The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-10-12

bJuxn Capistrano, showing the marks
oftime as you pass it by, with the
tower fallen, sanctuary bare, cloisters
ofgthe quadrangle rooAess and the
bones of forgotten padres lying be:
neath the roots of tangled shrubbery.
But the bells still hang in their raw
/ hide :lashings while the cross rises
|Hkte against the sky. A century has
rolled past and the ambitious and
once promising dream of monkish
rule has long since ended, but this
crunbling structure like some de-
throned king whose insistent claim to
royal function cloaks him with a GER
tain granduer, sits in silent state, too
venerable for disrespect and too au-
gust for pity; $50 says history,)
II. San Diego was largely built in 1887.
Though one of the Oldest places on
the coast, with the finest harbor in the
world, beautifully located with gentle
sloping streets to the har Dor. it has
only 10000 habitants, National City
just below on the bay, and Coronado
Beach with it's celebrated Hotel del
Coronado, altogether make about 25,-
IO0O. The Coronado Beach with the
Ehafbor on one side and the ocean on
1.-THE other is one of the most delight
ful spots on earth being one vast park
with the largest hotel in the United
States, covering eight acres of ground,
requiring seventeen and half miles
of carpeting. A place unique,
1aftistic and modern in appointments,
|where visitors have numerous ways IN
which to enjoy life, with pleasant days
and cool nights, hunting, fishing,
boating and driving, lawn tennis and
swimming baths with hot and cold
|salt water.
d The view from the dome of the
Ihotel is simply grand beyond descrip-
ltion, as you look out upon the blue
lwaters of the broad ocean and up and
l3down the bay with it's hundreds of
sailing craft, and there a large ocean
l.steamer just leaving or coming into
port. with the gentle slopes of the foot
hills, and rich valleys extending far
|up. to the base the mountains over
whose purple sides the vine.and olive
A / BEsllaI lasl 4 N sii M ill., 4;
San Diego, National City and Coro-
dado Beach. practically one), will
have population of 100000 inhabi-
tants. Los Angeles, thriving,
bustling city of $1,000, will soon reach
10000. This beautiful country; from
Los Angeles to San Diego, with its
large fine herds of cattle and horses.
large fields of grain and fine groves
of fruit, shows that the people have
come to stay, having faith in the
country, apparently happy and do
we'll.
About the first Of August I made a
trip up through Box Spring canyon
southeast of Riverside to San Jacinto
springs, through the great San Jacinto
valley. These springs are attracting
numerous invalids on account of the
curative effects of the hot mineral
water though lacking in hotel room
with modern comforts and conven-
iences. went from East Riverside
on a branch of the railroad running
from San Bernardino to Oceanside Oh
the coast, winding up through the
mountain pass several hundred feet
above the citrus belt, out into a fine
valley from 10 to 30 miles in width,
40 to so miles in longth, containing
100000 acres of fine farming and de-
ciduous fruit lands, with an artesian
belt of four to six miles in width on
the north side reaching to the base
of the mountains with it's one hundred
flowing wells of fine water. The larg-
est of these flows through a seven
inch pipe to the amount of one mil
lion, five hundred thousand, two hun
dred fifty gallons every "a house
throwing a stream through a two
inch pipe q feet high.
This is one the finest deciduous
fr,,;4 eactions have vet seen. hem