Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-13
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1890.
TALK ABOUT YOUR MAGIC CIRCLES.

The writer made yesterday what is
called the "loop trip over the Santa
Fe road. We doubt whether there is
any other locality in the world where
circle of one hundred and twenty miles
can be continuously traversed by one
line of railroad which affords a greater
or more picturesque variety of scenery,
a more magnificent rural panorama, ora
more astonishing succession OF land
scapes, set off with the richest growths
of the SOIL with homes that are mar
wells of taste and beauty and with towns
and villages that are at once strikingly
fresh and surprisingly interesting.
Starting from the Santa Fe depot and
leaving the river, the grazing interest
can be contemplated in passing over
the splendid Laguna ranch. From Ri
vera to Los Nietos can be seen mile after
mile of orchards, including the fig, the
orange and the English walnut. Thence
to Fullerton, one can watch the wool
industry as exemplifed in the thous-
ands of sheep grazing upon the Northam
and adjoining ranches. Next comes
beautiful Anaheim, with her vineyards
and groves; and Orange, embowered in
wreath of foliage that envelops her
streets from view; then up and across
the Santa Ana we speed, passing here a
rich fruit farm, there thriving vine
yard, anon field that had been closely
cleaned of its rich crop of grain. These
scenes are repeated as we proceed, with
here and there a dash OF new color
thrown in, sometimes cannery where
fruit is being handled and packed by
large crowd OF men and women; or
succession of paddocks where blooded
breeds of horses and cattle are grazing
upon the lush grasses.
When we reach South Riverside, we
not only take in at glance magnifi-
cent country, but we naturally think OF
the great new development which will
soon mark the Temescal region, few
miles to the south, when the English
company begins to work the wonderful
deposits of tin which they are about to
exploit. We are likewise impressed
with the coal possibilities which Gilbert
is straining every nerve to develop to the
utmost within a few furlongs of this ia
vored town. We soon reach Riverside
itself, and there we are lost for words to
sound the praises of one OF the richest,
most beautiful and most exquisitely es-
thetic localities in Southern California.
The orange groves and vineyards as you
pass them enrapture the eye as things OF
SURPRISING beauty. Scene after scene OF
indescribable attractiveness almost sur
felt one with their excess OF riches.
But on we go, past Aqua Mansa, the
emblem of a civilization left far behind;
through Cotton, the centre of the mighty
forces of the iron horse; until we reach
San Bernardino. Here we pause, and
are rewarded with the evidences Of a
fine commercial focus to sur
rounding country of wonderful agri-
cultural wealth. Here there is no
mushroom growth. 1t is real live city,
rising, not slowly, but rapidly, into
Importance whose architecture is
improving, and whose business houses
are spreading to keep pace with the
wonderful progress that has been made
in the horticultural development of her
tributary territory.
But we must hurry on. We are on
the home stretch, and as we pass
through Rialto and dozens of other
young and promising settlements and
reach rich and golden Pomona, aspiring
Azusa, hesperian Duarte, energetic
Monrovia, and at length pass through
Pasadena the beautiful, we reach the
point from which we started in the
morning with feeling that we have
made a circle such as it is permitted
no one to make in any other part OF
the world. Within the lines OF that
circle there are almost one thousand
square miles of the richest land bask-
ing under the fsirest sunshine and ener-
gized by the most genial climate that
can be found on the footstOol. Yet
out of the vast acreage embraced with
in the circle we have described, there
is not, perhaps, the one hundredth
part of it that has been subjected to
any kind of cultivation whatever. Por-
tions of it are yet sheep walks, and
portions of it are grazed by the long
horned cattle of the days of yore. But
very infnitessimal portion of this
enormous area has been subjected to
that higher cultivation which denotes
the advanced civilization of the best
forn,ars of the presept day
It needs but the mere statement of
these facts to show to the most obtuse
mind the wonderful possibilities OF this
matchless section. These wonderful
possibilities mean, positively, a future