St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-01
THE EDITORS ABROAD.
Riverside and Redlands, in Glori-
Gus California.


hoStelry equips with the choicest linens
and rareSt silver dining room 500 feet
long by $50 feet wide. 1t was in such
reSplendent hall as this the editors
Toasted and rested during the visit at
San Diego. From this most salubriouS
climate. cool and moist with salty sea
breeze, we delved into the hottest
regions of Southern California-Riyer-
side and the RedlandS.
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We reached this great orange garden
at high noon-1l0 in the shade, and no
shaded EmbOwered in all that is lux
uriant OH earth-nature-Riv the
QuainteSt, sweetest little villa in the
world, thriveS a robust population of
5000, "FolkS roun' here is kinder
'ligi0uS, and won't put up with tayerns,
so we're only got two, and that's all
Their be. sir, that's ALL" And this re-
Spouse came direct from the driver who
iolted me and our party over fifteen
miles of RiverSide-110 in the shade,
and no shade. When. upon my inquiry,
he told me that, with 5000 religious
townsfolk, Riverside Sported but two
saloons, each of which is taxed 1000
every Quarter-S4.000 a year-that the
Eden of the Golden state ranches had
ten active churches and numberleSS
syndicate of greedy capitalists mad
bought 1900 acres of the greatest orange
land in the valley, whereon they had
set out few billion orange trees, lrri-
eating from the mountains where the
boast of California, the Temeseal tin
mines in the Temescal mountains were
being purged of huge heaps of tin-bear-
ing ore, and when he Steered me into
Magnolia avenue, ten miles long, 200
feet wide, banked on both sides with
magnificent residences, stately eucalipti,
palms and palmettOS, cypress hedges
eighteen feet high, pruned into all sorts
of fence shape, where flowers bloom in
perennial SpendOr. where the air is as
fragrant as a brides bOudoir, where
birds carroll and chirp, and the honey
bee gathers i'll the sweets of nature,
then | became mute in wOnderment-
dumb with admiration for the thrift of
the American rancherS who in seven
years reared a riverside from hot and
glinting sand sheets.
Riverside, with its adjoining extensive
orange groves, its valley, plain and high
lands, is one of the most productive
places in all California. Minnesota
probably did her share in cOiISu ming
the 5000 carloads of luscious California
oranges shipped from here in 1892. The
houses in this Italian villa are of the
prettiest type, for the humblest cots
hide in the shadows OF the great, drOop-
ing rose anu O!eander trees, creeping
giorianas, palms and hedgerows, while
the Stateiitr mansions are Weather
only III eXpanse of lawn and estates ;and
the gold of Ophir is as chaste and sweet;
in the garden plat OF the smith (S2 and
pure water per day. as it is on the site
of the miner-milionaire.
Riverside is progressive. An opera
house, alleged to have cost 100000,
adorns the principle street. The Amer
leans predominant, and the four hun
dred are goOd enough set-in fact. too
good for Mrs. Frank Leslie-Wide
when she was here in January with the
League of Press clubs. Good morals
and Protestant religion hold sway over
a generous people, while the crack real
estate agent induces you to buy land at
prices ranging from $3.50 al acre for the
wild to 1850 for the cultivated. Here
the bot winds of all that San Bernar
dino mountain valley region play upon
the cheek like an untamed, untemDered
SirroccO, and your correspondent atteStS
this assertion. bearing the lobe of his
lett ear, scOrched and shrunken. River
side has palms sixty feet high. 1t is
the home of many wealthy men and
women, and the heath of the Oldest
lemon tree in the state of California.
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The angels missed it when they left
Redlands and let i'll ScipiO Craig, the
greatest ustier-editor-rancher lad Oh
the coast, and his band of energetic
mortalS, to lay their camp and adorn so
promising valley. LugOnia, RedlandS,
is but a short run from Riverside. 1t
lies i'll the same great orange belt.
FoEr years ago it was a vacant desert
of glittering red sand. This red earth
was discovered to be the congenial base
for the culture of orange trees. The
only, and une may say the very vital,
question was that of irrigation. This
alone, it seems, stands between Red
land and perpetual fame.
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When our section of the special train
arrived under the intense glare of very
hot sun, the people of all this young
but glorious valley turned out en- maSSe.
That so many rancherS, shopmen, citi-
ZenS living away off i'll this mountain
girded region should sport such we'll
bred horses and such commodiOuS car
riages was indeed 4 matter evoking the
comment of all. But thev-the people
were there, and they had brought not
only the best in their barns, but the
most startling store of tales and yarns.
In drive of ten miles over country
roads, which might well serve as an at
tracing incident TO the continental dis
cusSionS of country roads" now rag
ing in the magazine and newspaper,
pulpit and platform. we were melted in
a maize of intricate road design, the like
of which only the ingenuity of Cali
fOrnia landscape gardener could evolve.
On the ranches OF the Smiley brothers
o. Gsl1 81 ,,1Ir IN
laying out macadamlZed footwalks and
roads, for the building of retaining
walls winding about the base and side
of steep foothills, for the lively main
tenance of reservoirs, ponds, brooks,
flowers, forestry and the cultivation of
an endless variety of adjoining fruit and
shrubbery. Each of these gentlemen
has a house on the table lands. The
hills are a rich ever-varying study of
artificial WatercOurses, fruit trees, vines
and flowers. All is relieved with color,
odd design, unusual shades of foliage SO
grown as TO avoid monotonous mass Of
one tinge; and all, it seems, tied upon
the sloping rugged sides of these hills
with winding, knotted bands of mellow
gold, An effect which distance lends to
the smoothly-paVed roads and foot
paths.
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Here 1 met my old friend Frank NJ.
Farwell, who, having learned of the
coming of Minnesota's delegation, had
sped to the depot with an ample Tocka-
way in which we were to "'ave boogy
roide." F. B. Farwel, his father, was
also down to meet US, and incidentally,
to extol the virtues of the redlandS.
The Farwells are we'll known in st.
Paul; and yet for all the friends and for
all the place they held in the esteem of
our city folk, they have planted their
future thrift on one of the prettiest lit
tie ranches III this inland valley. The
younger Farwell, whom l had not seen
for several years, is the picture of per-
feet health, and his slender, athletic
frame looks the more Western, standing
erect under the broad brim of white
sombrero. "There is money here,
Harry" said my host, contentment and
assurance ringing in every word. ut
only requires little start, little wait
ing and a little work." From many
other sources was led to believe that