CHAPTER IV. 



Prices of Fruit and Cost of Land. 



In the " Handbook of British Columbia," an 

 official Government bulletin, distributed from the 

 office of the Agent-General for British Columbia, 

 Salisbury House, Finsbury Circus, London, E.C., 

 we read (pp. 39-42): " The actual experience of many 

 fruit-growers is highly satisfactory to them and a 

 temptation to every man who desires to make money 

 pleasantly to set up in the business. In Okanagan 

 there are instances of $500 (£100) to $600 (£120) gross 

 profit per acre. At Kelowna nine tons of pears and 

 10 tons of prunes per acre are not uncommon. Near 

 Nelson 14 acres produced 1,000 cases of strawberries 

 and 94 tons of roots, netting the owner $100 (£29) 

 per acre. This land was formerly a cedar swamp. At 

 Lytton to-day grapes averaging 41b. to the bunch 

 were grown in the open. On the Coldstream Ranch, 

 near Vernon, 20 acres produced $10,000 (£2,000) 

 worth of Northern Spy apples. At Peachland one 

 acre and a half gave a return of $700 (£140) in peaches. 

 Tomatoes to the value of $1,500 (£300) per acre were 

 grown near Okanagan Lake. A cherry-tree at Pen- 

 ticton produced SOOlbs. of fruit. These cases are by 

 no means exceptional or confined to any single 



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