*** Source: History and Business Directory of Humboldt County, Lillie E. Hamm, November 1890, Eureka, Cal. *** ---page 085--- [ad] Photograph and Autograph Albums at J. E. Mathews [ad] HISTORY OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY 85 PROFITS. The fifth year you will have 1000 trees, bearing at least 60 pounds each, or 30 tons, equal to 10 tons of dried prunes, worth 10 cents per pound, or $200 per ton...2000 If you deduct 10 per cent. for labor you will have a balance of $1800 net, paying for the whole investment and $390 profit left. The sixth year you will have 60 tons of green fruit, or 20 tons of dried prunes, worth...4000 On the seventh year your trees will be in full bearing operation and will bear each from 150 to 200 or 300 pounds to the tree, and we believe on the safe side when we say that each tree will bring you $5 net each or, or...5000 It does not take much preception to see that thus, on an outlay of not a dollar more than $2900, a person can have an easy income of $5000 annually in ten years' time. We do not know of any better or easier way of insuring a larger income than this. We have made these figures with care and prudence on the basis of financial results from the profits of successful producers. ACTUAL RESULTS. Figures have been obtained from the books of the Paige & Morton Fruit Farm in Tulare, where everything is kept account of as systematically as in a mercantile business. In this orchard there are in bearing, the trees being four to five years old, 25 acres of apricots, 116 acres of peaches, nearly 19 acres of pearsand 7 1/2 acres of prunes. The fruit from these trees was weighed in the green as it came from the orchard, and aggregated 3,047,754 pounds. Sixty carloads were sold green to California canneries or shipped to New York, Chicago, Minneapolis or Boston. Ninety car-loads of green fruit were dried, making fifteen cars of dried fruit, averaging 20,000 pounds to the car. The apricots paid this year per acre, net $211.70; the nectarines, $266; peaches, $350; prunes, $600; pears, $27. The total receipts from the orchard, exclusive of vineyard, were nearly $90,000. Next season the area of bearing trees will be considerably increased. Besides the orchard there are 230 acres of bearing grapes, which will also be largely added to by next season. From this vineyard the season's output will be nearly 1,500,000 pounds, or 428,570 pounds of raisins, which find a good market in Boston, Chicago and New York. The receipts from the vineyard will reach $25,000 to $35,000. A modest estimate places the net profit at $175 per acre. CEREALS. Humboldt is eminently suited to the growth and successful cultivation of cereals. In the immediate vicinity of the coast, wheat does not succeed as well as in the interior, where the atmosphere is drier, and the same may be said in regard to barley. But oats find a natural home in the coast section and produce from 35 to 90 bushels of oats to the acre, barley 30 to 85 bushels, and wheat 30 to 60 [ad] Gibbard & Lever CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF Undertaker's Supplies Third and H Sts Pioneer Bdg, Eureka [ad] ---end---