The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-05-01

you have a positive demonstration that
delicate citrus fruits and plants will
thrive in the open air in this climate
hotel 81 stretches' out the '0 Colony village
Of about 1000 population. Corning ID
an unusually ambitious and progressive
placemin fact, Corning is a city. for i
an area of LILO acres within the cor
porate limits.
And the first important move that the
citizens took was to vote the town a
DRY town-so that saloons might be
kept out. The people who are settling
here are Of a moral, BODYBUILDING kind
and the sentiment Is strong against
saloons
Corning has Ave general merchandise
stores, one of which is a cooperative
store, with some 100 members. There
are two good hotels, two newspapers
ephone Office, bank, a cannery and fruit
packing house, an up-to-date creamery
and a lot Of other business houses
usually found in thrifty towns.
Corning is especially proud Of her six
churches, three Of which would be count
ed as good church structures in a city
of 10000 people. By this you'll see that
Corning is looking well to the spiritual
To her schools Corning has also
given unusual thought and support. In
the grammar school nine teachers are
employed, while in the high school six
teachers are provided. In the colony,
there are three additional grammar
schools.
That you may understand the exact
relation sustained between the City of
Corning and haywood Colony, let me
explain: haywood Colony contains
80, 900 acres of land, divided into blocks
Of 80 acres each, with 4o-foot avenues
bordering each and every block. Each
of these SO-acre blocks is subdivided into
eight 1O-acre lots. The colonists buy
and own from one-half a lot to four
lots. Most of them own two lots. or
20 acres Now, right out of the center
of this 39,000-acre tract Ito acres
have been cut out and cut UP into bust
ness, residential and villa lots. BY this
you'll see that Corning and haywood
Colony are one, but that the railway sta
ton and postoffice go by the name OF
Corning, while the adjoining land is le-
cause of the two names for. the same
place is that the railway station ano
postoff1ce were established long before
the colony was started: Prior to the
land was used for wheat and barley cul-
ture, and Corning was the shipping
point.
The industry to which most of the
colonists turn their attention is that of
fruit growing. In the colony some 10000
acres are now set to trees, and addition
al orchards are being planted each year.
The place is a natural fruit country.
Nowhere in California does fruit Gull
ture meet with less resistance The
weather is never cold enough to hurt
the trees. The trees are practically free
from all tree pests. Fumigating and
spraying, which is so necessary in many
sections of California, is not needed
here The climate is just right for open
air, or sun-drying. Water is sufficiently
near the surface to mature big crops
of fruit without irrigation OF course
in the absence Of irrigation, cultivation
must be thorough. At convenient points
in the colony there are five different dry
ling plants at which the peach. pear
prune and apricot crops of the colony
are cured. These drying plants offer to
the fruit grower a variety of prop
ositions, of which he can take his
choice. They will either buy your fruit
fresh, for so much per ton. on your trees
or so much per ton delivered at the
dryer. Or they will cure your fruit fol
you, you selling or holding 1t, just as
you see fit. Or, you can buy stock, or a
membership, in one of these concerns
have your fruit cured and sold by IT.
and participate in the annual dividends