Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-17
SOUTH RIVERSIDE.
The Queen City for Hand
some Homes.
THE a. PAPER TOWNS EN- ROUTE.
Pine Soil and q Plentiful Water
Supply Around Great
Railroad Center.

last Thursday a representative Of the
IfeeaLD had occasion to make little
trip into the country as far as South XIV
erside. InaBmuch as the growth OF the
metropolis OF the Semi-tropics is based
directly upon the region around it the
rsople Of Los Angeles are directly inter-
ssted in ihe prosperity Of every town in
the region. II will not be out Of the way
then TO chronicle the observations made
along the lines Of the railroads.
Much adverse criticism has been in
slnlged in in relation to the many new
towns laid on / during the past two years,
between Los Angeles and San Bernar'
dino. These were dubbed in derision
sspaper Towns" Now there Is no dis
putting the proposition that we have been
ding things in this section on rather a
broad basis, on a somewhat large scale.
Los Angeles City has already been laid
out for city Of very magnificent proper
tions; but II the growth experienced in
the past will but keep up for year or
two longer, there will be no lack OF de-
monstration that the population OF this
city will require all the land laid out for
it. Already the utmost periphery OF the
municipality has been reached on all
sides by people in quest OF build
ing room, and nearly all the space be-
gins to look like being needed.
There is no let up yet in this
enlargement Of all sorts Of enterprises in
Los Angeles The city is growing at an
unprecedented pace. Who says there is
TO be an end to this soon? What are the
signs of il?
SO with the "Paper Towns" There
has been large numberof these planned
and plotted. Many OF them are on a
very liberal scale. But it is indisputable
that that they are all getting to be
towns. There are few Of them which do
not give grand promise OF "getting there" !"
Leaving Los Angeles at 4 p. NJ. by the
Santa Fe route, one's first observation is
that the city is building up rapidly in the
way of warehouses and business on the
city front. On the east eide OF the stream
the spread of population has reached the
city limits and large number OF nice
residences are going up along the Arroyo
seco. Beyond the bridge that crosses
the bed OF this winter torrent there is a
continuous settlement Of no mean order
to the edge OF Pasadena at the Ray
rnond. The "Crown of the Valley"
has sprung from 700 people in
1880 to $1,000 in 1888. The
land is laid out in building lots to La
manda Park, and in another half dozen
years there will be demand for them
all. Lamanda is becoming quiet vii
lage. The Sierra Madre Colony is be-
coming dense population. Arcadia has
half hundred houses. Monrovia is
stretching westward, until she almost
reaches with her population the edge OF
Arcadia.
Beyond the river, Azusa has 200
houses all inhabited. Glendora and
Alosta each make an excellent
showing. Claremont, La Verne, Lords
burge, North Pomona, North Ontario,
and Cucamonga, all have their hotel,
postoilice, store-if not several OF them
and around these is large number OF
houses of more or less pretensions, each
the necleus of what will be by and by,
prosperous town. They lie rather close
together in some instances. But we
must not forget that this is destined to
be very densely inhabited district
From the sea at Santa Monica to the
mountains at San Bernardino, mass OF
people will occupy every bit Of the
ground. 1t will not all be done in a year,
but large part of it will be done
every year until it is all filed up. San
Bernardino shows many signs of rapid
and Holid improvement. Cotton has
made big strides in year. And if one
were to follow the Southern Pacific line
back to the city he would find very
prosperous and rapidly increasing COM
munity at Ontario. AT Pomona he
would find an ideal little city with fine
houses rapidly multiplying; with hotels
of which city of 80 900 people might be
proud with churches and schools, banks
and stores, orchards of many sorts and all
the elements of large and prosperous
community. Spadri, Puente, El Monte,
Savanna, San Gabriel and Alhambra
all rival and, if possible, surprass the
other string OF towns along the foothill
line.
SOUTH RIVERSIDE.
But the scribe set out to tell about
South Riverside, where he spent whole
day, and took in all its points of attrac.
lion. He reached the hotel at about 8
O'Clock and after good sleep arose re-
fresied TO take in all the sights.
South Riverside was founded about
eighteen months ago. The pro-
lectors of the colony were
Gen. L. Joy, R. B. Taylor, W. II. Jane
son, N. G. Hudson, A. s. Garretson and
Ex-Governor Samuel Merrill of Iowa.
These and others bought about $4,000
acres of land from the Yorbas and others,
and on this they proceeded to lay out the
town. The site is 10 miles southwest OF
Riverside and about 40 miles in a direct
line from Los Angeles. 1t is 80 miles by
rail via Orange and Anaheim on the new
Santa Fe route. Besides the Is, 1000
acres owned by the company, there are
IL, 1000 acres OF other lands tributory
To South Riverside. The lands lie with
range OF beautiful hills to the south,
and slope southerly to the lowest point
along the river bed,
In securing the land an eye was had
to the water supply, and this was secured
an ample measure from Temescsl creek
and an immense cienega at the base Of
the mountains southeast OF the land and
OF the townsite. In fact, South River
side has half score of means OF sup.
plying herself with water. The creek
runs large stream at all seasons. In
the cienega three large artesian wells
have already been bored, which pour
forth an immense head of clear, pure,
cold water. A bed Of clay hens this
cienega in all around. The water
bearing lands in the basin are
OF vast extent. Half a dozen great
cailons with watersheds OF immense area
along them all debouch into this ciene-
ga Instead of three, the company can
sink 800 wells into this basin and the
water simply will not be half developed