Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-07

table and deciduous fruit sections.
Much has been written about Its
orange and lemon culture, until many
are of the opinion that deciduous
fruits, namely apples, peaches, cher
ries, pears, etc, are of smaller con-
sequence. Then, too, the development
of deciduous fruit culture has been
more recent.
Every hillside, no matter how steep,
and every mesa, no matter how high
above sea level, can, when reached
with irrigation water, be made to yield
sweet and delicious fruits. The val
leys and adjoining foothill sections up
to 1900 feet elevation are the orange
lands (where the section is adapted to
citrus culture), while the districts
which are of extreme elevation, with
the crispness of its mountain air, are
the decduous districts.
Perhaps one of the most unique and
highly promising districts of Southern
California today is the grandly beau
tiful section back of Redlands, Cali
fornia, and possibly centering in, or
near, the Beaumont valley. For en-
yironment it has the Immensely
wealthy orange sections of Riverside,
Redlands, Pomona and other places at
its feet, while nigh above and closer
to the snow caps of San Gorgonio, Old
Baldv and others of the San Bernar-
dino range of mountains lies this newer
deciduous fruit section. Recent water
development in these mountain vail
leys has brought this district into
great prominence-where before were
lands fit only for grain and pasturage,
under irrigation are now being brought
into marvelously rich apple, cherry,
peach and pear cultivation.
Deciduous Fruit Attracts
There is one great attractiveness in
deciduous fruit culture on the high
elevations of this land of the orange,
namely, the keen crispness of winter,
imparting pipuancy of flavor and rich
ness to the fiber Of the fruit. Another,
and perhaps only slightly less impor-
tant consideration, too is the advan-
tage of a minimum supply of water for
irrigation. Water, like fire, must be
handled with understanding, too much
being quite as detrimental, sometimes,
as not enough.
The elevation of this new declduous
section varies from 2556 at Beaumont
station to 5000 feet in the more ex-
treme places, perhaps a fair average
elevation might be 5000 to 5000 feet
above sea level, and here on these
smiling mountain mesas and valleys
grow the choicest apples, pears, cher
ries, peaches, grapes, plums, etc.
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deciduous products is growing by
leaps and bounds. With the suprem-
acy of Los Angeles as the CONNER
cial center for Arizona, New Mexico,
western Texas and Nevada, a demand
has sprung up for every pound of its
deciduous and vegetable yield. Prices
are always top notch because of the
long carriage to import these products
from other regions north and east.
Natural location has isolated these
Southern California deciduous fruit
sections and the barrier of distance to
the orchards of the northwest and east
gives them an unrestricted home mar
ket-the citrus sections want the
apple, cherry, etc, and the deciduous
districts want the orange, lemon, etc,
There is no danger of oVerproduc-
ton in Southern California. Its salu-
brious climate is attracting thousands.
1t is becoming the playground of the
nation. Its like is not to be found in
any land, and at the rate of it's pres
ent settlement and development will
one day, not very far distant, be the
most highly and intensely cultivated
of any part of the globe.
In many sections the division lines
of acreage are becoming long hedge
rows of roses and other decorative
plants; every spot has been brought
under cultivation and its like in beauty
is uniquely individual. Here country
estate of as small as five acres may
be made to yield a good income, as
we'll as produce contentment and ad-
minister to the aesthetic taste of its
owner. Here may be found that
elysian land of delight, flowing with
milk and honey'-the land of the
afternoon. 1t holds a welcome to all
who will partake of it's hospitality, ex-
ceeding in wonder and amazement that
of the queen of Sheba when she ex-
claimed, "The half has not been told"