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given up using any fruits tliat have heen ir rigated. Wlien put in the 

 kettles, these irrigated fruits break to pieces, or require so much 

 cooking as to turn them dark, with consequent loss of flavour. 

 For three seasons we have sent as far as Lakeside El Cajon 

 Valley, about seventy-fire miles away, to a Mr, W. H. Ferry, to 

 get his non-irrigated figs. This because our fig trees don't yield 

 suflaciently yet. Your own friends can testify what our apricot 

 jam was like from your fruit. I think we shipped, for you, 

 to Sussex, England, Paris, Boston, &c., &o. And so it will be with 

 your other fruits. They stand shipment better 100 per cent, than 

 the watery fruits. 



The product of such farms as yours will always bring a better 

 price than irrigated fruits. 



One other point, and a valuable one, your Eanche costs 50 per 

 cent, less to work than irrigated farms, because every time we 

 irrigate we have to work our land, and the same with other 

 irrigated Ranches. 



There are trees which must be watered in this country, viz. 

 the citrus family, &o., deciduous — no ! 



Hoping these remarks may be of service to you, 



I am, yours truly, 



E. Petrie Hoyle. 



X B. — I have lived in New Zealand, South Africa, Texas, and 

 have yet to find a better climate or life more easy than in Orange 

 County, California. 



DwiGHT Whiting, Esq., 



El Tore, California. 



SANTA FE ROUTE. 



OJice of Passenger and Traffic Manager, 

 Chicago, III., 



JSovemher 2ndj 18£2. 



To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN : 



The bearer, Mr. E. P. Hoyle, is connected with and represents 

 the interests of Mr. Whiting, a large land-owner in El Toro 

 Valley in Southern California. He has credentials that should be 

 entirely satisfactory to anybody with whom he may have to deal 

 in connection with the business which he has in hand, but I de« 



