New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-11
AMONG RIVERSIDE GROVES.
FEATURES OF AN INTERESTING ORANGE
GROWING COLONY.
ONE OF THE SHOW PLACES OF SOUTHERN CALL
roRNIA-woNDERFUL DEVELOPMENT IN TEN
yr.Rs-BARREN MESA LAND TRANS
FORMED INTO GARDENS.

..o,>,, WONDERFUL DEVELOPMENT IN TEN
yE.Rs-BARREN MESA LAND TRANS
FORMED INTO GARDENS.
Riverside Cal. october %.
riverside is the best-advertised pace III 0ou'h
Avn california. 1t put It's name on the MAYER
90 which have gone over all the world: 1t de-
,as itself and with good reason, TO be the most
ocsssf,l colony California, ana IL also lays
- ., having solved most completely the problem
:, nrov,dlng good homes In Il community OF culture
"a refinement with the best facilities Tor educa-
49, md with every disagreeable and VICIOUS feature
>, american village town life eliminated. Ih-se
.y seem extravagant Claims. put any carelui
~..-,,.r who will make a study Of Riverside VIII
-. that they are justified. In no otner coon!
"a ~ this State is the same spirit shown as in
w. unless IL be IN Pasadena, which however,
,.os .he stranger winter resort Tor rlch hleii
',ssie on the contrary, has every appearance vi
w.. a business town, even the SHOW PAGES OF
p' ',o,ros being surrounded by groves OF WashnS-
,on navel orange trees
Ton mo- ,s evident at a glance that the founders laid
=. chic Mace for a city OF homes. All the puiiu-
~ lois are spacious, most of the older ones pehs
ne - tn size Since land has increased In value
wv ~. io,s have been subdivded but none can
-. o Nth less than fifty feet of frontage or OF
-, dn,b than $50 feet. Through many OF the main
'..oo,s mass the open rriga;iAg bitches, the Gear
80 sashing in the bright sunshine. Home y
va, n, every one of these houses shaded by
,.no,,as fan palms, grevas. peppers orange
.raa and ornamental shrubs. Existence mere among
orge groves and the perennial sunshine APP
Wv a. combine the best features OF city ana OF
u,asa lfe There is 10 provinciaIsih because ''oSI
80 ,,,s have travelled widely. The standard
- 0,I,ure aud refinement is high. but at the same
,,,o there is an absence of many stih conventional
49,, and life flows on in easier currents thah
tho EaC
s.,ools clubs lectures. societies for reading I'M
,snt and recreation. there is no lack OF scope
tr the most energetic. When twenty acres IN
oranges which may be cultivated oy one man. VIII
,rcduce an average income OF Sn year. - II
,v wonder that the families OF Riverside nave ie'S-
,ra FOR study reading recreation ana socia peas
IRE which is the dream anu the ueSP''' - ''' -
,unately situated people,
REMARKABLE TRANSFORMATION.
tn one who drives through the shaded avenues
n Riverside and notes the superb orange anu "e
,oss towering far above the roofs of the houses IL
ssen,s scarcely credible that twenty-three years
ago this garden-spot was a dreary' pdIFe" pam,
known among those who used the ROAD 'ha' p"sSeu
,hrough il as the most windswept spot lot ieas"es
around The beauty of It's outlook on the SHOW
ca,,ed San Eernardino Mountains and It's proN-
,n,,v 10 the Santa Ana River commerdcd 'he p'dNe
a. ~ f,nndars who came mainly from the Misss-
si,ni Valley States. These men had the usuaI haru
fortune of pioneers. When they settled mere III Io'I
and began 10 plant their twenty-acre uac's' "a e
and the raisn grape were the faVortes VIII. ''''.
fo-nla hortcu.tursts so these two were P'aii'e''
The fig has never been product thar coulu oe nan
d,ad with proft here because the California grower
re r,rad To acquire the skill in packing OF the
SMYRNA dealer The raisin also was voted n iaI-
ure AT the outset because the process OF curing was
not scientific, as /; IS to-day
IA the men who planted figs and vines rooted up
and burned them. and started in afresh WIZ" inc
huddel navel orange. They were laugheu d' ny
those who had grown the seeding ORANGE az ."
and other places. They were tod mat
,b,s now and tender variety would never endure the
occa sional frosts But the great majority were
shre,yd enough 10 see the immense prospective mar
ket for a sweet. juicy orange without seeHs, anu
their good judgment was soon denioistId'eu' '"
il was proved that the orange oouid De uepeli"eA
un,n in GOOD season and bad. TO produce s-oo "
- 80 oh,,., all expenses there great rush
=, liant il, Young trees only two years old actuahy
so,d az high as $50 each and for several seasons
p.ve, lei below 81 tree. Nurseryrneh maue io''-
unss while this orange boom lasted NO" you HAY
brv the choicest young orange trees Tor - cents
n N and the standard price is 10 cents. Yet the
naming IN the great boom years was not so great
az row. when values have settled to reasohsoie
laval and the craze for speculation in town lots
has become only a memory.
I; is ten years since the writer saw RverSide'
and the changes made in this decade are eHous"
TO make one doubt the accuracy OF MS SENSES III
1884 Riverside had just been incorporated az cl'!
II, nonn,ation was 800 and its property was valued
at s16DODO Il had just begun to es'apiish rtPu-
,a,,or ,s one OF the best orange growing sections
NJ California Now is population - ',1O anu It's
assessed valuation IS over 100000. Last year i
became the county seat OF the new count! VI
Riverside Its shipments Of oranges average
a 5oo 900 year Ii has forty-siX miles OF main
IfphD and
canals and over 100 miles OF lateral d'tcheS ana
plpes one entire suburb. which ten years ago was
a barron rnes, has been transformed by artes.an
wells into a gorlen The same system OF develop
mon, is going on ali around Riverside ana II Dds
fair IN few wears 10 make this roihhg P'd'h D.
tween the coast range and the San Bernardlno
Mountains ore continuous orange grove ana VINE
yard.
THE CROP STEADILY GOOD.
Riverside is forty mics from the ocean as the
crow flies and sixty miles due east from Los An
geles 1t lies at altitude OF 1000 feet above sea
Level The ocean breezes reach it every afternoon,
excep; in the fall. when the trade WINDS iail 10
blow The mountains, only thirty miles away make
the nights cool and pleasant IL Is removed from
the main lines Of railroad travel, yet 1t Is closely
connected with both the Southern Pacific and the
Santa Re systems In winter there is an occasional
frost that damages the oranges but these Disasters
are not 60 freqient or 30 serious as IN Florida.
4 drive through Magnolia-ave. gives the stranger
the best idea OF Riverside and the causes OF IT'S
The name OF this drive is a misnomer'
though IL Is beautifully shaded by peppers. euca-
lyptus fan-pams and grevillas. there IL almost an
entire absence of the magnolia, which failed 10
flourish This avenue 10 lined with three rows Of
trees one on each side and In the centre.
These trees have reached a height OF thirty
feet and cast delightful shade upon the hard.
smooth road Upon either side arc orange groves,
that come almost 10 the artificial stone Sidewalk.
Few division fences even hedges are seen. one
passes house after house built in the od-fashioned
Southern style with verandas around three sides,
and with roses and other plants climbing over the
doors and windows. a few places have lawns and
ornamental shrubs. but in the great majority every
Bit OF land has been utilized Yet the beauty of the
foliage OF the orange. relieved as II Is during sew
eral weeks by the golden fruit. makes even the