Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-13
"A WONDERFUL DEVELOPMENT.

through foothill portions of Los Angeles
and San Bernardino counties, and In
directions which he had not visited for
some time past. The revelation OF
progress made since his last visit to those
places was SO startling and significant
that some notes of what he saw seem
to be called for.
OF course. the world knows generally
the wonderful things that have been
done in Riverside and some other nota-
BILE colonies of Southern California, but
few persons are aware that the whole
foothill region of the three lower counties
has been the scene of a tree-planting and
growth, and of splendid pecuniary re-
turn during the past five or six years
absolutely without precedent. Lugonia
and Redlands are perhaps the most
noticeable of the new communities,
although they include such wonderful
settlements as Pomona in Los Angeles
county.
The region of country around the
Cotton cannery and dryer has witnessed
remarkable pecuniary returns this year,
not only in the citrus line but in apricots,
beaches, pears, nectarines, and, in fact,
eyery kind of fruits. That establish
ment has employed from three hundred
to four hundred and fifty men during
the whole season. All the institutions
in the neighborhood Of Riverside and
San Bernardino have been equally
active. This has been golden year for
the horticulturist. The prices for all
kinds of canned and dried fruits have
advanced enormously, and the demand
is practically unlimited and OF stable
character. There has been a great
boom in apricots, and this arises from
the fact that the people of Europe have
taken a great fancy for this delicious
fruit, and the canneries are kept busy
supplying it. As this is a great con-
stituency, and new one, the hortlcul-
turist feels much encouraged.
No one who fails to plunge into the
enchanting space between new and old
San Bernardino and Lugonia and Red
lands can have any idea of either the
wealth or the beauty of that portion OF
Southern California. In San Bernardino
and in old San Bernardino every kind OF
fruit known to a semi-tropical climate ls
grown, The old Van LeuvenI orange
grove, the first orange orchard ever set
out in San Bernardino county, looks In
splendid trim-the trees being veritable
giants. All the orange trees of both
Riverside, San Bernardino and the foot
hills are characterized by great thrift
mess and brilliancy of color. Nowhere
lis there a suspicion of the scale, or of
.any other disease. The vineyards also
looking uncommonlv well.
An English walnut orchard was point
ed out to the writer which was said to
yield more net money yearly than any
equal piece of ground planted in San
Bernardino. though it has been no un-
usual thing to net as much as six hund-
red dollars an acre from oranges and
some of the other popular fruits. The
peach. orchards OF the region between old
and new San Bernardino and Redlands,
and in the San Timoteo cafion, on the
other side of the road to Redlands, are
things that once seen will never be for
gotten. Vast orchards are so loaded
down with the fruit that props have
had to be employed everywhere, and in
many instances even then the limbs are
broken off On had been beaten down to
the ground. And such peaches Ravish-
ing spheres of fruity nectar, that re-
called the sparkle and beauty of maid
ems cheek, positively unsurpassed in
flavor anywhere on the footstoosl.
The writer was somewhat curious to
see the three year old town and settle
ment of Redlands, and he was the more
interested in it because he had seen it
when it was only year old. 1t has
made wonderful progress, and tree
planting, especially the planting of the
orange, has grown almost to the proper
tions of fanaticism. Through the in
PRODUCTION of the Bear Valley water
miracles have been wrought in Redlands
and Lugonia. All the hills are being
set out in the orange clear to their sum-
mits. and the citrus family does except