The San Francisco call., 1910-05-28
"INTENSIVE" farm
ATTRACTSSETTLERS
Great Irrigated Valleys of San
joaquin and Sacramento
Offer Certain Income
By I. S. CONE
Manager Cooperative Land and Trust Company.

Manager Cooperative Land and Trust Company.
That the people of the United States
are now needing the changed economic
conditions and have come to a realiza-
tion of the necessity of a larger pro-
ducing class is amply demonstrated by
the general movement toward the col
onization and settlement of farm lands
in the irrigated sections of California.
The future of the Sacramento and San
Joaquin valleys has never before looked
so bright as now, for outsiders are just
beginning to realize the intrinsic worth
and the latent possibilities of these
valleys. People from all over the coun-
try are going there to take part in the
development of the country, to improve
the land from it's present state to the
highly productive condition resultant
from intensive farming.
BIG BANK DEPOSITS
The reason for this great movement
is that the intensive farmers in the
irrigated sections of California have
made good. The cause is economic.
They have been making a greater in
come from a stated amount of capital
than have any other class of people in
America. For example, at Merced, the
town adjoining which our properties
are located, and which has a popula-
ton of about $500. there are two
banks, having deposits of over $3,000,-
600, and during the last year 20 auto
mobiles have been sold, largely to the
farmers.
Such a condition of affairs as this
prevails nowhere in the whole country
except in the rich farming districts.
The farmer coming to these irrigated
sections can plant corn and alfalfa, for
instance, and get big paying returns
the first year and much better the sec
ond year. He can sell these crops
when harvested for good prices, or he
can turn them into hogs and cattle,
butter, pork and beef-three of the
necessities of life, whether times be
good or bad. His returns are quick,
sure and profitable.
We have sold irrigated land for from
SIS to 500 per acre. the first year, 8
crop on which brought more than the
whole purchase price.
A great diversity of crops may be
raised successfully; all the eggs are
not in one basket; a failure in all
crops at the same time is unknown.
Citrus fruits, deciduous fruits. wine
and raisin grapes, grain, alfalfa, corn,
beans, vegetables of every sort, cat
tie, hogs, horses, sheep are all sources
of revenue. All of the above are sue
the Sacramento and the San Joaquin
valleys. Added to these are the wealth
producing oil and mineral interests.
Thus, 1t can readily be seen, these
great valleys are almost economically
self-sufficing. Nearly everything used
can be raised here, and the excess OF
the productions beyond the home con-
sumption provides the necessities OF
life for the rest of the world
MIDDLE WEST EXODUS
The greatest immigration into the
irrigated sections of California at the
present time is from the middle west
The farmers from this section are COM
ing out because they can make more
money and enjoy a better climate al
the same time than in their former
homes. The reasons are sound. Wher
you can demonstrate to the Iowa oi
Missouri farmer that he can raise more
corn per acre here than he can al
home he is quick to see the advantages
of irrigated farms with California eli
mate, and with the possibility of pro-
ducing diversified crops
Artisans from the big cities, a large
proportion of whom were born and
raised on farms, and who left for tht
lure Of large wages, have found thai
work is not always plentiful, tha'
wages do not increase, that after z
certain age they are dropped from tn,
| list of men employed. The increased
cost of living prevents their gaining
headway financially. Their boyhoot