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THE FRUIT REGION OF MERCED.
The fruit lands now offered for settlement by the Crocker Land and Water Company are situated in the very center of California. Besides being so favorably located, they offer advantages which are not possessed by any other lands in the State. The fifty-five thousand acres, which are now for the first time subdivided, consist of virgin pasture and wheat lands, which have become too valuable to be devoted to their former use. They are now being irrigated by the most expensive and magnificent irrigation system on the continent, by a canal capable of carrying 4,000 cubic feet of water per second, and by the artificial lake Yosemite, the most extensive irrigation reservoir ever built in America. The water from this system is abundant and continuous; it comes from the snow-capped Sierra, from the Falls of the Yosemite, and will suffice to irrigate and fertilize hundreds of thousands of acres more than are offered for sale.
These fruit and horticultural lands are situated in the warm belt of the foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada, protected by sheltering hills, traversed by natural creeks and surrounded by the grandest scenery known to man. The famous Yosemite is almost within sight, and the high-peaked Sierra can be reached in a day’s journey. The Coast Range, with Mt. Diablo, is in full view, while the fresh breezes from the San Pablo Bay temper the climate, and contribute to make it one of the finest, most salubrious and most enjoyable in the world. Through the irrigation water always at the command of the horticulturist, our lands are being transformed into beautiful orchards, vineyards and meadows. The peach, the prune, the apricot, the pear and the raisin-grape are made to flourish, and the olive to produce its valuable oil, the orange and the lemon their golden fruit. The colonies already established are situated in the thermal belt of the Sierra, in the finest citrus region of the State, in a district equal to the best anywhere, and in a territory remarkable for its earliness and productiveness. Every variety of temperate and semi-tropical fruit is now growing within sight of the colonies,—the almond, the olive and orange upon the more elevated land; the peach, the prune, the apricot, the pear and the raisin-grape upon that of a more alluvial nature. The Rotterdam Colony contains now over a hundred settlers from Holland; other colonies are being established by English and American farmers, by doctors, lawyers and professional men of every station in life. The people whom we invite, and who have responded to our call, are the most desirable, the most intelligent, the most energetic and the most refined classes. They are now building up horticultural communities of the most prosperous nature.
The lands we offer are situated six hours by railroad from San Francisco. They are traversed by two railroads, and the principal colony is only four miles from Merced City, the county seat, while some of our land joins, and actually surrounds, that town. Our prices are low, and our terms very reasonable. We offer various grades of land, all eminently suitable for the highest state of horticulture, at prices ranging from $75 to $175 per acre, with water.