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Title: California south tehachapi..
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Southern Pacific company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (San Francisco)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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aisin district, and vastvineyards stretch away to the San Bernardino mountains. Declez winery and stone quarries, and Sansevain (good quailcountry hereabouts) are passed, and then Bloomington.ri nniwiwrmivi Bloomington is of growing importance as acuuumirsuiurN fru;t Center, with its olives and oranges. Nearhere hundreds of acres of canigre, a plant that grows wild inmany parts of Southern California, are being cultivated. Thisplant remarkable for its tannin qualities, is the successor to thefast-disappearing bark that is gone with the forests of hemlockand oak. CO! TON Colton, fifty-eight miles from Los Angeles, is a rail-m u uy road center of importance. Here the Southern Pa-cific Companys line between Riverside and San Bernardino, re-cently the subject of great improvements and for which moreare projected, crosses the main line of the Inside Track. Colton,besides being headquarters for many railroad men, has other ad-juncts of prosperity. A cannery gathers hundreds of hands from 25
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<..,:j/mmsi over the valley in the season. Granite and marble quarries, andperhaps most important of all, cement works of large capacity atSlover mountain, employ many men. The Colton terraceoranges are at the top in market quotations. Eastward from Colton, the main line of the Inside Track spansthe Santa Ana river, whose almost empty bed proclaims the theftof its mountain streams, passes superbly located Mound City,now becoming of importance as a fruit section, diverges from theSunset route at Redlands Junction, and in a few minutes the pas-senger is whirled through orange groves up toward tall mountaintops until the business center of Redlands is reached. 0 Almost at the eastern end of the Inside Track, REDLANDS under the brow Qf Mt gan Bernardino, lies Red-lands, a dozen years ago a barren red hillside; to-day a city of4000 people, with 8000 acres of citrus and 3000^ acres of deciduousfruits, and nurseries and land and water making orchards everyminute. Along the foot of the mou

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