Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-26
santa Clara County, California.

which the county receives its name. This
county is said TO contain the finest agricul-
tural and horticultural land in the state.
Its surface is generally rolling in the Santa
Clara valley, except around San Jose,
where it is comparatively level. The great
est portion of the land requires irrigation,
by means of which all fruits and cereals of
the temperate zone are produced in abund-
ance. One peculiarity of this valley is
worthy of note. On account of the neces-
sity of providing means TO enable the
wheat Ia sweat before it is thTeShed that il
may make good flour. all the wheat must be
harvested and bound in Sheaves first, i'll
stead of being threshed Immediately after it
is gathered by the heads, as is the case in the
Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys
San Jose is delightful city of between
sixteen and eighteen thousand inhabitants.
On account of the substantial nature and
beautiful design OF its buildings it is called
the New Haven of the Pacific coast. 1t is
one of the few cities in the United States
that is out of debt, and has money in its
treasury. 1t is noted for the width of its
streets, the perfectness of its sewerage, and
its system of electric lights. Its railroad
facilities are ample, and besides its adapta-
bility to general mercantile business il has
a silk manufactory and woolen mills, EN-
ploying two hundred hands, several fruit
canneries, an agricultural implement factO-
ry, and other manufacturing enterprises.
The city has never had boom, but cOntin-
ues to grow substantially. 1t has fine
churches and the best of school
facilities. Its climate is less Sc
we're than that of San Francisco.
Los GatOs, Santa Clara, StanfOrds uniyer-
sity and Lick observatory are among the
surrounding attractions. The surrounding
mountain scenery and facilities for travel
make this one of the most favored sec
tiOnS OF the state.
A ride of about thirty hours through the
Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys over
the crest uniting the Sierra Nevada and
Coast Range of mountains, through the
Loup, over the MOjave desert and Sierra
Madre mountains, landed us at San Ber-
nardina, the county seat OF a county of the
same name. This is place of about 4, 600
inhabitants, and admirably located in one
of the most beautiful valleys and finest ar
tesian belts in the state. This is an old
Mormon settlement, and surrounded by an
abundance of damp lands, which afford eX-
cellent pasture lands, and looks like an oasis
in a desert land during the summer.
The valley of San Bernardina, which is
merely the eastern extension of the Los
Angeles valley, is about thirty miles long
and from twelve to twenty miles wide. 1t
is interspersed with orange and fruit orch
ards, and fer the most part watered by the
Santa Ana river and the irrigation bitches
supplied by mountain water. The town in
many respects resembles Salt Lake City.
Its location is somewhat similar; lis streets,
like those of Salt Lake, have constant
streams of water cOursing down each side
of the streets slanting toward the south
The railroad shops of the Southern Cali
forria railroad are located here, and the
town is connected with Cotton on the South
ern Pacific railroad, and Lugonia by mar
row-guage road, on which dummy runs.
Ii has five school buildings. a conmodiOus
court house and county hospital, subStan-
tial churches, business houses and hotels.
Six miles north of the town, at an eleva-
ton of 2,OOO feet, are located the Arrow
head Hot Springs and hotel. One of the
most noted freaks of nature is the perfect
outline of large arrow head on the noun
tain side, of such dimensions as to be seen
distinctly at distance of ten miles from
the mountain. These Springs are fire.
Quented by sufferers from rheumatism.
Riverside, the finest orange and fruit
growing section i'm this part of the state, is
situated ten miles south of San BernardinO.
on the Southern California railroad. 1t is
All incorporated city of siXty-tiTe square
miles, containing a population of 1000,
with residences surrounded by orange and
and fruit orchards enclosed by cypress
hedges. The homestead usually is in the
rear of a yard profIsely decorated with
cultivated flowers. Magnolia avenue
twelve miles Longs delight
full drive through thoroughly
cultivated section of the place. A num-
Der of costly residences owned by promi-
nent Calfornians grace this avenue, and
magnolia, Eucalyptus and cypress trees af-
ford an excellent shade for delightful
drive.
Although but thirteen years old it is
known all over the United States as the
best orange producing section in the United
States, If not in the world. This part of
the state is the only one that produces
oranges free from scale-bugs, rust, smut, or
pests of any kind. For this reason, its
fruits always bring the highest prices and
are always in demand. Its hotels are COM
mOdous, its business houses large and well
arranged, its school houses and churches of
modern pattern and well attended, and its
newspapers and banks among the most ell
terprisng. The surrounding scenery is unsur
passed and noted in one especial particular
directly north of that place is a mountain
spur of solid limestone rock. while the
main range is of an entirely different form
alton. The climate is very acceptable to
those living there, but to one accustomed
to Ohio climate at this season of the year
about noon the sun is scOrching hot This
is redeeming feature for raisiR culture.
The orange and lemon trees are now COW
cred with green fruit, with all occasional
ripe orange or lemon that was not gathered
in season.
This is the raiSin and wine making sea-
son. The vineyards are so arranged that
roadways extend. throughout them at a dis
tance of possibly one hundred and
fifty feet from each other. Along
these wagons are drawn, into which
the wine grape is thrown by
the basketful as they are gathered. The
most noted varieties of wine grapes are the
Mission, MalyOisee and Zinfandel
Raisin making is a very simple process.
At this season of the year the grapes are