San Diego county, California; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . nded the efforts of Mr. Bellinger, along bothhorticultural and agricultural lines and he has also real-estate holdings in SanDiego and oil interests at Bakersfield, Kern county, California. He has givenhis undivided time to his business affairs and throughout the period of his resi-dence in this county has done his full share in the work of development, and hasalways borne an unassailable reputation as a progressive and enterprising citizen. CHARLES H. AUSTIN. Charles H. Austin, prominent in business
San Diego county, California; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . nded the efforts of Mr. Bellinger, along bothhorticultural and agricultural lines and he has also real-estate holdings in SanDiego and oil interests at Bakersfield, Kern county, California. He has givenhis undivided time to his business affairs and throughout the period of his resi-dence in this county has done his full share in the work of development, and hasalways borne an unassailable reputation as a progressive and enterprising citizen. CHARLES H. AUSTIN. Charles H. Austin, prominent in business and political circles of Chula Vista,was born in Walworth county, Wisconsin, and moved to Mankato, Minnesota,with his family when he was still a youth. There he engaged in the shoe busi-ness in partnership with his father and was successful in this line of occupa-tion until he came to San Diego county in 1899. On January 19th of the fol-lowing year he purchased five acres of land on Second avenue in Chula Vistaand this he planted in lemon trees, determining to give his entire attention to. HISTORY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY 271 fruit growing. For some time afterward he and his family lived in comfortupon the proceeds of this small tract—a splendid example of the productive-ness and value of southern California land. Mr. Austin was successful in hisfruit cultivation from the beginning. He developed his ranch along modernscientific lines and it was soon producing heavy crops to the acre. Later hebought five acres more and added it to his holdings and has now one of thefinest and most carefully managed lemon ranches in the city. He has graduallybecome interested in buying and selling tracts of land for the purpose of fruitcultivation, planting, improving and developing. This has grown to be one ofthe important sources of his income, for he is an excellent judge of the valueof land as well as a keen and judicious business man. In 1883 Mr. Austin married Miss Hattie Randall and they hav
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