Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-06-08
A Peculiar Pass-steady Devei'
opment.

even learn something Of the city il
comparatively small. We have pro-
posed to ourselves the agreeable task,
from time to time, OF showing the
causes which have made Los Angeles
in a few years a city of upwards oil
forty thousand souls, and which have
accumulated in the county OF the
same name population OF full,
eighty-five thousand.
No such growth would have beer
possible in either this city or county
II special inducements to settlement
in Southern California at large lad
not existed. Los Angeles is already
the center of region which pos
sesses a very considerable trade, ana
she ia destined to command bnsi-
ness in many staples that will ramlly
TO Salt Lake, Denver, Albuquerque
and Ell Paso. While our own has
been the leading county in develop
ment, and our advances have been
more remarked because we have
been the more conspicuous figure,
the whole tier OF southern counties
has been forging ahead.
The editor of the HERALD, the
other day, made trip east to the
summit of the San Gorgonio. In
reaching this point he was Obliged TO
traverse scene OF unique de-
velopment in Los Angeles dounty'
but we pass that for the present, and,
in this article, we shall conline our
selves to San Bernardino county. The
splendid settlement of Ontario is first
encountered over the line OF Los An
geles county. As far as one could
Judge, through cursory inspection
from train, this splendid enterprise
of the Chafley Bros. is making capl-
tai Roadway. The superb seven
mile double avenue shows rapid
growth, and the orchards set out by
these thrifty colonies are looking
we'll and promising remunerative re-
suits. A handsome hotel, stylish
land office and imposing university
building give evidence OF the fact
that the Ontarians have no small
conceit of themselves, and they are
right. Cucamonga and Etiwanda
were passed too rapidly to admit OF
detailed mention. Cotton doomed up
as the promising railway center which
we described some weeks ago, and
the San Timoteo canon was entered.
Thirteen years ago, when The
Southern Pacific Railway had not
even reached the north line OF Fresno
county, on its progress to New Or
leans via Los Angeles, the editor ol
the HERALD made the ascent of the San
Timoteo caiion to the San Gorgonlc
Pass behind Bob Frink's spanking
four in hand. At that time the places
of Sheriff Noble, Frink and a few 9th
ers were all that the traveller. encoun-
tered. To-day there is apretty dense
population in the canon, and grain
and alfalfa fields abound on every
hand. In the San Gorgonio Pass
proper there was at that time visible
to the naked eye only single ranch
house, that of Dr. Edgar, which was
located where the waters of the Ed
gar canon debouch upon the plain.
At that time, in the San Diego
World, of which we were then editor
we pronounced the word "pass, as
applied to this beautiful valley, {
misnomer. 1t was then mere
sheep pasture, and with the excep
ton of the wild oats, nothing of the
character OF grain had ever been
grown upon it. That year this val
ley, which comprises at least twenty
four sections, is planted in wheat and
barley. An Intelligent and trust
worthy estimate places the grain
yield at one hundred and fifty thous-
and centals. The town OF San Gorge
MO itself does a brisk business, the
people of the pass and the San JacintC
country going there for the necessarie'
OF life. That old-time Angeleho, Mr.
George Egan, has developed into al
enterprising merchant and is becom
ing quite rich. Some few years ag'
he purchased from the railroad com
pany nine hundred and sixty acres o
land adjoining the townsite, and now
syndicate is negotiating for those
acres, and Mr.. Egan will undoubted
ly receive fifty dollars or more al
acre for his very valuable holding
As he had an excellent crop last year
and a fair one this season, the land
stands him in nothing, his net profit
from the soil recouping him fol
his original outlay.
San Goreonio is about twenty-five
hundred feet above the level OF tn,
sea Distant from the station about
five miles is the Summit House, 8
capital mountain resort, which il
kent in first-class style by Mr. Crime,
and his amiable and ACCOMPLISHED
wife. 1t is located at an altitude o
over three tbousand feet. RIGHT undel
the shadow ef old drawback - s
mountain which attains the respecta.
BILE altitude OF thirteen thousand feet
and npon which the snow now lie,
thick The air here is rare and pnre
and possesses recuperatiye properties