Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-30
LUTHERAN COLONY PROSPERS
People Of Omaha Who Bought Land
Are Most Delighted.
CROPS BEYOND EXPECTATIONS
Pear Orchards Are yielding Big and
strawberry Farm IL n wonder
Prunes Are Giving
Large Crop.

Since time began the movement of the
population Of the world has been westward.
| This is still true, and this movement is
still going on. Each year the center of
population Of the United States moves a
few miles westward. The west is growing.
California almost doubled its population
| in the last ten years; so did Washington
and oregon.
| California has advantages that to peo-
pie who have never been there seem al
most unreal, and II the statements
concerning that country are believed,
they are believed TO be greatly ex-
aggerated facts. The truth of the matter
is that what the Lutheran Colonization
company has said about their land and
their proposition has not been put strong
enough. California is country OF wonder
full resources and wonderful opportunities.
A stand Of alfalfa on the Lutheran colony
was four weeks old, and has just been cut,
and it has averaged over two tons to the
( acre. They can grow fifteen tons a year
on an acre of this land, and have proof
of what they say is true. A pear orchard
adjoining the property has netted the owner
$3.50 per acre year for the last five years.
A strawberry farm a few miles away has
netted over $500 per acre a year for the
last three years A prune orchard averaged
net of $125, and sometimes runs as high
as $500.
Omaha People Pleased.
| The Omaha people who have gone out
there to see the land have all bought prop
erty and are all anxious to move to Cali
fornia. Many who have bought a twenty
or forty-acre farm are now preparing to
build their homes and to plant their fruit
trees this fall. Some intend planting or
chards of oranges and lemons, while others
intend to plant deciduous fruits All fruits
do we'll there, because the climate condi-
lions are exactly the same as at Los
Angeles, although nearly 600 miles north.
The interior of the Sacramento and San
Joaquin valleys has the same average tenn
perature as the Los Angeles-Pasadsna
country, the only difference being that the
| farther north one goes in California the
greater the rainfall.
The Lutheran colony is situated four
miles from Red Bluff, and at Red Bluff
the rainfall is about thirty inches annually,
| distributed evenly from the first of Oc-
| tober to the first of June. A telephone
and electric power line runs across the
colony land, and the Northern Electric
/ railroad Is extending it's line from Chico
| to Red Bluff, and this line runs within
mile of the colony. The main line of
the Southern Pacific railroad is only three
miles distant and the naWgable Sacra-
mento river flows, two miles to the west.
The climate at Red Bluff is beyond COM
parison. The days are balmy, the nights
are COOL In the evenings the salt breezes
comes in from the ocean.
The Trowbridge- Bolster company, which
| is handling the sales for the Lutheran Col
onization company, is greatly delighted
with the way business has been going, and
the way the people in this section are
| taking to California lands. Rev. ]. F..
Hummon, the president of the Colony
company, is now on the property in Cali
fornia and has been for three or four
weeks. NJ. o. Plowman, who is associated
with the Trowbridge- Bolster company, is
now closing some business for the firm on
the tract, but will return here sometime
this week. E. T. Wright will take some
prospective buyers out to the tract about
the tenth of August.
The land is sold for 500 to $3.50 per acre,
and on easy terms-one-third down and
4 balance at per cent. Their offices are
| in the City National Bank building and
they are always glad to show products and
literature to people who are interested in
learning something Of California.