Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-21
ROYAL ROAD
TO CORCORAN
KINGS COUNTY TOWN RISES
AMID WEALTH
GREAT SUGAR FACTORY ASSURES
SAFE BEET CULTURE
Favored San Joaquin Valley District
Grows All Fruits and Vegetables
in Abundance -. Rich
Alfalfa Land

It has been said that real estate is
the royal road to wealth. 1t is at least
a safe road for those who wish to
travel in that direction, say the con-
servatives.
The man who owns real estate has
something decidedly tangible, some
thing which can be realized on readily
and quickly.
It has been remarked that there is
large and increasing number of shrewd
and successful investors, who put all
their surplus earnings into real estate.
This is equally true of most of the
well known financiers of America. The
late Marshall Field was one of the
largest real estate owners in the United
States and made the bulk of his i'm
mense fortune through good invest
ments in realty.
There are many kinds of real estate
there is productive real estate and
there is non-productive. The pro-
ductive is the kind that earns big
profits for its owners-that is the kind
to consider for an investment.
"To illustrate" says George f. Peck
ham of the Corcoran Land company,
"take forty acres of our Corcoran land.
1t will cost you $4,000. Say you pay $1,000
down and $1,000 each year until you
have the full amount paid and you own
the forty acres free and clear. The first
year you have invested $1,000. Now it
makes almost no difference what crop
you put in, you are certain to make
in a year off of two crops Cfor this
Corcoran land of ours will raise two
crops a Year, at least 500 an acre.
You receive at the end of the year
$4,000 gross. Allow that every expense
is figured high and that it costs you,
say, $1,000 to raise these crops; add to
this the $1,000 you have invested, you
acres, which is just 100 per cent on
your investment. That is what I call
productive real estate, and it's so pro-
ductive that it beats every investment
on the market to a finish"
corcoran Land of Promise
"Corcoran, where our lands are sit
uated, is a new town, comparatively
in it's infancy, but the new 100000
sugar beet factory now completed and
the vast area of splendid soil sur
rounding it should without doubt make
it one of the leading cities of the San
Joaquin valley. All land near the
town must double and quadruple in
value.
"Corcoran is 81 miles north of Bak-
ersfield, II miles south of Hanford, As
miles south of Fresno. IA miles from
Tulare and about midway between Los
Angeles and San Francisco on the
main line of the Santa Fe railway
affording it excellent shipping facilities
and the best markets in the state. The
Southern Pacific also runs into Cor
coran
"It would be much easier to enum-
crate those crops which cannot be
grown than those which can because
everything which California soil pro-
se- 10 e
Alfalfa, belonging to the family of
clovers, is king of all forage grasses.
When once seeded it produces from
ten to twenty years without care, ex-
cept irrigating and harvesting the
crop. 1t yields five to eight crops an
nually or eight to fifteen tons to the
acre, producing profit of $50 to 500
hogs and poultry.
Sugar beets will produce on an
average of eighteen tons an acre at
Corcoran and sold last year at s6.40
a ton, realizing a net profit of $500
an acre. A conservative estimate, al
lowing for all conditions, would be $50
to 500 an acre. The sugar beet fac
tory will contract for all beets that
can be raised around Corcoran for ten
years to come. We give each pur-
chaser ten years contract direct
from the Pacific Sugar corporation.
All Vegetables Prolific
Vegetables are a very profitable
crop, early onions having produced in
this section upward of $1,000 an acre.
Two and three crops a year of many
kinds of vegetables can be grown
on the same land in one year, fresh
vegetables being had from the land the
year around. Irish potatoes, sweet po-
tatoes, onions, asparagus, celery, to-
matoes, etc, can be produced in large
quantities and pay from $15 to $500 an
acre.
water melons, musk melons, canta-
loupe, casaba and Christmas melons
produce splendidly, and pay 500 to
$3.50 an acre.
"Strawberries, raspberries, blackber-
ries, dewberries, loganberries, are all
excellently paying products of Califor-
MIA soil, and do splendidly at Corcoran,
paying from 500 to $500 an acre.
"Kings county, in which Corcoran
and our lands are located, is the sec
ond county in the state in the produc-
ton of grapes Tokay. Malaga, Red
Emperor, Black Morocco, Muscat and
other table grapes grow to perfection,
and have paid profits as high as $3.50
an acre. Raisin and wine grapes of
every variety are grown with marked
success and find a ready market, pay
ing from SIS to $3.50 an acre, and often
more.
"Our lands are adapted to all kinds
of fruit culture, especially deciduous
fruits, such as pears, peaches, apples, |
prunes, plums, nectarines, cherries,
ounces and apricots are among the
fruits grown and pay profits of 800 to
$500 an acre.
"Kings county is undoubtedly one of
the banner counties of the state for
dairying, and the price for butter OBJ
tanned is such as to make this one of
the most staple and profitable indus
tries of the county. Alfalfa grown and
fed TO dairy cows and the skim milk
fed to hogs will net a profit of at least
500 an acre each year.
Zig trees grow splendidly and pro-
duce a large and paying crop. The
finest figs are grown in this locality
Olives, almonds and walnuts are grown
here and pay profits of 5000 to $1,000
an acre.
"Kings county is noted for it's fine
poultry farms, where turkeys, chickens
and ducks are raised with profit. They |
feed on alfalfa and pay well in connec- |
ton with dairying."
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