Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1927-05-14
PECAN GROWING IS
A COMING INDUSTRY
Prominent and Profitable
Line of Orcharding in
Southwest. Has Passed
Experimental Stages.
tby Ross r. Wolfe)

~ 'tS3- - " CAANy
That pecan growing in the
Southwest has somewhat passed
the experimental stages and that
ultimately it is going to be a
very prominent and profitable
line of orcharding in the hot in
terror valleys Of the Pacific
Southwest might be cleaned from
some of the following yields
which | personally know to be
accurate.
In q acre planted orchard on
the place of F. w. Creswell at
Yuma, Ariz., seven year old trees
have produced as follows:
The Halbsrt production aver
age 20 pounds to the tree with
the best tree in the orchard pro.
ducing 103 pounds.
The kincaid made a record of
so pounds from tree and an
average production of 43 pounds
to the tree.
The Burkett averaged ~
pounds to the tree, Texas Pro
life 8 pounds to the tree, Del
mas 5 pounds to the tree, Success
3 pounds per tree, Tesche l
pound per tree, Stuart a few nuts.
A seeding tree on the place of
G. II. Payne at Yuma, Ariz., pro-
duced 260 pounds at 13 years old
and 400 pounds at 81 years old
A 30 year old Seeding at Es-
condido, Calf, produced 800
pounds in a single year. A 26
year old seeding at Chino, Calf,
produced 400 pounds in one year.
The paintings over this section
are distr .buted over a large terri
tory, the most promising sections
l have visited are Yuma Valley,
Salt River Valley, Phoenix Sec
tion, Ariz., San Joaquin Valley,
Imperial Valley, Baratow ard
Needles sections, Calf, and Las
Vesas, Ne4 1sa Any yactiOu a.
this territory where cotton will
grow successfully will produce
good pecans. Pecans will grow
beautiful trees and an abundance
of nuts in cooler sections in the
Pacific states, but the size and
quality OF The nut is very unsat-
isfactory
Some Of the outstanding advan-
tages in the above territory are:
Freedom from injurious insect
pests, such as the nut case
borer, the rapid groth of trees
due to a long growing season, the
exceptionally large nuts produc-
ed with high percentage of meat
and excellent quality, the ideal
weather conditions for perfect
polination and the regular crops.
| have weighed perfectly dry Del
mas 2S nuts to the pound, Sue
cess 26 nuts to the pound, Kin
caid 80 nuts per pound, Burkett
So nuts per pound, Texas prolific
&c nuts per pound, Halbert AZ
nuts per pound and Stuart 80
nuts per pound, grown at Yuma,
Ariz. Accurate tests of meat
show from 2 to per cent higher
percentage of meat than the same
nuts produced under eastern con-
ditions. measured one tree
whidh is "a feet high at 6 years
old, another 19 feet high at 8
years Old another II inches in
diameter, years after being
planted.
Pecan trees in the above sec
tions are bearing full crops most
every year except some of the
eastern varieties which are Who'll
ly unsuited to these arid sections.
1t is possible that the greatest
future of the planted pecan or
chard is in the above territory.
Below are some OF the large con-
Germs which have been attracted
to the pecan orchard proposition
in this territory.
Seaboard Pecan Development
financed by the Seaboard Bond
and Mortgage Company of Long
Beach Calf, Fred N. Hughes of
Los Angeles, sales agent is de-
veloping a project of $40 acres
at Welton, Yuma Co., AriZ., with
more acreage in view. Frank
Mauldin of the Eclipse Pecan
Nursery of no-known location to
me is to furnish the trees from
Florida. =.
J. S. KiIlian in company with
IWO ulOIt ~
growers of Los Angeles, have
planted out two thousand pounds
of nursery seed (pecan) at Yuma
and have bought several hundred
acres near Welton, Ariz. FOR de-
yelopment of pecan orchards.
Mr.. Killian is the largest nut
grower in the world, having 400
acres of bearing walnut groves in
California. selling from these
more than $15O,OO0 worth Of wal
nuts last season.
Mr.. Ira Mcfarland of Las We
gas, Nevada, for 6 years Deputy
state Engineer of Nevada, pro
noses to develop 1000 acres in
pecan orchards at his Indian
Springs Ranch, % aces of which
- 1IoD+ad IN trees from WOlfe'S