Part 33

We now offer you this land, together with perpetual water-right, at from $150 to $200 per acre, according to quality and location. No land will be deeded to any persons except actual settlers. As inducements to families, we will plow and prepare the land ready for planting, as our aim is to settle these lands with families. Payments may be made in installments to suit purchasers. We make the following liberal offer to those who do not feel able to pay cash for the land: The purchaser is to build and occupy a neat and substantial cottage; also build all needed outhouses, paint or whitewash the same, and plant the land to such trees and fruits as may be agreed to be the best. This done the first payment will be deferred for five years, one-quarter to be paid annually thereafter. Said sum agreed to be paid to bear eight per cent interest per annum from date of sale. Deed will be given purchaser when he builds and plants, and the purchase price secured by mortgage on the premises. A family with from $1,500 to $2,000 to make their improvements can settle down and safely wait until their fruits or raisin vineyard come into bearing. The whole purchase price should be produced from the lands the fifth year.

For those who have not experience, or are desirous of avoiding the expense of team and tools, we will plant, cultivate, irrigate and care for their orchard and vineyard until it comes into bearing. It will be worth about $25 per acre to furnish and plant the first year, and $10 to $15 per acre each year thereafter. The above figures mean compensation for good, first-class work.

We have already some fine planted tracts for sale, embracing Raisin Vineyards, that will come into bearing next year (1891), also young Orange Groves, as well as deciduous Fruit Orchards. We also aim to keep a vacant cottage on the Colony, for the accommodation of each newcomer until such time as he can build on a lot of his own choice. Deciduous Fruit Trees can be planted commencing January 1st, and as late as the 1st of April. Orange Trees in March and April. Grape vines, rooted or cuttings, should be planted in February or March. Peaches and Apricots will bear light crops the third year. Pears, Almonds, Figs and Oranges will begin to bear the fourth year. Raisins begin to bear, from the cuttings, in the third year. One year’s time is gained by planting rooted vines. It is safe to expect $50 per acre the third year from rooted vines, and $100 per acre the fourth year, at least, gross product. A respectable cottage should be built, with from four to five rooms, at a cost of from $500 to $800; barn, $200. One pair of horses and harness, $150; milch cow, $25; tools, $25; wood is high, $7 per cord; flour, $3 to $4 per barrel of 200 lbs.; beef, from 6 cts. to 10 cts. per lb.; hens, from $5 to $7 per dozen; eggs, from 25 cts. to 50 cts. per dozen; building lumber, $25 per M. in the valley or farming sections of the State. Male labor on the farm, $30 per month, except four or five months in the summer, when they receive $1.50 to $2 per day. Female labor has never been ample, and commands from $20 to $30 per month. Families coming out here can bring with profit all clothing, bed-clothing, table cutlery and such articles as would not be bulky. Large furniture or farming implements will not bear transportation.

The very favorable conditions existing for small farming in this rich valley of California, where water can be obtained to render crops certain, are not generally known in the East and Europe. For instance, our breadstuffs (wheat) must be shipped around Cape Horn to Liverpool to find a market. Beef and pork the same. Our wool also has to go around the Horn or across the Continent. The consequence is that the fruit farmer eats the cheapest bread and beefsteak of any people in the world. Our woolen mills are able to furnish the finest and cheapest clothing worn. Labor is high, and everything the small farmer produces is high, including poultry, vegetables and fruit, and will always be so. The big farmer can’t get at this business with his steam engine and long sickle. We can close Europe and the United States out of the fruit-producing business, and force them to become consumers. Why? Because of the certainty of our crops, and because we have the whole valley for a drying house.

Address or call upon the undersigned, owners and proprietors,

V. C. W. HOOPER &. SON,

MERCED, MERCED COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.

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EISEN & STEWART,

Real Estate and Horticultural Land Brokers,

* DELANO, *

KERN COUNTY, ---- CALIFORNIA.

~We make horticultural lands a specialty, and offer special bargains in the Kern and Tulare Irrigation District, and in the Poso Irrigation District. These lands are suited to Olives, Raisins, Oranges, other fruits and alfalfa. They are now cheap, but will soon rise in value, and become as high priced as any in the State.~

~We also attend to the business of absent owners, and we guarantee satisfaction.~

~_Correspondence solicited._~

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

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Thompson’s Seedless Grape

MAKES ABSOLUTELY

SEEDLESS RAISINS

The very best for Culinary Use!

This Grape has been thoroughly tested in California, having been grown and raisins made of it, in Sutter County, for the past fifteen years.

It is far superior to the Sultana, being much sweeter, a heavier cropper, more easily dried, and ripens earlier.

For rooted vines, guaranteed true to name, address,

B. G. STABLER,

YUBA CITY,

Sutter County, California.

Prices reasonable; given on application for both one and two-year old rooted vines. Will also send _sample of raisins, if desired_.

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Described by Prof. Eisen.

In a communication to _California_, a Journal of Rural Industry, May No., 1890, entitled “With the Fruit Growers in Sutter County,” Prof. Eisen thus refers to Mr. Stabler, and his work: “Mr. B. G. Stabler makes a specialty of dried peaches and seedless raisins, and has succeeded well with both. The principal raisin-grape of this vicinity is the little-known seedless grape, Lady Decoverly, here known as the Thompson Seedless, he being the first to grow it. Years ago, about 1872, this gentleman saw advertised in an Eastern Catalogue a seedless grape, said to come from Constantinople, and was called the Lady Decoverly. It proved to be very different from the common Sultana, being of yellow color, and of oblong shape. It is certainly strange that this singular variety of grape should have existed here so many years, and failed to attract general attention. It is an enormous bearer, heavier even than the Sultana, and ripens early in August. It makes very choice raisins for cooking purposes. The color is similar to that of the Muscatel, and makes a raisin of beautiful color. Among other novelties in the way of fruit, Mr. Stabler has a Chance Seedling Apricot, which promises to be something extraordinary. It is not yet in bearing, * * * but think of apricot leaves six inches in diameter, and limbs many times as long and strong as those of ordinary apricot trees,” etc.

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FRESNO AND MERCED

COUNTY LANDS

TO RENT AND FOR SALE.

75,000 ACRES OF WHEAT AND SUGAR-BEET LAND in the above counties to rent for a term of years; also =100,000 acres= of fine Raisin, Fruit, Alfalfa and Sugar-Beet Land, with water for irrigation, for sale in tracts of from twenty acres to large tracts suitable for colony purposes.

For particulars apply to

E. B. PERRIN,

402 Kearny Street,

SAN FRANCISCO.

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FRESNO AGRICULTURAL WORKS

MANUFACTURERS OF

Raisin · ·

Machinery;

All KINDS OF

Vineyard Tools

LEVELING and CANAL SCRAPERS.

SEND FOR

Descriptive

Catalogue.

ADDRESS,

JAMES PORTEOUS, FRESNO, CAL.

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GUSTAV EISEN,

HORTICULTURAL LAND AND RAISIN EXPERT.

I have had twenty years of experience in fruit growing, raisin-grape growing, raisin making, and in other horticultural industries, in California, Central America, Mexico and Europe. I make it a specialty to assist and advise those engaged in horticultural pursuits. Whether you wish to select land or plant it to vines and trees, whether you are a capitalist, the member of a syndicate or a farmer, my services will be a thousand times more valuable to you than the reasonable charge I make for them. If you are not acquainted with land, soil, climate or the profits of the horticultural industry you intend to engage in, you will find it to your advantage to engage me to make you thorough and truthful reports.

All matters strictly confidential and charges reasonable.

Address,

=GUSTAV EISEN=,

CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES,

~_San Francisco._~

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THE FRUIT REGION OF MERCED.

The fruit lands now offered for settlement by the Crocker Land and Water Company are situated in the very center of California. Besides being so favorably located, they offer advantages which are not possessed by any other lands in the State. The fifty-five thousand acres, which are now for the first time subdivided, consist of virgin pasture and wheat lands, which have become too valuable to be devoted to their former use. They are now being irrigated by the most expensive and magnificent irrigation system on the continent, by a canal capable of carrying 4,000 cubic feet of water per second, and by the artificial lake Yosemite, the most extensive irrigation reservoir ever built in America. The water from this system is abundant and continuous; it comes from the snow-capped Sierra, from the Falls of the Yosemite, and will suffice to irrigate and fertilize hundreds of thousands of acres more than are offered for sale.

These fruit and horticultural lands are situated in the warm belt of the foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada, protected by sheltering hills, traversed by natural creeks and surrounded by the grandest scenery known to man. The famous Yosemite is almost within sight, and the high-peaked Sierra can be reached in a day’s journey. The Coast Range, with Mt. Diablo, is in full view, while the fresh breezes from the San Pablo Bay temper the climate, and contribute to make it one of the finest, most salubrious and most enjoyable in the world. Through the irrigation water always at the command of the horticulturist, our lands are being transformed into beautiful orchards, vineyards and meadows. The peach, the prune, the apricot, the pear and the raisin-grape are made to flourish, and the olive to produce its valuable oil, the orange and the lemon their golden fruit. The colonies already established are situated in the thermal belt of the Sierra, in the finest citrus region of the State, in a district equal to the best anywhere, and in a territory remarkable for its earliness and productiveness. Every variety of temperate and semi-tropical fruit is now growing within sight of the colonies,--the almond, the olive and orange upon the more elevated land; the peach, the prune, the apricot, the pear and the raisin-grape upon that of a more alluvial nature. The Rotterdam Colony contains now over a hundred settlers from Holland; other colonies are being established by English and American farmers, by doctors, lawyers and professional men of every station in life. The people whom we invite, and who have responded to our call, are the most desirable, the most intelligent, the most energetic and the most refined classes. They are now building up horticultural communities of the most prosperous nature.

The lands we offer are situated six hours by railroad from San Francisco. They are traversed by two railroads, and the principal colony is only four miles from Merced City, the county seat, while some of our land joins, and actually surrounds, that town. Our prices are low, and our terms very reasonable. We offer various grades of land, all eminently suitable for the highest state of horticulture, at prices ranging from $75 to $175 per acre, with water.

For particulars address the

Crocker-Huffman Land and Water Company,

MERCED,

Merced County, Cal.

Transcriber’s Notes

Inconsistent and unusual spelling, hyphenation and capitalisation have been retained, unless mentioned below; this also applies to non-English words and phrases.

Robert McPherson and Robert MacPherson are presumably the same person.

Page 29, table: the data given do not add up to the totals given.

Page 216, Audibert: the full title is L’Art de faire le vin avec les raisins secs.

Changes made:

Some minor punctuation and typographical errors have been corrected silently.

Footnotes have been moved to directly under the paragraph where they are referenced.

Several tables have been split or otherwise re-arranged to fit the available width.

Page ii The Raisin Grapes moved up one level as in text; Page 6 Venitians changed to Venetians; _Dipped and Sultana_ changed to _Dipped_ and _Sultana_; Page 7 Dodoen’s changed to Dodoens’s; Page 10 elemes changed to elemês; Pantallaria changed to Pantellaria; Page 15 known as Velencias changed to known as Valencias; Page 26 Ionion Islands changed to Ionian Islands; Page 31 Stan-chio changed to Stanchio; Page 96, illustration caption: _c._ changed to _b._; its Tuberous Mycelium changed to their Tuberous Mycelium; Page 119 illustration captions combined into single caption; Page 133 as high-grade raisins changed to as many high-grade raisins; Page 182 about a feet deep changed to about a foot deep; Page 205 Shacht changed to Schacht; Page 214 table row Mau, Sadler & Co. moved to before Miller, James; Schact changed to Schacht; Page 217 Grasset de Saint Sauveur, Jacque changed to Grasset de Saint Sauveur, Jacques; Noveau Duhamel On Traité des Arbres ... changed to Nouveau Duhamel ou Traité des Arbres ...; Rambert changed to Rembert; Page 218 varietés changed to variétés; Page 219 Aetolico changed to Ætolico; Albunol changed to Albuñol; Cascalira changed to Cascalina; Cooper, Elwood changed to Cooper, Ellwood; Page 220 Crocker-Hoffman Reservoir changed to Crocker-Huffman Reservoir; Eleme changed to Elemê; Gargalino changed to Gargaliano; Page 222 Sweat-boxes changed to Sweatboxes; Entry Quality of Raisins moved to before Racemus; Index some page numbers have been corrected.