Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-21
SUMMER SALES
ARE NUMEROUS
EAUMONT MAKES RECORD IN
SPITE OF SEASON
Visit of Sisters to Community Results
in Recommendation of a Hos
pitaI for Health
Seekers

over 100 investors have been taken to
Beaumont during the past week on
homeseekers' excursions, resulting in
sales of acreage and lots totaling $4S00,
which is. good showing for this season
of the year. Most of the buyers are
preparing to move to Beaumont so as
to plant orchards in advance of the
fall rains, and so heavy is the antici-
pated demand for .decidious fruit trees
that Los Angeles nurserymen are daily
receiving heavy orders.
The cultivation of blackberries, rasp-
berries and currants promise to have
decided impetus from now on, as sew
eral large purchases of acreage nave
recently been made for this class of Gull
ture. Blackberry groves in beaumont
have been known to yield $500 to the
acre, and from red raspberries the pro-
duction has reached $3.50 an acre.
The potato yield at Beaumont. ac-
cording to the latest crop reports, will
reach $4,000, which is four times that
of last years production. over $l0,0OU
worth of onions will be harvested, ana
the area set to this product is three
fold greater than in 1907.
Buyers Contract for Crops
In authorization of the shipment of the
apple pear and prune crop many fruit
BUYERS from Los Angeles are now In
the Beaumont valley contracting In ad-
vance for those products. The COM
petition has resulted to the advantage
/ of the growers and prices are stiffening.
Bartlett pears will bring between and
cents a pound and the average pro-
duction will exceed $3.50 an acre. Peal
raising in Beaumont is particularly ad-
yantageous as the trees are not notice
ably bothered with blight, which has
| been the bane of pear raisers in many
| other localities.
Statistics prepared by the board OF
| trade show that the average tempera-
! lures of Beaumont for the past htteer
| wears have been IA maximum and o.
minimum, which is about the same as
Los Angeles and indicates summer tenn
perature ten degrees cooler than River
| side or Redlands. Other compilations
| indicate that the average rainfall foi
the past twenty years has been eighteet
inches, which accounts for the fact
that only one inch of irrigation watel
is required for ten acres of land as
| against one inch to five acres IN otnel
| less favored localities.
There are said TO be eyer 200 acres Of
orchards in Beaumont valley that have
produced continuously for twenty years
without irrigation; and in the toWnsltt
over 10000 shade trees are growing
along the streets that have never beer
watered except by rainfall.
Continued Building Activity
Continued building activity is showr
by the awarding of a contract for z
new cement business block for Mrs
Kate e. Wray, a new arrival from
Iowa. who will enter the millinery bust
ness.
In addition to a Catholic church thai
is nearing completion at cost of abou
$4,000, it is announced that BlshoI
| Conaty has under consideration the
establishment of a hospital to be con
Quoted under the supervision of tn;
Catholic denomination. Recently three
Sisters of Mercy passed few weeks IL
! Beaumont for rest and recuperatior
from Illness and found the climate 81
healthful they recommended the estab
| lishment of the hospital.