Los Angeles herald., 1893-01-01
RIVERSIDE.

The Wonderful Growth of g Beauti-
full Citys
[By Mark Plaisted, editor Riverside Enter
prise
RIVERSIDE, CAL, Dec. 3l.-Riverside
is certainly the imperial city of Southern
California, one of the most beautiful
spots that decorates the face OF the
earth, the home OF 1900 happy and con.
tented people. 1t has been but 20 years
since the early pioneers laid the founda-
ton for the great andNprosperous munic-
ipality which is here today. That foun-
dation was the construction of an irri.
eating canal which redeemed veritable
desert and made it to blossom as the
rose. In 1875 there came an extension
of this irrigation system, and coon there
after an overland railway. Then it was
that the valley in which the city is To-
Gated did commence to be developed in
earnest, and its progress has since never
cased.
Amid perfect bower of orange groves,
surrounded upon all sides by the bright
golden fruit, Riverside is located. Its
broad avenues are lined by stately trees
Ind clothed with green verdure; it is
made up of beautiful homes, handsome
business blocks and enterprising citi-
zens.
1t is now nine years since Riverside
became an incorporated municipality.
In 1884 it had an assessed valuation of
81 ,099. .241 and today it's total assessed
valuation is $3.50, ,410-$4, 1873 .585 real
and $937 1926 personal property. This is
indeed wonderful record of advance
ment, progress and development.
In Riverside there are so miles OF
paved streets, which are sprinkled each
day, and IL miles of street car lines.
The valley comprises 10000 acres OF or
ange groves and $4,000 additional acres
of ifrigable land. 1t is at an altitude Of
! 1000 feet above sea level. As to climate
nothing more delightful could be found
| in the United States anywhere. On
this-the last day of the year 1892-the
thermometer marks 78, the sun is chin
ing, the air is soft and bslmy, as much
30 as it can be in any Italian cline.
| During the year 1912 in the River
| side district, 1400 carloads of oranges
were shipped out end 1853 carloads OF
raisins-400,000 pounds. This season
the shipment of oranges will reach
22O0 carloads or 100000 boxes, of an
approximate value of $2,S50, 900. The
| TdlSln crop T6dCu6u lou CdTiOdu6, uaFluE
a market value of 5000, 900.
In point of its public school system
Riverside is the most advanced city III
the state, when population is takep into
consideration. Her school buildings
bave been constructed according to the
latest style architecture. They have
cost $135, 600
Thirty-one instructors are engaged in
| fr
1900 children. The high school build
inc is one of the finest in California
having been built at cost Of SIS ,000
Riverside has public library with
5000 volumes; an opera house that cosI
$l17 900; two daily newspapers, morn
ing and evening, the Enterprise being
as its name would indicate, the leading
journal; As miles of main irrigatini
canals and 200 miles OF laterals. All the
various fraternal societies are repre-
eented by lodges, and there are Is church
organizations.
1t is now proposed to carve new
county, TO be known as Riverside county
The proposition is to take 800 square
miles from the present county of Sar
Bernardino, which comprises 21 ,00(
square miles, end also 64lS square mile
from San Diego county, leaving 8l3l
miles in that county. This would Civ,
the new county of Riverside an ares o
zoos square miles, with o population o
1915. The assessed valuation of th
new county would be $12, 2,549, ia.
would extend from the Colorado rive
on the east to the Los Angeles and Or
ange county line on the west, ant
from the second standard parallel in Sai
Diego county on the south, 70 includ
500 square miles taken from San Ber
! nardino county en- the north. The new
county is to include the cities OF River
side, Aleesandro, Perris, San Jacinto
Elsinore, Murrieta, South Riverside and
West Riverside.
San Bernardipo county, with the 90
souare miles eliminated, would hav
70 .41O square miles left, population G
II. 352. an assessed valuation G
SIS, ,035 600. It would have 500 squar
miles of the choirest fruit, grain on
Found,
At the drug store, a valuable package
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