larence A. and Matthew L. Shaw, who are among the progressive and successful young men in business in this section, are sons of Major D.A. Shaw, whose life sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. Both of these sons were born in Minnesota, Clarence December 8, 1861, and Matthew September 11, 1868. They received a common school education there, and, after coming to California, the younger, Matthew, took a commercial course in the Woodbury Business College, at Los Angeles. For five years they were in a wholesale and retail hay and grain, coal and wood business in Los Angeles, on the corner of Eighth and Olive streets. During part of this period, Matthew was captain of Co. F., Seventh Regiment, N.G.C., resigning his command when they returned to Redlands. Clarence Shaw, who was formerly deputy sheriff of this county, was married in Los Angeles in 1893, to Miss Katie Weidman, a native of Buffalo, N.Y.

On returning to Redlands, four years ago, the brothers took up the active management of the ranch in Lugonia, and, in connection therewith, the business of drying and shipping fruit, drying the product of their own ranch, and also buying, or selling, on commission, the product of other ranches. Some account of this ranch may be of interest as showing the conditions of horticulture in this section in recent years and at the present time. Major Shaw purchased the ranch in 1880, of Doctor Bates, of Santa Barbara, who had inherited it from his father, formerly a Congregational minister at San Bernardino. There were at then 160 acres the property, which extended a seventeen and one-half shares of Sunnyside water, was $4,500. In 1887 it was sold to a syndicate for $94,000, of which amount $15,000 was paid, but the buyers defaulted on the deferred payments and the property reverted to Major Shaw. This price was at the rate of $600 per acre for 140 acres, and $500 per acre for the remaining twenty acres. The latter amount was for the "home place" of twenty acres, which was paid for in cash and did not revert with the balance. By subsequent sales the holding of the Shaw family was reduced to 115 acres, seventy-five acres of which are now in bearing orchards, and other acreages are coming into bearing. This ranch is set to oranges, apricots, and peaches. There are forty acres of oranges, not all of which, however, are in bearing. There was about 350 tons of green deciduous fruit in this year's crop. During the year of high prices, some six or seven years ago, the deciduous fruit on this property sold for $8,000 but nobody expects a return in the immediate future of those halcyon days. On the opposite side of the avenue from this ranch is a very handsome row of pepper trees, which were planted narly twenty years ago and now afford a most grateful shade, on summer days, to the traveler along this portion of Lugonia Avenue, and cause one to hope that a boulevard lined and protected in this way may some time extend all the way to San Bernardino.

The dryer on this property is located well within the ranch, away from the dust of the highway, where the fruit can be handled properly and kept perfectly clean. About seventy-five people are employed during the drying season. The Shaw Brothers have made a practice of selling their fruit, as far as practicable, upon the f.o.b. plan, and have usually found a market for the greater portion in Chicago.

Source: Illustrated Redlands, 1897, p. 90.