The Pomona Progress of a recent date publishes the following figures concerning profits of orange culture in Southern California : "The following figures concerning the money there is in the orange industry have been obtained from the leading orchardists of Pomona. We have been extremely careful to get the exact figures. John D. Cas-on's orchard of 1,.100 trees, ten years old, has yielded 2,631 boxes of oranges that were sold to the shippers here for $1.40 a box ; that means $3,683.40 from eleven acres. The net profit is $3,530. R. F. House's eleven-year-old orchard of 1,800 trees yielded better; some of the trees bore four boxes of fruit. The whole crop of the orchard amounted to 4,261 boxes, which were bought on the trees at $1.40 a box, yielding $5,965, and a net profit of $5,250. Wm. O'Connor's orchard of twelve acres, or 1,200 trees, yielded 3,065 boxes that brought $1.25 a box, or $4,137.75 for the whole. C. E. White, who has the finest orchard in this valley, received the best price for his fruit. His fruit is of the Navel variety, and from his ten acres of ten-year-old trees he had 2.932 boxes, that were bought on the trees at $2.65 a box. Mr. White received for the crop a check for $7,769.80; in other words, his receipts were $776 an acre.

Wm. Woody's orchard of 1,350 trees yielded 2,877 boxes that brought $4,314.50, or $331.88 an acre.

The largest orange orchard returns in this valley are those from the Meserve orchard. The trees, 1,640 in number, are twelve years old, and have the best possible care all the year around. They are Navel orange trees. Mr. Meserve sold his crop late, and got the highest price. He had 5,169 boxes that sold for $2.90 a box, and last week the fruit was paid for by a Chicago draft ard for the year has been $936.

We don't wonder that the eastern people are incredulous at reports of such profits, but there is an abundance of facts to prove that the average bearing and well-kept orange orchard in this section is worth about $300 an acre, while we have known some orange orchards to yield a net profit of $1,000 a year. The Crafts' orange crop sold in 1888 at the rate of $1,173 an acre net, but that was unusual.