Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-04
A1essandrO Making Rapid Strides.

AleSsanuFO Making 1Nap1u SUr1ueS.
The great success of the Bear Valley
and Alessandro Improvement company,
is the all absorbing topic of conversation
wherever real estate is talked through
out Southern California. You can
scarcely meet person who is not more
or less familiar with it, either be him
self or some of his acquaintances, being
the owner of one or more ten-acre lots
in that beautiful valley; and it is not
only the people of our own county that
are buying lots in Alessandfo, for you
will find by looking over the list of pur-
chasers, and their places of residence,
that nearly every state in the union is
represented, with scarcely an omission,
and the interest is growing stronger day
by day. Every mail brings scores of
letters of inquiry, and nearly every train
brings parties who are anxious to look
over the promised land. Everyone
seems delighted, and all exclaim, with
hardly an exception,
The Half Was Never Told,
And their names are also added to the
list of the owners of land in Alessandro.
We took drive the other morning over
the new road from Redlands, which the
company has constructed at a cost of
nearly $4,000, which shortens the dis
tance some three miles, making Alessan-
dro now only one hour and quarters
ride from Redlands, and a delightful
drive it is. We were ourselves surprised
at the great Improvements made there
since the dav of selection, October 18th.
Redlands boulevard is now laid out and
graded from the mouth of the tunnel,
three miles, to Moreno, 120 feet wide
and smooth as floor. Alessandro
boulevard crosses it at Moreno and runs
east and west, and is also graded for six
and one-half miles, the same width and
equally as fine as the Redlands boule-
ward; cross streets all laid out, with
names on every street. 1t did not seem
possible so much could be accomplished
in so short time. HouGes and barns
are being erected in all directions.
Scores of teams are at work on the tract.
Some 500 acres are already plowed, ready
for the first rain. Religious services are
now being held every Sabbath in Ales
sandro, Sunday school started, and
site for church selected. The pur-
chasers are taking hold in dead earnest.
Hundreds of acres are already under
contract for cultivation the present sea-
son. In the meantime the company
has not been idle. Three miles OF pipe,
or about one-third of the distance, is
already laid.
Tunnel No. extends into the noun
tain 1900 feet more than half COM
pleted. Tunnel No. 2, of 100 feet, is COM
pleted; tunnel No. 3, of 205 feet, is also
finished. Water will be running
through those pipes and tunnels by
March 1, 1891. Thousands of acres
have been waiting and waiting for hun
dreds of years for some such man as
Frank E. Brown to be born, who had
the pluck and nerve to build Bear valley
dam, and then to guide it's contents
and pour it's life-giving waters on to the
thirsty earth in Alessandro, which will
make its barren plains bud and blossom
like the rose, and bring forth it's fruit in
due season. What will you say, then,
you who are now hestating about pay
ing SS5 per acre, which is the price to-
day? Am fearful you will call your
selves hard names; for land in Alessan-
dro, with water on every ten acres from
Bear valley, will be worth any where
from 5000 per acre upwards. 1t requires
no prophet to foretell the future of AL
essandro, with nearly 5000 acres already
sold. OBSERVER.
Alessandro, Dec. I'd.