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A Sugar Cane Plantation will Guarantee You a Steady Income
There is no staple farm product in America which brings as steady a price as sugar cane. Cotton, wheat or corn
can not be compared with it. There is no fluctuation in the price of sugar cane. It is fixed by the mills six years
ahead, at 90 cents a ton for every cent a pound sugar is worth when you sell your cane.
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bo grown. We simply want to show you the .superiority dt the-,Saii
Benito country oVer other cane growing regions. Experts the world over
are beginning to realize this and large sugar interests from other cane
sections are moving into the San Benito country. r Experts who have
examined conditions in the Lower Rio Grande Valley so far -report that
no sugar cane country in America equals it. San Benito is in the very
heart of the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Mr. H. Studniczka, the cele
brated sugar expert says:
"There is no better section in the world for the investment of capital
in sugar plantations and sugar mills than the Lower Rio Grande Valley."
The irrigation system of the San Benito Land & Water Company has
been in operation a little more than two years. Today there are 2,200
acres of sugar cane planted on the San Benito tract. Many thousand
acres additional will be planted a year hence. Sugar cane has been suc
cessfully grown in the Lower Rio Grande Valley for the past forty years
WE KNOW ABSOLUTELY WHAT IT PRODUCES.
A yield of 35 to 40 tons to the acre in this country may be depended
upon year after year without fertilization. The price is fixed by the price
of sugar. The mill basis of 90 cents a1 ton for every cent a pound that
sugar is worth the week the cane is sold gives, at 4 cents a pound for
!ogj?r (and ll has remained in the neighborhood of 4 cents for years.)
$3.60 a ton for cane. At 40 tons to the acre this makes a gross income
of $144 per acre year after year. The Ohio-Texas Sugar Plantation
Company near San Benito has, after years of experience; compiled sta
tistics which show the totnl mf nf ninniin ,.i, ': . "cu .HLU
vesting and transporting to the mill lowing" or a mi le ffi fai
wagon haul to be $42 per acre. This leaves $102 per acre Set profit
For conservatism's sake, divide this by 2 and you still have 861 net profit
per acre year after year. What crop will pay you better oris so sure?
The San Benito Land & Water Company's lands are irrienfJ hi Kl
largest irrigation canal in the state of Sas It is 37 1 J th5
250 feet wide It is the only gravity canTand the only SSoSSd
in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. More than 70 miles of main laterals
or branch canals have already been constructed laterals
An INTERURBAN Railroad will be constructed over the San Benito
tract, so that no farm will be more than a mile and a- hnif Wn f
portation either by water or rail. Work" to be started ImmediaSSr ThS
Grande Valley and the largest of the newlowns in the VaHev Yf" h Ri
population of 1600, good schools, city water ltehte oiSinf " S a
churches, business houses and good hotels ' ment walks'
SAN BENITO has a splendid WINTER ANT) UTMTvyrPT nr tut a mr
IT WILL PAY YOU TO INVESTIGATE SAN BENITO n,Mn t ,1
Lands on reasonable terms- One-thir7i n5r Z i Choice Delta
annual payments at 6 ner cLf JSSS Jnfi equal
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The sugar cane area of the United States is limited. That is, the part
of tho United States whero sugar cano may bo grown is comparatively
Binall, bocauso tho combination of soil and climate which this crop re
quires aro found only in a limited area. It is one of the most staple
farm products in tho world. Tho price is always good. In the San Benito
country, whero tho climate permits sugar cano a full twelve months to
nmtui'o and take on tonnage and sugar, whore the soil is as rich as any
in tho world, and whero tho groat gravity irrigation canal .of the San
Bonito Land & Wator Cpmpany guarantees a plentiful supply of water
when noedod, sugar can'o is almost as safe an investment as government
bonds and pays a larger return.
Tho soil of tho San Benito country is particularly suited to the growing
of sugar cano. It Is a delta soil, many feet In depth and contains all of
tho olomonts required by sugar cane. Next to tho San Bonito country
tho best section in America for tho raising of sugar cane is the Missis
sippi Delta' of Louisiana. It was in this region that tho sugar industry
in America started. Everybody is familiar with its growth and knows
tho immonso profits which havo been realized there, the great fortunes
which havo been founded on sugar. Tho San Bonito country has many
advantages over tho Mississippi Delta region. In the San Benito region
tho yield is nearly double; it is necessary to replant hero only once in
six yoars as against ovory second or tinrcl year in Louisiana; on account
of tho soil conditions tho longer growing season and an evenly dis
tributed wator supply tno amount or sugar per ton of cane is much
higher hore, consequently our cane is worth more; in Louisiana
cano must bo cut in October and is not allowed by the frosts to
start growing again until late February or March; at San
uonico it may do cut and Harvested from Nnvomhnr in
February and grows right on through tho winter, thus
J & k. Giving us a twelvo months growing season, and a ninety
! & 9. . to 120 day Krindinc season nernlriRf- nn nin-i,f mnnn,n
0r'(.AAV growing season and a sixty days milling season in
Louisiana.
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Cane is a profitable crop wherever it can
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