Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-10
sam Diego County Fair.

Extract from the address of Wm Bur-
CESS, of National City, before the San
Diego County Agricultural Society:
"Along the line of the California South
ern Railroad since its completion, are
marked and stable improvements, giving
increased facilities for transportation in
the rural districts, adding new settle
ments rapidly along the line, and in turn
receiving an increased amount of produce
for shipment and for traffic. Along this
read, from National City and San Diego
on the bay, to Cotton at the junction of
the Southern Pacific, and mostly in San
Diego county, several new towns have
sprung up, and they all pow present
lively appearance, amid the din of the
hammer and the saw, with bright pros.
pt tcts, and adjacent to these towns are
thriving settlements which foretell a
prosperous future. While Old Town
maintains its historical character as the
Oldest settlement in California dating
from the arrival of Father Junipero at
Preside Hill in July, 1861, without any
changes of wide significance, the new
places haveall improved remarkably fast.
National City, with a thriving popula.
ton in the valleys of the Sweetwater,
Otay aud Tiajuana for tributary support,
as well as with her railroad shops, head
quarter offices, terminal and commercial
facilities, is looking upward with conf.
dence to future full of much promise.
San Diego has outgrown her primitive
status, and put on the equipment of a
modern city and seaport, with Custom
house, military post. Government bar.
racks and a signal service, railroads,
ocean steamers, telephones, street cars,
big hotels, Wholesale merchants, gas works
and electric lights, besides well stocked
banks, mills, churches, schools, benet-
cial societies and corporation, several
daily papers and her lively Coronado
Beach; something to suit all classes and
all wants, while the villages.of Del Mar,
Encinitas and Oceanside, all on or near
the ocean, are growing into importance,
and giving new life and activity to the
farming communities in their vicinity,
the initial movements of prominent sea
resorts to attract thither the tourists, in
valids and pleasure seekers of the coun-
try and the world. The new village at
Vista or Frazer's station, with its min
eral we'll, in charge of an incorporated
syndicate, adds a similar enterprise
which has been inaugurated under fav.
orable prospects. The extensive stock
ranch Of the Santa Margarita. the vii
lagos of Fallbrook, Temecula and Muir.
rieta, all have special merits as product.
i've points, and Elsinore looms up by the
| = II l. fas, lalya and amid for
tile fields, to give all the indications oi
an inland city nestled in the hills, which
is being fast surrounded by lively popu
lation Of ranchmen; farmers, miners, fruit
growers and manufacturers, all contribu
ting to the wealth, enterprise and growth
of that region, and of the county at large
with her watercraft, coal mines and pot
tery works, Elsinore has no potterinl
gait in the line of her advancement. Thel
comes Pinacate and Perris, with aspira
tions to village prominence, and stretch
ING out towards Rock House and Sal
Gorgonio, the open plains of San Jacint'
with all the living indications in embry
of an agricultural paradise, with waite
of easy access and artesian wells availa
BILE for all purposes of irrigation, domesti
use, stock raising, vegetable and fruit
growing, ad infinitum, all go to show
rapid increase of the territory being re
deemed from fields of sagebrush ant
groves of cactus, as well as from thos
pests of the ranchmen and the poul
try raiser, the prowling coyo.'
and the festive jackrabbit. Th'
interior village Of Poway. Julian, and
San Luis Rey, and the new colonies O.
Escondido and Los Penasquitas all Civ,
evidence of being the nuclei of. import
ant settlements, and from all these ant
Others not enumerated, our present re-
turns aud onr future prospects are of the
most fattering character. Besides oui