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Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
PLANS FIESTA PARK
AMPHITHEATER TRACK
SEATING CAPACITY WILL BE
TWELVE THOUSAND
Full Length of Track 46o Feet by $50
Feet Wide-Footbal Grounds
in Center-Work Soon
to Start

Plans are being prepared by Charles
o. Bergelin, 6O2 Merchants Trust build
ing, for the new amphitheater and BIZ
cycle racing track to be built at Fiesta
park for the Seal Garden company, in
the block bounded by Grand avenue,
by Victor Ponet
The oval track will be 1855 feet on the
pole line, making it a five-lap track.
The full length of the track will be 460
feet by $50 feet wide. The interior will
be used for football games, ETC., as
heretofore, the space thus utilized be-
ing 330x170 feet in size.
The seating is so arranged that a
perfect view can be had of the track
from any seat. The main entrance,
twenty feet wide, will be from Pico
street, other smaller entrances being
on Grand avenue and the the four cor
ners of the track.
The principal grand stand, which will
be of brick, will be on the Grand ave-
nue. side, but bleachers will surround
the entire track. The shower baths,
toilets, and dressing rooms will be dis
tributed under the grand stand and at
the corner of Hope and Twelfth streets.
The entire block will be surrounded by
a twelve-inch brick wall of an average
height of eighteen feet. The bicycle
track will be floored with 2x2-inch
sugar pine. The entire track will prob
ably be rooted, by making suspended
cable bridge construction. The seating
capacity is estimated at $4,000. Work
is expected to begin as soon as the
pans are completed.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
ARCHITECTS COMPLETE
PLANS FOR NEW HALL
OF RECORDS BUILDING

Architects Hudson & Munson, Stim-
son building, have completed the plans
and specifications for the new hall of
records to be erected on the county
court house grounds fronting on Broad
way and New High streets. Separate
bids will be taken for the structural
steel, foundation and excavation, gem
eral building contract, elevators;
plumbing, drainage and sewer work;
electrical and telephone work. Bids
can also be submitted combining the
foundation and excavation and general
building contracts. The heating, vac
uum cleaning system and painting will
come up later.
The new building will be connected
with the court house by means of cor
ridors. cit will be a seven-story and
basement structure, 69x240 feet, full
steel skeleton frame, concrete founda-
tion, footings and floors, slate roof, me-
tallic door and window frames, and
thoroughly fireproof.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
SOUTH PASADENA MAKES
RECORD SALE FOR LOTS
UnimproVed Property Sells at 500 a
Front Foot-Less Than Four
Years Ago Same Thing
Sold at $50

SOUTH PASADENA, Jan. 23.-Local
agents have been very busy during the
past week, and report a number of
sales. One of the most important sales
to be announced for some time, was
that of the vacant lot at the southeast
corner of Mission street and Fair Oaks
avenue, sold for $100 a front foot,
vacant frontage on either street. Less
than four years ago the property sold
for $50 front foot.
The A. G.. Ong company made the
sale, Miss H McQuiston of Long Beach
selling to J. Smith. The lot has a
frontage of "A feet on Fair Oaks ave-
nue. and $50 feet on Oxley street. 1t
is the intention of the new owner to
improve it with fine residence.
The Ong company also reports the
sale of a six-room bungalow on STRAIT
ford avenue from J. P. Harter to Mrs
Mary Kohler for $4,000, a f1ve-room bum
galow on Alhambra road from Mrs.
Mary Koehler to r. r. Rowland for
$4,000 and a vacant lot on Brent street
for 5000 to Edward Sweet from Thomas
Buckley. Mr.. Sweet will improve his
property with handsome home in the
near future.
Gilbert & Co. report the following re-
cent sales: Seymour E. Bisbee to John
w. Moore, two lots, 50x140 feet each,
on Fremont avenue, between Rollins
and Bank streets, for $500. These lots
were bought as an investmne.t James
Marsh of Los Angeles to James Rush
Of Pasadena. two lots on Fremont ave-
nue., between Oak and Rollins, 50x165
feet each, for a consideration Of $500.
Mr.. Rush will erect two one-story bun
galows Immediately. Mrs. S. M. Cald-
well of Lynn, Mass, to W. B. White
of Pasadena, two lots 50x172 feet on
Marengo avenue, in the Rose Terrace
tract, for $4,000. Mr. White will erect
two bungalows at once.
The Charles N. Green company of
Los Angeles reports a big exchange.
Lots Is and IL of block A Of Bishops
subdivision, owned by Lewis Rudy and
valued at $500 have been exchanged for
a two-story brick block in Victor, Cal,
owned by G. c. Spicer and valued at
$4,000, making total consideration of
$13, 000
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
REDLANDS LAND SALES
TOTAL OVER $4,000
ORANGE GROVE SELLS FOR
$4,000
Los Angeles Man Buys 61o Acres on
Oak Glen-WiII SubdiVide Part
and Plant Remaider to
Eucalyptus

REDLANDS, Jan. 23.-Guerdon Will
liams has sold the tWenty-acre Shaw
grove on West Lugonia avenue to w.
w. Bean for $33, 900. The grove is
navels and valencias, and is one of the
best in the western section, having
good buildings and stone fumes and a
splendid water right. 1t was owned for
years by Lester Shaw and sold by him
two years ago for $4,000 to Mr. Will
liams. Over 1900 boxes of fruit were
taken off last season, and as the best
care has been given, 1t is estimated
that equally as heavy a crop is now on
the trees. The crop goes in with the
purchase price.
Mr.. Bean recently sold thirty-five
acre Of grove in Grafton 10 1. E. Mills,
and has ten acres left in the same Sec
tion, where he is erecting a fine $4,000
home
The Lugonia avenue grove was pur-
chased as an investment by Mr. Bean
who says that an orange grove is a big
investment at $2500 an acre, if 1t is
given the proper care. The above deal
was put through by the Dixie & Logic
agency.
George H. Gowland has purchased six
acres Of grove on Lugonia avenue, west
of Texas street, for $4,000. The prop
erty carries five shares of water. Dixie
& Logic made the deal.
II. Il. CLOCK mas purchased of DR.. E.
G. Hammer, through the agency Of
Richey & Wheat five acres of Wash
ington navel oranges on the south side
of Cypress avenue, near Reservoir
street. Consideration not given.
Dixie & Logic sold to E. T. Brown
Tuesday lots 1 and in block B. HoI-
den Villa tract. A good house is on the
lots. Consideration given, $4,000.
Mrs. Clara Jacobs has sold to A. W.
Peel of Los Angeles a five-room cottage
on Sixth street for $1400. Mr. Peel will
move his family to Redlands and make
his home here. Mrs. NJ. B. Randall
made the deal.
G. A. Atwood Of San Bernardino and
M. N. Newmark of Los Angeles have
sold to NJ. Boren $40 acres Of land in
the Yucaipa valley for a consideration
of $4,000. The land is located on the
Oak Glen road, opposite the Casa Blan-
ca ranch. This land is part of the
upper Dunlap ranch, which Messrs
Atwood and Newmark bought several
years ago. The new owners will put
out 200 acres in eucalyptus trees and
400 acres will be cut up into small
ranches.
Hunter & Sargent report the sale of
a five-acre grove on West Cotton ave-
nue. for Charles E. Rice to ]. c. r.
Wightman. No consideration was men
toned, but the grove sold for more
than $1,000 an acre
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
SALES INCREASE AT
INGLEWOOD RANCHO
TOTAL FOR THREE MONTHS
EXCEEDS 100000
Force of Men Lays Water Pipe to
Complete Domestic System.
Popularity of Lands
Grows raiIy

According to the extent Of sales de-
mand for Inglewood rancho land is in
creasing each day. The company re-
ports sales amounting to $16,425 for
the past week, making total sales OF
$lOO,56O for the three months that the
tract has been on SALE
Black acacia trees have been planted
thirty feet apart on each side of Lenox
avenue.
A force of men is now at work lay
ing water pipe to complete the domes-
tic water system.
Owing to the increasing demand for
this property it has been necessary to
employ two additional statesmen to
handle the large numbers of people
who visit Inglewood each day.
Sales for the past week are as fol-
lows:
One acre on Ash street south Of
LenOX avenue to r. G. DoWden. $3.50:
one acre on Grevillea street north of
LenOx avenue to l.. I. Belts, $3.50; two
acres on Kenwood street south Of
LenOx avenue to Mrs. J. r. Brickmore.
$500; one acre on Fir street north of
LenOx avenue to w. D. Zultz, $3.50;
one acre on Fir street north of Lenox
avenue to w. H. Roach, $3.50; one acre
on Patton street to H. E. WeSner, $3.50;
one acre on Patton street to Ada o.
Casey, $500; one acre on Grevillea
street north Of Lenox avenue to Mary
o. Fowler, $3.50; one acre on Patton
street to Anna A. Fein, $40O; the
northwest corner of Oak street and
Lenox avenue to B. S. Haycock, $475;
one acre on Grevillea street south Of
Lenox avenue to Mrs. F. T. Hultz, $500;
one acre on Market street north of
Lenox avenue to c. H. Jones', $500;
one acre on Grevillea street north Of
Lenox avenue to G. H. Jones, $3.50;
three acres on Patton street to J. A.
YOungquist, $1,000; one acre on Mar
ket street to Frances ]. Fein, $500.
John M. Mcleod of East Kootenay,
B. c., purchased twenty acres on Ingle-
wood avenue for $4,000. He also made
substantial deposit for a ten-day
option on the sixty acres adjoining.
Mr.. Mcleod is buying this land for
English clients who wish to invest in
California real estate
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
TRADES F0URTEEN-ACRE
RANCH FOR TEN LOTS
Fullerton Mans improvements Con-
sist of Five-Room Cottage, Pack
ing House and Outhouses.
Lots in Anaheim

The Jones & Ryder Land company
reports through its investment depart
ment the sale for L. c. Throope and
c. H. Cummings to o. j. Robe of 1900
shares Of the Comfort Bed Spring COM
pany stock for the sum of $1250
To Messrs. Wells and Clark the sale
Of the stock and fixtures of the meat
market formerly owned by Sayre. Pur-
chase priceS $2700. Location 651 West
Washington street.
The rental department Of the same
company reports the following leases:
The lease for c. w. Schmidt of the
twelve-room residence in Berkeley
square to B. L. Harding; consideration
$780,
Joseph E. Lobet has leased his five
room bungalow at 456 West Forty-f1fth
street to George r. Hand for the con-
sideration Of $500.
The city sales department reports
the sale of lot AZ of the Houston tract.
1t is 50X150 feet on the west side of
Jasmine street, between Dorchester and
Cambridge streets. This lot was sold
by D.. H. Eastman Of Gardena to c. H.
Mennell Of Los Angeles for $1,000.
The exchange department reports
the sale to ]. 1. Myers for $1,000 cash
Of the ten-acre ranch in Live Oak can
yon near Pomona, planted to grapes
and deciduous fruits and improved with
good six-room house, barn and out
houses and a good well. This ranch
was formerly the property Of Marcus
Oviatt.
The same department reports the ex-
change of the fourteen-acre ranch To-
Gated on Orangethorpe avenue near
Almond station west of Fullerton. I'm
provements: Five-room cottage large
hov
windmill and tank; also family orchard
by Lewis Domecq for ten lots on West
Broadway in the West Broadway tract,
Anaheim, owned by Harry G. Gleason
and Arthur ]. Stevens. Total valua-
tion $8000
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
PAMPHLET DESCRIBES
THE LANDS OF TAOS

"The Lands of Taos is the title Of a
beautifully illustrated pamphlet being
distributed by the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad.
The pamphlet says that the Taos val
ley in New Mexico is the father Of
agriculture and the mother of irri-
cation, as it has the oldest farms
and the first bitches in the United
States some of the lands having been
cultivated in a crude way by Indians
and Spaniards for over 400 years.
However, the land is by no means
worked out and the country is fast
settling up with progressive American
farmers and fruit growers. In the
midst of the finest and most fertile
farms in America the peculiar Pueblo
pyramid houses of Taos stand as they
did siXty-nine years before there was
an English speaking resident in the
New World.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
NEW INDUSTRY
FOR BEAUMONT
SWEET POTATOES WILL BE
RAISED
Generous Rainfall Insures Good Sea.
son-DiVersity of Products to
Protect Growers Against
Crop Failures

With the rainfall for the week in
excess Of 315 inches a noticeable
amount above other Southern Califor-
MIA districts, farmers and investors ap-
pear to show preference for Beau
mont apple lands and city lots. the
sales for the week amounting to S4375.
Thls includes twenty acres to poultry
ralsers from Fresno, a district from
which many investors are moving to
Beaumont.
Another valuable industry, raising
sweet potatoes, may soon be UNDER
taken at Beaumont on a large scale
by l. w. d. Brockman, a noted horti-
culturist, who has just completed an
exhaustive soil test there. Mr. Brock
man finds the small valleys south of
the toWnsite best adapted for sweet
potatoes and has begun operations by
drilling well on the Fisher ranch.
where water in plenty for irrigation
is being developed.
Pear culture is also to be given an
impetus by j. w. Dwyer, who is set
tlng out trees on a large area Of land
IN the toWnSite. The Comice Bartlett
ana Flemish Beauty varieties are the
kinds best adapted to Beaumont and
the latter class of fruit on the Mellen
ranch are said to show an annual Weld
OF $3.50 an acre net from four-year-old
trees. Beaumont pear orchards are
slngularly free from blight and other
drawbacks common to less favored dis
tricts, and, due to these propitious con-
dit1Ons, new ranchers in Cherry valley
are preparing lands for the setting in
February Of over 5000 young pear trees.
Following the newest horticultural
precepts most of the orchardists who
are planting apples are setting the
trees eighty to eighty-five to the acre
leaving thirty-two feet Of land between
the rows on which they are setting
pear and peach trees that bear in two
years, as against four years required
for good crop Of apples.
This will insure quicker returns and
Furthermore will give added assurance
against crop failures by diversifying
the products. Other of the ranchers
are using the land between the trees
to grow peanuts, product well suited
to Beaumont soil and climate. Pea
nuts are planted in April harvested
In October and can be followed by
crop Of onions, making two crops
year and thereby insuring bread and
butter to the new orchardists while
their trees are coming to bearing.
Keeping pace with planting and
pIowing the Beaumont water system,
unQer FOREMAN hOSen dlfectlOn, IS
extending it's mains throughout the
five irrigated farm subdivisions until
water is now distributed in steel and
cement pipes to each five and ten-acre
tract, ready for use ON demand The
minimum developed supply Of water
is now in excess Of $50 miners inches.
while the requirements already con-
tracted amount to only about 100
inches, leaving a surplus of 100 inches.
This surplus is for the benefit of all
water users who require more than
the allotted quota of one inch to ten
acres, which, according to experience
in Beaumont, Pomona and other de-
ciduous fruit sections, is amply suffi-
cient and will enable the cultivation
Of alfalfa and similar crops requiring
more water
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
TWO TWENTY-ACRE
TRACTS AT CHINO
SELL FOR $4,000

POMONA, Jan. 23.-Jules E. Tissot
has purchased a twenty-acre alfalfa
ranch near Chino from John Schlotter.
The ranch is one of the finest alfalfa
ranches in that region and is improved
with good house and pumping plant.
The stock and farming implements
were included in the sale. Tissot will
install a large pump and expects to
make other improvements on the prop
erty.
He also purchased the twenty-acre
tract of alfalfa adjoining it on the east
from w. F. Rabe for alfalfa.
Tissot has also purchased Of S.
HOudyshel a large residence at 375
East Fifth avenue for home.
The sales were made through the
agency of David Andrews, and repre-
sent an outlay Of about $4,000 cash.
Associated with Tissor in the devel-
opment of the land will be T. Orcutt, a
stock man from Colorado Springs, and
they expect to invest in more prop
erty.
Tissot came to Pomona in October
from Hay Spring, Neb., and has de-
cided to locate permanently in this
valley.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24

are justly famed the wide world over.
The plans show the four elevations
front, rear and both sides), foundation
and floor plans all drawn to the scale
of one-fourth inch to the foot They
are complete working drawings show
ing the size and exact location of every
closet, pantry, bookcase, seat, buffet,
mantel, door and window; piping for
fuel fand lighting gas; wiring outlets
and switches for electric lights. etc. A
roof plan is given where any intricacy
of construction seems to demand it. In
side details of closets, cupboards, buff
fets, mantels, seats, stairs, beams,
wainscoting, woodwork, etc, are drawn
to large scale with Sections The
specifications are as complete as pos
sible and cover every step from exca-
waiting to painting and finishing.
Bungalow Craft" ($1), H. A. Ey-
mann, 403 Chamber Of Commerce build
ing. Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
INSIDE WORK PROGRESSES
AT THE FEDERAL BUILDING

During the past two weeks very little
stone work has been done on the ex-
terror walls Of the new postoffice build
ing. In the interior the roughing in
work for the electric conduits, gas pip
ing and plumbing has been carried on
without cessation, and the work of
these branches is well up with the other
parts of construction. The material for
the heating system is on the way from
the east and will arrive in about ten
days. The smooth faced sandstone will
soon be relieved by the placing of the
bases for the round columns and carved
caps and pilasters which will extend up
the face of the building.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
Recent Pomona Sales

POMONA, Jan. 23.-Recent sales made By
the c. r. Hutchings agency are as follows:
C. c. Perrin to T. J. Wallace, lot on East
Second street, with modern six-room house.
Consideration $4,000
j. ]. White to Mrs. Grace v. King a lot
on East Center street. Consideration $1,000.
T. H. Brosman to J. C. Blatz, house and
lot on West Ninth street.
z. L. DeLano to H. L. Orris, eight-room
modern house and lot on the corner of Cas-
well street and Kingsley avenue.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24

A LTHOUGH large house with two
~ full stories (9-foot ceilings first
A floor and S1a-foot second f1oor),
the designer, H. A. Eymann, has clev-
erly kept to pure bungalow effect, and
the result is attractive both outside
and in. The outside construction is
rustic weatherboarding with shingie1
gables nd shingled roof. Front po .ch
has wood floor with cement steps and
step buttresses; porch columns are OF
blue burnt brick, as are also the CHM
neys. Overhang of gables is support
ed by heavy plain brackets, and there
is a welcome absence of any ginger
bread fancy work about the whole
structure. The house is 36x50 feet on
the ground, and there is a fine porch
across the entire front. A heavy oaken
front door with large beveled plate
glass opens into roomy vestibule, ad-
joining living room with beamed
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24

ceiling, oak floors. broad fireplace and
mantel, and a coZy nook with seats.
A buttressed opening leads into the
dining room, which also has beamed
ceiling and oak floor and high paneled
wainsSot with plate rail, built-in buff
fet, etc.
The cost of the house complete will be
a little under $4,000; it will be stained
outside an antique oak with dark green
trimmings and moss green roof In
side plastered walls will be tinted and
the wood work will be slashed grain
Oregon pine.
The designer of this house has just
published a book called Bungalow
Craft" showing the latest development
in bungalow and cottage building. The
book is artistically illustrated with
half-tone and line engravings of the
charming bungalows of Los Angeles,
Pasadena and the adjacent towns
which for artistic beauty and coziness
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
TWO ORANGE GROVES
SELL FOR $4,000

REDLANDS, Jan. 23.-A. E. Brock re-
ports the sale of a ten-acre valencia
grove owned by Orrin Porter to w. J..
Waite of Dennison, Iowa, who arrived
here last week, and whose father and
brother, John Waite, are well known
residents. The grove brought $40,
1t is located on Alabama street and
has over 5000 boxes now on the trees.
Another sale just closed was that of
the l.. H. Cooper grove at East High
lands to B. F. Hall of Los Angeles for
$4,000. The grove contains twelve and
one-half acres of navels and grape
fruit and ten acres of vacant land.
which will be improved and planted.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
LOS FLoEES RANCH, 5000
ACRES, SELLS AT $4,000

At San Bernardino a deed was re-
corded conveying the noted Los Flores
ranch, tract of nearly 5000 acres on
the headwaters Of the Mojave river
The conveyor was Mrs. John A Cole
to H. E. Harris of San Bernardino, at
reported price of $4,000 The new
owner has already leased to julius
Oehl, who will engage in cattle raising
there.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
$4,000 Sale In san nisno

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 23.-Iots ana q,
block %, Horizons addition, have been sofa nv
NJ. O Brien' through the agency Of M Hall. to
John Wakley Of San Diego for s250OO Tbe
on the southeast corner of Eleventh and z,
streets, improved with two old two-storI,
houses The property has frontage Of 1oo
feet on G street and 100 feet on Eleventh.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
Buys Lot to Build

A. G. Aiken has bought the northwest corner
Of Moneta avenue and Forty-hfth street, 120x
1S5 feet in size, and contemplates the erection
of a two-story brick and frame store and
fat building thereon
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
Plans 5000 Residence

Ralph s. Heaton, assistant cashier Of the
Commercial National bank, is having plans
drawn for a $4,000 residence to be built on the
corner of Virgil avenue and the Bimini rail-
way right Of way.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
10 Build Three Hnuses

A V. Perkinson, a local builder, has bought
property on Hoover street, between Second and
Third streets. upon which he is planning to
build three modern frame residences
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-07
WATERWAYS COMMISSION
 STUDY ENGLISH METHODS

London. Nov 6.--The labors of the American Waterways Commission. now in England for the purpose of studying the inland waterways system have been greatly simplified by q fact of which the members were ignorant when they set out on their mission. They did not know that the whole matter is at the present time being investigated by a Royal Commission.
 The English Commission has been endeavoring to ascertain the present condition and financial position of the various canals in the Three Kingdoms. the causes which have operated to prevent the carrying out of improve ments by private enterprises and tho expediency of their being acquired by public bodies or trusts.
 A great mass of evidence has al- ready been taken in various parts Of the country. and various reports have been issued. which will prove of much service to the members of the Com mission now Investigating the ques- tion on behalf of the United States Government
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-07

of all. to an observer versed In stage effects, is the variety and meaning of the many pictures and pageants in- Htroduced into this single setting.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-07

education of women is tending to- wards that today.
 '.1go one has just right to happi- ness # 1t is pursued regardless of the rood of future generations. It Is ap- parsntly true that today. the education Of some women seems to have deferred marriage. and that with all the pro- fessionB open to women. she need seek either money. or home. social position or . name through marriage. She may attain them all without 1t. But there is one thing she Is absolutely depend- ent upon man for--and that is love. Women need . perfect mating for per feet happiness. and for perfect mating she must have perfect love"