Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-23
HE DAILY REC0RD-UNI0N.
SAN GABRIEL.
A CORRESPONDENT TELLS OF a SOUTH
ERH paradise.
A Lovely Beautiful Homes-Miles
OF Grange Groves-Advancing
Civilization.
PASADENA. JUNG Is. 1881.

PASADENA, June Is, 1881.
L Scandinavian were looking from the
Sierra Madre Villa upon the stretch of
orchards and vineyards which now cover
the base of the range, and intrude more
and more upon the fertile lowlands which
at nc distant day will be covered with a
teeuing population, think he might wish
tc borrow descriptive town from his own
mythology, such as " Vingolf or "Glad-
sheim," to distinguish the abodes of the
San Gabrielenos. So inclosed without
isolation. go retired yet go accessible, so
stepped in Sunshine tempered by the invig-
Grating sea breezes, this favored valley is
rapidly filling up with select population,
who are bringing wealth and taste TO the
completion Of what Nature had so nearly
perfected.
OLD SAN GABRIEL,
With its venerable church and monu.
mental palm tree, its tumbling adobes
swarnling with black. eyed children and
yelping puppies, is hemmed in on every
side with modern improvements. Where
once Father Salvadea walked in his tuna
walled garden stands the depot of the
Southern Pacific Railroad. The old Mex
icau woman who forgot her grandchildren's
names, then her children's, then her own,
and finally forgot TO die, and so lived on
one hundred and forty years, like the trunk
o! an ola pollard whose shoots and boughs
are dead. was q type of the outgoing civil.
izstion. The Alhambra school house, with
all the appointments belonging to the new
education, is only short walk from the
old church-that is the promise of the
time to come.
THE SAN GABRIELENoS
Are satisfied with their position or the
map Of the world Though many rival
claimants TO pre.eminent loneliness OF sit
uation have appeared, hardly see how
this place could be improved. The vine
yards are so clean and extensive, the trees
so well grown, the pomegranate planta-
tions 50 heavy with their scarlet bloom,
that one could not help exulting in this
prodigality of beauty, even without the
sense of ownership And the San Gabriel
enos are pretty well satisfied with the
name OF their valley. for the Fathers did
not go on repeating it as they travelled
northward, and it remains "the only"
When one hears OF ''San Luis" IN
qualified. as we often do, it is hard
to distinguish whether the royal saint
OF San Diego's mission, or the
heaven-sent bishops town and county is
meant. And we have dozen San Juans.
The Indian names of the southern country
are very musical and ought to be preserved.
Temecula, Pala, 0hai. Wahoma, COLO, are
to be preferred TO those Of any saint In the
calendar. The naming of private estates
has been peculiarly feiicitous. Sunny
Slope, Mr. Roses place. and General Stone
mans Los Robes, also Oak Knoll, part
of the Wilson estate, are nature named.
Ell Moline, pleasant TO speak and to see,
was the first mill ever built in California,
and late IN the last century ground the
first cereal crop into -four. It's walls of
stone and cement were thick enough for .
fortress, and it was with great difficulty
that they were cut through when the late
Z. j. G.. Kewen converted this strong and
picturesque ruin into home. Remains OF
the old millwheel arc still in the cellar,
and there are
ANCIENT WILLOWS
OF the padres planting in the grounds.
Never again will hearth-fres blaze in the
hospisable chambers of FL Moline, for the
hillside against which the mill was built is
so full of springs that no efforts can en-
tirely keep out the damp. E. L. Mayhony,
VINO has recently purchased this lovely re-
treat, will doubtless find it place of in.
finite possibilities for spending and making
money. There are extensive orange and
olive orchards, vineyards, and avenues OF
walnut and other trees, and the site which
the present owner has chosen for resi-
dence commands IL wide view of the noun.
tains aud valley. Given a few hundred
diversified scres, ample water supplies,
natural groups Of trees, commanding sites
for buildings, and the temptation to make
costly improvements is almost irresistible.
Mr.. Baldwin has laid q dozen fortunes
uDon the shrine Of Santa Auita, but his
pasconegs smiles back in such amplitude Of
harvesls, such increase Of hocks and herds.
such returns from orchards and VINEYARDS.
az justify what once seemed the widest
speculation. So Air. Cogsweli's outlay at
the villa was looked upon in its begin
nirgs. He chose country seat in the
caaparral, three miles from neighbor,
and a thousand feet above the Mission.
There were roads 20 he graded, waters TO
be led II pipes, and weeks spent IL drag
ging loads from Los Angeles, before work
could begin. THIS accomplished, every
stroke told, and already the six-year-old
lime, lemon and orange trees are paying a
good interest on the Investment. Like the
football fruits OF the interior counties,
those Of the higher levels of the Sierra
Madre are conceded to be superior, and
command the highest prices. Adjoining
the villa is the residence of Abbott Kin
neY, gentleman OF world.round travels
and experiences. Thanks to the example
of B. d. Wilson, Mr.. Blcon, Mr.. Rose and
others of the earlier proprietors, there has
never been show place IN San Gabriel,
though ample provision for domestic com
fort and generous hospitality has not been
wanting hinneyloa, named by its pro-
prietoT from some South Sea Island associa-
ton, is lovely Italian villa, looking San
Jaciato, San Bernardiro. San Antonio and
4 hundred lesser peaks square in the face,
and equally happy in It's ocean views.
There has been work enough expended
upon Mr. Kinney's 200 acres to reclaim a
county in Kansas, but OF these mountain
acres there csE never be duplicate. This
spacious villa is one of the most
CONSPICUOUS OBJECTS
in the landscape as one enters the San
Gabriel valley from the East, and is a
model Of comfort and convenience. The
furnishings and appointments betray the
tastes of a scholar and gentleman, while
the disposition and treatment of the grounds
show nice judgment as to utilities and
scenic effects. Another model rural resi-.
dence is now going up in Pasadena for L.
T. Hurlburt OF Chicago, who has wintered
here with his family for five years 4; and,
still another, on property directly adjoin-
ing, is TO be built soon for wealthy Phila-
delphian.
Descriptions of Sunny Slope and of San
Marine, the residence of j. DeBarth
Shorb, have been so often made that | will
not repeat them. But few days ago
there was a sound of revelry in the air,
and the tickets were dollar to
holy REvEL