The San Francisco call., 1909-11-06
BIG IMMIGRATION
INTO CALIFORNIA
Railroads Planning to Bring
Thousands of Settlers Into
State in 1910

Good crops everywhere with high
prices and a general air of prosperity
covering the entire country have COM
bined 10 make the coming season rec
ord breaker for immigration into Cali
fornia. The railroads are planning to
Bring thousands OF settlers into this
state n 1910 and the demand for large
holdings capable Of subdivision is al
ready reaching tremendous proportions.
Hardly q day passes that we do not
receive from one to five letters from big
eastern operators inquiring for large
acreage suitable for colonization devel-
opment" said I Z. Green, manager of
the country land department of Bald
win & Howell The big concerns who
have been making fortunes by break
ing up and colOnizing western Canada,
Texas. Colorado. Montana and Idaho
are Eow directing their attention to
California and are after similar proper
rs H. Silr state.
These people mean business They
stand ready TO put millions of dollars
into California lands and ii is up TO us
now TO find them the proper acreage.
The day Of the combined harvester is
Passing and IN the place Of the inn
nense ranches covering San Joaquin
and Sacramento valleys you will ind.
1G years from now, thousands of little
irrigated farms. You viii see land
that can now be bought for $50 an acre
selling for $500 and $500 an acre. In
tensive. scientific farming. aided by in
structions given by experts. viii take
the place of haphazard methods and
steam gang plows. Every acre OF
ground viii he studied and developed
along the most productive lines. The
conservation Of moisture and the rota-
tiCn Of crops viii be matters of vital
consideration and the I,O00 acre farm
we see now viii be as much of relic
of the past as the Spanish grant of
100000 acres is at the present day"
Green has just returned from trip
into San Joaquin valley. where with F.
NJ Pickering. secretary Of Baldwin &
Howell. he was called to look into sew
eral irrigable properties tributary to the
Merced river. his intention being 10 rec
ommefld jhe same 20 some Of Baldwin &
.HowelTs eastern clients providing the
properties came up TO expectation. lie
recently made 4 trip Up the Sacramento
VALLEY and on into southern Oregon.
listing properties and investigating
various irrigation and colonization
propositions as he went along.
The millions of dollars that these
Dig companies bFinS into California, tol-
lowed by the increased production that
semi cooperative and intensive farming
viii result in. will have its effect upon
a branches Of the real estate business"
said Pickering upon his return. Cities
are made possible by the country sur
rounding them and the richer the state
i.econ,es in agricultural productiveness
the greater San Francisco will become
in fact j would venture to sa : that the
indirect influence f CO ion:fss on work
alone Hpol the metropolis OF California
would be sufficient in :seif TO keep our
increase Of city realty values up to the
standard set during the last 20 years.
When you ADD 40 this he effect of the
Panama canal and of opening up the
orient and the natural tendency of de-
NeloTmcni IN a westerly direction you
can imagine. in measure, the future
possibilities of San Francisco"