Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-03-20
NORTH DAKOTA CROPS
and OPPORTUNITIES
CONTRASTED WITH FRUIT GROW.
ERs PROFITS IN CALIFORNIA I
AND ELSEWHERE.
Stutsman County Resident Finds
Substantial Advantages in
@ This State.

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This State.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Monek re-
turned to jamestown Monday after
an extended southern and western
trip, having left Jamestown Dec. 27s
They stopped at Hot Springs, Ark.
visited relatives in Oklahoma, and
spent considerable time in Califor-s
mia, meeting many of the James
town and North Dakota colony at.
San Diego, Los Angeles and other
places, returning via the Northern
Pacific from Seattle.
Mr.. Monek says: ''The usual warm
weather has been missed in south
ern California this season, as many
days have been cold, damp and dis
agreeable. The severe frost that
destroyed the orange groves will
have a disastrous effect upon many
fruit growers. In localities near
Los Angeles, big piles of oranges and
lemons can be seen upon the ground
the fruit not worth shipping, spoiled
by the frost. In other localities, for
some reason not so clearly under
stood, the frost wave did little or
no damage. The trees that were
hit the hardest, however, will have
to be trimmed down, and it will take
several years for them to recover
their full bearing value. This is
hard blow to the owners of such
property, who have been years in
getting the trees into bearing con-
dition. Taken with the high cost
of the land, and the'lack of any rev.
|enue for several years, the frost
wave did an immense amount of
damage tb Oalfforniass fruit skowz9
Fers. ~
"San. Diego Is growing steadily
and expects to be in railroad con-
nection with Yuma, Arizona, before
the exposition opens in 1915, as
most of the grading on that line has
been done: The road when COM
|pleted will give another outlet east,
and make a, great, saving in distance
Ito and from eastern points. The
hotels in San Diego have been full
the past winter, and all the apart
Fment houses and residences availa-
BILE have been we'll filled with tour
lists. Outside of the tourist crop,
however, there are few natural re-
sources in the country which will
warrant greatly expanding popula-
ton. The steady stream of money
which is brought in by the tourists
is what keeps the life blood of bust-
ness in circulation.
''The Panama-Pacific exposition
is hoped to bring many new invest
ors to San Diego. and a new harbor
and. dock are being constructed In
another, part Of the bay, to accom-
modate the expected increase In
shipping. Property values in San
Diego have increased, and in some
localities have more than doubled fn
the past few years. A number OF
the jamestown colony have made
profitable Investments. The great
est benefit from the Panama canal
business, however, will 60 to San
Francisco, whose hold on the trafiic
expected to pass through that canal
cannot be shaken by any of the ri-l
val towns further south along the
coast.
Little Profit In Fruit Growing.
II made inquiries as to the profits
of the fruit business in Washington
and Oregon, and from the owners
of fruit ranches did not receive much
encouragement. One apple grower
at Medford, Ore, who recently ship
ped carload of fine apples to New
York, told me that when the pro-
ceeds Of the sale were received ne
was in debt to the railroad company
SIS for balance due on freight. be-
sides having lost his apples and the
work and expense OF growing them.
I would not advise any man from
North Dakota who expects to make
money, in fruit growing to tackle