The herald., 1897-04-18

j. H. Wildey and ID. J. MCCARTHY nave
recently added to their equipment TOT
conveying passengers, tourist and pleas
ure seeker up the grand canyon OF san
Gabriel during this summer. They nave
purchased a splendid, easy-riding, yet
strong. four-seated rig, to which a me
team will be attached and the trip VIII
be made daily from Azusa, starting on
the arrival of the Santa Fe train at IN
the morning, taking parties up through
the gorge to Potters, a distance of f1f-
teen miles. and at an altitude of 2200 rect
This splendidly equipped line will con-
meet with saddle and burro pack-trains
for the accommodation of all who wish
TO penetrate farther into the mountain
gorge Equipments and facilities for
canning will be maintained at Potter's.
nc also table accommodations and ev-
erything possible done to give comfort
and Measure to those travelling over this
line Last season Ex-Governor Mark
ham was conveyed in and out of the can
Won by this company and afterward re-
marked that he was never better treated
in his life. All charges will be reasona-
BILE.
COvINA
All that contributes to the general
prosperity and upbuilding of the San
Gabriel, valley will be shared by this
bright and picturesque little city. 1t Is
situated in the very center of the richest
fruit belt of the valley and is gaining in
business, wealth and population rapidly.
1t is assuming great Importance as a
fruit shipping point and is the head
quarters of company owning vast ir-
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eight years been making extensions of
the lateral distributing system in the
form of first-class cement and vitrified
pipe lines until today there are about
seven miles of main cemented bitches.
fifteen miles of open cemented laterals
and seven miles of pipe lines in the sys-
tenn. The postmaster reports SO 1-3 per
cent increase in the business of the Of
fee over last year which clearly indi-
Gates the prosperous condition of the
place.
Clustering around Covina are some of
the most beautifully improved ranches
in the state of California. One notices
here, too, the air OF thrift that surrounds
the homes of the owners of the hun
ireds of orange, lemon and olive groves
and cannot but be impressed with their
well doing and prosperity. The city is
beautifully laid out and well and SUBJ
built up. 1t has handsome
church edfices, a good bank of solid
standing, splendid and COM
nodious school house and progressive
social organizations. Several firms and
fruit shipping associations have large
packing and curing estab-
lishments here and many hundred car
loads of the finest oranges the world ever
saw are shipped yearly from the freight
depots of the place and sent to all parts
Of the Union. Lemons, too, are shipped
from here by the carload. one firm esti-
mating that it will ship upwards of fifty
for this season. The lemon as
we'll as the orange ie a very profitable
crop in this section and the growers
as a general rule are making well out
IF this industry Covina is famed far
and near for its luscious and prolific
crops of strawberries. Vaet beds are
-illed in and around the city and ship
ped to far away markets by the hun
lreds of tons. In the commercial field,
Covina is well conditioned, there being
fine, we'll stocked stores representing
all departments of trade. Also an ably
conducted weekly paper, the Covina Ar
gus, published by ]. L. Mathews. Covina
can boast of the best country roads lead
ing to the city or any town on the coast
While other towns have been talking
of good roads Covina has been making
them, and, as in this. public spirit and
enterprise is shown by its citizens when
ever anything for the good of the town
needs to be done. They are wise in this
as dusty roads and progressive
citizens discourage people looking for
pleasant places in which to make homes.
GLENDORA
About three miles east of Azusa on the
Santa .Fe system nestles the pretty viii