Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-06
COUNTY OWNS
MOUNTAIN ROAD
EXPERIMENT is A SUCCESS AT
SAN BERNARDINo
Southern California Baptist conven-
ton Is opened-Many Dele
gates Are In Attend
ance
ance

Special to The Herald.
SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 5.--The
county now owns free mountain road
from the valley to crest of the San
Bernardino mountain range north Of
the city. Several months ago the
county secured an option on the road
of the Arrowhead Reservoir company
for their road directly north of this
city, paying the sum OF $4,000. 1t was
agreed the county should have con-
troll of the road during the summer
until the option ran out, December 1.
The supervisors have now authorized
the closing of the purchase of the
road and the final payment of $4,000
has been passed to the former own
ers, which gives the county the title.
During the time the road has been
under control of the county as a free
road the travel has been many times
heavier than when 1t was a toll road.
1t has also had the effect of throwing
nearly all the summer resort business
to the west end of the mountain range
to the resorts in the vicinity of the new
free road.
Baptist Convention
The Southern California Baptist con-
Vention opened here today with large
attendance of delegates from all this
portion of the state, but the attend
ance of delegates is expected to be
much larger by tomorrow than today.
The address of welcome to the con-
vention was given by Rev. Mark b.
Shaw, pastor of the local church. the
response being by Capt. T. J. Lawler,
president of the convention, OF Riv-
erside.
This afternoon was devoted to the
pastors conference of which a feature
was the memorial service for the late
Rev. w. f. Taylor of Riverside, who
died about a month ago.
This evening the principal address
was by Rev. Robert J. Burdette. Other
speakers included Rev. c. G. Pierce,
Rev. G. A. Woody, d. D.. and Rev. A..
w. Rider.
Power Plant Total Loss
An examination of the ruins Of the
Mill street power house, burned last
night, shows there will be little in
the way of salvage to be secured from
the plant, the boilers and engines hav-
ing been rendered wo thless. The loss
amounts to more than $65,000. One of
the spectacular sights of the fire was
the burning of a great hole in one side
of the great water flume that fed the
water wheels at the power plant, per-
mitting great stream of water to
pour out into the burning building.
The destruction of the plant has
greatly crippled the company in fur
nishing power to this city and the
street car line between this city and
Redlands. While cars are kept running
they are not on schedule and will not
be for a day or two until other ar
rangementS can be made for power.
1t is expected the plant will be rebuilt
at once.
Get Japanese Pickers
The Highland orange district is con-
siderably stirred up by the introduce
tion of JapaneS orange pickers there
by the Highland Orange Growers as
sociation. The claim is that the Jap
anese labor can be depended upon to
do the work as 1t is desired, and will
injure less fruit than white pickers.
The latter are also hard to get, it is
claimed.
County Livestock Inspector w. E.
Phelps has returned from Needles,
where he has been looking after a
quarantine against Arizona live stock
because of an epidemic of CHAMBERS
among the horses in the western part
of that territory. Sixty-nine horses
have been killed just across the river
from Needles, and but two cases on this
Sue of the river and those got across
before the officials knew of the pres
ence of the epidemic and the dan
ger 1t is believed the disease will
Ia faN