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8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1895. LAKDS OF THE STATE Past, Present and Prospective Values of Country Realty. OPPORTUNITY FOR SETTLERS. Profits of the Orchard, Vineyard and Field—Drled and Canned Fruit Exports. Knowledge of California, and the bene- ved here, have excited wide interest and are causing many persons to look in this direction. But something more than general information is requisite before the man of family, with only a mod- | erate amount of money, feels warranted in | breaking up his home to come west, where | are quite new and altogether | People, as a rule, before letting | roundings and occupations into | tey have grown, and with which condition kinde, are extensively cultivated. They require irrigation. Vegetables, as the whole world knows, grow to wonderful erfection and hops yield abundantly and ring handsome returns. Those who have sought California wherever they have set- tled have generally bettered their condi- tion. Almost every county in the State has some claim to superiority for some product, hence the difficulty in_directing the home-seeker without knowing some- thing of his tastes -and requirement ‘While in most counties in_the State fruit- rowing and general farming may be fol- izowod with safety and profit, and the life of the er will be attended with many pleasures, one must make intelligent selec- tion if he has any_fixed plan with respect to the particular branch of fruit-growing he desires to engage in. Wheat and bar- ley are successfully grown in every portion of the State. Peaches, pears and plums have a range. Apricots, almonds, French prunes and olives are more restricted, while oranges, lemons, walnuts, etc., are confined to a limited area, though not to any particular district. Grapes grow al- most everywhere. This has been a very favorable year for the fruit indu in California. There has been an increased planting over its en- tire territory. In the central portion of the State the planting has been largely of oliv oranges and almond: Butte County is setting olives and oranges in in- creased quantities. In the country around L‘lwerua\e, in Sonoma County, oranges are being extensively planted. On the eastern side of Tulare County, in the neighborhood of Porterville, Limekiln and Lindsay, great numbers of lemons and some oranges ry amiliar, endeavor to settle on ite plan to be taken hing the new section of country to | 1 th re drawn. tion beenobtained. rhome in a different country, w people, surrounded by new sentiment is of little value, | everyday life are the | To live in a location | almost a continuous | > the range of production is | as wide " he most exacting critic could | . where life, in comparison with ex- | ence in a very considerable portion of | i ;, not to say luxu- | e desired, is after all ways to the average to learn of the opportu- a comfortable living after the new location. a portion of California presents peculiar advantages in the way of produe- tions it is unwise to make comparisons or claim forany one district a superiority that | entitles it to conspicuous prominence. To ne ler ion is often largely a mat- ter of accident, more frequently, perhaps, Ea made eas; y vears intending settlers have led at the prices of land in Cal- ifornia. Comparatively the prices asked for land in this State were, until quite re- cent higher than the rates demanded M ere west of the ippi River. else Nebraska, here farming land $10 to $15 per acre as where good farming n $15 to $30 and $50 an | they chose the different com- 1d be made now. ancial depres- of the y there has been evolved a new scale of prices. Of these mpression is they are at bed- | uch a thing as inflated | ces are things of the ! | 1S, Out of tt and in- California most reasonable, and on from any source or sec- of the Union when one takes into con- ideration the incomparable climate and haracter and variety of the produc- It is always to a man’s ase anything outright Iment plan, but | and thrifty | and not buy on the ir there are thousands of happ; homes in California to-day secured on one of the many favorable plans offered to poor | men. The terms of payment are such that all that is required now to get a foot- | hold is to be an able-bodied man. In every | section of California there are lands for up on | Such plan can be | p de only after special and | | In speaking of the | | | | year | | shipments of fruit are noted. | man’s comparative table for the years 1890 | We sent 136 cases to Germany. are being planted. San Diego County also z great_partiality toward lemons ar. _In Lake County olives and s are being extensively planted. The d planting of olives has been some- enormous. rofits of the fruit industry A. T. Hatch, the well-known orchardist, said a few days ago that taking one-half the average crop on his prune orchards at 3 cents per pound, allowing $37 per acre expense, he could figzure on a profit of $100 per acre. He claimed that he might get 3{ of a cent per pound for apricots_in the orchard and still make a profit. He said it was a poor excuse of a family numbering for instance five that could not make from a well-bearing orchard §50 per acre. He continued that the fruit market of last year was abnormal. s a good crop, but owing to the railre strike what fruit did not spoil was rushed into market at one time, where some more spoiled, owing to a surplus. The returns to the grower last year were not satisfac tor; could be made to pay Mr. Hatch tions met, which swallowed up the_fruit- grower, did not belong to the running ex- | | pense of the orchard. Some superfi al observer would infer at once that the fruit business was a fadure. Such a view is narrow and unwarranted. Failures of irunit-growers in California are the out- growth of ecircumstances wholly apart from the \’imL considerations of soil, climate market. From the annual report to the California State Board of Trade upon the industrial resources of the State of California for 1891, compiled by N. P. Chipman and. pub- lished the 1st of this month, the increased Mr. Chip- to 1894, both inclusive, referring to ship- ments t by rail, shows the steady ad- vance of the industry. The year 1394 compared with 1890, cov- s 4 space of five years, shows the fol- | lowing increase: Green deciduous fruits, G: ads, 1 per cent; citrus, ds, 75 per cent; dried, 1895.7 carloads, 58.7 per cent; raisins, 2 ar- loads, 128.1 per cent; nuts carloads, 397.3 per cent; canned, 1260 carloads, 31.4 per cent; average increase, all kinds, 14,158.9 carloads, 87.7 per cent. The exports by sea of fruit are given as follows: England, 120.728 cases of canned fruit; Aastralia, 16,594 cases; New Zi and, 5916. These three countries took but 30,613 cases shipped to foreign ports. Our neigh- bor, Mexico, took 106 cases. British Colum- bia bought 952 cases, and Central America 758 cases. China took 2139 cases and Japan 5 is particularly significant consider- ing that we are 0! d to circumnavigate the globe to reach foreign countries. | While this is a good showing, cheaper and better facilities of shipment by water and rail will materially increase these figures and add to the profits of the producer. sale on condition of improvement. The chaser is required to build a house and | plant so much in fruit trees or vines, or cultivate a certain number of acres Tor five i Then he must make pay-| and. Now and then a man | out, but the rule is otherwise. The | vy have heard of the one who has | and never thought of the nine sion of a nice little farm. Ppos There is another feature of land values in this State. Its valuation up to this time has been largely upon its capacities for pro- ducing wheat, cattle, sheep and hogs. Land purchased at $10 per acre developed the production of cerealsand stock | ch time ago might have developed a value of $30 peracre. If so, there would have been an enhancement of 300 per cent of the orig- inal purchase price. With the new culture which is now being realized through a knowledge of the possibilities of our climate and irrigation, viz., the division of grain and stock ranches into fruit farms, ame property is made worth, per- s, $300 per acre, an increase of 1000 per cent. Becanse of better transportations facili- ties, both local and overland, destined soon to be accomplished facts, and because our vineyardists, orchardists and farmers have been educated to fully comprehend the ad- vantages of irrigation and good culture, the value and demand for our farming lands is certain to increase. It is owing {o the fact that there are no summer rains that California produces the finest fruits of all kinds belonging to the temperate and semi-tropic zones. It is only rain that prohibits the growing of wine and raisin grapes in the States bor- dering the Gulf of Mexico. It isthe ab- sence of summer rain that gives California a monopoly of apricots, cherries and prunes. The wonderful success attending the growing of sugar beets isa consequehce of our climate, to which is due the high saccharine quality of the vegetable. The sugar-beet industry, at present confined mostly to the Salinas Valley, has sprang into great prominence through the efforts Claus Spreckels, who erected great works and refineries for the manufacture of beets into sugar. He induced hundreds of farm- ers to engage in the industry, and they have realized very handsome profits. The raisins grown in_the San Joaquin Valley, and especially in Fresno County, are equal to the finest products of Malaga. In Spain five tons of grapes are required to produce one ton of raisins; in California three tons of grapes will 1d one ton of raisins. Citrus fruits, principal among them being the orange and the lemon, are grown in the southern partof the State and the middle of the northern half with great success and profit. In nearly all parts of the State these }ruitswill grow and bear. Prune-raising is a great industry in the middle part of the State. Thousandsof tons of prunes are dried every year, and as the crop is sure from one year to another, and the dried product light and capable of shipment to any part of the world without danger of deterioration, the acreage in prunes increased with enormous rapidity. Raising fruits for use in a fresh state, such as cherries, apricots, peaches, pears and the like, has brought snug fortunes to many. Nuts of various kinds yield hand- some returns, the almond taking the lead. Olives are receiving considerable attention and invariably prove profitable. Small fruits, such as berries of various racteristic of the interior valleys a short | FREE 0 AL We have just published a 70-page list of California Ranches containing full descriptions of many representa- tive places, from the suburban home and small chicken ranch to large fruit, grain, stock ranches and colony It parts of the State, but more es= tracts. includes bargains in all pecially within a radius of 100 miles from San Francisco. We have too many good places to advertise each one separately, but the best are de- | scribed in our catalogue, which will be sent free on application, and from which any buyer should be able to select something to suit him, SUBURBAN ‘We are offering Lots in the JONES TRACT, PROPERTY. ELMHURST. Hourly trains by the 8. P. R. R. to Oakland and San Francisco, and electric cars to Oakland every 15 minutes. Lots 40x125 and 50x150. Prices from $175 up to $1000. Small payment down and balange on easy monthly installments. Send for particulars— GAMAN & LYON, 215 Kearny Street, San Francisco. 3Q ACRES IN ROSS VALLEY, WITH 1 G Provements, for sale, cheap or Cxchange. 'he Fairfax Villa, containing 82 acres, beanti- fully weoded. with & fine trout stream. > "o 6 acres on the main Ross Valley road, 5 minutes' walk from Tamalpais station. Lot in Sunoyside; house 7rooms and bath; a bargain; will exchange. _A finé dairy ranch in the beautiful valley of Nicasio, containing 336 acres improved, fine shade trees and trout stream: the price of this property has been reduced in order to make quick sale. 200 acres near Sausalito, suitable for milk ranch; a bargain. Apply to JAMES TUNSTEAD, San Rafael. There | | Iime but even with the prices of fruit last | an orchard economically managed | suggested that often obliga- | B B EOWIN K, ALSIP & C0, The Oldest and Leadiug Real Estate Dealers in Northern California. No. 1015 Fourth stre:t, Sacramento. No. 9, Rotunda, rills Building, San Francisco. We have more contracts upon country lands for sale than any dealers in San Francisco, and will guarantee to locate any one who desires to pur- chase or éxchange his property. L&~ THERE ARE A GREAT MAN' WHO ‘WOULD SETTLE In the country had they the means to purchase lands, although they have suflicient money to m- prove a place and could work the payments out of the land if they had the opportunity. WE HAVE TWO TRACTS OF LAND IN PLACER COUNTY that we are offering (o cover just such cases. WE REQUIRE THE INTEREST PAYABLE SEMI- ANNUALLY AND NO PAYMENTS on the prin- cipal for four years,and then in annual payments. THE FIRST WE OFFER IS THE HIMES TRACT, WHICH CONTAINED originally nearly 500 acres. It is all level, and located on the rallroad between Rocklin and Loomis. Water is now being brought upon the tract to irrigate it. Quite a portion of it has been 5010 Off to parties who are improving it. and who are well satisfied with their purchase. The prices range from #40 (o $100 per acre. according to the location. 1t is just across the railroad track from the English colony, where land sold for $150 to 200 per acre, and it is o better land in any respect. THE LIGHT TRACT 1sjocated 4 miles from Newcastle, and originally contatned 400 acres, but only 160 acres remain un- sold. ‘Fhisland is sold upon the same terms as the Tract. A visit to either of these tracts of land will convince any that the location and qual- is equal to any colony lunds offered in the le the TERMS OF SALE ENABLE O PAY FOR THE LAND FROM ITS PRODU WE HAVE ANOTHER LARGE TRACT HAT WE ARE P CING on the market, con- sisting of 8200 acres, located 18 miles from Corn- We have a sufficient number of names of th who wish to locate on the tract,and will com- mence to subdivide it into 40-acre lots along in July. The terms of payment will be one-fifth th interest on deterred payments at 6 per the purchaser paying the taxes on the Jand, Whi¢h will not exceed $6 per annum to each 40 acres We will 10t Tequire any more payments on the principal for four years, and, after that, in an- nual pavments. Theland is well adapted for rais- ing dectduous and citrus fruits. It is only slightly rolling, and can all be cultivated except about 500 acres, which will be thrown into pasture-land. 1200 acres are under cultivation. rties desiring to locate upon this tract will please send in their names, and we will send circulars giving fuller description of it. STOCK RANCHES. The cattle business is looking up and is destined 10 be one of the prosperous industries of this as cattle are rapi ng in price. W below several good sfock ranches on easy terms: 1500 acres on the Sacramento River, with a 2- story house of 14 rooms, 2 g0od barns, granary, blacksmith-shop and tools, etc.; water piped to the ise; 50 acres ¢ & very fine place 500 alfaifa, producin; rops vearly withont irrigation; price is $3 $10,000 cash down. )—4100 acres of land in Mendocino Coun- watered: & summer and winter range considered one of the finest stock 1035 acres of Tolling land 3 irord station; b an acre in Derries and small fruics suflicient for fam- 3 00 acres clear: scattering timber over the place: fenced with 4 and 6 wires into 5 fields house of 7 rooms; large harn: lots of springs; has been used as a hogand catt willkeep from 120 t0 200 head of catile: avery cheap plac will trade for suburban property. No. 958—812,000; $450 sncres; 1 acre orchard: 14 acre strawberries; 75 acres cultivated: 1000 acres tillable; 2 houses and 4 large barns; jocated 7 miles from Fruto, but in Mendocino County; those who have seen this place say It is very cheap for the money. Since the consolidation of the wine-growers the wine inierests of the State have been looking up. The price of wine has advanced 10 cents a gallon, and mohey invested in the future in vineyards will be quite as profitable as can be made. We ofter severai good places out of which money ¢an EST VIN RD IN THE STATE ALIFORNTA FOR $200,000. There are 640 acres of land, and the wine that has been produced from this place has received several gold medals and hasa world-wide reputation, it having been shipped to Europe and other places, and is equal 1t not superior to auy French wine produced. This ard is most all set out to Resistant Vines. e is & magnificent residence on the place, a e wine cellar, beautiful grounds. Apout 80 acres are in orchard. The place cost the present owner very nearly $500,000, and is adjacent to one of the principal interior cities of this State. ALSO For $16,500, 1100 acres of land 10 miles north- east of Napa City, with a house of 7 rooms and fur- niture, small bouse for men, 55 acres in vineyard, 40 acres for hay and grain, 200 acres under cultiva- tion, and the balance In timber. The personal property consists of 40 head of cattle and 8 head of horses. and all farming tools. No. 1010—87000—100 acres of land, slightly rolling; 30 acres in vineyard; 26 acres in orchard; 15 acre berrius; 60 acres clear; fine large house of 16 rooms; small house of 6 rooms: barn: wat piped to buildings from springs: everything in first class condition: 5 miles from railroad, uear Ben Lomond stazion; will take $2500 down and the balance In annual payments: from the description nd location this s one of the cheapest places that has been offered in this county for many years. No. 871—$17,000—250 acres near St. Helena, Napa Couny 5 ac of which 50 acres are in wine grapes, in orchard, 10 acres of olives and a few «d in 6 fields; 2 good dwellings; barns; spring water: 4 horses; 2 cows: 4 dozen chickens ail farming utensils. No. 866—$4000—126 acres; 10 miles from Heaidsburg and 7 miles from Windsor: 20 acres in vinevard and balance in timber: small house and stabie; living water running by the place. GENERAL FARMS. No.1016—85 per acre—480 acres of unimproved timber land in San Luis Obispo County; 10 miles from the rafiroad; 320 acres tillable if Cleared. No. 1007—8$12,000—A farm of 75 acres of rich bottom land; 9 acres in vineyard; 6 acres in old orchard; 10 acres in prunes; 40 acres grain; 10 acres corn; well fenced into 6 fields, with 14 new double gates; large oak trees scattered over the place; 2-story house of 7 rooms; barn 50x85; 2 granaries; 3 weils; 2 horses, 2 cows, hogs, chick- ens, wagons, buggies, plows and all farming uten- sils: 34 mile from station: 4 trains passing daily. No. 1008—$4500—14 scres; 2 acres in table grapes, which netted $100 last year: 7 acres orchard, pears, apples and French prunes; 4 acres bhay: all fenced with board and hedge; new house of 5 r00ms and kitchen: good barn: horse, cow, 120 chickens; wagon; 2 plows; it is beautifully situated, only 114 miles from Martinez; it Is un- incumbered, and the only reason for selling is that the party is Zoing to Mexico on an engagement ahd the place is 100 z00d to rent. No. 995—$16,000—One of the best and most elf- glbly located farms inSanta Cruz County, consist- ing of 80 acres: 55 acres in orchard, apples, French prunes and cherries, trees being heavy bearers and in fine condition: 6 acres in grain: land rolling, of arich, deep soil, well adapted for ral i well fenced with picket fence; nice resid rooms: barn 40x16: packing shied: running stream of water through the piace and 6 living springs; 2 horses: chickens: all farming tools included: this past season the place produced between 6000 and 000 boxes of apples, besides Bartlett pears and prunes; ic is a profitable place, and the owner has. always made money on it No. 1015—$2100—6; acres of cholce land, located about 1500 feet fromi Novato station; house of 4 rooms and basement: 2 chicken-houses, barn and stable; some implements. No. 3—$2500—15 acres of sandy loam soil; 4 miles from the railroad, in Somoma County; 10 acres in fruit, half acre in blackberries; corn snd potatoes raised on the balance; house ot 6 rooms, barn and chicken-house. CITY PROPERTY IN EXCHANGE FOR COUNTRY PROPERTY. For $12,000—A nice piece of property in Oak- land, with 6 cottages, renting for $67 per month; hionses being buiit in the rear of the lot, leaving the front portion for other residences, with a drive- way to the rear. For $1000—A small residence in East Oakland, with 3 lots, 25x100 each, in exchange for a small place around the bay: will assume & small mort- e. ‘'or $110,000—A fine piece of business property in San Franclsco, renting for about per an- num, in exchange for a grain or frait ranch worth $50,000 or £60,000, leaving a morigage on the property for the balance for a term of years at 614 per cent. EDWIN K. ASLIP & CO., s connty and can be bought on easy | | i | | the ranch; postoffice and school r EL RANCHO GOTATE SONOMA COUNTY, CAL., 40 MILES FROM SAN FRANCISCO, BETWEEN PETALUMA AND SANTA ROSA. 2000 ACRES SOLD T0 DATE T0 125 PAMILIES. 8000 ACRES FOR DALE! $500 to $1000 will buy ten-acre tracts, never plowed; therefore, not worn out. Land suitable for fruits, vegetables, berries, grain, dairying. MOST SUCCESSFUL POULTRY CENTER Of the State. No irrigation necessary. Good water and climate and cheapest freight in the State. railroad stations on tract. School, Postoffice and three Any size tracts for sale at reasonable prices and on easy terms. For particulars, circulars and maps apply to GEO. T. TROWBRIDGE, Cotate, Sonoma County, an & Lyon, 215 Kearny Street, SATNN FRANCISCO. Or CHEAP BARGAINS IN REAL ESTATE OFFERED BY BOVEE, TOY & CO., 19 MUNTGOMERY ST. THE GENERAL BIDWELL LAND — 6500 acres of land near Chico, Butte County, Cal., known s the General Bidwell Ranch. This iné princi- ot tse ey lond In the world Is now ofered T sale by us 10K @65 per gete as a whole. Part of this [and'is assesseq for $275 per acre: has a fine orchard and nursery on the place; well wooded and well watered: terms very reasonable. E LAND, Tehuma County, Cal., bounded north by Mill Creek, south by the Leland Stanford lands at Vina, west by the Sacramento River and east by the mountains, coutaining about 6000 acres of 1and, of which 3500 acres are rich river bottom Jands: loamy soil: well improved; bas a fine water rixht sufficient to irrigate all the Iand in€o0d shape from Mill Creek ; price $160,000; easy terms, interest 7 per cent_per annum; finest subdivision proposition in the State. 20,000 ACRES OF BEST SHEEP AND CAT- TLE RANCH IN NEVADA—The Hoppin Rauch 1s situated in Quinn River Valley, 70 miles north of Winnemucea, Nev. : there is enough meadow land on the ranch to get from 3000 to 5000 tons of hay, 2150 grows fine alfalfa; the ranch is well fenced 3 well-improved places on the property; abou 3000 head of sheep, about 200 head of horse: WHZODS, MOWeTS, rakes, harness, etc.. goes by: well watered; price reduced to $50,000: will take hal? in California property and remainder on mortgaze at 6 per cent interest perannum; this is one of the finest bargains on the Pacific Slope for any one wishing to go into the stock business; the place has produced as high as $30,000 per year. 11,000 ACRES AT $3 50 PER ACRE hills, with smail valleys; about 4000 acres of this Iand can be plowed; fine stock ranch for sheep, caitle, hogs; well watered and timbered: ope-third cash, balance 7 per cent Interest: about 75 miles from'this city. 6717 ACRES AT $40. PER ACRE—With 16 acres of creek bottom thrown in; 415 miles east of Woodland; this is fine alfaifa’and frit land; fact the very best: will grow prunes to perfc simllar lands adioining have been selling $100 10 $150 per acre: one-third cash, balance on Very reasonable terms: investl 5. SUBDIVISION ACRES OF THE HOPPIN RANCH—G miles northwest of th tiful city of Woodland, on the north bank of Cacl Creek, Yolo County, Cal.; we will sell this tract in parcels from 5 to 40 acres at prices from $40 to $60 per acre: the very best alfalfa Jand in Yolo County ; 10 better pear or prune land in the State; it is the cheapest and the best plece put on the market in Yolo County IN TWENTY VEARS; TERMS one-third cash, balance on time to suit'buyer; w want to impress on the minds of those who bave money that now is the time (o buy lands, as they are clieaper to-day than in the past 20 years: we know now what ourlands will produce; 20 years ago we did not. 1f you want o be surprised in regard to prices of 1and call on us. BOVEE, TOY & CO., No. 19 Montgomery St., San Francisco, Cal. Rolling BARGAINS IN SNALL FARMS D. H. TWING, SONOMA, CAL. The 8-Year Plan, viz.: 6,7 and 11 acre pleces at $70, $80 and $100 per acre; dark, chocolate-colored, gravelly soil; fine tree land; gently sloping to the south and west; well drained; good, soft water, by wells, within 20 feet of surface, and running water mostof the sum- mer on nearly every plece, and 3 20-acre hill pieces at $25 and $30 per acre, all within 1 mile of town. Terms—One-fifth cash, balance in 2, 4, 6 and 8 y]e;:n 7 per cent interest annually, in advance. a14). 320-acre stock, hog ané wood ranch: 100 acres cultivatable: 40 in cultivation; 12 acres in vines; @ few fruit trees; more than 6000 cords of standing firewood, oak and pine; 4 miles from the switch on the county road; 6 miles from town: 8 springs anda running stream through the place; good partly finished house of 6 rooms; poor outbuild- ?fl!l) $3500; subject to approval of Probate Court, Chicken Ranches on the 10-Year Plan, viz.: 4,6,10and 20 acre tractson 10 years’ credit, 1 to 2 miles from Sonoma City, and within half to 1 mile of El Verano station, on the Santa Rosa and Car- quinez Railroad at $100 per acre; A No. 1 small farms and chicken ranches on the foliowing ex- tremely favorable terms, viz: Only the interest payable annuaily n advance for the first 5 year: then one-fifth of the purchase money and interest in advance annually on the balance for the next 5 years; interest 7 per cent. Conditions: Improve- ments to be made immediately. Al fruit land; well drained; running water on surface until July of each year: about 100 feet elevation above tide- water. ‘I have sold 84 pleces; a few cholce pieces left. (112), D. M. TWING, SONOMA, CAL. 'ALED) MAILED FREE, 103 ot clol)h-halnd.on Lrrors of Youth and Diseases of Men and ‘Women. Address Dr. LOBB, 328 9 Rotunda, Mills Buildg, San Francisco. ' North Fifteenth Street, Philadciphis, Pas [ | | | 0’FARRELL & GO0. David Bush, Conntry Department, 11 Montgomery Street. THE LOS GUILICOS RANCHO, We are offering In subdivisions this celebrated ncho, situated in the heart of Los Guilicos Val- v, Sonoma County. The Southern Pacific over- Innd runs through the property. This property is ten miles east_from Santa Rosa. The tract con- sists of over 1000 acres of the very richest of soil, which possesses attractions for the home-sceker difficult to equal and impossible toexcel. This celebrated rancho was selected over 40 years ago by ‘Willlam Hood Esq., his choice of this section being governed by the extreme fertility of the soil, its abundant supply of pure water, perfect shelter and beautiful surrounding scenery. It is only 66 miles from San Franclsco; fare, $1 45. We are oftering this property in 84 subdivisions, varying in_size srom 5 to 80 acres, and ata price of from §50 to $150 per acre. Send for a catalogue. $2500—10-acre tracts of full-bearing orchard near Kenwood, Sonoma County ; as fine orchard land as there is in the State; an_excellent opportunity to | put up s cottage and own your own country home. $4000—121/ acres near Redwood City, on county rond: 9 ncres in prumes, balance in apricots and pears just coming iuto bearing, being 5 years old; all handsomely improved and ready to build npon: elegantly improved places adjoining; a great bar- gain; easy terms. #8000—16 acres a quarter of a mile from Sara- toga, Santa Clara County; allout in full bearing French and silver prunes, peaches and cherries; £ood house of 5 rooms and bath, barn and chicken” houses, windmil and tank: water piped to house and barn; a lovely place and a bargain; crop has averaged about $1600 per annum. 40 acres in bearing orchard between Los Gatos and Saratoga; fine improvements: cash or exchange for San Francisco property; value $25,000. Seventeen acres at Haywards, all fn prunes and apricots; income over $1600 last year: fine house and grounds: part cash or exchange for San Fran- cisco property. $6000—Ejght acres of apricots and prunes In full bearing at Haywards: good house, barn and im- provements, with spring water; purt cash. $20 per acre—One of the finest cattle and hog ranches in San Luis Obispo County, four miles west of Paso Robles, of 8100 acres; 500 acres in grain; 15 acres in orchard; fine house, barn and outbuild- ings; fenced and cross-fenced: plenty of water: abundance®f oak trees; part cash, or will exchange for San Francisco property. FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR SAN FRAN- CISCO PROPERTY—One of the most magnificent improved income properties in Sonoma County of 800 acres, with orchard, vinevard, winery, coop- erage, distiliery and @ complete piant for dipping and drying prunes; elegant mansion of 15 rooms, completely furnished: fine ontbuildings: orna: mental grounds, etc.: valued at $75.000; plenty of water; handsomely wooded: an ideal home or sanitafium; detailed description and pletures at office, $12,500—66 acres, adjoining the town limits of Martinez: vineyard and orchard; elegant improve- memfe: adjoins” Mr. Bush's place; this isa bar gain. $8 per acre—2000 acres, 9 miles from Ukiah; 2000 sheep sud lambs, 5 cows, 2 good teams of horses, 30 or 40 stock bogs; plenty of oak wood and running water; a fine body of farming and fruitland on this place: good house and barn; all fenced and crose fenced ; one of the best stock and general farms in Mendocino County; half cash, balance at 8 per cent. We have a numberof small improved places in Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, Sonoma, San Mateo and Santa Clara countfes, from $3000 to $10,000, for sale or exchange. Particulars of DAVID BUSH, O’FARRRLL & CO.’S Country Depart- ment, 11 Montgomery Si No Percentage Pharmacy, 953 Market St. &D/ 1DGE:g i’“t ESTATE G dargg oiMERIL AU 2000 A —IN— Small Farms UH]HEPMHI. MICHAEL LYAN RANCH! Subdivision of the GABILAH RANCHO, co* EERS, NEAR SALINAS CITY, Monterey County. A Privele Sae Large and Small Fams! 50 ACRES, 100 ACRES ——AND—— 400 ACRES N LONG CREDIT! EASY TERMS! ONE-QUARTER CASH BALANCE IN ONE, TWO AND THREE YEARS. INTEREST, EIGHT PER CENT PERANNUM. This Beautful Propery, Comprising about 2500 acres of land, lies to the south and east of Salinas, constituting one of the finest properties in the State of California fordiversified farming, including fruit-growing, grain-raising and livestock. The property has a frontage on the Main County Road running from Salinas south, and also has an important frontage on the old “Los Angeles Stage Road,” and has been subdivided into 31 beautiful farms, each. A most excellent supply of water underlies the whole property, available from artesian wells and a permanent stream of water that traverses the property from south to north. Shipping point is within one mile, at Spence Station, and warehouses on the main line of the South- ern Pacific Railroad; also, at Salinas and at Chualar. We are offering the property on espe- cially favorable credit-terms of one-quarter cash; the balance in one, two and three years, with interest at eight per cent per annum, payable semi-annually. The land will be sold th~ present season, including the crop now growing, and the income from the land this season will very easily carry the first payment. L&~ We invite correspondence with re- gard to this property, and our reprsenta- tive at Salinas will make personal visits to the Ranch with intending purchasers. For further details, address EASTON, ELORIDGE & CO, 638 Market Street, 5. F. (R SALINAS, HONTEREY COUNTY. ARGAINS IN COUNTRY REAL ESTATE. HEADQUARTERS® Galifornia Lands. OFFICE OF THOMAS McMAHAN, 628 Market Street. The following list of Country Proper- ties are this week offered tothe public, and accuracy of description is guaran- teed. There is no doubt that they are each and every one of them bargains, and that the buyers thereof will be alive to their own interests when they invest in them, as the time never hag been so favorable. Don’t miss your op- portunity. Don’t wait until prices are at flood tide, which will soon be the case, unless all signs fail. ¥or any fur- ther information regarding these prop- erties apply at the office. ALAMEDA AND CONTRA COSTA COUNTIES. $40 per acre for 408 acres fine rolling hills, splendid_soil, 3 miles from Haywards, Alameda ‘ounty; house, barn, outhouses, small orchard and ineyard; fenced and cross-fenced; fine place for stock or general farming; plenty of running water, also fine springs: magnificent view of the bay of Francisco, including the cities of San Fran- cisco, Oakland, Alameda and_portions of the coun- tles of San Mateo and Santa Clara. $35 per acre for 398 acres fine rolling hiils, splendid soil, 6 miles Haywerds, Alamada County; house, barn, fe , running water and springs; small orchard and vineyard; would make agood general farm and would be excellent for orchard or vineyard: if properly handled this is & very profitable place. 50 per acre for 710 acres; 2 miles from Wal- nut Creek, Contra Costa County: all fenced. but not otherwise improved; plenty of water and con- siderable timber; probably wood enough to pay for the ranch: makes an excellent stock ranch. $5000—8 acres, near Hayiwards, of cholce fruit; house of 10 rooms and bath: ali modern conven- fences: piano, furniture, horsé, cow, vehicle, poul- try and implements. SANTA CLARA VALLEY. $1250—160 acres in Santa_Clara County, over- Jooking Uvas Val hout 50 acres good ploswed land; balance fir ing and enough timber to pay for place: good cabin and open fireplace: 100 | young truiv trees; tract level and hill, and adapted %0 fruit, grazing, etc.; chickens do lonally well here; altitude about 1200 fee rr ounding: modern houses and thrifty orchards and vineya: $9500—45 acr Clara County grain and pasture 214 miles from Saratoga, Santa acres in_orchard, balance hay, improved. $80 to £150 per acre for 100 acres choice orchard 1and, in subdivisions, in the celebrated Uvas Vai- ley, Santa Clara County; easy terms. $10,000—162 acres fine level land: choice soll and location; 2 miles from Hollister; improved. A 207%-acre tract, unsurpassed in fertility and agreeable surroundings. 2014 acres, 2145 miles from Hollister, San Benito County; a deep sediment loam, 40 feet deep, and {fronting on a public thoroughfare: all level and well fenced; 520 Blenheim apricots, 4 years old; 500 silver prunes, 4 years old; 600 French prunes, 3 years old; 550 softshell walnuts, 4 years old, from seed; also assorted family orchard {n bear- 3 irrigation ditch adjacent; fine windmill and ; water piped to house and grounds; small cottage; &ood barn, stable and sheds: personalty to £0 with place: 2 good horses, harness, wagons and full list of farming implements of every descrip tion; will pay to investigate. SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. $2000—43 acres, 8 miles from Santa Cruz, 9 miles from railroad station; 18 acres under cultivas tion; 700 fruit trees; 7 acres table grapes; house 5 rooms; barn; stable; 6 chicken-houses; household furniture, farming implements, etc.; has cost the owner over $4000; must sell on account of sicke Dess; & snap. $6500—40 acres, 12 miles from Santa Cruz; nearly level and under cultivation; 1600 fruft trees; full bearing: winter apples, prunes, etc.: took 'first prize at county fair for best exhibit of fruit: rich soil; new hard-finished house, cosg $3000: barns, outbuildings, etc.: will pay 12 per cent net on purchase price; will exchange for gilt~ edged San Francisco or Alameda property. $1350—7 acres level land, Bonny Doon, miles from Sants Croz: good house, barn, biacky smith-shop, chicken-houses abundance of small fruit: place; delightful climat $7000—20 acres, 234 miles from Santa Cruzg 71 acres winter ‘apples, 7 vears old; 714 acre§ prunes, 7 years old; family orchand: good house 7 rooms; barn; stable; chicken-houses for 600 chickens; level land; Al soil: plenty of watery adjoining land unimproved held £300 per acreg one of the bargains of Santa Cruz Coun an in- come from the start. A SPLENDID OFFERING. $7000—00 mcres in Santa Cruz_County, 3 miles from a flourishing town and 7 miles from the famous sugar-beet manufacturing city of Wate sonville; tract level and rolling: 18 acres in full bearing prunes and apples; all kinds of vegetables £IOW 10 perfection without Irrigation; new rustic house of 7 rooms, surrounded by great profusion of flowers: 2 barns, workshop, toolhouse, milkhouse, cornerib, extra poultry house and yards, hosehouse, woodshed and quarters for help; & fine spring of water 10 feet deep, from which water is piped to house and grounds through 2-inch galvanized pipes: personalty to go with place: 1 span fine horses, cows, hesvy wagon, 1 spring wagon, 1 cart, 4 set. harness, 4 plows, cultivator, barrow, corn shelleg and grinder and many other farm tools: timber om the elevated land worth $1000; terms one-half cash; a place to live and die on. SONOMA COUNTY. $8500-80 ACRES IN SONOMA COUNT about 60 alies from San Franciaco: half mile faoig station, on 8. F. and N. P. R. R., and adjacent o the most populsr mineral SPring resort 10 the States 50l black and red loam; tract level dud gently sloping; choice fruit as follows: 11 acres Fronel prunes, 15 acres in Bartlett pears, Crawford peaches and sil ver-drop plums, 27 acres in black Burgundy and Zinfandel grapes mearly all in full bearings abundant living water; fine windmill and tang: water piped to house and over premises; improve: ments consist of a modern 6-T00m cottage and ot hot and cold water; t0 £0 with place a jong list of Ppersonal property comprisgig evervthing required ‘;: _nx well c:nflucwd farm, including furniture of m:z ee.nce. t will pay any home-seeker to see this MARIN COUNTY. $1400—12 acres in Marin County, 2 from this city and 12 mile from a mxi‘mg“m'f‘rfifl town: will produce several crops per year withous irrigation; both rail and water transportation. $1650—10 actes in Marin County, , :‘e:f':l:s:i c';fnexl o;ns :lcrel: in :nnvlngyoimzo!r:lx;al:d., able house, h = vy Plain but comfotta use, barn, chicken-house, BEAUTIFUL VILLA SITE. £3000—514 acres In the city which comk‘m be used for pnimg- :a' 2:5-.1“::'- vantage and profit; neat cottage, barn, etc. $2750—A MOST DESIRABLE PR wayside place; 6 acres 2 miles fl'\‘llllosPIEnR;{thg{ and near Tamalpais Station; A1 50il; well fenced; barn, sheds, efc.; residence and store recontly burned; water pi; Ve subdivision. | P'Ped Over grounds; lies well for $3000—31 acres in Marin Co from San Francisco and 114 mim‘"gfil’;mg: town: fine fruit and vegetable land: ordinary ine Pprovements; on county road; exceilent tract. ) 4 ) Y