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Show RETURNS FROM ORANGE BELT Q. R. CRAFT SAYS THE LOSS TO FRUIT GROWERS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. BY THE FROST OF LAST MONTH, IS PLACED AT $50 0O0.0O0 NEW METHOD OF PAVING STREET CAR LINES-BRICKS LINES-BRICKS BOILED IN ASPHALT CONGESTED TRAFFIC IN LOS ANGELES Q R Craft, fiscal agent in the forest for-est service department In Ogdcn, has returned from a two weeks' vacation in California He enjoyed his short stay In Los Angeles. Pasadena and nearby cities in southern California. Relating what he saw. he Baid: 'Fifty million dollars' los6 is still the figure glen by the Orange Growers' Grow-ers' association as Ihe amount of darn, age to southern California bv the January Jan-uary freeze, although they estimate that 40 per cent of the orange crop and lft per cent of the lemon crop will be saved. In Orange county, of w-hlch Santa Ana is the county seat, and even in southern Ixis Angeles county adjoining, the damage 16 not ) so great as elsewhere. "The only similar frost known in I fifty years was one of equal seorltv thirty-two years ago. in October. 1R80." There was then three davs of sleighing. Authority for this histor j are B. D NYllsou and L. J Rose, who planted the first orange. trees In that part of California. Mr. Rose settled in 15. and fifty years ago planted a eucalyptus tree, which is now seven feet In diameter. ' Prior to the freeze of 1SS0, there were many beautiful lime hedges in Pa.adena, but all were killed except one. "Theodore P Lukcns of Pasadena an authority on trees, points out three facts which are evioent since the freeze (I) That orange trees which were not trimmed close to the ground are not so badly damaged; 1 2 1 that I youlg trees the main stem of which was wrapped well into the top, are preserved- (3) that the following! treatment prevented anv serious dam- I age, lz, thorough cultiv ation after the j growing season so that the ground j I was loose, and the saturation of this; I soil with water by sprinkling the night before a threatened frost The I presence of a growth of lentels' or I other green vegetation had the ?ame ! effect In taking the frost and reliev-I lng the trees. Mr Lukcns each fall' 'cuts back the new growth on a fig tree In his yard within three inches of the starting point at the beginning of the season Me believes this a good plan since the tree bears about 200 pounds of figs each vear "Mr, Lnken's high regard for ex-SCtneSB ex-SCtneSB is Illustrated by his calling attention to painting by Shafer of j the Yosemite in the fall of the year, I showing the misty blue haze It was for the beauty of the latter that the painter chose the autumn although 1 his honest brush must show the bridul veil falls practically dried up In j Lukens' parlor hang also a painting J ot Mount Shasta from Strawberry 1 valley, showing the Rlack Buttes. and Mount Rainier from the northwest both In Shafer; three Yellowstone! paintings by the late Brown, of Portland, Port-land, the Yellowstone Falls, looking down the river from the falls and the I Gateway Another western paintins gives the rich coloring of the desert, and is by Theodore Van Dyke. I "The big tree is not easilv grown outside its habitat in the Sierras. Per-) haps the lamest grown artificially is 'in Rochester. N P.. but there is one years old. thirty-five feet hleh and 2 feet in diameter in the yard of Lawrence Law-rence Newman on Wavcrly Drive. Pasadena. 'Lining both sides of Santa Rosa Avenue in the north part of Pasadena, leading toward Altadena, are magnificent magni-ficent cedar trees of the species ced-rus ced-rus deodora, from Iho Himalaya mountain? "Adolphns Ruseh. now SO vears old, 1 la extending his grounds to the south. 1 Ho has reproduced the oil mill to which he carried wheat as a boy In Germany and has made quite life-like flr.ures reprepentins a girl feeding doe- children fishing, and fairy 1 reading to elfins. a 200, relnfonned concrete I bridge Is building across Arroya Seco, on she hlch level of the benches On the opposite ide .1 Ogden Armour has bought ion acres ;md the land from there to the mountains has heen hencht ly the cities of lxs Angeles i and Pasadena tor a llg park "Street traffic is badlv congested in lyOR Anceles in the down town dls- trict. The removal of the hill west of Broadway would belt- to solve the problem, but this would cost. Including Includ-ing payment for present buildings. It ls estimated, 113,000,000 Subways are not looked on with favor, "on account ac-count of the low altitude," one contractor con-tractor said, "and the possible danger from water'' This Is not understood, since New York rit ,,nd Boston are practically sfa level, and tuunels are operated even under North River nnd Haft River The thought of elevated ronris is distasteful, bo the dally jam and delay will probahlv continue The new 'Trllbv- rail is being laid on nil newly constructed street car tracks within the cltv limits The hall of the rail Is wider than on the ordinary, and, leaving room for the, flange of the wheel, another part of the rail rises as high as the ball, with 1 flat top. Next to the rail are laid irranite or asphalt -treated bricks In cement, so that when completed, a street car track presents ouly two crevices an luch wide, and an auto crosses at high speed with scarcely a jar. "The Salt Lake route which has hitherto used the Santa Fe tracks between be-tween Daggett and Colton. Cel., is building a track nearly parallel to the Santa Fes From the progress made i looks as if this will lie in use before the end ol the summer. "The lecturer who gives a talk daily, illustrated by attractive lantern slides, at the Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles, states that thero are at present sixteen beet sugar factories In California, and seventy-seven in the United States, but that 400 are needed if all the sugar consumed in the country js to be produced at home. The inference Is. of course, that this industry is capable of epanKion in southern California bv 22?. additional j factories. A more reasonable conclusion conclu-sion would be that the Industry Is su- ' iceptlble to enlargement five fold In! each of the sugar producing states If true, what would this- mean to Utah and Idaho V |