Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-31
CHERRY VALLEY
RUSH COMMENCES
NEW TRACT AT BEAUMONT Is
POPULAR WITH FARMERS
WORK OF HARVESTING BUMPER
CROP IS BEGUN
Drilling Outfit Is Sinking Wells with
Day and Night shIfts--Blg
Pumping Engine Soon
to Operate

The Beaumont Land and Water COM
paily reports that as a direct result OF
the biweekly excursions and the plac-
ing on the market of the Cherry val
ley subdivision of irrigated land the de-
mand for Beaumont property mas
steadily increased the sales for tho
past week amounting to Sb30O. More
practical farmers are included among
the recent buyers than has been the
rule In the past, and purchasers are
showing tendency to acquire the
maximum rather than the minimum
size ranches.
Harvesting has begun In earnest, ara
a dozen threshing and hay baling out
Tits are now In the fields, employing
several hundred men. All reports go
to show a bumper crop of grain and
hay, this result being largely due TO
the fact that Beaumont has had nearly
1s inches of rain as against Ill inches
IN Los Angeles county. For the same
reason grapes, potatoes and onions are
making a fine showing, and this, the
initial year of Beaumont's agricultural
expansion, promises to be propitious
one for all of the new homeseekers.
Nearby cattle ranchers are proflting
heavily by the high prices of the live
stock, and the grazing ranges and pas
lures are reported to be luxuriant,
which is said to be In striking con.
trast with the poor conditions of
ranges In other less favored localities.
unabated Business Energy
The business energy of the town
continues to demonstrate Itself by the
new additions to the mercantile col
ory, the latest of these being p. r.
Pratt, who has opened an up-to-date
drug store; Sumner & Thompson,
modern planning mill. and James I'll.
Denham of Los Angeles. who has pur-
chased property at Fifth street ana
Edgar avenue, uron which he will
erect a modern business building with
a view of occupying 1t himself as a
shoe store. o. *. Brewster has
bought property for a modern clothing
store and will open his doors for busi-
ness within a short time, with J. M.
Snyder as manager.
About forty men are now employed
on the Beaumont irrigation system. j.
p. Gansner of Los Angeles has COM
plete we'll drilling outfit on the ground
and Is sinking wells for the company
with night and day shifts. The big
new 95-horsepower engine that is to
operate the center pumping plant is
on the ground and will be ready to
run by June 10. The Western Gas En-
CINE company of Los Angeles is sup
plying the machinery, which Is calcu-
lated to pump from three to dozen
wells from a center station by the use
OF compressed air.
Ten Thousand Persons Visit Town
Compilation on the part of the board
of trade shows that 10000 persons have
visited Beaumont on special excursions
within the past eight months, that 800
have actuslly purchased city and farm
ing propei sy and that ninety-five new
water con lections have been made In
four mont Is. The school census shows
an increase from 90 to 1870 enrolled pu-
pills and that the present school build
ing will have to be enlarged to ac-
commodate the added enrolment on
the beginning of the new term is an
assured fact Likewise the site for a
high school is under consideration.
Work began this week on the new
Catholic church that Is to occupy a
site 120 by 145 feet from the corner of
sixth street and Pain avenue. The
Christian Missionary society of Cali
fornia and Arizona has also signed a
contract to build a, church.