The herald., 1897-12-05

is made possible by the intensity of cul-
tivation on one side and the canyon trade
on the other.
One of the most potent factors of its
development at present is the inaugura-
ton of a vast system 1f power works in
the San Gabriel canyon, where the San
Gabriel Power company now has 800 men
employed in constructing a conduit
through which to bring the whole flow
i of the river to a point above town about
one mile and there discharge it through
immense wheels into the irrigating
bitches, generating 45O0 horse power for
electric purposes. This enterprise will
be completed next spring.
Other power propositions of equal i'm
portance are under way farther up the
river and will materialize in due time.
| In the short space at command many
interesting points must be omitted, but
it may be said that every resident of
Azusa has a lively faith in the future
of the place, and it may be numbered as
one of the most prosperous and progress
sive of all the towns of Southern Califor-
mia.
COVINA
No amount of paragraphing. nothing
Out IL lOHS NlSIl dIlu d CIOSt Sluuy OIL lIe
prospects and accomplishments of this
giant young community can produce a
fair impression of Covina and it's eX-
tensive fruit industries. Orange groves
on every side, reaching for miles in ev-
cry direction, and running to the very
| doors of the business houses, is the guer-
don of the future of this prosperous Sec
ton Covina is one of the few towns in
| Southern California that knew not the
unhealthy stimulus of the boom days.
Then a quiet village, it's surrounding
farms incubating the now famous Or
ange groves, the town experienced
neither the TRANSMISSION of unstable in
vestments nor the consequent lapse
when the fitful fever of speculation be-
gan to subsde.
Some of the residents of that section
when the boom craze was epidemic We're
wise enough to plant and cultivate navel
I orange trees. The soil and climate
proved the wisdom of the choice and to-
day the town presents platoon of pack
/ ing houses and crop of fruit to fill them
dozens of times that verifles the faith of
the people in their choice of products.
There is no place in the state theoret-
ically better suited to the cultivation of
citrus fruits or more abundantly able to
verify it through practical results. Five
hundred carloads of oranges is a fair
estimate of this seasons output, or more
than the entire valley produced last sea-
son.
The soil at Covina is a deep, warm
loan, tilted toward the sunshine, filled
with the elements that go to make
growth and fertility in plant life, and
inexhaustible in its depths.
At Covina is a famous orange orchard
of forty acres that has this season, at
the lowest estimate, packed $1,000 boxes
of fruit. The majority of these trees
have not been irrigated for years, though
the land has plenty of water at its COM
mand. and some of them have never
been irrigated
Covina is attaining favorable notice as
a lemon growing section, and all kinds
of fruits flourish and become profitable
in this locality; in fact. this town claims
with truthfulness to be the center of the
fruit growing interests of the East San
Gabriel valley.
The town of Covina received a new i'm
pulse through the building of the South
ern Pacific railroad, and is rapidly be-
coming q business place of importance.
Brick blocks have been built, roads
graveled and a domestic water system
extended and perfected. The town has
large number of modern residences, a
flourishing banking institution. the only
complete and commodious public hall