram of London the Wakdon grove Of
thirteen acres on the corner OF Horace
street and Hawarden drive for S25,O00
cash. The grove is half navels and half
Valencias, and last year paid the ownor
$4,000.
The purchaser is brother of John w.
B. Merriam, who for some time has been
partner of Mr.. Tetley In the realty bust
ness and is one of the prominent archi-
tects of London Mr.. Merriam will prob
1bly come to Riverside later and make
further investments here.
]. Vandegrift reports the sale by F.. e.
Phillips to Cornelius Carles of ten acres
fine young navel grove on the east side
The price was $12,500 This grove is con-
sidered one of the best in the locality
A big cash real estate deal was COM
pleted at Riverside, by which the property
known as the Newton ranch was sold to
DR.. w. S. Sondenburg of Pittsburg.
Tho property, of which the late owner
~ Il et-tc Of w
'r Arlington Heights. Ffty-fve acres are
PLANTED to oranges and a $4,000 stone bun
galow is a feature of the place.
DR.. Sondenburg will arrive from the
east in January and will at once begin
1emodeling the bungalow second story
is to be added at cost of $4,000, and
other improvements will be made.
The Riverside Realty company has
sold j. F. Reimer's ten-acre navel grove
on the east side to Howard Harris. re-
cent arrival in Riverside from South Da'
nota The grove sold has large crop ~
fruit to pick this season and Is rated as
one of the best groves in the valley. The
trees are seven years old and the con-
s,deration was in the neighborhood of
$4,000
Buys Rialto Ranch
Merton Brimmer of Rialto and Ernest
Martin of San Bernardino purchased the
near Rialto, consisting of twenty acres of
12-year-old oranges and twenty acres of
vacant land. In the same transaction A
A Cox takes the remainder of the Hen
dcrson sixty acres, conscisting of ten
acres of 12-year-old oranges north of the
west half of the above named twenty
acres of vacant land The Douglas Keene
pl operty lies between the Cox properties
The adjacent land abuts on the new
Terrace road on the bluff overlooking San
Bernardino and the east end of the valley
The entire sixty acres was purchased in
June, 1906, from Mrs. Mary Henderson by
A. A Cox and w. ]. Curtis of San Ber-
nardino and Kenneth McRae and William
Buxton of Rialto, who after making con-
siderable improvements are the present
sellers. The purchase price was $4,000,
with the present crop valued at $4,000 max
ing the total purchase price $4,000.
Thompson g. Chafin OF Hemet report
the following sales:
Two and one-half acres of suburban
property belonging to E. P. Burnham to
Mr. Alderman of Santa Ana consideration
said to have been $1,000. Mr. Alderman
will build at orce. j. |. Webster of
Waltham, Mass, has bought two and
a half acres of the Burnham addition.
paying $500. A. H. Caldwell has bought
fifteen acres of unmproved property three
miles east of town. paying $4,000 for it.
Frank Parry bought of Thompson &
Chaffin five acres for $1,000.
William bingham has sold for Will E
dazelton ten acres at Vale Vista 10
erty with full Helmet water rights. and is
one of the very best pieces of orange land
In the valley. Mr.. Bruce expects to set It
10 oranges in the spring.
Mr. bingham also reports the sale of
the north half of lot 2, block 1856. being
five acres with alfalfa, trees and tent
house, for II. l.. Thompson to Frank
Perry.
Prices Good
Mrs. S. NJ. Ingham has sold her five
acre orange grove on Kingsley avenue,
Pomona, to w. w. Slower for a considera-
ton of $500. The deal was consummated
through the Lewis-Leadingham agency.
The j. w. Brinkley place of twenty acres
on Seventeenth street, Upland, was sold
to a ST. Louis party by C. Frankish.
]. S. Cumberland purchased this week
of Merritt Miller of Illinois eight acres
Of unimproved land north of the Richards
ranch on Mesa avenue, Lordsburg; con
sideration $1,000
j. p OBrien has sold the remaining
twelve and one"half acres of his orange
ranch at Placentia for $4,000 to Mr.. Cuff
of San Diego.
Fred Anderson has purchased of J. n.
George terrace orange grove, between
Cotton and Highgrove. One-half the grove
is in full bearing trees and the other halt
In 4-year-old trees. There is a small
house and barn on the premises The
price was $500, and tn, deal was made
through the M. o. Hert real estate office.
Mr.. Flynn recently bought a five-acrc
orange grove on West Tenth street, Co
,cna, near the boulevard, for $65O0.
Joel Wilson has just bought the j. e,
fillmore f1ve-acre orange grove and two
$; ory house on Temescal street in the
same place for $500.
L. ]. Steadman, Fl. L. Steadman Chas.
q. Tilton, Chas. w. Byers Coyle ].
Tracy, Stephen L. Buackley, r. S. Conger
and ]. H. Stewart, all of Pasadena, have
bought the northwest quarter section %,
near Indio, and have subdivided it into
twenty-acre tracts and will begin to i'm
prove each lot at once. Other Pasadena
people are figuring on the balance of the
section, and it looks as if quite Pasa-
cena colony will be formed in that section
One of the latest sales In Highland was
that of the twenty acres on Highland ave-
nue. owned by the heirs of the Nate Will
lam Penn Rogers, who died in Redlands
last spring. Capt. Alexis r. Frye pur-
chased the property, paying for it $24, 600