Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-15
SOUTH RIVERSIDE AND AUBURNDALE.

Southern California is emphatically
the land of surprises, and amongst all
the agreeable things in that line which
the visitor encounters, one Of the most
interesting is the new and growing set
tlement of South Riverside. Anything
with the name of Riverside attached to
it suggests great potentialities of
growth. In April of 1878 the writer
passed through Riverside when
there were only two houses in
the colony. One was the modest
cottage OF Judge North, with its accom-
panying nursery, and the other was a
small hotel, which had but recently
been completed. These humble factors
were the nuclei of the magnificent Riv-
erside of today-a city whose large pop
ulation for an interior city is one of its
least attractions, being, as it is, the CEN
ter OF the most beautiful and remuner-
ative horticultural output in the world
and congery of homes of poetical at
tractiveness.
South Riverside-the creation of the
other day-presents incomparably
greater attractions than its northern
namesake did when the writer fret saw
the place. The new and thriving town
and twin colony of South Riverside and
Auburndale can be reached in an hour
and half on the kite shaped track of
the Southern California railway. And
a very suggestive picture meets che eye
of the visitor when he gets off the cars.
He is told that, three or four years
ago, where South Riverside now stands,
there was barren plain. He finds q
nascent city in being, and a very charm
ing one at that. A bank, hotel-the
Temescal, of really pretentious elegance
"a school house that rivals the Lincoln
school OF San Francisco; and elegant
homes, with well-appointed grounds,
show for the fiftieth time that in South
ern California the scriptural simile of
Jonah's gourd is the only analogy to
the miracles of growth that are daily
transpiring in this section of almost in
stant fruition to all projects. The South
v,
represented by the Messrs. Joy and
Hudson, have entered on much more
colossal project than that which first
engaged the attention OF Judge North in
Riverside proper. That enterprising
and sagacious gentleman dealt with a
comparatively small territory. The
present scheme embraces, altogether,
between the two colonies, a superb
spread of To- 900 acres.
And such lands as are embraced in
this ample domain are hard to parallel
elsewhere. An interminable vista of
young orchards stretches off on every
hand. The citrus fruits have been ac-
corded the place OF honor, but the de-
ciduous have by no means been neg
lected. A fine irrigation system has
been perfected, with an immense reser-
voir at the base of the foothills to the
south. The waters for this storage sys-
tenn are derived from Temescal creek
and from artesian wells, and the supply
is abundant. But for purposes
Of general farming irrigation is
not required for these prolific
lands. On every hand fields OF grain
and barley stretched as tar as the eye
could reach. The soil is a rich, friable
loan, and plowing for wheat and barley
is still under way. When the grain re-
turns for the year shall have been heard
from the amount of the cereals which
will be contributed by South Riverside
and Auburndale will astonish those who
perhaps have never heard of these
places. These lush crops extend for
miles until the creek is reached which
leads to the foot of that range of the
Teinescal mountains which embraces
the Cajalco tin mines.
And the mention Of these mines re-
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