SEMI 7’noi‘lr CALIFORNIA. 
Messrs. Forthman and Bergin. The firm 
manufactures nil grades of toilet and wash¬ 
ing soaps, and supplies the trade, general¬ 
ly, of Southern California and Arizona. 
los anoki.es woolen mills. 
The owners of the Woolen Mills on Pearl 
street, in the western portion of tho city, 
have built up a demand for their good' 
which i« highly satisfactory. The establish 
Went is in the hands of Mcssi*. t'. I,. Torr 
and Fi. K, Coulter, of the well known dry 
goods store in the Baker Block. The Mills 
arc run to their utmost capacity and are 
furnishing a very lino grade of woolen 
goods, which are shipped to all portions of 
•Southern California, Oregon and the Kaat 
In a wool-growing country like Southern 
California the importance of mills to work 
up the raw product can hardly lie over 
tirnated. Instead of one mill wc ought 
to have half a dozen and we Imvc no 
doubt tlmt with proper management they 
would all pay well. 
WHAT IT COSTS 
Messrs. Lankendiim and Van Nuys are 
the proprietors of the Cos Angeles Flour 
Mills, located at the corner of Commercial 
and Alameda streets. Both gentlemen are 
the owners of largo wheat farms in the San 
Fernando valley, which produce rnanv 
thousands of centals of grain annually. The 
XXX brand of Hour furnished by J,anker- 
shim 4 Co. IH very popular and as 
broud can bo made with it as by any 
ported flour. 
Messrs. Iteming * Palmer, the former 
gentleman ot I .us Angeles, the latter of 
Sun I' rane.aen, are the proprietors of the 
Capitol Mills, corner of Alameda and San 
Fernando streets. The mill building was 
The following figures are from the very 
best authorities on the subject. The orange 
orchard figures are by L. M. Hull, with 
slight almnges. Following are the figure 
for a ten-acre tract. 
COST. 
JO acres of land ...91,00 
1,000 trees, huildnl nr ai-tiilling. 70 
Planting mid caring for saiim fir-1 season al 
*25 per acre. 
Caring for orchard second year at 11.1 per 
Tli 1 id year *15 per acre . . 
Fourth year 20 per aero.... 
Ft I tli year SB per acre 
Other ezponses incidental 1 
. ha 
erected Inst year, the business having pre 
vimisly been conducted in the Aliso Mills, 
cm Aliso avenue. 
UTIIEK MANUVAiTOniK*. 
■ Bcsido the above •mention ad ninnufacto- 
fief, I. os Angeles has a broom factory, a 
glove factory, several planing mills, several 
carriage and wa^j.i manufaoturing about 
gas works, two ice factories, „ |j rftt , ,.| M „ 
soda factory on Sam sc. vain street, artificial 
Sion..- works in East Lot Angeles, car shop, 
ut the Union Depot, three or four cigar fan 
tones, a finu distillery and a brick yard. 
Many of our hardware, furniture and 
plumbing eatablishinunts also manufacture 
on a small scale. 
AN INDORSEMENT. 
Kim 
iron Skmi-Troi'h -Sir: I said to my 
friends in Nebraska that the Semi-Tium-p 
wm the most reliable immigration paper 
thui l ever read. After having looked 
over Southern California I sod no reason to 
change my mind. Truly yours, 
O. W. Klwooh. 
it is estimated that California, with In 
This is the expense account. There will 
be some receipts. If good budded trees 
are planted, the third year will give a little 
fruit; the fourth year still more, and at the 
end of the fith year there will be ipiite n 
fine crop. In order to be safe in these cal¬ 
culations, we will place the yield and prices 
at the lowest possible estimate: 
Third year crop "cullerlng orange*, a few 
hundred or thousand—not counted. 
Fourth year an average of 50 oranges to 
the tree—50.000 oranges at *2tl nt-r Hums 
and. oQfl 
Filth year Sno to the live-'.'00,001) iiranges 
at *20 per thousand. 
If these prices arc maintained the owner 
has bia investment all back again ut the end 
of live yearn and is ready to ship oranges 
in large quantities every year thereafter. 
All persons planting orange orchards do 
not do as well as this and some do bettor. 
Those tigurea represent what can bo done 
with good judgment and thorough work. 
If a nun thinks to uavo by getting cheap 
and incompetent work, ho may succeed in 
reducing the coat to a few dollars, and the 
receipts a few hundred dollars or even a 
few thousand dollars. If he buys a poor 
because he can got it for ill’ cent* in 
stead of paying tlm regular market price 
for a good thrifty true,ho will make another 
saving in coal ( ,f orchard, and in eoat of 
boxes in which to ship the fruit. 
com ok a YINBYAHP. 
Thu following figures are by .1. do Barth 
Shorb, President of tho California Horticul¬ 
ture! Society; 
1‘bwine twite plum I nil, 
Ibwnnthiu and pulverising *-• 
(.'•lllings O«00O vioi-*, six bet 
Planting, in 1 nets... 
Two plow fug* Hfitr planting. .. . 
Cultivation uni Dual pulverisation 
Cultivating twice 
floelng near vine. 
.*2 50 
.. S no 
■ •II# 
. I 30 
Total cost, third year .f* i M 
Iti tho fourth year tho aspen*** of prun¬ 
ing and removing tho wood from the vine¬ 
yard will bo increa»cd one dollar more, or 
to |3.50 per acre; all the other expenses 
remain the same as during the third year. 
Twenty dollar* per am- i* the estimate 
eovoririg the entire mh *1 of pruning, rul- 
tivating, picking and delivering the grapes 
at convenient distances from vineyard alter 
tho fourth year. 
For twenty acres the cost would be; 
Lain), .0 acre* at *50. #l >mi 00 
Planting and rnlnvatimr, yearn at *.»). non im 
frit crest v,n inviwtmeot . v>l 00 
Tula! cast... (i,000 00 
For profits we refer to other articles in 
this paper. — [Et».] 
CALIFORNIA RAISINS IN NEW YORK. 
t H 
Apart) . 
Total cost, end of first y»i 
Fruiting, pi 
'ing, (i 
iticulture, preseuU an opportunity for the j (: "ltiv«i|.,n, twin- 
upport of 2,000,000 persons to’be con- ,,m ,,,s l "’ t ‘ t ll "'' 
mpport 01 :,ouu,ii(.)0 peraoi 
voted with that industry alone. 
Total cost, second yoi 
Geo. \\. Meade 4 Co., commission rner 
chants, San Francisco, shipped sample 
boxes of our best raisins to their New York 
agents, with instructions to exhibit them to 
tho lending dealers in the Malaga trade, and 
gat their opinion as to <|nality, packing, 
etc. The following is an extract frum the 
letter received in answer to their inquiries: 
I he box of California raisins fame dulv 
to band and has excited a great deal of in", 
tefest and comment among the trad- here, 
to whom we have shown tho fruit. It c ,k-» 
without saying that, judging bythi* sample, 
t aliform:i can produce as fine ra><on» a* am 
■ 
would bo extremely difficult for ,.ne to ,/<>. 
(i.i'fuM th(» Kun/iffft(*m ,x,. 
Ihhtxia, though some of ’„„ r , m . n r ,,, r , 
claim that the skin is tougher than the mi 
iiortvd. The hunchea or cluster* are wi n 
larger than the Malaga, though the Iruit is 
nut so blue, and is, of c<>ur*r, not »howilv 
packed. With such fruit «« tbi» the ,iiirs 
lion of competition with the Malaga In this 
market is simply one of mics •lotto.' 1 
s r A../-.,.. v„. '-TbiiUu, I.. 
(creating, encouraging, and ii\ some re 
sneots, an unexpected report. It is better 
lf,.n I,,,,..,I r„, h 
aluc and might with profit be used to ail- 
vortise Uafifnriila raisin*. h show* rh-arlr 
that the market i* open. The ijur-ti,,n is 
.I, «n of win. I i- r. .. ku, ib. 
advantage over ail competitor., t l U r yunng, 
healthy vinea on new lands can turn out 
tons of retains to Kwrnpc's centals, amt 
pound for pound at much lower cost. The 
^ I‘comparatively tougher skin,' will b* over 
enno by some minor change in the sw.-at 
|I5 00 mg system in use here. The color of the 
fruit will bn darkened by using a little 
» «“«• »'K«‘hrriug them .t the proper 
• « moment. The brands will be more Vxaet; 
Jg- lh# label,, if that be needed, mad* more 
showy, and in then s n J si mils r the 
♦" no U 'abfornia raisin* kept «t the rtHM.-- 
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