The herald., 1897-04-25

| follows:
| Morena reservoir. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 46, ,6OS
| Barrett reservoir ....................... 4io45
Lower Otay reservoir. r................... 4Z,lo
! Upper Otay reservoir. lo,SOo
| Total capacity.............. .151, SS7
| The Morena dam will be $50 feet high;
the Lower Otay dam, which is now
nearly completed, will be 100 feet high;
the Barrett dam will be ITS feet heyh.
! and the Upper Otay dam will be 120 feet
| high. The company will be ready to
| supply water for the season of 1898. The
city of San Diego voted to issue bonds to
the extent of s1,5O0,000 with which to
purchase from this system a continuous
flow of 1000 inches Of pure mountain
water. The legality of this bond issue is
now being contested in the courts, but
the works will be built regardless of the
result of that litigation. E. S. Bah
cock of the Coronado hotel is president
of the Southern California Mountain
| Water company, and the enterprise is
being backed financially by the Spreck-
| els.
The Puterbaugh enterprise is not yet
in shape for definite talk. 1t is proposed
| to convert a portion of the Warmers
ranch into a large reservoir to supply
| water for the country lying east Of
| Oceanside, including Fallbrook, Poway.
Bernardo and that section Of country.
The Linda Vista district comprising
| AZ, 900 acres of some of the choicest land
in the world, is now nearly ready %
commence active work on their irrigat-
| ing system. Major Jones, who is secre-
tary and practically father of the dis
trict, says that the bonds will soon be
| sold as several parties are now ready to
| invest in them, and that work will prob
ably be commenced on the system within
sixty days, and they will be ready to
| furnish water next season.
THE INTERIOR.
| Further back in the interior the work
| Of development goes steadily along. In
| the Julian country there Is taken from
| the earth quantities of gold and silver
| and the soil produces the finest apples
| grown in the world. Chester Gum ship
/ ped several carloads Of apples to market
the past season; and in this section of
higher altitude and greater rainfall irri-
cation is not necessary.
Ramona is comparatively new town,
situated about twenty miles inland from
Esconddo, and also the same distance
from Foster, the terminus of the Cuya-
maca railroad. This town supports a
| newspaper-the Sentinel, edited by
| Stanley B. Wilson.
| One of the most flourishing valleys
| Of the county is that of Escondido, which
| is coming to the front very surely under
| the stimulus of good water system.
This town has a good hotel, much bet
| ter one than is usually found in town of
Ill ~;o leo 6v,A taIy HI ierI, cot1A II
building that cost about 0,000-a build
| ing that was originally constructed for a
| college The town supports a number of
| good business houses, and is the trading
| point for large interior country. includ-
ing the Ramona and Julian districts,
| that ship annually over $50 carloads of
| apples, to say nothing OF other
productions. Escondido also has
| two good newspapers-the Times, edited
| by Charles X. Holmburg, and the Advo-
cate, edited by A d. Dunn. This valley
while devoted largely to fruit culture, has
as being quite rich.
FALLBROOK.
The town of Fallbrook is located near
| the terminus of the Fallbrook branch
of the Santa Fe system, just south of
| Temecula canyon. The rainfall In this
locality is generally sufficient for all
kinds OF crops and trees except the
orange and lemon, and these are doing
very we'll in some localities. The OBJ
server, published by M. NJ Moulton,
gathers and distributes the local news for
this section. Oceanside is seaside re-
sort on the surf line of the Santa Fe
system and the junction where the Fall
brook and Escondido branches unite
with the main line. The Blade is the
representative paper of the town, and
is ably edited by E. D. McGraw.
National City, having lost the railroad
shops and railroad influenNe, is on the
retrograde, but the Record, published
by Frank Grandier, is doing it's best tn
stem the ebbing tide.
Chula Vista, to the south of National
City, is one vast orchard-mostly lemon
The residences indicate a thrifty ana
intelligent population.
The work of development having fairly
commenced, San Diego county is destin-
ed to make rapid strides to the front un-
til it becomes one of the wealthiest and
most prosperous counties in the state
for 1t has the soil, the water and the cli-
mate as foundation and the right kind
of people to carve out just such fu-
ture.
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