Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19
ACREAGE IS
WINNING Al
MULTITUDE
BEAUMONT SALES CONTINUE,
ACTIVE
GATEWAY GAZETTE MAKES ITS
APPEARANCE
Many Sales Reported and Much New
Building Is Being Done-Totai
Sales Now Amount to
$4,000

The Beaumont Lane and Water COM
pany reports sales for the last week, COW
ering acreage and lots, to the amount of
$500. This makes, up to the present date,
since the last of September, total sales
of over $4,000.
The acreage south of the town site of
Beaumont and in section IL, to the east
of the townsite, has proved exceptionally
attractive. The company was forced to
plat this hurriedly on account of the rapid
sales of the acreage in the town site, and
find that the plat was prepared none too
soon. Practically one-half of section IL
is already sold.
In addition to this one buyer, who has
already purchased acreage Immediately
south of the depot, has had reserved a
tract of a little more than fifty acres.
This gentleman is an experienced farmer
of considerable wealth, and after exam
lining the soil thoroughly and learning
the source of the water supply, and OBJ
serving the healthfulness of the locality.
he Immediately expressed himself as de-
sirous of purchasing this large tract. He
says he has seen nothing in the south
west which has appealed to him as
strongly as the lanl in Beaumont
Among the many other buyers of last,
man of Los Angeles, who has for many
years been a close student of farm values
as we'll IS of city values. He was driven
to one of the dve-acre tracts on arrival
at Beaumont and became enamored at
once and without any hesitation bought
a fve-acre tract declaring the PROPOSE.
ton to be unexcelled in Southern Cali
fornia.
New Paper Launched
The number of improvements continue
to increase. Every excursion reveals new
'fLildings or brings out the fact that new
plans are being drawn preparatory to
building. At the present time the build
ing for the new printing establishment is
about completed and next Thursday the
first issue of the Gateway Gazette a
Beaumont paper, will be added to the
states newspaper list, under the editor
ship of Arthur ]. Burdick. formerly one
of the editors of the Los Angeles Even
ing News
L. e. Rogers of Los Angeles was in
Santa Ana yesterday for the purpose of
buying laundry machinery. He expects
TO erect a concrete laundry building at
ence. Mr.. Rogers for a long time has
beenelooking over Southern California to
find some opening which would commend
itself to his judgment, and as soon as he
saw Beaumont and learned of the extern
sive plans of the company he Immediately
purchased land and decided upon estab-
fishing himself in the laundry business.
Elsewhere in this department is shown
picture of the attractive house being built
for J. M. Long by G. R. Wells.
Sales are reported az follows: Mrs.
Esther Smith. lot G, block 80. $50; Mrs.
Cora F. Tebo. lot 8, block 49, $40; o. G.
Wilder, lot a., block 80. $685.; Oscar Suth.
erland, block 145, $454.40; William Hen
bricks, lots II and IL. block 15 $50; ]. Q.
Ayars, block 147, Sl6S75; Frank j. Esh-
bacher, block 159. $i6s.75; w. r. Followed,
lots IL and u, block 133 $40; W. J. Jen-
nings, lots and 9. block 1874. 800: A
Booker, lot 8, block 1872, $9OS; Mrs. Mar
garet Amman lot 16 block 80, 800: w
]. O'Neil, lots 3. 4, s. block 1873, $500: c. d.
Beauchamp. lot 2, block 166, and lot
block 1861 $685. H T. Sexton. lots 10 and
y, block 49, $40; w. S. Belvel. lot and
north one-half of 2, block 172 S66s7O; Mrs
Margaret Amman, lot l. block us, s175;
H. T. Sexton, lot Q, block 95, 500,