Show GROWERS VERS TURN TOWARD WEST California Begins to At- At Attract At Attract tract Folk From st By CARL G G BENJAMIN Special Correspondent of The The Standard Examiner Copyright 1926 Consolidated Press Association SAN SAN CISCO FRANCISCO Feb 6 Colonel Robert S S of Sydney Sdney Neb Is ready to vouch Touch for the conservatism of ot the th estl mate made mad this week eek by a eta stIL- statistically Inclined professor at the University of ot California who fig fig- figured tie that the th rains of ot recent days have hayo been worth orth ten ta million dots dol dollar lars lar a day to the thi northern halt haltof haltof of the state They cost coat him 70 an care car for some 2500 acres acres-a acres total of about Colonel representing a group croup of eastern capitalists Is Ia laher here to purchase a tract of ot Sac Sac- Sac Sac-r valley Talley land to be k sub Tided sub divided for tor middle western set set- setI st lieu JIe He II says cay the recent rains I delayed him In completing a ft detailed de detailed tailed Inspection of o the land In Inq I q and while It rained the price went ent up The owners con con- contended con contended tended the thi land was much more valuable because It had bad been put putla In such gOOd rood condition by the rains I According to Col the land he h Is purchasing will be made Into orchards orchard for tor settlers from Nebraska Kansas Kansa and lolls Mis Missouri who are ar of o getting away from the th hardships ot of farm arm life lite In la those thos states One On large ranch he says will Ill be settled fettled en en ly by members of ot a single reo re re sect PLANS BIG ORCHARD The colonels colonel's visit directs the attention to the fact that the ten ten- tendency ten tendency dency toward an Increased num number her ber of ot farms In California noted In government go statistics la in recent years ears Is becoming especially pro pro- pronounced pronounced nO During the th five HT years nars ending 1925 1 25 the number of ot farms In the th state tat Increased by nearly to about The Th av av- av average ar farm tarm dropped from to acres The number of ot farms operated by owners Increased from to A halt dozen large larce companies are now DOW actively engaged In la bring brine fug Ing rural settlers Into the tho state and distinct revival of ot Interest rivalling that of o pioneer days das Is IsI I reported from the tho th middle west Of course the outstanding set s t projects project Just now Is that of Miller Mill r and Lux which In Involves the breaking up of ot a ft halt half million acres Into orchards orchard grain and cotton farms arms stock ranches and vegetable tracts But Dut several other large lare companies having Im Immense mense mensa holdings are arc bringing In I trainloads trainload of ot prospective parents i of native e sons eons and find daughters I The phenomenal activity of Florida real estate estat during the thelast thelast I last year Jt it is to believed has stirn stimulated film land Interest throughout the country and nd partly accounts for tor the renewed movement of rural population of o California But Dut close close observers of ot agriculture and land developments in this state tato see se a deeper explanation of ob the present trend NOT ALL YOUNG Horace Greeleys Greeley's admonition Go I west west etc DO longer loneer holds holds good for the young man who ho is more apt to go co to the big ble city be b it cast pr west from ron hi his back country back country country birthplace It Jt Is fa the th old older er people who are ar coming west now to get ft away from the tb harsh climate and the hard work on the largo corn large com and wheat farm farms Indications Indication are ar that the th biggest movement westward to the th Call Cali California forma fornia valleys valley since the th world war is I due It If It has not already begun Present tendencies Ind- Ind caf cote cate to land Ian land experts expert that con continued tinned development of o Irrigation successful promotion of o new crops and the th consequent breaking up of farms Into smaller and the th cultivation of ot desert lands will move the th center of ot population tion to the th far west |