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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 15, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 29.

California Dates.

About three years ago date-palms procured from the Sahara Desert were planted on the United States farm at Mecca in the Colorado Desert. Already the palms have produced branches bearing twenty pounds

or more of the valuable fruit. Last year it was feared that the Salton Sea would overwhelm the date-farm at Mecca, and preparations were made to remove the palms to the vicinity of Indio, where the government bought ten acres of desert land. This, however, proved unnecessary, the flood waters not reaching the Mecca farm. New suckers from the palms at Mecca will be planted at Indio, and, as soon as the trees come into full bearing, a packing-house will be established, and the dates will be marketed.—News Letter.