. The Howard and Wilson colony company of Madera . nto get letters from Kansas, Illinois and Vermont asking if Smith, Brown and Thompsoncouldnt send out somemoney and be paying upand planting a similar prop-erty. At first the pioneer,Jones, could buy some ad-joining or near-by propertyfor each of his Easternfriends, but good land wasconstantly rising in valueand getting scarcer, so thatthe best land even two orthree miles away from Fresno is now held at $500 an acre unim-proved, and only alkali or other poor land can now be boughtnear that town at low figures. Jones was not one man only. There
. The Howard and Wilson colony company of Madera . nto get letters from Kansas, Illinois and Vermont asking if Smith, Brown and Thompsoncouldnt send out somemoney and be paying upand planting a similar prop-erty. At first the pioneer,Jones, could buy some ad-joining or near-by propertyfor each of his Easternfriends, but good land wasconstantly rising in valueand getting scarcer, so thatthe best land even two orthree miles away from Fresno is now held at $500 an acre unim-proved, and only alkali or other poor land can now be boughtnear that town at low figures. Jones was not one man only. There were a hundredof them scattered all around Fresno a few years ago, and when theSmiths, Browns and Thompsons came too they were several thou-sand strong; and they filled up the country all around Jones so hecouldnt point out good bargains any more close at hand. So onesuch Jones still receiving many letters of inquiry for smalltracts of good land cheap, desiring to accommodate his Easternfriends by making them rich (and to add a little to his own. Peaches Three Inches Through. Peach Tree Twice as Tall as aMan and Bearing Fruit at a Year and a Half after Planting. HOWARD & WILSON COLONY COMPANY rapidly growing pile, by the way), secured a large tract nearMadera, in Fresno County, which, subdivided into small tracts,found a ready sale on installments to Eastern investors of smallmeans. Encouraged by this success, other large tracts have beensubdivided and are being rapidly sold ; so that now near Maderaabout seven hundred families of other Smiths, Browns andThompsons, as aforesaid,—mostly Eastern families,—are payingfor planting vines and fruit trees for future homes or pro6t, andby this colony system are relieved of the necessity of living ontheir places until of profitable bearing age. Several thousand acres
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