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STREETS AND SEWERS.
Great During Ok Past Y*ar—Tkwoughfarea Which Were
Graded and Paved—Sidewalks Laid and Sewers Built.
The march of improvements in Los |
Angeles has been wonderfully rapid in
the past few years. When it is consid
ered that a few years ago there were
practically no graded streets here, and
but few sewers, and that up to within
less than four years there were no pave
ments in the city, it is a remarkable fact
that there are today -over seventy-five
miles of graded streets <and nearly eight
miles of paved streets. The grading and
paving of these thoroughfares haa caused
an outlay of money amounting in the*g
VROOMAN ACT. —GRADING, GRAVELING AND CURBING.
STREET.
TOTAL COST. •
Orange
Kast Kdgewnre road —
Farragut '
Countr 1
Alvarado
Calumet
Ward
Grand
Alta
Sepal veda
nm
Alno
lama. Drive
Hesond street
Arnold
First street
Bis el
Flower
Hancock
Los Angeles
Bailey
Bellevuo
Brent
Jefferson
Kdgeware road.!
Third
Ward
Patrick
0110114 Vista
Sixth
Twenty-third I
Fourth j
: M ott and E
Ward and.
Pine and a
md Alvarado
11 avenue and Waters
ith and Ward
rt and Belmont —
and west city line
ware and Waters
•ado and Park View
I and Fourth
iey and Hawkins
eda and Lafayette
md Matthews
ngelee river and Angle
and Arch
section of Belmont
. drive and Columbia
and Evergreen
and Arnold
and a point 225 feet south
iey and George
15,653.57
3,090.84
2,841.18
1.345.37
15,310.69
1,322.00
8,159.94
827.98
1,053 01
1.297 32
32200
4,344.00
3,530.27
202.77
1,319.67
2,309.64
4.731.10
472.20
1,92 >.16
3,774 02
530.62
15,509 15
1,549.03
3,864.84
2 832 04
4,312.98
489.55
351.86
0.907.35
4,331.50
1,077.62
784.11
eda and Commercial
and Pennsylvania,
dry and l.omitas
vuonnd Temple
and Figueroa
>le and Court
I arid Beaudry.
I a*! Farragut
:ock and 150 feet west
ip road and River
V
s and Witmer
and Maple
tta& tics Angeles
——
Total
110.984.85
GRADED AND CURBED STREETS—PRIVATE CONTRACT.
STREET.
FKKT.
Sentous street
I'atton street.
San Julian street
Tenth street
Ward street ...
Scarff street —
Lopez street
Twenty-third street
Twenty-secoed street
Eighth street
Hope street
Adams street
Maple street —
San Pedro street
Belmont air: Silver streets
Pico to Eleventh
remple to Bellvuc auenue.
Fifth to Seventh
N.n Julian to Maple avenue
Bixel to Lucas avenue
twelfth to Adams
Uiso to Pennsylvania
roberman street west .
Hgueroa to Grand avenue
irand avenue to Pearl street
riiird to Fourth
tiara to Los Angeles
■Jinth to Twelfth
i'ifth to Pine
ntersection
1,004.00
423.00
1,375.00
085.00
540.00
1.044.00
339.00
235.O0
1.1S5.00
l.lSu.OO
008.00
2.444.00
1.745.00
6,428.00
65.00
19.3W.00
Total I
PAVING —VROOMAN ACT—GRANITE BLOCKS.
BETWEEN WHAT STREETS.
SQ. FEET. I TOTAL COST.
First street |
Los Angeles am i First, int
-.Second > street
Total
I Witt to Garey street
tin to Los Angeles— privtte c'nct
$ 1,062.50
908.40
1.087.00
* 3,057.90
I
PORPHYRY.
Walters, street
[Walters street
New High stree;
New High street
Total
New High to Buena Vista street...
|Alamedaro Upper Main street
I Uplne to Marchessault street
$ 992 53
1,240.81
10.509 64
8,708.00
»lpine to Marchessault street
Temple to Marchessault, st—priv.c't
<21,5IO 98
New High street
Mott alley
Temple street
'_ .
■
BITUMINOUS LIME ROCK.
Franklin to Temple street
Intersection of First street
Spring to Grand avenue
* 7,230.03
124.52
15,731.90
.Total
SIDEWALKS—VROOMAN ACT.
Manhattan street
Requena street
Orange street...
Requena street. —
Hill street,
Washington street
.Figueroa stree'. ....
Figueroa street.,
•Olive street
Rosas street
Twelfth street
Adams street
nd avenue to Figueroa street.
Angeles t* Wilmington street.
rl to Loomis street
mis to
ond to Pico street
ueroa to city line.
o to Washington street
eison to Washington.
BETWEEN WHAT POINTS,
LIN. FEET.
SQ. FEET.
TOTAL COST.
$ 320.03
930.71
541.08
709.81
3,758.30
2,017.03
2,779.00
3,931.89
27S.49
728.91
797.01
72.19
h to Sixth street
levue to Alpine street
in to San Ped«o street
nd avenue to figueroa street
son to Wash
to Sixth str
vue to Alp::
to San Pedi
1 avenue to
i,:
p
Total .
17,340.50 123,153.50
J17.532.31
Cement walk
PRIVATE CON'TKACT.
29,400.00
If 4,500.00
Total I
128.:
STORM DRAINS AND ZANJAS.
There are over seventeen and a
quarter miles of zanjas in operation in
the .city, the cost of which was about
$137,600, and they are not only used for
irrigating purposes, but scwne of them,
also, for the conveyance of storm water,
the etormwater drains proper, most of
which are built of cement pipe, being
only about four miles long, and costing
$26,104. During the past year but little
was accomplished in the way of extend
ing or improving the storm drains or
zanjas, not more than one and a half
ZANJAS AND STORM DRAINS.
NAME.
DESCRIPTION.
Zanja Madre
Zanja Madre
Zauja it E
Zanja 0 It
Zanja 8 R
Zanja No 3
Zauja 8 R
Zanja No. 5
Zanja No. 7.
Zanja No. 0-1
Storm drain.
Nichol's ditch
Woolen Mill ditch
ne
k arch aear liuona Vista street
tie acrots the Los Angeles river
le Heights
Igueroa street and 218 feet of conduit. .
tral ave
Washington street
efferson street
le Heights ;
1 street, near Temple, ,
a Street, between Railroad and Elmvra sts.
catch basins
ige street
ltd street
l.t
1,
1.1
l.t
3x0
22 in'.'
10 in
22 in.
22 in.
10 in.
10 in.
30 in.
$ 431 73
! 400.05
1,293.75
93H.89
877.50
358.31
530.40
050.00
170.52
800.00
83.00
30 in.
9U In'.
22 iu.
Total
0,800.15
The receipts from the various zanjas
for the year, as taken from the zanjero's
annual report, are as follows:
Zanja No. 1 t 1.003 50
Zanja No. 2 2,331 00
ZanaNo. 3 V,033 00
Zanja No. 4 2,122 50
Zanja No. 5 1,969 50
Zanja Xo. 0-1 .... 80 50
Zanja No. 7 309 00
Zanja No. 8-K 2,051 00
Z.njaNo. 9-E 950 00
Zanja No. 9-R 194 50
Zanja <:. and X 307 50
KaajaN.SU 94 00
Total *14,172 00
The zanjero recommends that some
thing be done in order to abandon that
portion of zanja No. 7, along the bluff
> f:om Macy street, and the supplying of
water for irrigation from reservoir No. 5,
zanja 8-R, as the cost of repairing and
maintaining the present ditch is very
great, necessitating the building of a
dam every year near the covered bridge
and the opening up, some years, of the
entire ditch. Especially is this the case
after a very wet winter.
Owing to the deepening of the channel
of the river at Macy street, it will be
more expensive every year to build a
dam at that point, and the demand for :
irrigating water at Boyle Heights being
quite limited, zanja 9-R can be made to ,
THE LOS ANGELES HERALD: THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1, 1891.
gregate to $1,126,700, and has given em
ployment to thousands of people.
Of this work, 11.46 miles of street have
been graded during the past year, at a
cost of $171,184.66, or 15 per cent, of that
done in previous years; and four-fifths
of a mile of streets have been paved, at
atwstof $48,261.93.
There are, all told, about 76 L g miles of
paved sidewalks in the city, which were
laid at a cost of $891,000; and 42 miles of
curb have been laid at a cost ot about
$104,000.
The following is a list of tfce year's
improvements:
. miles of both being built, all told. This,
Ii however, cost $0,^06.15.
The construction of storm drains large
j-enough to carry off the immense vol
| umes of water which accumulate every
] rainy season, was opposed by the peo"
ple, on the ground that there was no
necessity for them. As a matter of fact,
however, the amount of damage done by
the storm water every winter amounts in
a very few years to more than this work
would cost, and it is undoubtedly only a
question of time before ithe work is car
ried out.
The following table shows the amount
of new woik performed during the year:
supply all the land irrigated at present
from No. 7 in the city.
ZANJAS.
Following is a list of the zanjas:
~ . feet. Cost.
Zanja Madre 1,231 f 5,034 10
Brooklyn street 1,200 504 OO
Nicblos ditch 0.964 7,312 20
JehVrson street 1.100 093 00
Woolen mill 7,172 8 304 20
Bust Side .. 7,449 17,055 92
Supply pipe 19,355 23,992 81
/anja No. 4 0,474 11,523 72
Washington 2,507 2,300 44
Main street 5,108 4,099 30
Zanja No. 5 4,211 7,158 70
Central avenue 2,407 4,284 40
Zanja 0 1 8,772 10,071 07
Zanja 8 k 13,621 14,972 08
Zanja Madre 3,670 12,404 00
Total 91,241 $130,977 41
SEWERS.
There are nearly twenty-one miles of
sewers in operation in the city, draining
the principul business portions of the
city, located west and south between
Virgin and Seventh streets, and east and
west between Los Angeles street and
Grand avenue. During the past year
about nine and one-half miles of main
and intercepting sewers have been built
by the city bonds, and over three miles
of lateral sewers have been constructed t
under the Vrooman act, principally in
the College-street hill district.
The Arroyo de los Reyes main sewer
has been completed, at a cost of $40,991,
of which $23,970 was for pipe and $17,021
for labor and manholes.
The western intercepting sewer is
i completed to about one-half of its
length, that is to say, from Jefferson
street to Pico street, and has cost
$26,880.53. of which $17,387.02 was for
pipe and the balance for labor and man
holes.
About one-fourth of the southern in
terceptor has been built, viz., from
Grand avenue to San Pedro street,
where it meets the present outfall sewer.
So far it has cost $10,357.46, of which
the cost of the pipe amounted to
$7,202.40.
Only two sections of the central in
terceptor have been built; but it has al
ready cost $94,964.60 for material and
labor. The rest of the sewer, with the
exception of one and a half miles, between
Mission and Sixth streets, for which no
arrangements have yet been made, is
contracted for and will soon be com
pleted, as will also the Mozart street
main sewer, which is under construc
tion.
Ground has not yet been broken for
the Hollenbeck arroyo main sewer, but
it is to be hoped that the existing
difficulties, which have prevented
its construction, will soon be overcome
so that the drainage of the territory
on Boyle Heights need not be delayed
when the main system is ready for the
reception of itssewnge.
The problemstill remains to be solved,
as to the disposition of the sewage when
all these 6ewers, for which bonds were
issued last year, are completed. It will
be remembered that the question of
building an outfall fewer to the sea, was
submitted to the people in March last,
and by them defeated.apparentiy for the
reason that the expense to bo incurred
thereby was too great.
The city engineer in his annual report
for the past year lays before the council
the following proposition for the tem
porary relief of the city:
The route for this outfall sewer is
practically the same as that of the plan
of 1887, "through Inglewood. It will,
however, not be able to deliver all the
sewage which the interior system can
carry to it, but it will suffice for a popu
lat ion of 100,000 inhabitants, and can be
built for $250,000. He advises the con
struction of this sewer as planned by
the engineering the
southwest corner of the city to the in
tersection of Wesley and Santa Monica
avenues; thence in as direct a line as
possible to Hyde park station. This
section to be of steel pipe, 3-16 of an inch
thick, and 36 inches in diameter, under
a maximum pressure of 20 feet. Thence
to Inglewood, the sewage would be con
ducted in in a cement pipe by gravity;
thence through Inglewood to a point
some distance away, in another steel
pipe of the same dimensions, but under
a maximum pressure of 30 feet; thence
in an open ditch to the ocean.
Whether or not satisfactory arrange
ments for this route can be made with
i tne property owners along the line re
| mains to be seen ; but as the sewage can
. be used for the irrigation of from 4000
■ to 6000 acres of sandy laud en route, and
in rainy weather can be turned into the
ocean, there is no reason why they
i should be averse to it. Of course
the sewage would have to be cairied
, into the ocean through an iron pipe ior
some distance, but 1000 feet would be
1 ample at the beach beyond Inglewood.
Steel pipe is advocated because it
cheapens the construction considerably,
as it can be laid under pressure, and.
; therefore practically in a straight line,
thus shortening the distance. The
sewer can be kept perfectly clean by
turning into it the surplus river water
at Sixth, street, thus creating an esti
mated maximum velocity of four feet
per second.
The following table shows the amount
of work done during the past year :
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IN GOOD SHAPE.
The City Fire Department Well
Organised.'
Its Present Status and Scope—The Rec
ord for the Year—The Fire Alarm
System and the Locat ion of the Boxes.
Of all the departments under the con
trol of the municipal authorities, per
haps no one is of more importance to
the general public than that which is
maintained for the sole purpose of pro
tecting property from the ravages of
fire; nor is there one which more justly
deserves to be congratulated upon the
good work it has uniformly performed
throughout the past year.
The Los Angeles fire department,
which is ditectly under the control of a
board of fire commissioners appointed
by the city council, which acts in con
junction with tho mayor, consists of
seventy-six men, all told. This number
includes a chief engineer, an assistant
chief, an electrician, seven engineers,
sixteen expert drivers, nine foremen, a
pipeman, a tillerman for the book and
ladder truck, and thirty-nine callmen ;
of these twenty-eight are permanently
entployed by the department at salaries
ranging from $60 to $175 per month, the
other forty-eight "callmen" receiving a
remuneration of front $20 to $25 per
month each, for their services, which
seldom interfere with their duties else
where.
The men are divided into nine com
panies which are stationed in various
parts of the city as follows i
Engine Company No. I—Located on
the corner of Pasadena avenue and Hoff
street, East Los Angeles. Is equipped
with a second-class Amoskeag engine,
drawn by two horses, and a two-whoel
hose cart, drawn by one horse, carrying
800 feet of hose. Foreman, engineer,
two drivers and fonr callmen.
Engine Company No. 2 —Located on
Sixteenth street, near Grand avenue.
Equipped with a second-class Amoskeag
engine, drawn by two horses, and a hose
cart, drawn by one horse, carrying 800
feet of hose. Foreman, engineer, two
drivers and four callmen.
Engine Company No. 3—Located on
"West Third street, between Main and
Spring streets. Equipped with a
■second-class Amoskeagengine, drawn by
two horses, and a hose cart, carrying
800 feet of hose, drawn by one horse.
Foreman, engineer, two drivers and
four callmen.
Engine Company No. 4 —Located at
the Pla/a. Equipped with a second
class Alliens coil engine, drawn by two
horses, and a hose cart carrying 800 feet
of hose, drawn by one horse. Foreman,
engineer, two drivers and four callmen.
. Engine Company No. 5— Located on
Ninth street, near Alain street. Equipped
with aseeond-class Ahrens engine drawn
by t ,vo horses, and a hose cart carry ing 800
feet of hose, drawn by one horse. Fore
man, engineer, two drivers and four
callmen.
Engine Company No. 6—Located on
Virginia avenue, Boyle Heights.
Equipped with a second-class Ahrens
engine, drawn by two horses, and a
hose cart carrying 800 feet of hose,
drawn by one horse. Foreman, engi
neer, two drivers, and four callmen.
Engine Company No. 7 —Located on
Temple street, near the cable power
house. Equipped with a second-class
Ahrens coil engine, drawn by two horses;
' and a hose cart carrying 800 feet of hose,
•drawn by one horse. Foreman, en
gineer, two drivers and four callmen.
Park Hose Company No. I—Located1 —Located
on South Spring street, near Fifth.
Equipped with a new four-wheel hose
carriage with all the latest modern im
j provements, carrying 1000 feet of hose,
! drawn by two horses. Foreman, driver
| and five callmen.
Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 —
i Located on Aliso street, near Alameda
street. Equipped with a Hayes exten
sion ladder truck complete, drawn by
two horses. Foreman, driver, tillermah
and six callmen.
One of the most interesting branches
of the department is that by which an
! alarm is given when a fire occurs. The
system now in use in this city is known
as the Interstate Fire Alarm system,and
it has so far proved a very satisfactory
one. It consists of an electric battery of
146 cells, which are stored in the base
ment of the city hall building, which is
connected by over thirty miles of wire
stretched upon over 500 poles, with for
[ ty-two boxes placed at various points in
different parts of the city, with every
engine house, and with the huge alarm
bell, which weighs 2100 pounds and is
suspended in the tower of the city hall.
Each box is numbered so as to distinguish
it from its fellows, and by a system of
intricate machinery the electric current,
by the simple pressure of a button in
side the box, not only causes the big
bell to toll out the number three times,
bat also rings a gong and sets a register
at work which piints the number of the
box on a tape that there can be no
mistake, in each of the engine houses,
and the chief's office.
During the past year a number of new
boxes have been placed in various parts
of the city, of a new patent known as
the "non-interfering," and itis probable
that in the near future all the boxes will
be replaced by them. The chief advan
tage to be gained thereby is
that when two alarms are turned in
at the same moment, the bell
will not ring out both numbers together,
thus making them both unintelligible,
as is the case with the old style, but will
ring each number alternately.
The brigade was called out 173 times
during the past year, and of that num
ber 15 were false alarms. The losses
by fire and water during the past twelve
months aggregate nearly $70,000, al
though the largest individual loss did
not, exceed $10,000.
The following statement shows the
number of fires which occurred in each
month, with the estimated losses in
curred therefrom:
1890. No. Fires. Estim'd Loss.
January 11 * 7,040
February 10 5,700
March 10 2,100
April 9 3,150
May 6 1,550
June 17 8,600
July 26 7,850
August 14 6,800
September 16 4,800
October 15 7,950
November 15 10,8«0
•December... 13 8,500
Totals. 158 $75,440
*.\'ot official.
The locations and numbers of the va
rious alarm boxes are as follows:
5. Downey avenue and Truman.
0. Mozart and Workman.
7. Don ney avenue and Johnston.
8. Daly and Hoff.
12., Pine and Grand avenue.
13. Main and Ninth.
14. ' Main and Washington.
15. Olive and Ninth.
10. Pearl and Ninth.
17. Olive and Twelfth.
21. Bellevue avenue and New High.
23. San Fernando and Sotello.
24. Buena Vista and College.
26. Main and Alameda.
26. Main and San Fernando.
31. Spring and Second.
32. Main and First.
34. Third and Los Angeles.
36. Main, opposite Commercial.
36. Requena and Los Angeles.
37. Franklin and Spring.
41. Fifth and Wall.
42. Los Angeles and Seventh.
43. Sixth and Olive.
45. Fifth and Spring.
46. Sixth and Pearl.
47. Third and Main.
51. Third and Bunker Hill avenue.
52. Temple and Bunker Hill avenue.
53. Temple street engine house.
54. Temple and Union avenue.
50. Second and Belmont avenue.
57. Bellevue avenue and Montreal.
61. Philadelphia brewery.
62. First and Alameda.
63. Commercial and Wilmington.
64. Alameda and Aliso.
05. Turner and Vignes.
71. Santa Fe depot.
72. S. P. Arcade depot.
81. Twenty-first and Figueroa.
121. First and Lazarovich.
123. Macy and Anderson.
There are also in connection with the
department about three hundred hy
drants, in various parts of the city.
THE COUNTIES.
Their Acreage and Total Value of
Property.
A List of County Dimension* and Valua
tion* which will Furnish Intereatlng-
Points of Comparison.
The following figures giving the acre
age and property valuation of each
county in California, is taken from the
j Teport of the state controller, for the
year ending June 30,1890. The state
ment of Los Angeles county given in the
report is herewith given in full:
No. Acres Total value
of Land, of all Prop.
Alameda 4:18,320 78,209,170
Alpine. 34,389 272,784
Amador 251,083 4 233,087
Butte 759,000 19,242,934
Calaveras 369,480 4,330.857
Colusa 1,170,280 24.290,580
Contra Costa 460,434 1,552,354
Del Norte 280,23 m 1.888,931
I El Dorado 309,388 3,798,747
! Fresno 2,108,668 37,410.557
Humboldt 1,207,372 18,030,202
Inyo 144,493 1.517.030
Kern 1,179,124 11,977,528
1-ake 271,551 3,847,353
; Lassen 347,181 2,504,319
| Los Angeles 983,497 09.475.02S
! Marin 304.751 11,410,412
Mariposa 338.285 1,891,407
I Mendocino 1,254,058 11,033,005
Merced 1,070,485 14,071,939
Modoc, 378,737 3,083.085
Mono 89153 915,723
I Monterey 140,887 13,943,715
Napa 381,996 14,887,827
Nevada 315,611 5,911,408
Orange 425,978 9,572.809
Plumas 308,897 2,393,209
Placer 412,230 10,109,007
Sacramento 606,005 33,311,952
San Benito. 433,190 0,150,211
San Bernardino 059,0i5 22,490,440
San Diego.... 1,408,194 30,1 9,872
San Francisco 27,000 301,559.510
San Joaquin 870,023 38,230,488
San LuisObispo 1.340,339 13,007,759
San Mateo 289.931 13,884,370
Santa Barbara. 1,119.044 15,229,134
Santa Clara • 615,800 53,844,812
Santa Cruz y58,897 11,302.190
Shasta 501,453 o,*lo 715
■ Sierra 128,695 1,574,709
Siskiyou 410,595 5,307.354
Solano 512,899 19,350.258
Sonoma 824 975 30,202.540
Stanislaus 773,550 15,959,538
Sutter.... 374,531 9,459,030
Tehama 1,075,344 11,788,730
Trinity 125.352 1.130,555
Tulare 1,583,150 23,033,410
Tuolumne 301,097 2,8941>4.">
Ventura 470,079 7 588,199
Yolo 484,210 20,733,198
Yuba 410,905 7,004,741
LOS ANGELES COUNTY.
Number of acres of land, values of the
several classes of property, and rate of
taxation for the year 1890:
Number of acres of land 983,497
Value of real estate other than city
and town lots 116,602.495
Value of improvements thereon.. 2.204.220
Value of city and town lots . ... 28,852,500
Value of improvements thereon.. 12,159,080
Total value of real estate 45,454,995
Total value of improvements on
real estate 14,453,300
Value of personal property includ
ing money 7,213,315
Value of railroads assessed by
State Board of Equalization 2,353.415
Total value of all property 69,475,0^5
KATK OK TAXATION ON EACH *100 FOB THE YEAR
1889.
State {0 58
Count; —outside > 92
County—inside .' 02
Total—outside 1 50
Total—inside 1 20
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COMMERCIAL FAILURES.
A Showing for the Year Which Indi
cates Prosperty.
The fact lias often been noted that
despite the time of depression usually
after the speculative fever of the real
estate sales of 1887, there has been no
great commercial break down, and very
few failures. Bradstreets' commercial
agency furnishes the following state
ment of failures in the past twelve
months:
In the city there were 69, with aggre
gate assets of $100,600, and aggregate
liabiljties of $200,862. Of these 32 had
liabilities of $1000 and under, and only 4
had liabilities of over $20,000.
In the county there were 21 failures,
with aggregate assets of $37,260, and
liabilities of $76,300. Of these 6 had
liabilities of $1000 or leas, and only 2
had liabilities of over $10,000.
Wall Paper.—New design*, at 7c, 10c. and
19c. a roll. White blanks and gilt*. Bam pies
sent. Dealers supplied. 237 8. Spring street.
F. J. Bauer.
ORANGE LANDS.
SEMI-TROPIC LAND AND WATER
COMPANY.
Location of Lands, With Description of
Soil and Climate, and Comparison of
Frioes With Other Lands of Similar
Values.
The original purchase of these landd
comprised 29,000 acres, situate immedi
ately west of the cities of Pan Bernardino
and Col ton.
Two transcontinental lines of railroad,
the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific, trav
erse east and west these lands, exactly
two miles apart, giving us two townsites
and stations upon each road, the stations
being four miles from each other, therehy
giving us unexcelled shipping facilities.
Our land extends to within three miles
of San Bernardino, one and one-half of
Colton on the east and five miles of
Riverside on the south.
Our average altitude is about 1200
leet above sea level, with a gradual and
regular slope from the mountains on the
north, with just fall enough to irrigate
conveniently.
We are 400 feet higher than Riverside
and 200 higher than San Bernardino,
which exempts us almost entirely from
frost.
Our lands are peculiarly adapted to
citrus fruits, being right in the heart of
the best orange producing country in the
state of California. Our subsoil is the
same that has made Riverside famous
the world over, with this advantage—we
are fortunate in having a top dressing of
decomposed granite ranging to a depth
of from six to eighteen inches, which
holds the moisture, always being in good
condition for cultivation and readily
furnishing the proper nourishment for
starting the growth of freshly planted
trees and vines.
Irrigation may be indulged in to any
degiee without fear of injury to the trees,
vines or vegetables, or the risk of getting
the ground in bad condition, as frequent
ly occurs on land less favored.
Our'water rights are unsurpassed. We
own and control almost all the water in
Lytle creek, the fourth largest stream in
Southern California, besides which we
have a large scope of artesian water
bearing land where we have thirty fine
flowing wells emptying their sparkling
waters into pipes which conduct it to the
rich lands below for irrigation, and to
our streets for protection against fire,
and to our dwellings for domestic uses.
We are boring more artesian wells con
stantly, never failing to secure a fine flow
of water, so that we have no hesitancy
in saying that we have a great abundance
of water for all of our rich lands.
Of the 29,000 acres originally pur
chased we have sold about 9000 acres at
$200 per acre, which leaves us about
20,000 acres yet tfo be disposed of.
For the past two years but little land,
comparatively speaking, has been sold in
Southern California, on account of the
depression in the money market, and the
collapse of our boom, but now we think
we see the dawn of an era of prosperity,
such as has never been known in this
country, and in order to attract the at
tention of the world to our superior loca
tion and lands, we have reduced the
price to a figur Selow the price of the
cheapesi agricultural landß in this
country, and propose to sell about 2000
acres to actual settlers and people who
will improve the land, at $75 to $100 per
acre, with 20 and 25 per cent, off f6r im
provements made within one year from
purchase, making the land but $60 to
$75 per acre to the man who in good faith
improves the land, and on terms within
. the reach of all, to-wit: $10 per acre
cash on delivery of contract, balance in
three equal payments, due in two, three
and four years, at 8 per cent, interest.
Think of it 1 The best orange lands at
$60 and $75 an acre. Go all around us
and ask the price of land not so good as
ours. At Riverside on the south, at
Redlands and Highlands on the east and
northeast of us, all famous orange pro
ducing districts, the price of unimproved
lands ranges from $250 to $500 per acre,
and foi orchards five years old from $1000
to $2000 per acre are being paid, and
they are well worth the money invested.
The water for irrigating these lands ie
furnished under the "Wright Irrigation
Law" of this state, and costs the land
owner only $2 to $4 per acre per annum.
Rialto, where is located the home
office of the company, is a smart little
town of, perhaps, 200 people, situated
on the main line of the great Santa Fe
railroad, four miles west of San Ber
nardino, and we have a fine depot with
telegraph and telephone communica
tions with the world. A fine large hotel,
the "Semi-Tropic," elegantly furnished
and well kept, occupies a square in the
center of Rialto, and one of the fine
school buildings for which Southern
California is famous, stands upon another
square of the town. Two church organ
izations are in a flourishing condition—
the Methodist and Congregational.
A pleasant ride of an hour and a half
through the beautiful orange groves of
Los Angeles and San Bernardino>coun
ties takes you from the city of Los An
geles, the metropolis of Southern Cali
fornia, to Rialto.
An excursion is conducted from Los
Angeles to Rialto every Friday morning,
leaving Los Angeles at 8:30, and return
ing arrives here at 6:30 p. m.; tickets
good for ten days. Fare for round trip
$2.65, which is returned to every pur
chaser of land by L. M. Brown, agent
for these lands for the coast counties.
Office, 132 North Spring street.
For further information, address the
Semi-Thopic Land and Wateb Co.,
Rialto, San Bernardino County, Cali
fornia. Or
L. M. BROWN,
Agent at No. 132 North Spring street
Los Angeles, California.