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Nevada County, California (PH 1-19)(1926) (19 pages)
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Page: of 19
are the competitive successes of Nevada County’s fruit confined
to this grand prize award, but that acknowledgment of the
superior quality of the fruit raised in this section followed a long
procession of first prizes won by this county in competition with
the counties of California at state fairs, land shows, and fruit
shows. Never has competition lowered the banner of excellence
of Nevada County's fruit. In the parlance of the street, “Nevada
unty’s fruit must have something on the ball.”’
In order to give some kind of an idea about the adaption of
different parts of the county for varicties of fruits, it will be of
interest to roughly divide the county into three zones, according
to altitudes, bearing in mind that each zone will overlap a little
on its neighbor in point of products and that local conditions,
such as air drainage and soil conditions, will modify zone influences over small areas.
These zones may be roughly described as follows: The western
zone, altitude 500 to 1500 feet; the center zone, 1500 to 3000
feet; the castern zone, 3000 to 4000 feet.
Within the western zone, altitude 500 to 1500 feet, are to be
found the scmi-tropical fruits. Here thrive the orange, lemon,
grapefruit, olive, fig, and the peach, together with all the usual
fruits and nuts of the temperate zone. Almonds may be grown
profitably, and in the eastern part of this zone peaches and pears
are a very profitable crop. Land values are exceedingly reasonable and a large acreage affords a broad choice.
In the central belt, altitude 1500 to 3000 feet, is the largest
fruit belt of Nevada County and within the limits of this belt
are to be found most of the new commercial orchards of Nevada
County.
The pear ranks among one of the favored fruit in the central
belt. Its high quality and unusual shipping properties combine
to bring top prices, sometimes in excess of $6.00 per box of 48
pounds, while on the cultural side it is one of the most satisfactory trees and one of the longest-lived and hardiest. The
county has one 50-year old tree that bore 40 boxes of firstquality fruit in one year.
Commercially plums are next in importance to pears. They
are most satisfactory fruit for the grower, and often bring as
high an acre-profit as the pear. Those grown in the foothills
are matchless in quality and beauty, and are in heavy demand
in New York, Boston and other great cities of the east.
Apples are an important product and in both quality and color
are incomparably fine, while the yield per acre is generally heavy,
Cherries are productive, and reach the limit of perfection in
the deep soils of the central belt. Trees attain great size and yield
of a ton to a single tree are claimed on good authority.
The production of English walnuts is steadily increasing and
bids fair to become an important and profitable industry. Although nut trees are not widely planted in a commercial way, the
acreage is being gradually extended. Considerable interest is
now being manifested in chestnuts and filberts. The former, at
least, promises well for general planting, while in proper locations
the latter is satisfactory.
In the east belt, altitude 3000 to 5000, apples are grown almost entirely, These are of the highest Bai ¢ quality, of large
size, and of great beauty. This part of the county is a perfect
apple country, and even up to an elevation of 4000 feet a failure
of the crop is almost unknown.
Grapes reach perfection in the west and central belts
Throughout the entire county berries of every kind are most
profitable and offer quick returns to the industrious
NEVADA COUNTY'S FRUIT LANDS AS SEEN FROM AN AEROPLANE