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00 Los Angeles Daily Times. JANUARY 1, 191C. L. A. SHOW CASE AND FIXTURE OCCIDENTAL LIFE INSURANCE FRED HARTSOOK, THE COMPANY.

This company has been established in Los Angeles about four years, and in that time they have built the Interior wood work and fixtures of some of the finest stores and business houses in the city. They specialize in fine store, bank and COMPANY. A constant Increase In total assets, In amount of life and accident insurance carried, In income from premiums and in the regard and esteem In which the company Is held by its patrons and the public generally, is the record of the Occidental Life Insurance Company. This is one of the strong and substantial financial institutions that are helping to make Los Angeles and Southern California powerful and independent of eastern money markets. During the past year the company has experienced a most gratifying Increase in all lines.

Th. rnmiunv nrrunira convenient and CI office fixtures, cabinet work, show cases, etc. Among the recent work installed by the HOME SEEKERS' BUILDING CORPORATION. As the name Indicates, this company builds homes for those seeking a place of their own to live in, either upon the company's own tracts or on land owned by the customer. By abiding strictly by the de-( termination to give every purchaser i square deal, they have found their clienteW increasing year by year, that just closing having been the largest since the business was established in 1907.

The company is equipped to build either houses, bungalows, flats, apartment-houses, warehouses or hotels, Issuing a very practical and beautiful bungalow book for the convenience of prospective customers. Though the business was started in 1907, the present company was not organized until 1911, H. R. Taylor, being president, M. M.

Olin vice-president and C. W. Taylor secretary and treasurer. Their offices are at 504-8 Black Building. company may be mentioned the L.

J. Chris Mr. Hartsook Is of a famous family of photographers. Ills grandl ather made the first photograph mounted on a card in the United States. This photo graph was made in his studio in Richmond, in the early days of photography.

Mr. Hartsook's father was a photographer of inter national reputation. While it 1 only twelve years since Mr. Hartsook, of the third generation of topher store at No, 741 South Broadway; the Jahnke Tavern, No. 624 South Spring street; Godfrey's Cafeteria, No.

722 South Broadway; the Men's Bootery, No. 209 West Fifth street, and the Wiley B. Allen store, No. 416 South Broadway. These represent some of the finest Interior woodwork on the Pacific Coast.

Impressive offices on the twelfth floor of The company operates a complete-plant the Merchants National Bank liuuaing, where information or advice as to all life and accident Insurance questions is cheerfully given by courteous and Intelligent officials or employees. at Nos. 421 to 427 Colyton street, Los Angeles. Harry I. Thompson is president and general manager and H.

Cederquist secre tary and treasurer. FHED the Hartsook family in photography, opened his first studio in Los Angeles, he now operates and conducts eleven elaborate and well-equipped photographic studios in America. More of his portraits are reproduced in local and foreign magazines and periodicals than those of anv other one photographer. HALFHILL TUNA PACKING CO. Only about ten years ago A.

P. Halfhill first perfected the method of packing tuna and introducing It on the market as an His San Francisco and Los Angeles studios edible fish, putting up a few hundred cases which had been cooked in live steam, the are the only ones in existence with three skylight rooms. k. DurinK the past three years Mr. Hart IN? NEIL FINKELSTEIN.

Here is to be found an of what can be done in so commonplace a business as the collecting, sorting, restoring and disposing of metals, rubbers, rags, sacks and Iron, by applying efficiency and modern business methods. Established In 1890, the business of Mr. Finkelstein has become a leader of the kind in the city as well as the oldest. Discovering that there is a widespread demand for clean, sanitary wiping rags for many and varied purposes, Mr. Finkelstein determined to specialize in this one product, with the result that at present his Sterilized Wiping Hags have become standard through nil of Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico.

Mr. Finkelstein's office and yards are located at Nos. 114-114 North San Pedro street, where he has a well-organized and nrsi lime tnis method had ever been em' ployed. From 300 cases on which he expert mented in 1903, the output increased, until sook has consumed more than three times the amount of high-grade photographic materials used by any firm, individual or corporation in this country. During the in isuv it was cases; in 1911.

14.000 cases; in 1912, 19,000 cases; in 1913, 29,000 month of November, 1914, he received three full carloads of dry elates, the largest ship cases, ana in 114, cases. The new plant of the Halfhill Tuna Packing Company at Long Beach is mod ment ever made from a dry-plate factory to a photographer or dealer In pnoto- ern in every respect, with a capacity of zooo cases dally. A. Halfhill is presi graphic materials. It is not uncommon ror I I Air TTartsnnV tn nrrtpr EDO.

000 folders. dent, H. J. Halfhill vice-president and A. P.

Halfhill secretary and treasurer of the Residence of Paul A. Needham, Hollywood, Needham Cline, architects, 611 Brockman Building. I efficient plant for the conduct of his business. His telephone is Broadway 194. company.

which are used for mounting photographs. During the past seven years the registered negatives made in his Los Angeles studio show that more than one-third of the present population of Los Angeles have come to the studio for their work. In nil of the Hartsook studios are employed about 300 people. Mr. Hartsook states his employees and especially the heads of the different departments are re-reiving salaries from 15 to 25 per cent, higher than those paid by the average photographer.

It is Mr. Hartsook's policy, and has been for a number of years, to spend a major portion of his profits in research and experiments tending to improve the art of photogriiphy. Mr. Hartsook is very proud of the fact tbat he has photographed more than half of the United States Senators and Congressmen in the past year, and values very highly letters from Thomas A. Edison and Luther Burbank, in which they testify to re-iunt tiivrA hplne the best and most sntisfnetory photographs ever made for them.

FAIRCHILD-GILMORE-WILTON COMPANY. For nractlcally thirty years this company has been operating in Southern California, during which time It has completed some of the most Important and extensive con tracts ever undertaken in this part of the country. The character of work done by Fairchlld- Gilmore-Wllton Company is strikingly 11 lustrated by the paving on Main street from Tenth to Jefferson street, which had been laid seventeen years and had been sub jected to some of the heaviest traffic that any street ever carried anywhere. 'When It became necessary to tear up the street in the process of widening, it was found the pavement was in first-class condition me ncn Teraie vaiiey ar of the American Nile WE WANT you to see this wonderful valley, bordering the Colorado River In California, where every crop produced In the temperate zone from rice and cotton to wheat and alfalfa can be grown with enormous results. It Is only necessary for you to see the Palo Verde Valley to become enthused with the possibilities offered.

The Palo Verde Valley Is almost a neighbor to the famous Imperial Valley, but lies 260 feet above sea level. It comprises an area of 100,000 acres, most of which la rich alluvial soil 20 to 80 feet In depth. About 20,000 acres are now under cultivation, producing bounteous crops from one to three times a year. good for many more years of use. The company has reduced the work of "Everybody's Happy Everybody's Glad" in the Palo Verde Valley.

It's the greatest joy zone you ever saw. Why! The miles and miles of preen fields, neat, prosperous looking farm houses, and sleek, well-fed cattle are the best answer. It doesn't take an experienced farmer to see the possibilities of this rich district, but if you who read this are experienced you'll wax enthusiastic the moment you see this rich valley of the American Nile. Those who have already settled In the Palo Verde Valley are getting seven to ten cuttings of alfalfa per year, which means an average of about ten to fourteen tons to the acre and If you know anything about farming you know how much profit there Is in alfalfa at this rate and present prices. Turkeys, chickens and ducks are destined to be one of tfie most profitable lines producable In the valley.

Turkeys will be especially profitable on account of the small rainfall (about two inches a year) and the absolute lack of fowl diseases. One man raised three thousand turkeys on four acres of land this past seasonand with buyers paying IS cents a pound alive, you can easily figure the profit. Dairying and cattle raising will, however, doubtless prove the biggest industry in the valley when it gets fully settled. The enormous markets of Los Angeles for dairy products and fresh meats are now being supplied from points much farther away than this valley. With good railroad freight rates and a low cost of production and this has been proven, for cattle, hogs and sheep grow on the average about one-third faster than elsewhere, due to the constant growing season from one year's end to the other the outlook for the dairyman and cattle raiser in the Palo Verde Valley is exceptionally bright.

Cotton is certainly a wonder crop in this valley. During the pas season there were over 2000 teres planted to cotton and it averaged one and one-half bales to the acre over the entire district Borne farmers getting as high as two bales to the acre and they declare that they can beat this record next year. If you haven't been watching the cotton market Just take the trouble to look up the present prices and you'll find that at 1 bales to the acre this staple of all staples is a real profit maker of the first class. If you are thinking of buying a farm you should by ull meanB investigate the Palo Verde Valley. Don't depend upon hearsay, but go down and see for yourself.

Test the soil, look into the water situation, ask those now there and find out at first hand Just what the valley offers for you and your family. You'll find that It isn't a new, untried country where pioneering will be necessary, but that there are many prosperous farms and a central town Ulythe, with a population of about 700, bank, stores, cotton gins, creamery, and a railroad nearly completed straight through the heart of the valley, giving direct communication with Los Angeles and the outside world by connection with the Santa Fe Railroad at Blythe Junction. If you could look down upon this valley you would find it a great, green garden with fruit trees and vineyards; thousands of cattle, hogs, horses and poultry; and a happy, thriving people who are living in the midst of contentment auch as can be found in few spots on the globe. Look over California from the North clear to the South, and investigate It as you will bat dont buy until you see Verde, for It yon do you will be disappoints. making and laying pavements to a science It has its own rock quarries at Corona Spadra and Victorville, as well as its own cill-reflnlng plant, operated under the name of the Hercules Oil Kelinlng Company, at ernon.

In the refinery oil is treated primarily lor the purpose of extracting the asphalt the other ingredients being treated as byproducts. The process of preparing and lay in aspnait is continuous, it being pos bible to keep the material in constant mo tlon from the time it is separated from the crude oil until It finds Its final resting place COTTON ALFALFA These are the leading crops. Cotton produces from to 2 bales to the acre meaning at present prices an enormously profitable crop. Alfalfa produces from 10 to 14 tons per acre 7 to 10 cuttings a year being the rule. Hogs, sheep and cattle grow on the average about one-third faster than in other localities, due to the constant growing Benson from January to December.

THE RAILROAD The California Southern Hailroad Is now building from Ulythe Junction, on the Santa Ke, right through ilw heart of the valley. Over half the distance Is already completed and when trains commence to run there will doubtless be an enormous Increase In values. Unlimited Water Supply The lund owns the water one kIiuio of slock In the Mutual Water Company to each acre of land. A gravity system of canals and ditches from a solid granite Intake on the Colorado Klver Insures an unlimited and never falling supply of water for Irrigation. as pari oi tno street.

The members of the Arm of Falrchlld Gllmore-Wilton Company are all residents property owners and citizens of Los An geles, having the Interests of the city and of Southern California at heart, and it has always been a cardinal principle with them to buy all their supplies, material and equipment here whenever that is possible Among the notable contracts Just com- uleted or being executed by them may be mentioned the paving of a series of streets at Coronado. and the regrading and im BUY AHEAD OF THE RAILROAD Choice Farm Lands, With Water, $100 an Acre. Now Is the time of all times to buy. We offer the cream of the farm lands In the Valley owned by the railroad, on terms or for essh. As oon as the railroad Is completed prices will go up.

provement of Pacific avenue, Sixth street fourteenth street and others at San Pedro, one of the mont important public improve ments ever planned at the harbor, as it will create a greatly-enlarged and more ac cessible business district in that portion of Los Angeles. ralrchlld-Olimore-Wilton Company of' fer to the Investing public street improve merit bonds bearing 7 per cent. Interest Write For Illustrated Folder If you cannot call at our office, write for Illustrated folder containing plain, slmpln statements (if facts and condition as they are in the Palo Verde Valley showing actual photographs. Sent free on request to any address. Special Excursion Every Saturday Limited excursions leaving Los Angeles every Saturday at 2 o'clock, returning Monday morning.

Make reservations as far in advance as possible. exempt from taxes, Issued by Los Angeles and other Incorporated cttlca in Southern California. There Is no investment on the market that offers a higher ratio of Be curlty than Co these bonds, being a first and Inalienable lien against the property The officers of the company are Q. It Wilton, president: Oconee P. Griffith, vice- CALIFORNIA SOUTHERN REALTY CO.

rhonett Main 6111. 11221123 Investment Los Angeles. president; C. M. Beeley.

treasurer, and V. E. Kurke, secretary. The omces are locatet at 394-6-8 Pacltlc Electric Itiilldlng.