ADVERTISEMENTS. 



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A FEW FACTS 



And results by some of our farmers who have raised sugar beets in the district and shipped 

 them under contract to the Chino factory, 70 miles distant from the Los Alamitos, show 

 conclusively that the raising of sugar beets is the most remunerative and paying crop for 

 the intelligent and industrious farmer, where in live months from the time of planting he 

 is paid for his crop at prices contracted for before planting, and that three to four crops will 

 pay for the land which is being sold at one-half the price of what similar lands bring in 

 France and Germany, where the beets are not as rich in sugar by 4 to 6 per cent. 



RESULTS OF SUGAR BEETS RAISED IN THIS DISTRICT. 



A conservative average tonnage per acre on our lands is 15 and the average sugar in the 

 beets 16 per cent. The price paid for beets by the company is $3.25 for 12 per cent, beets 

 and 25c per ton for each 1 per cent, of sugar additional, thus the average price per ton of 

 beets would be $4.25 per ton. 



At 15 tons per acre $63.75 



Cost of production per acre 20.00 



Net per acre at these conservative figures $43.75 



THE TOWNSITE. 



In about the center of the tract is located the new town of Los Alamitos, laid out 

 October, 1896, and the Los Alamitos sugar factory, now nearing completion, which will 

 work up during this year's campaign 40,000 tons of sugar beets and 80,000 tons annually 

 thereafter, for which, including help and other materials used in the manufacture of sugar,, 

 the factory will expend each year from $550,000 to $600,000. 



The average size of lots in the townsite is 50 x 150 feet. 



All the streets are 80 feet wide, the sidewalks 12 feet, the alleys 15 feet. 



The purest of artesian water under good pressure is piped in the alley of each lot. 



PRICES of town lots range from $75 to $550, according to location. The regular 

 terms are one-third cash, the balance on or before one and two years, with interest at the 

 rate of 8 per cent, per annum on deferred payments. 



The government harbor and Southern California's seaport, San Pedro, is but 14 miles 

 distant, and the Southern Pacific Railway, which has built a $5000 depot at Los Alamitos, 

 its present terminus, will connect with San Pedro. 



These lands and lots are in the hands of first owners, who are not holding for speculative 

 purposes, but are desirous of having them improved and sugar beets raised on the lands. 



Unsold lands are leased to actual prospective buyers at a low rental or upon shares. 



Correspondence from those desiring to buy or rent land for the most profitable crop 

 " Sugar Beet Culture," or buy lots in the new and promising town of Los Alamitos, is 

 solicited, and will receive prompt and careful attention. Address 



BIXBY LAND COMPANY, 



310-12 BYRNE BUILDING, 

 FRANK J. CAPITAIN, ^, t . 



secretary. Los Angeles, California. 



