Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-27
A Hundred and Fifty Miles
of Fruit Belt.
Los Angeles to Redlands and
Back Again.
Out By the Foothills and Return By
Santa Ana.
Leagues of Land All Devoted to Citrus
and Deciduous Fruit Grow
ing Surveyed.

3 80 bound Tor RedlandS. In three
hours he was set down at his destina-
ton, sixty miles distant, where he had
three hours to gain some information
about this place, one of the latest
developments of the new progress that
is at work in Southern California. By
the time this was done the train was
back from Mentone and the return trip
was begun. Changing cars at San Ber-
nardino, a train via Santa Ana was taken,
and the journey home made by route
different from the route travelled out,
via Pasadena and the Azusa. As the
primary object of the trip was to see
Redlands, the first chapter in this brief
history will be devoted to that place. AS
soon as the depot was gained bee
line was made for the neat and cozy
office of the Citrograph, where the editor,
Scipio Craig, was found immersed
mentally in an editorial to prove that
Redlands is the center of all
creation. Craig is choke full of
Redlands. He knows the day and
date when each nail in each building
was driven, and also when each tree in
the place was planted. He is enthusi-
astic to degree about the place. His
story is somewhat like this: Five years
ago there were three or four houses this
side of the river, and six or seven on the
Lugonia side-ten or eleven in all ON
both slopes of the mountains as far as
one could see from the highest point.
Three years ago the first brick was laid
in the town, and now intimations are
that the census enumerator has counted
1900 people within the city limits, and
as usual the census man has not got all
the people. In October, 1888, there
were 1868 people in Redlands, and in
the two years since great many new
people have come in. In the last city
election in April, 1890, there were 43S
votes cast, and there are sos children of
school age in the city. There are in the
city 1000 to $500 souls, and 500 or 600
outside, making perhaps 5000 in all the
country about including the city of
course. There are six church buildings
in the city. Two Congregational, one
Baptist. one Episcopal, one Pres
byterian and one Methodist.
The Odd Fellows and Masons have
lodges here, and the Knights of Pythias,
A. 0. U. w. and G. A. R. people are
going to organize. There is also a lodge
of the Royal Arcanum. Redlands built
the first building of the Y. M. G. A. in
Southern California, paid for it and owns
it. 1t is two-story edi6ce 40x70 feet.
There are two banks lin the city, the
First National and the Union, Red
lands is incorporated as a city of the
sixth class. E. G.. Judson is president
of the board of trustees, L. w. Clark is
Il ~ &c, o1
Frank p. Morrison, president of the
town has three miles of street car line
railroads running to it, the Santa Fe,
the Southern Pacific and the motor
from San Bernardino. Last year there
were shipped from Redlands sixty-eight
cars of oranges and forty-six cars of
dried fruit. There were thirty cars CT
grapes and raisins shipped. Redlands has
5000 acres of land in orchard, and there
have been planted the past spring / 300
to l 400 acres of new orchard, nearly all
of it being oranges. The city was as
sessed last year for 81 100000. Its area
is 31a miles east and west and miles
north and south. A good deal of prop
erty is changing hands, most OF the sales
being of unimproved land at 5000 to $400
per acre. Ten acres were sold yester-
day morning at $3.50. Here is a Cali
fornia story: Seven years ago Mr..
Morey, carpenter, came to Redlands
and bought eighteen acres of land. He
planted this to oranges, and his wife did
much of the work on it, while he worked
at his trade to support the family. The
other day he sold it for $4,000, reserv-
ing the young orchard stock in the
nursery, which he sold off, the stuff
netting him 10000. When he came to
Redlands he had only 81 800 in all the
world. He still has a ten-acre
ranch left which is worth $4,000.
To make $50, 900 out of $4,000 in seven
years is something. Redlands has three
hotels, not counting the Terracina,
which is on the mesa two miles from the
city The Terrace villa is kept by Mr..
II. T. Brown, once of the Nadeau. 1t is
a beautiful house on the Lugonia side,
surrounded with fine orange trees. 1t is
well kept. The water right of Redlands
is sufficient to flood the countryside.
There are half score of sources from
which water is derived, and one of them
is the great Bear-valley dam. Mr.. J. g.
North, formerly of Riverside, is presi-
dent of this company. Cook q Langley,
of this city, have big drying establish
ment at Redlands, but it is not in opera
ton. The people are all drying their
own fruit.
Such is the story Mr.. Craig tells OF his
pretty town. 1t proves that the boom
in this section is not very disastrously
burst. Redlands was begun when times
had become dull, after the great excite
ment, but it has grown as narrated
above, and is now growing at such a
pace that carload Of lumber day is
received at the depot.
That is story of one spot. 1t is in a
measure true OF all the country passed
over. From Pasadena, through Sierra
Madre, Monrovia, Duarte, Azusa, Glen
dora, Lordsburg, Claremont, Pomona,
Ontario, Cucamonga, Rialto, San Ber-
nardino, to Redlands and Mentone, the
whole foothill country for sixty miles is
being planted to fruit. Oranges take
the palm, but all sorts of de-
ciduous orchards are seen. They
are all doing well, and show
a vigorous health never surpassed. The
return trip developed as marvellous de-
velopments. The country all about
Cotton is set to fruit. The mesa under
the Gage canal is being set out rapidly
At South Riverside there has been g
large acreage set. Orange and Sants