Identifier: overrangetogolde00wood (find matches)
Title: Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Wood, Stanley
Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Guidebooks Pacific States -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Chicago : R.R. Donnelley & Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nd as a result the town is making rapid and large improvement. Canning factories are established here, and the shipments of prepared fruitand fruit in its natural state are something extraordinary. The surrounding coun-try is of unsurpassed fertility, and a drive of half a day through the never-endinggroves of orange trees and in the midst of most entrancing scenery will convinceone that Colton has every requisite for becoming a large and flourishing city. Itis surely a most delightful place of residence. Fast Riverside is the station for Riverside, reached by a branch line. South Riverside, on the Southern California Railway, 15 miles southwestof Riverside, is remarkable for the beauty of its situation and the symmetry of itsdesign. The projectors of this delightful town had original ideas and the town-site is exactly circular in form. Fruit raising is one of the leading industries,while manufacturing is receiving a great deal of attention and has already beenfirmly established here.
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VIEW IN SAN ANTONIO CAMpN, ONTARIO, CAL. TO THE GOLDEN GA TE. 203 RIVERSIDE. The Orange Grove City of Southern California. Washington has been wittily denominated thecity of magnificent distances, but here in SouthernCalifornia we have found a city equally as deserv-ing of that characterization. Riverside manages tocover twenty-five thousand acres, and this greatextent of territory has upon it between three andfour thousand inhabitants. But did ever anyonebehold a more beautiful sight than this orchard city, reclining in the midstof orange groves, its magnificent avenues lined with ornamental trees, amongwhich the oriental palm is most conspicuous, its artistic villa residences surroundedwith grounds in which the care of the landscape gardener, can be seen, itsfine business blocks of brick and stone, its handsome hotels and its surroundingvineyards making it a perfect bower of beauty. Resuming our journey on the main line from East Riverside, we pass throughBox Springs, Alessandro and

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