Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-28

The Emerson Realty company again
SHES its caster into the real estate
arena. They are the custodians of over
400 acres of the most beautiful land
in the San Gabriel valley, fifteen
minutes car ride from First and Main
streets.
Ramona Acres
Ramona Acres" is the attractive
name of scenic piece of land lying
directly south of Alhambra, and con-
sisting Of nearly 500 acres. The tract
certainly deserves an attractive name,
for a more attractive location could
not be found in all Southern California.
There is no attractiN feature about
any other spot in the whole southland
which Is not found at this point.
A Natural Garden Spot
The tract is supplied with an abund-
ance of the purest artesian water,
taken from depth of 400 feet under
the surface of the tract itself. These
artesian wells yield q supply. of 160
miners inches of this delicious water.
Scenic Attractions
There is no spot in all Southern Cali
fornia that presents a greater COM
bination of scenic beauty than this par
ticular tract of land. 1t lies on a high
mesa as level as the floor, 400 feet above
the San Gabriel river bed and about
the same distance below the absolute
foot of the mountains. The whole
course of the San Gabriel river from
the point where it breaks through the
hills at the old San Gabriel mission to
the point where it debouches from the
canyon at the foot of the mountains,
is in plain view in the middle ground.
The whole foreground from Ramona
n
and beautiful a landscape as the sun
in it's daily course looks down upon.
To the north rise the great San Ga
briel mountains in all their majestic
grandeur and the fascinating beauty
of their colorings. What q world of
beauty and enjoyment lies in this great
chain of rugged mountains! There are
no two points in the whole twenty
miles in view from Ramona Acres that
do not present scene of different
type. There are no two days in the
year when these mountains look alike.
There are not even two hours in any
day that scenes are not shifting and
changing, in sunlight or in shadow,
from the time the suns rays break
from the top of snow-capped San An
tonic until they sink behind the low
lying range of hills to the westward.
These westerly hills create one of the
Acres.
A Protected Section
At many times during the year, the
ocean winds coming in, even as far
as Los Angeles, are decidedly rude
and disagreeable. These low hills west
of this beautiful spot break these west
erly winds, making it sheltered in the
most stormy weather
Mountain Grandeur
Turning eastward again, hundred
miles away tower the snow-capped
peaks of San Jacinto and San Ber-
nardino mountains, and the whole great
chain lies dim and in the distance upon
the extreme horizon. 1t is not only in
the daytime that this great chain
of mountains fascinates the eye of
every person possessed of the least
germ of artistic taste. Weirdly, ghost
like, under moonlight or starlight, they
loom up in the distance with charm
that penetrates to the depths of the
soul.
Transportation Facilities
The San Gabriel valley is the scene
at this moment of the most wonderful
development in all Southern California.
H. e. Huntington, the man with
magic name, has bought up nearly the
network of rapid transit roads through
every part of the district, connecting
this beautiful valley by many lines
with the city of Los Angeles and with
all the beaches, from Santa Monica to
Newport. Just above Ramona Acres
the members of Mr.. Huntington's own
family and their friends are building
homes which for magnificence and the
beauty of the landscape effects being
created around them more than match,
they surpass, anything on the Hudson.
Immediately adjoining Ramona Acres
Mr.. Huntington has a tract of nearly
d thousand acres. His gang of rail-
road builders is at the present time
engaged in regarding the line of the
old San Gabriel valley rapid transit
road, which, passing directly by Ra-
mona Acres, continues easterly just
south of San Gabriel mission, through
El Monte, across the river to Covina
and Pomona. The time from the depot
at Ramona Acres to the business CEN
ter of Los Angeles for this line would
be fifteen minutes. The fare will be
scarcely anything. If it is anything,
more than city fare within the city
limits of Los Angeles.
RepTete With Improvements
Ramona acres is put upon the mar
ket In a way that will attract high
class of residents. The ground is
plotted into full acre lots, each 'front.'
ing a wide, level and beautiful street.
They have depth of about 300 feet.
The streets in front will be planted at
once with the choicest shade trees.
Water will be piped to every lot. Build
ing restrictions are of such a generous
amount that only the best class of set
tiers will be attracted to this beautiful
spot.
Consistent Prices
At a little distance from the railroad
depot these acre lots of beautiful, rich
soil, level as a table, on wide streets,
supplied with ample and absolutely
pure water, with an outlook upon all
this fascinating scenic beauty, are Of
ferad to the nuhlic at the very low price