Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-27
EUCALYPTUS TREES
ARE PROFITABLE
REPEATED GRoWTHs INSURE A
STEADY INCOME
Unremittins Demand for Ties, Fuel
Posts and Other Timber Purposes
viii Mean Much for
California

Interest in eucalyptus growing has
received quite an impetus in the past
year and very properly.
That there is a good sound business
reason for it is evidenced by the fact
that the Santa Fe railroad has set the
example by putting out large planta-
tions of eucalyptus trees for ties, tele-
graph poles, piling and other timber
purposes. When have you ever seen a
railroad get out of the railroad busi-
ness to grow anything before? 1t
isn't choice but necessity that drives
them to it. What will pay a railroad
to do will pay the private individual as
well. AS an invest stment for the profess
sional man. the business man, the
wage Garner in any field 1T is very at
tractive for several reasons.
First, 1t requires no time or annual
expense after the first two years and
no knowledge of agriculture, for after
two years you have an income paying
property created that will produce
again and again from the same stumps
without replanting for a century to
come.
1t is a fine educational endowment
for children. as they will grow as the
child grows and five acres will put a
child through college and give the
child staff to lean upon through life.
1t is better than life insurance
policy, for it is an income producer
that requires no care to keep in pro-
ducing condition, and by selling one
fifth or one-sixth of the product each
year it makes a fairly level annual In
come for life as it will grow again and
be ready to cut every five or six years
Trees Are Profitable
1t has the advantage over a fruit
ranch, for If you don't need the money
you can let 1t continue to grow into
greater values and will compound its
own interest for you.
On a fuel basis alone it will pay net
$3.50 to $3.50 per acre per annum.
There is no danger of the industry
being overdone, for this state will be
making its own wagons, furniture and
supplying it's own ties, piling, tele-
graph and fence posts, mining and
bridge timbers
The demand for railroad ties alone
is an enormous thing and always will
be even If not another mile of road was
to be built. Nothing takes the place
of wood ties. Steel and cement make
a track too rigid to handle the heavy
traffic American roads have.
few facts: For fuel gum wood is
worth today $14 per cord in Los An
geles for ninety -six-foot cord. Allow
Ing So per cord for cutting and split
ting, 81 for freight and 81 for delivery
there is So per cord profit to the dealer
when he pays sS. per cord on the
stump. Every five years in proper
eucalyptus soil you can cut 100 to 12S
cords per acre, or an income net per
acre of $500 to $1,000 per acre, or $3.50
to 5000 per acre per annum or two to
three times the net income that an
alfalfa ranch will pay gross.
For ties: Every six years you can
cut an average of three ties to the tree
worth 81 each. Six hundred and forty
trees to the acre makes 1920 worth OF
ties, or an annual income of $340 per
acre per annum and thirty to forty
cords of wood to pay for all labor of
cutting and leave something besides
For telegraph poles: Every six years
in sugar or rostrata or vinnillis gum
trees you can cut 900 poles thirty to
forty feet long, five to seven in diam
eter at top, worth from So to $5 each,
or an average of "a, making $2400 per
acre or an annual income of $500 per
acre, and enough fuel to pay expenses
of cutting. Further investigation will