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'Los Angeles Sunday Times. 28 NOVEMBER 19, 1899. 1 he Development Southwest. posed Jamaica treaty, In favor of which it has been claimed IN THE FIELDS OF. INDUSTRY, CAPITAL, mat Jamaica oranges ao not compete witn tnose raisea in finin.

I wvuuiuu vauiwuia, If Mr. Smith's trees All mm tni a thm hiiA Ti nr. AND PRODUCTION. Compiled or The Times. tainly has a bonanza.

The land upon which this fruit is iaiseu was locatea oy mm as government lano. A Fine Melon. new varieties of fruits. After leaving school he wasfor a number of years employed in a winery, and while there began experimenting and studying the matter of pasteurizing and sterilizing the juice of the, grape. He found, as others have found before and since, no particular difficulty in producing an unfermented article that would keep, provided a very high degree of heat was used, or if the temperature of the juice was carried beyond the boiling point This, however, completely destroys the rich, fresh flavor, and gives it at once a boiled taste that has always ruined the article, commercially.

A circular descriptive of the Graf process contains the following: "There has been produced a condensed juice, in commercial quantities, in every way satisfactory, and such a product is now in the market. There are also one or two products put up in the original bulk and consistency of the juice as it comes fresh from the press, but these latter f) NE of the finest cantaloupes ever seen in this section I The Times will be pleated to receive and publish In this- detriment brief, pininlr-wrluen articles, glTlng trustworthy Information regarding; important developments In Southern California, and adjoining territory, sueh articles to be confined to actual work In operation, or about to begin, excluding rumors and contemplated enterprises. Closing the Gap. THE Santa Barbara correspondent of Times writes that the BSD contractors have been larcelv increasing was recently sampled at the Chamber of Commerce, the seed coming from Turkestan, in Central Asia, through the Agricultural Department, two years ago. The melon was raised by Hugh Rule at Bell Station, on the Terminal Railway, near Los Angeles.

The rind of this melon is almost as thin as that of a lemon, and it is most luscious in flavor. Compton's Co-operative Creamery, products contain confessedly, and under the tests made by several States, according the pure-food laws, either salycilic, boracic or some other preservative acid. There is prooabiy no one in the United States today, putting up in commercial quantities, a pure, unfermented juice of the grape, except that put up in condensed form; and when we say pure we mean the fresh juice' as it comes from the press with nothing taken from it and nothing added to it" Developing Desert Mines. A NEEDLES correspondent writes that Lee Gray, owner "of the Lum Gray mining property, lying sixty miles southeast of Danby and twenty-three miles west of the Colorado River, was recently in Needles, buying a largs amount of supplies, which he took down the river by barge to a point opposite his mines, and freighted it overland by wagon a score of miles to the mines. Mr.

Gray has a' three-stamp mill in operation on the property and the trial run gave very satisfactory returns. The mill was taken overlaiid by wagons from Danby station on the Santa Fe racinc Kauroad, a distance of sixty miles across the desert sanos, ana through the rocky passes of the mountains, to where his mines are located. Mr. Gray is very enthusiastic over that section of the country. 1- A Chile Factory.

A FACTORY, which is said to be the only one of the kind in the United States, with the exception of one in New Mexico, is that of the Pioneer Green Chile Company, located three miles from Ventura. The owner, E. C. Ortega, has long been experimenting upon the process for preserving the peppers, which are very hard to keep, and has now perfected their forces and have buckled down to the hardest work done yet. It is understood that the chief contractors have given the word, to move things along as quickly as possible before the heavy winter weather sets in.

It has been found that even the slight rains have caused considerable delay. This activity is particularly noticeable in what are known as the Surf End camps. The army of men there has been increased until it reaches almost two thousand. Track has been laid to Juelama Creek, which marks the border line between the big Cojo and Las Podas ranchos. This point is twenty-two and one-half miles above Gaviota station, The track-layers are waiting for the completion of a great steel bridge, upon which work is being rushed.

The grade is finished and ready for track three miles this side of the bridge. Between Gaviota and the bridge a great deal of heavy work is being done, including the driving of a tunnel and the construction of several fills of importance. One of the contractors is quoted as saying that the track cannot possibly be laid into Gaviota earlier than next June. The Dairy Business. ONE of the Southern California industries that is making a remarkable growth, in a quiet way, and promises to make still more rapid progress from now on, is the dairy industry.

Yet, it is not so many years since butter was selling regularly here at a dollar a roll, and the dairymen did not know that a calf might be disposed with in milking. Today creameries are going up on all sides, and we shall soon be exporting butter instead of importing it The alfalfa fields of Southern California, in conjunction with the beet-sugar factories, will before long make of this one of the most important dairy sections of the United States. Asphalt Paper Pipe. THE Asphalt Paper Pipe Company, Incorporated, is manufacturing a new product, recently put upon the market in this city. The inventor of the process for manufacture is Albert S.

Dixon, formerly of Escondido, San Diego county. Mr. Dixon has been at work perfecting this pipe for the past four years, and in 1896 laid several hundred feet It stands today as good as the day. it was laid. In making the pipe the kell-known mechanical law that concentric layers of material are stronger than a single layer of the same thickness of material is observed.

This multiplies the strength of each layer so that by a sufficient combination of layers the pipe will resist any required strain. The pipe and machines for manufacture have been protected by patents in this and foreign countries. The inventor makes many claims that this pipe is superior to iron pipe, among which are the following: Being non-metallic, as far as exposed, it will not rust. "Second Being saturated with asphalt it will not decay. "Third Being of non-expansive material it will remain perfectly jointed under varying degrees of temperature.

"Fourth It is lighter than any other practical conduit and is therefore cheaper in transportation. "Fifth It being a perfect non-conductor of heat and fclectricitv. it is the best conduit for electric wires. it. The factory opened September and will continue in operation until December 1.

It requires a force of sixteen women and four men. An exchange says: COMPTON has a butter-making establishment, run on the co-operative plan, which is paying stockholders more than 14 per cent, per annum on their investment. At the same tinfe, it is making its patrons' milk into butter at a comparatively small price per roll. The Eureka creamery is situated about two mires northeast of Compton. It has been in operation since September, 1894.

The management is an incorporated concern. The output, averages about one hundred and sixty-five two-pound bricks of butter per day. Patrons of the creamery bring their night's milk and morning's milk to the establishment in the morning. Each patron's milk is weighed and the weight is recorded. A sample of the milk is placed in a closed jar for" the comparative test of butter fat, which test is made at the end of the month.

The jar, being kept closed prevents the evaporation of the moisture in the milk. As each patron's milk is weighed the patron is handed a galvanized, iron check, the length of which is proportionally equivalent to the quantity of milk delivered. The patron drives to the skimmed milk tank, inserts the check in the scales and the ingenious weighing device yields just the quantity of skimmed milk to which the patron is entitled. In the plant are one Russian Sharpless separator, capable of 8000 revolutions per minute, and one tubular Sharpless separator which revolves 22,000 times per minute. As much as 3240 pounds of milk have been run through the latter machine within an hour.

The separators, the churn, the butter worker, and the other machinery are all run by an oil-burning steam engine. The use of ice, or a refrigerating machine, has been found to be unnecessary and has been abandoned. At an expense of $55 a system of pipes freely exposed to the air and protected from the sun was built. The pipes are in an elevated place and water-to fill them is pumped into them with the use of the engine each day. During the night the water in the pipes, is chilled and in the morning It ia as cool as is necessary.

The cream is run into the churn and a lot of the chilled water is turned in with it. The water cools the cream to as low a temperature as is desired and the butter yields readily to churning. The process makes it necessary to waste the buttermilk, but the saving in the cost of ice or machine refrigeration more than compensates that waste. A somewhat similar plan is employed for cold storage. The chamber in which the butter is kept is a building within a building.

The Bides of the outer structure are composed largely of lattice work, which permits air to pass through it freely, but does not let the sun shine through it The inner structure has solid walls, in which there are several doors. At night the doors are kept open. During the day they are kept closed. The resultant temperature in the storage chamber is sufficiently low for the proper storage of the butter. The entire output is marketed in Los Angeles.

A salesman is paid 1 cent per roll for selling it At the end of the month the total sales for that period are computed. From that gross sum an amount equivalent to 8 cents per roll is deducted. Of the 8 cents cent goes to the salesman and the other 7 cents to the management of the creamery. From the proceeds, after deducting the 8 cents per roll, is taken the value of the butter to. which the patrons are entitled.

'l In this connection, it should be explained that if the creamery operations be conducted so as to get as much butter as possible from the milk delivered, there will be a surplus. This surplus is the quantity of butter turned out of the churn over and above the quantity which according "The chiles are shipped from the Camulos rancho, thirty miles east of Ventura. About twenty-two tons will be used this season, resulting in an output of 55,000 cans of chile sauce. The peppers are first roasted, then steamed to make the skins slip off easily, peeled and then cooked, packed in tin cans of two-thirds, one and two-pound sizes. Ten days elapse, when the cans are tested and labeled, and they are ready for shipment.

The trade mark on the label represents the oldest building in Ventura an adobe on the corner of Main street and Ventura avenue, owned by the Ortega The most of this season's output of the sauce goes to Arizona, though there is a growing sale for it in California." Beet Experiments. THE enterprising Oxnard Company, in Ventura county, has established an experiment station on the recently-ac quired Patterson ranch, where the conditions for sugar-beet raising are believed to be exceptionally good. The area of the Patterson ranch devoted to the experimental farm, under the immediate direction of the agricultural superintendent, L. Hache, is 180 acres. This is set apart with the view of testing thoroughly and systematically the crop-producing constituents of the soil, and it is believed that the experiments made will be safe for all classes of soil in the valley.

It will be devoted to growing beets, beans and barley, to see what can be done to the best advantage with each, and also to determine by practical results the benefits to be derived from the use of commercial and green fertilizers. Fine Clay. "Sixth For the same reason' water will not readily freeze in the pipe. "Seventh It may be easily constructed to sustain varying degrees of pressure by adjusting the thickness in proportion to the pressure. "Eighth It is a perfect sanitary pipe and does not im rP HERE are clay deposits in the vicinity of Benson, on the to the butter-fat tests, should be obtained.

The patrons a. 1 i 11 rm i sir? rsi irnnn iti a a mnn a a haam are allowed the quantities of butter to which the quantities of milk delivered and the respective butter-fat tests show them to be entitled. The butter turned out of the churn over and above that quantity goes to the stockholders of wuww icvuHf vruMfU uaT6 UCCU worked for a long time, and used in reduction works of that section. Of late.it has been discovered that this clay is similar to that used in Mexico in the manufacture of statues known as Guadalajara ware, and a Mexican artist from that section has made some clever statuettes with this material. Iron Ore.

the creamery. It will therefore be seen that the revenue to the stockholders includes the 7 cents per. roll, as above described, and the surplusage from the churn. From that revenue must be deducted the operating expenses. The creamery is yielding to its stockholders semi-annual interest payments of 7 per cent, each, or 14 per cent per annum on their in vestment.

Most of the stockholders are patrons. Those part to the water any peculiar taste. "Ninth On account of the smoothness of the inside surface the pipe will carry 5 per cent more water than a corresponding size cast-iron pipe." It is claimed that this pipe costs 35 per cent, less -than iron pipe, which is at present very expensive. The works of the company are at Fourth street and Santa Fe aveaue, where, and in laying pipe, thirty men are employed. The company also has an office at No.

305 'North Los Angeles street. Remarkable Oranges. THERE is on exhibition at the Chamber of Commerce a sample of a new variety of oranges, which may, to some extent, revolutionize the citrus-fruit business of Southern California. It is, to use a contradictory term, a "seedless seedling." That is to say it is a seedless orange, which originated from a sport in a nursery bed. The orange is small, with very thin skin, and with some of the characteristics of the Tangerine.

The most remarkable peculiarity, about this orange is that it ripens as early as October, those now at the Chamber of Commerce being as sweet as sugar. The orange is known as the "Redlands Early Seedling." It is grown by W. H. Smith of Redlands, who has seven acres of this variety, which he has propagated from the original tree. He has no buds for sale, at any price.

An orange which ripens as early as October will throw Tulare and Butte counties ia the shade, as far as early fruit is concerned, and will even discount Florida. Incidentally, this furnishes another argument against the pro stockholders who patronize the creamery are receiving div idends in addition to the interest payments. IT IS announced, from San Diego, that the Carlisle City will bring several tons of anthracite coal from Yokohama on her next trip from the Orient, to test its quality in smelting the iron ore taken from Gen. Webb's Tepustete' mine, in Lower California. It is understood that if the-test proves a success, large shipments of Japan coal will be brought in and a smelter built to reduce the ore.

Irrigation in Santa Barbara County. The directory of the concern includes J. Morton, president; F. E. Stockwell, vice-president and manager; George C.

Robinson, R. Gilhousen and E. E. Moore. C.

Williams is secretary and treasurer, and J. A. Howie is butter-maker. Preserving Fruit Juices. rUT in the 'little town of Banning lives a Swiss-Ger man, by the name of Conrad Graf, who claims to have at last solved the question of successfully sterilizing fruit SANTA BARBARA has been somewhat backward among the counties of Southern California? in irrigation A company was recently organized with a capital stock of $iocsooo, to tap the Santa Maria River, in the northern part -of the county, and build an irrigation system to supply large territory.

J. Gordon Watt of Aberdeen, Scotland, has succeeded the Rev. Dr. William Wright as editorial superintendent of the juices. Mr.

Graf was born in Zurich, and Until eleven years ago lived in Switzerland, taking a course of study in the Zurich School of Horticulture, giving at that time special attention to the study of budding and the propagation of.