Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-17
GLENDORA MAN
BUYS ACREAGE
INVESTS IN A BEAUMONT SUB
DIVISION
WILL PLANT STRIP TO APPLES
AND CHERRIES
Reputation of Rich Valley for Decidu-
GUS Fruit Culture Grows with
Testimony of Recent Big
Purchases

GLENDORA. Jan. 16.-Henry Engle-
hardt, a pioneer Of thirty years resi-
dence in Glendora, has just acquired
a large holding in the Beaumont val
ley, the new colony that is attracting
attention throughout Southern Califor-
MIA through it's great increase in popu-
latton and rapid commercial expansion.
Mr.. Englehardt has acquired thirty
acres of irrigated land in the Cherry
valley subdivision, one of the seven
farm subdivisions of the Beaumont
Land and Water company, owners and
developers of the Beaumont district.
This tract neStleS at the foothills of
the San Bernardino mountains at an
elevation of about 1850 feet above the
sea and within a mile and a half of
the town. The soil is a mellow, de-
composed granite, ideally adapted for
the growing Of apples, cherries, pears
and other deciduous fruits, and it is the
intention of Mr.. Englehardt to plant
out at once twenty acres to various
varieties of apples. He has decided
after a careful investigation to use the
Stark varieties, headed by the de-
licious," an apple that has achieved a
reputation in the east for size and
quality far beyond the average grade
of fruit.
Mr.. Englehardt will be ably assisted
in his enterprise by A. c. Slower, his
son-in-law, who is well known in Glen
dora, and who will have charge of the
planting and cultivation of the Beau
mont ranch. Mr.. Slower and Mr.. En-
glehardt have incorporated the Engle-
hardt-Stower Orchard company for the
purpose Of taking over the new hold
ings and likewise in order that they
may conduct a nursery company to
supply other farmers in the valley with
fruit trees, vines and plants. Con-
tracts will be taken for care of young
orchards, for varied periods Of time Of
from one to five years, and it is said
that they have already made agree
ments for 200 acres, involving about
10000 trees.
Attractive Proposition
According to Mr.. EngIehardt the
apple business in Beaumont
presents one Of the most attractive
propositions in Southern California.
He says that the profits that can be
made from apples will equal or surpass
those from oranges and bases his con-
illusions on the results old-timers in
Beaumont have achieved from their
apple orchards.
A A. Warren, one Of the Beaumont
apple ranchers, is said to have taken
$4,000 from seven-acre orchard in
1907. Joseph Wiltshire, just north Of
Warren's ranch, took $4,000 from ap-
pies and cherries the same year, and
there are a number Of nearby ranches
that are said to show equally as good
results.
Beaumont is noted for the soundness,
flavor and bright red color of it's ap-
pies. The elevation Of Beaumont, $500
to 5000 feet, is what seems to give to
the fruit the soundness and superiority
above that raised in the lower eleVa-
tons.
1t is said that apple land now OBJ
tanned in Beaumont at $3.50 an acre,
the price Mr.. Englehardt paid, can be
planted to apples for $40 additional,
and that in five years thereafter will
represent bearing orchards worth $3.50
to $1,000 an acre. Apple trees cost
about zoe as against 81 for orange
trees. The trees bear in three years
and require but one inch of water for
ten trees, as against double that guam
tity for citrus fruits. Furthermore,
the apple is a staple that is marketed
close to home, whereas citrus fruits
have to be shipped several thousand
miles away to obtain best prices.
These conclusions have given rise to
a great deal of speculation on the part
of citrus raisers in Southern California
as to the advantage of engaging in ap-
pie culture, and not only is the apple
movement in active progress in the
Beaumont valley, but in several other
localities in Southern California, in
Guiding Lakeview, Hesperia and San
Luis Obispo in all of which places
considerable areas are being planted.
Mr.. Englehardt also expatiates on
the advantage of growing cherries in
Beaumont, which, according to report,
produce from $500 to $500 an acre
when the trees are full grown, a rec
ord that is only equaled by the cherry
orchards in Vacaville in the northern
part of the state, where $500 to $4,000
an acre is a common price for matured
orchards. The cherry common to
Beaumont is the Black Oxheart noun
tain variety, a large, black luscious
fruit that commands from cents to
cents a pound in the orchards.
Bartlett pears and various varieties
Of peaches are also known to yield
splendidly in the Beaumont district
and large shipments made last year
to the Ontario Packing company and
other wholesalers are said to show
prime quality and unusual flavor, thus
emitting them to prices above the av-
erage.
Among other residents of Glendora
who have recently become interested
In Beaumont are Messrs. Lawrence and
Snowden, F. L. Grant and Mr.. Netzley.
Several others are figuring on looking
over the lands Of the colony and the
promotion Of the enterprise is being
looked after by Frazier & Epler, the
we'll known Glendora real estate firm.