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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



EUCALYPTUS GROWING FOR 

 PROFIT. 



More or less information has been 

 given to the public during the last 

 two or three years with regard to 

 eucalyptus trees, the rapidity of their 

 growth and the lumber value of their 

 wood. The public, however, has been 

 slow to appreciate the value of this 

 new timber. It has been growing 

 over fifty years in California, where 

 it was introduced from Australia. 

 That a hardwood tree can grow to 

 marketable size in ten years seems a 

 thing incredible to most people who 

 have not seen the eucalyptus with 

 their own eyes. Many who have been 

 convinced of the rapidity of the growth 

 of the tree have formed the natural con- 



clusion that its wood must be pithy and 

 of little commercial value. The truth 

 about this wood is that it is rapidly 

 replacing all other hardwoods. 



From three to five years of age 

 Eucalyptus trees make excellent fuel, 

 though they are rapidly becoming too 

 valuable to sacrifice in this way. At 

 from seven to nine years the wood of 

 the tree is good for wagon tongues, 

 insulator pins, agricultural imple- 

 ments and other rough usages. At 

 from nine to twelve years of age the 

 wood is superb for all hardwood pur- 

 poses, and its durability and polish 

 equals that of any hardwood grown 

 in America. 



As one travels through California 

 today he sees on every hand groves 



In 19O8 I bought 

 32O acres of raw 

 land in the 



San Joaquin Valley 



California 



for $3O an acre. Today this land is 

 worth $25,OOO. Last year my farm 

 paid all expenses and made a {good 

 living for me. This year I am raising 

 wheat, barley, alfalfa and stock. My 

 19 1O income will be between S.iOOO 



and $4OOO. 



E. L. Fox, Hanford, Cal. 



The San Joaquin Valley is in 

 central California, the land of sun- 

 shine. Here are 10,000,000 fertile 

 acres, with an abundance of water 

 for irrigation corning from the snows 

 of the High Sierras. Every staple 

 crop is profitable. It's unequaled 

 for citrus and deciduous fruits. 



A man of small capital can get 

 quick returns from vegetables, alf.ilfa, 

 hogs, dairying and poultry. A few 

 acres intelligently handled will sup- 

 port a family while the orange or- 

 chard and the vineyard are coming 

 into bearing. 



I am employed by the Santa Fe 

 Railway to help settle up the 

 country along its Southwest lines. 



I know this valley like a book. I 

 have gone over it thoroughly. I 

 have seen crops planted, growing 



and harvested. I have talked with 

 farmers, ranchers and orchardists, 

 with merchants and real estate 

 agents. I have kept tab on cost of 

 crop production from start to finish. 

 I have collated the testimony of ex- 

 perts in the raising of oranges, 

 lemons, raisin grapes, vegetables 

 and grains. 



All this information is condensed 

 into an illustrated 72-page folder. 

 Won't you write for it, giving me 

 your full name and address ? Ask 

 me any question you want to about 

 land and crops. Also I will send 

 you our immigration journal, THE 

 EARTH, six months free. 



Address G. L. Seatfraves. General 

 Colonization Atfent A. T. & S. F. Ry. 

 System, lilt) Railway Exchange, 

 Chicago. Illinois. 



of these trees; in fact, in the very 

 heart of the old orange districts of 

 the state valuable acreages are now 

 planted to eucalyptus. The San 

 Joaquin Valley, the great interior 

 valley of California, has been demon- 

 strated to be a superior locality for 

 the growing of the best varieties of 

 eucalyptus. Here are found the best 

 of soil with the right climate and fav- 

 orable conditions as to underground 

 moisture for the production of these 

 man-made forests. 



The Porter Land Co., of Chicago, 

 has several thousand acres of land 

 in Tulare County, which they are 

 planting in this way. This is the 

 county in which the "famous big 

 trees" have been growing for the last 

 three thousand years or more. The 

 conditions that have made it possible 

 for these world wonder trees to nour- 

 ish through thirty centuries or more 

 are proved to be congenial also to 

 the growth of the eucalyptus. 

 If trees now planted can be spared 

 the ax of the woodman, they would 

 eventually overtake their aged rivals 

 in height, if not in diameter. In fact, 

 eucalyptus trees in Australia have 

 been met with which exceed in height 

 the "Famous Big Trees of Califor- 

 nia." There is no other tree that a 

 man can plant and expect to harvest 

 as lumber in his own generation. 

 The most remarkable thing about the 

 eucalyptus is that one harvest 

 is not all; when cut, trees spring im- 

 mediately from the stump and the sec- 

 ond growth is even faster than the 

 first. This process of cutting and re- 

 growing goes on indefinitely. 



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