Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-27
ONION GROWERS
OBTAIN WEALTH
CROP YIELDS NEARLY ONE
MILLION DOLLARS
ABOUT 5000 CARS ARE SHIPPED
FROM TEXAS
Average Net Returns Are $345 an
Aore-La Sale County Comes Into
Prominence Through Cheap
Price of Land
III rnnnrts frnn the Onion Grow-

Final reports from the onion Grow
ers' association of San Antonio, Tex,
covering the sonion season of 1909,
show a most gratifying return to the
producers for only a few months work.
over 2S50 cars have already been
shipped, netting the. growers $9S9,26O,
OF S345 a car.
onion raising industry of Southern
Texas has nearly doubled in the last
two years, and has been profitable
since the Truck Growers association
was formed for the purpose of pre-
venting sharp practice by northern
commission men and for the proteetlon
and assistance of the grower and since
It's organization the grower receives the
full benefit Of his labor.
Special onion trains have been sent
to New York, Chicago and other large
cities Of the middle west and the east,
the markets are eager for the Texas
Bermuda, and wherever Ii appears on
the market all others are crowded
out and big prices have been secured
and as the association undertakes to
Instruct new cumers and inexperienced
growers in how to grow and handle
the CROP failures arc unknown, and as
the district in which the onion has its
greatest perfection is limited, land
values are rapidly getting toward the
ton notch. though a few tracts are yet
being sold out at their Introductory
low prices.
Center of Production
La Sale county. on account of the
great fertility of it's soil and the abun-
dance of pure artesian water lying un-
derneath has become the center of
onion production. This county, named
from the famous explorer, the Cheval-
Ter De La Salle is situate about eighty
y,FC CoY, tnt 10 ~
ternational & Great Northern railroad.
In development 1t is still young, hence
is population Is small, only about 1000
persons, but settlers are going in
rapidly and buying UP and cultlVatlng
the cheap lands so that II Is estimated
that lands there Will double IN Value III
the next year and that no onion land
will be had in the county two years
from now at less than $500 an acre.
For many years La Sale has been
considered the best stock county IN the
state and today more than $4,000 rat
cattle are shipped to the eastern mar
kets. the great varieties of succulent
grasses to be found all over the county
renders feeding for shipment unneces-
sary and the mild climate permits the
stock to feed outside the year around
at no expense to the owner. the
county is larger than the regulation
Texas county. being forty miles by
arabic land
But Little irrigation
only about 1000 acres are as yet
under irrigation. though more than 20
600 acres are dry farmed for. the rain
fall C31 SO inches annually makes dry
farming profitable. However, the ac-
tual earnings from the farms under ir-
rigation, raising two and even three
crops a season, almost stagger belief
and seeing the great possibilities for
irrigation, the farmers are putting
down artesian wells as rapidly as they
can get to it, SO as to get the most
from their toll.
La Sale county boasts of more good
roads than any county in the state Tor
the money expended, and own their
own road making machinery and
teams, etc, and peculiar feature OF
this county is the extreme law abiding
tendency of the people.
To furnish information regarding TINS
county the Truck Growers Coionlza-
ton company has established an office
in Los Angeles at 341 South Hill street.
where those desiring information are
being shown location of lands and pic
lures of the tracts and the surrounding
conditions,