The herald., 1893-10-12

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extended. The storage Of water in Bear
valley afterwards gave all that section
OF country water in abundance and to
spare.
Ontario. the model colony, followed
closely in the footsteps OF Redlands. en-
deavoring to improve on all other older
settlements. Its measure Of success and
extent is measured at the headgates of
its irrgating system. Double it's water
supply and you double its wealth. popu-
lation and prosperity. Again fruit and
water go hand in hand, converting the
desert OF yesterday into the garden of
today.
wATERLEss SAN DIEGO.
San Diego has less water in its flowing
streams than any other section of
Southern California, and hence has not
been able to keepup with the procession
which is converting arid wastes into
fruitful fields and jack rabbits into
oranges. The water is there bat in
more expensive form. 1t requires more
capital to store water than to divert a
stream, but when the capital is spent
the result is much more satisfactory.
San Diego has the soil and the uneur-
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water. and the people are securing the
capital to bring all the conditions into
position 30 that the future will see an
empire where the past has gazed upon
desolation.
Still more water being demanded,
storage reservoirs were resorted to to
supply the demand. Nearly ten years
ago the Bear Valley reservoir was
brought into existence. This was but
forerunner of what was to follow. and in
the next decade more land in Southern
California will be irrigated from storage
reservoirs than from all other sources
combined.
Soon after the Sweetwater reservoir,
IN San ID ego county, was built. Before
the building of that reservoir the San
Diego enthusiast was won't to proclaim
loudly what could be done without irri-
cation. After the reservoir was built
he proclaimed more loudly and with
much more satisfaction what could be
done with irrigation. A few tried the
n0-irrigation plan because of necessity,
but many afterwards tried the irriga-
tion plan because OF choice.
swEETwATER DAM.
Under the Sweetwater dam today
there is fourishing settlement -Chula
Vista-which is demonstrating to the
world that the American continent can
be supplied with as choice lemons from
Southern California as Can be grown on
the shores of the Mediterranean sea or
elsewhere.
Along the coast valleys in Orange and
Los Angeles counties the waters of all
the streams and the flows of thousands
of artesian wells have been utilized to
develop the natural resources OF the
naturally rich soils. Orchards of citrus
and deciduous fruits abound throughout
the lower Santa Ana valley, while north
of Anaheim and throughout the Los
Neitoa country, along the lower San
Gabriel and Now rivers in Los Angeles
county, the English walnut Ia grown to
perfection and in protusion.
SAN GABRIEL VALLEY.
The great San Gabriel valley has al
ways been noted for more land and better
climate than abundance of water. Those
who had but little water thought they
had too much. but when they got more
they concluded they hadn't enough.
The scarcity OF water at Pasadena years
ago gave rise to the docsrine of what
was facetiously called "dry irrigation :"
and later years that same phrase has
had an entirely different Specification in
that same locality. This dry irrigation
idea was forcefully proclaimed to assist
in building up those sections of the
country deficient in water supply; but
it ia noteworthy fact that the more
that the water was developed the more
the cry of dry irrigation ceased and the
average fruit growing citizen rapidly be-
came converted from the doctrine OF
sprinkling to that of immersion.
But there is better day in store for
that great valley in common with other
sections of Southern California. Storage
water will irrigate the future orchards
south of Tehachepi. There is enough
rainfall and enough storage capacity,
and enough capital, and enough Amer.
ican energy, to furnish good water
right to every acre of arabic irrigable
land in this end of the state, and the
child is now born who will see ga many
people in Southern California as there
are acres OF tillable land.
WITHOUT IRRIGATION.
1t was favorite theory with those
who had little or no water for irrigation
purposes to declare that the choicest
fruits were grown without irrigation,
and that the artificial application OF
water to the soil was detrimental to the
character of the fruit as regarded flavor
and shipping qualities. This doctrine
was declared 30 loudly, so positively, so
vigorously and 80 continuously, that the
public, to a great extent, began to be-
lieve it and oven the growers of irri-
gated fruits were sometimes inclined to
admit the truth of tho statements.
Such, however, are not the facts of the
case. 1t has been fully demonstrated
and proven that irrigated fruits are Just
as fine in flavor and ship just as well as
non-irrigated fruits, and that in flavor
they are much superior to fruit that is
produced without sufficient moisture in
the soil. There can be no doubt but that
too much moisture supplied to the or
chard or vineyard Injuries the flavor and
the chipping qualities of the fruit. The
lack of sufficient moisture has the same
effect.
The best results in the cultivation OF
fruits is to be had when enough mois-
ture is used and not too much, whether
euch moisture is supplied naturally or
artificially. In order to get the best re-
suit the moisture must be supplied art
ifieially If it ia not to be had in the
natural way.
With irrigation and an intelligent ap.
plication of water and cultivation, the
right amount of water can always be
had because the supply of water is al
Waye under the absoluto control of the