Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-27
APPLE LAND is
EAGERLY SOUGHT
PROFITABLE YIELD causes
GOOD DEMAND
BEAUMONT WILL PLANT 10000
ADDITIONAL TREES
Plans Are Abroad for Erection OF
Packing House, Cider and Wins
egar Factory for Local
Product

Despite the drawbacks of rainy
weather, the Beaumont Land and
Water company conducted two home
seekers excursions to Beaumont the
past week and made sales OF appie
lands aggregating 1880. Most or tne
buyers are preparing to plant apple
orchards this fall, and it Is estimated
that a total of over 10000 apple trees
will be set In the next two months.
This apple development presages a
heavy increase in the present yearly
output of 100000 and has alseady re-
suited In plans being laid for the cree
ton Of a large packing house, COM
bined with cider and vinegar factory;
The steadily increasing apple output OF
Beaumont has cut deeply into the ue-
mand for eastern and Watsonville IruiI'
and the fact that the Beaumont prou-
ucts bring 25 per cent better prices on
account of flavor and size Is SOUND
reason for recent extensive acquire
ment OF lands by experienced growers
from the east and north. The present
planted area exceeds 200 acres and the
average yield from full grown trees Is
said to be over twenty tons me trees
begin to bear at three years, and, I'M
like many other fruits, steadily increase
in vitality and yielding power Tor halI
a century.
Late crop estimates on apples show
yield 10 per cent better than last sea-
son. this being especially true OF Wine-
saps and Rhode Island Reds, two varie-
ties that command the highest price,
Percentage of Wlndfails
The percentage of windfalls is less
than usual, and the average size of the
fruit Is better than jacksonville or
Colorado. The Gloria Mundi variety on
the Best ranch will run an average of
six ounces to an apple, and picked ship
ments are bringing $3.50 box, which
ig more than double the price of or
binary fruit in the Los Angeles market
The young trees carried SO much fruit
on the Poole q Williams ranch this
year that it was necessary to pick 1t
green in order to keeu the limbs from
being broken.
Pear drying on the Mellen ranch is at
its height, and an area approximating
500 square feet is being devoted to cur
ing this fruit. Bartletts and Flemish
Beauties are the two varieties being
handled, and the yield Is bringing 121.
cents a pound at Beaumont, making
an average an acre of over $3.50 from
4-year-old trees. Pear trees mature
and bear earlier than any other fruit
in the Beaumont valley, and in direct
contrast with conditions elsewhere
where blight has made great inroads,
the trees are practically free from this
and other pests.
Worlds fair and state medals won
by Beaumont farmers in the past for
deciduous fruits have always covered
apples and pears, and, strange to say,
Hungarian prunes, which are supposed
to find their highest development, in the
Santa Clara valley. Dried fruit Is also
Beaumont district, and the Magnum
Bonum variety, a large red fruit, Is a
distinct creation of Thomas Mellen, he
having propagated and named this
fruit.
uninterrupted Business
Beaumonts uninterrupted building
progress is shown by the announcement
cottage; G.. M. Salvage, bungalow and
G. d. Kemper. fireproof business block,
Fifth and California streets; also a
two-story Office building behind the
bank, over seven cars week of lum-
Der are arriving from Los Angeles
wholesalers, and the present average
volume of weekly building operations
is said to exceed $4,000. D. F. Huffman,
Beaumont's seventh building con-
tractor, began business last week.
Five new mercantile establishments
have been opened by the following
owners:
Theodore Backus, produce store; M.
Palmer tailor shop; w. M. Brown,
plumbing shop; John r. Mailman, con-
fectionery, and o. A. Mcdonnell, painter
and decorator.
Summary shows Beaupont now has
sixty miles of streets, eight miles of
oiled roads, maintained by the county,
and ten miles of telegraph and telephone
lines Progress is revealed by the
yearly report of the Beaumont Water
company, showing 10000 feet of steel
and cement pipes laid, 162 domestic and
Irrigation water connections made and
a gross expenditure for equipment of
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