THE PROFIT OF ORANGE-GROWING. 17 



ent figure to ten dollars per 1000 jobbing rates there 

 will still be left five dollars per 1000, or five hundred 

 dollars per acre for the producer, which on a ten-acre 

 tract will satisfy the cupidity of the most avaricious. 

 There is scarcely a possibility that the price of good 

 clean oranges will reach so low a figure as ten dol- 

 lars per thousand yet, for years to come. 



WHAT WILL IT COST TO GET SUCH AN ORCHARD? 



" As a guide to those who may desire to figure on 

 the probable expense of starting an orange orchard. 

 I give below some figures which are applicable to 

 Riverside ; they must be changed somewhat for other 

 localities. Land in Riverside settlement is compara- 

 tively high. One year ago good wild land could be 

 obtained for seventy-five dollars per acre, and even at 

 sixty dollars per acre under the canals. To-day there 

 is none for sale at a less. figure than one hundred 

 and fifty dollars per acre, and choice land in good lo- 

 cations is held at two hundred dollars per acre firm. 

 Lower priced lands can be had in other localities, and 

 in no place in Southern California does it command 

 as high a figure as here in Riverside. In applying 

 these figures to other localities the price of land can 

 be figured all the way from twenty-five to one hun- 

 dred dollars per acre. Following are the figures for 

 a ten-acre tract : 



COST. 



Ten acres of land in Riverside $1500 



One thousand trees, budded or seedling. 750 



Planting and caring for same first season, at 



twenty-five dollars per acre 250 



Caring tor orchard second year, at fifteen dollars 



per acre 150 



