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up large tracts of land around Lindsay, and are meeting with success 

 in finding water. Messrs. Hammond & Wishon have two large tracts, 

 consisting of 500 acres, which are cut np in small holdings, with water 

 developed to cover all the land. 



One of the chief points in the oranges grown in this section is, that 

 while they do not show much outward color when picked, the meat 

 inside is well colored, sweet, and full of juice, causing them to color 

 readily when packed, without shrinking, as many oranges do when 

 gathered green. Lemons from this section, even on November 21st, at 

 public auction in New York, brought $1 per box more than imported 

 lemons. 



The area now planted at Exeter is about 1800 acres, in large holdings, 

 and the shipments from there this season will be 175 cars. This section 

 is mostly irrigated from a ditch taking water out of Kaweah River, some 

 12 miles northeast of Exeter, though they do not rely altogether on the 

 ditch, and have wells and electric power to resort to when the water is 

 low. At one point here the water is forced up on a mountain to the 

 height of 500 feet, where several hundred acres are being planted in a 

 belt that is absolutely frostless, the temperature being 15° higher on the 

 mountain side than at the base. Citrus trees along the base of the 

 mountain come into bearing very young. As an instance, Mr. Griffin 

 has a two-year-old orchard here that will yield a carload this season, 

 some trees with a half box of merchantable fruit on them. 



The Bonnie Brae orchard, managed by Mr. George Frost, being the 

 oldest orchard here, is making the most of the shipments this season, 

 though Mr. Moore and Mrs. Newhall have orchards that are almost 

 paying for themselves in this season's crop. 



Lemon Cove, some ten miles northeast of Exeter, has 480 acres 

 planted to citrus fruits, mostly lemons, to which fruit the soil is best 

 adapted, and I have no hesitancy in saying that there is no place in 

 California that can produce a better lemon than this section, which fact 

 has been demonstrated by analysis. The shipments of lemons alone 

 from this point this season will be 80 cars. 



Antelope Heights, situated on the north side of the Kaweah River, is a 

 new development, and there are about 300 acres planted, the trees now 

 being one and two years old. The orchards are in small holdings, and 

 are irrigated by pumping-plants with an inexhaustible supply of water. 

 This section will never be bothered with frost, and is destined to be one 

 among the best localities in the valley for citrus fruits. 



East of Sanger and Reedley, in Fresno County, there are about 1600 

 acres planted to citrus fruits, the trees mostly one and two years old. 

 The shipments from this section will be about 40 cars. 



Along the foothills in Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin 

 counties, there are thousands of acres of citrus lands, which need only 

 water to make them profitable. / 



