Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-08-18
THE PROPOSED MARROW GAUGE.
Oourses-Soil Productiveness and Business
mpsnsations-a Growing Riverside-Superb
Ssmi-1ropic Avenue.

mby Ue eCOuOtuICAlly DullC anu
we'll supplied through the Sierra
side of Los Angeles and San Ber-
nardino counties. From San Ber-
nardino city to Riverside the ex-
pense of grading will be several
hundred per cent. greater per mile
than between Pasadena and San
Bernardino.
The narrow gauge will probably
be located up the Arroyo Seco,
along the northern limit of Pasa-
dens, between San Marine and
Kinneloa, between l.. J. Rose
and the Sierra Madre Villa, be-
between Chapman and the noun
tains, through north Santa Anita,
near the main road through the
Duarte, and through the Azusa
valley, along a line bisecting the
valley. The transverse mesa at
the east end of the Azusa valley,
may be crossed by easy grades
over the southern portion of the
mesa. Emerging eastwardly from
the Azusa valley, the narrow gauge
enters the plain of Pomona. Here
for the first time, after leaving Los
Angeles, the narrow gauge and the
Southern Pacific pass inauspicious-
ly close to each other. The plain
is too narrow for two lions, and is
real close quarters for lion and
lamb. Pomona plain would be
trayersed between Meserve and the
mountain and little north of the
ranch of the Rev. Mr.. Loop.
Thence the road would most likely
proceed to Old Cucamonga, and
thence between the main road and
the mountains to Sau Bernardino
city. The line from San Bernar-
dino to Riverside would return
west on the same track that enters
San Bernardino city to the top of
the bluff, and there dlverge by way
Of Cotton or its vicinity to River
side.
From and including Pasadena, to
and including Pomona, the soil of
the narrow gauge belt is uniform
ly first. class, except in the arroyos
and river beds. From a point less
than half a mile east of the Rev.
Mr.. Loops, to the bluff west of
San Bernsrdino city, there is
wide belt in which there is COM
paratively little first-class land,
but a great deal that is second,
third and fourth class, and not a
little that may be regarded as al
most valueIess. Between this belt
of inferior land and the mountain
range there is belt of excellent
land and numerous streams of wa
ter in the cations, much of which
ia totally, but not necessarily, lost
in the sand, and the remainder is
wastefully applied. There is this
qualification of the statement about
the inferior belt between Pomona
and the bluff near San Bernardino
city-much of the land produces
fair crops of small grain; much of
1t will produce grapes without irri-
CATION, and the deficiency In guam
tity of grapes will probably be
made up in quality. It is also true
that what this plain lacks of pro-
pOrti0nal output of narrow gauge
traffic and travel will be more than
made up by
THE EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCT-
OF the tens of thousands of acres
whose centre IL San Bernardino
city. The soil between San Ber-
nsrdino city and Riverside differs
from any class Of soil between Pas
adena and San Bernardino city.
The capabilities Of this region to
provide business for narrow
gauge are to be measured rather by
the rainfall and the volume of
water for irrigation, than by the
quality of the soil, which is mostly
good. Whatever the region be-
tween Cotton anu Riverside may
be short in narrow-gauge business
will be
MORE THAN MADE UP IN RIVER
The accommodating party traversed
the entire settlement from the
northern limit of Riverside to the
southern limit of Arlington. The
growth of the colony, since March,
1879, the date Of the writer's last
visit, has been simply marvellous.
The double avenue, for years so
pretentious on paper, IL rapidly
lengtheniug Oh the i'm mense plain,
with central and side lines Of beau
tiful trees, and on each side mile
wide belts of homes ia
YOUNG sEMI-TRePIC GLORY.
If Arlington avenue and its side
belts, young as Arlington is, could
he transferred to the vicinity of
Paris and acclimated to that lati-
tude of France, it would become a
favorite drive of the gay city.
Then, what should one anticipate
when Riverside and Arlington be-
come fifteen miles long, three miles
wide, as they will be, with
ONE OF THE FINEST AVENUES ON
THE CONTINENT,
Almost as long, bounded by broad
belts thickly dotted with fully de-
veloped semi.tropic homes. River
side is extensively at Santa Monica
just now, and on the way to Saa
Diego. A to-be-left- out.in-the-
cold scare has sent Riversidsrs to
the Boston railway Delphio oracle,
ranaptly oppavod m Raw and Clin N,