Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1885-12-20
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California.
Tho Chaffey College of Agriculture,
located ut Ontario, San Bernardino
county, one OF the hest planned and
the most progressive and promising set
Elements in Southern California, was en-
lowed by Messra. George and W. b.
Chnifey with 500, 600 worth oil land
city lots and agricultural tracts. The
property being saleable the trustees soon
commenced the work, which was pushed
with great energy, until the opening OF
the College, which took place on the
10th of October last. The building ia a
three story brick building-in which
over 300, 900 brick were laid-coutaining
a chapel, four large recitation rooms,
and eleven smaller rooms for office, Ii.
brary, museum and for other public use.
Each room is 10 feet high, well lighted
| and ventilated, and independent OF the
other, opening directly into wide and
lofty corridors. From every window
the views Of the Colony of Ontario, the
valley and the mountains are charming.
The Regents OF this College MAGE a
departure from the usual method Of ed
ucation in agricultural colleges. They
do not intend TO establish Normal
Agricultural School to train up experts
or teachers of speoalties in scientific
and theoretic agriculture, but are con-
tent, for the present, il they succeed in
graduating practical young farmers, so
enthusiastic in their calling that they
have no desire to leave it for Others for.
eign, perhaps antagonistic TO their first,
naturally chosen one, thereby taking
away Just so much educational power
aud trained intelligence from the agri-
cultural community.
Students in this department are re-
quired to practice part of the time with
practical hortlculturists and agriculture
lists in close vicinity to the College or in
the College grounds. From daily prac-
tice they must dsduce their theories;
that is, from known effects they must
try to find the causes. They will obtain
their theoretical knowledge as fast
AS they need il, but no faster, for they
practice before they theorize scientific
ally. The daily work OF their hands,
together with the exercise of their pow
er Of observation, which increases as the
spirit of investigation is quickened, dis.
covers and originates problems that are
solved only by scientific inquiry and re-
search. This makes the subject matter
for study in the school room, where abb
stracts and theories are written out for
future reference and examination, or are
discussed under the systematic super
vision of the teachers. The text books
and library become really books Of ref.
erence, from which students may obtain
that information only which relates to
the field practice they have ON hand or
have already performed. Such theoretic
knowledge is impressed on the mind
strongly by correlative facts, and is there
to stay, to be utilized when needed.
This valuable additional vehicle for
education in Southern California, is a
feature the original projectors Of the
Ontario Colony, as well as the people OF
Ontario, may well feel proud OF this
College and the enterprise Of its proec-
tors. Ontario is undoubtedly one of tine
healthiest locations in the State and has
been extremely fortunate in the class OF
people who cast their lot with that
growing and prosperous community
This fact, alone, that no Intoxicating
liquors can ever be bought or sold in |
this colony, as a beverage, is guarantee |
of good order, good morals and good |
society the true essentials Of happy |
and prosperous home life.
Ontario is supplied with the purest. |
softest and coolest of water, for irriga-
ton and domestic purposes, from the |
mountain stream San Antonio, which is
fed by the deep springs in the gorges
and cafiuns and from the melting snow |
banks on the mountain tops. A tunnel |
is now being driven into the base OF the |
mountains to take up the subterranean
water supply that collects and flows ON |
the surface Of the bed rock. Already a
stream of $50 inches OF water, cold as
ice, now pours ont of the mouth OF the
incompleted tunnel. 1t is expected that
a much greater supply will be obtained
when the tunnel is completed. This
mountain water is distributed over this
tract by q system of dams, cement
bitches and line OF 9, s and l0-inch
pipes, over thirty miles In length, at an
expenditures Of over 10000.
The Ontario Land Company has ex-
pended up to the present time, over
$l7 600 in improving and ornamenting
its streets. Euclid Avenue, seven miles
long, commencing at the railroad depot,
ascends gradually in straight line, at
rise Of about $50 feet to the mile, to the
foothills OF the Cucamonga, and then 1t
winds around and through the San An
tonic canon for several miles towards
Mt. Badly, 10000 feet high. 1t has
been grandly laid out two hundred feet
wide, graded and planted with quad
ripple rows of ornamental shade trees
eucalyptus, gravilla, pepper and palm.