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SAN FERNANDO | was a picturesquely located village in the center of an extensive rolling plain. A large portion of this plain was de- voted to barley and wheat, because there was not water enough to irrigate the lands sufficiently for citrus fruits; but in 1886 Hon. R. M. Widney conceived the plan of constructing a submerged dam in a mountain-canon. It is six hundred feet long, and has an aver- age depth of about fifty feet, only two or three feet of which is above the ground-surface. The dam extends down to and connects with the bed-rock the entire distance across the bed of the stream. Excavations in sections of about sixty feet each, five feet wide, were in succession first made down to the bed-rock, from which bed-rock
* See page 252.
+ See page 181.
# See page 244.
* See page 167. | See page 125.
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a solid masonry wall of granite bowlders and Portland cement was built up to the surface. As each section was built up, the sand and gravel were filled back on both sides of the wall, leaving the water- proof masonry a permanent obstruction to the down-stream flow of the subterranean waters. Thie subterranean stream was found to be forty feet wide by fifteen feet deep. Enormous centrifugal pumps were in constant use to exhaust the water from each coffer- dam section to reach bed-rock. At times 216,000 gallons per hour were thrown out. The work was begun in 1886 and was completed in February, 1888. On the upper side of the dam next the wall are laid four horizontal rows of disjointed ten-inch pipe in two-foot lengths. The rows are about eight feet apart beginning near and parallel to bed-rock, the others being above and about eight feet from each other. The horizontal rows of pipe conduct the water along the face of the dam freely into the wells. Froin these wells pipe-mains (one fourteen-inch and one twenty-four-inch) run under the ground to San Fernando and Pacoima, furnishing water for irri- gating and domestic purposes. This is the largest submerged dam in the world. Instances might be indefinitely multiplied showing the way in which water was developed during the era of specula- tion. Now speculation has ceased, but the water is on the land, and the actual settler is buying the land and water at reasonable figures, and the atmosphere is quickly ladened with the fragrance from the blossoms of the orange and the peach.
Yet the development of this country is in its infancy. A few days since I took a three hours' ride in Los Angeles County, and first passed through the Laguna ranch of twenty thousand acres, then through the San Joaquin ranch of one hundred and eight thousand acres, and then through the Mission Viejo ranch of forty-seven thousand acres. These are but examples of numerous great ranches yet undivided. These three ranches are composed of unsurpassed fruit-lands, yet there is not an acre of orchard on them. They will be purchased, subdivided, and support many families of fruit-growers. The San Juan Hot Springs are on the Mission Viejo ranch. I inquired what this ranch of forty-seven thousand acres could be bought for, and learned that the price was fifteen dollars per acre. It has a refreshing, rollicking stream running through it that sings its life-giving anthems to the sturdy live-oaks and syca- mores that guard its shores. Its song is not that of the siren.
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BUILDING-STONE .- In nothing has Southern California developed her native wealth more rapidly than in building-stone. As these lines are being written there are buildings in course of erection in the city of Los Angeles that will cost over ten million dollars, and in all these structures stone from the surrounding hills and mount- ains is employed.
In some of these buildings a beautiful RED SANDSTONE is being used that has been brought from the quarries of the Sespe Valley,* Ventura County. From quarries in the same valley BROWN SAND- STONE is also obtained that is much admired. In the hills, in the immediate vicinity of Los Angeles, a light BUFF SANDSTONE is quarried that is rather soft, but is valuable in trimming buildings, and hardens with exposure to the atmosphere. An excellent BLUE- BROWN SANDSTONE is quarried near the Cahuenga Pass, about eight miles from Los Angeles.
GRANITE of various grades is found near Monrovia and San Fer- nando, in Los Angeles County ; in the Temecula Canon, in San Diego County; and at Hesperia, San Bernardino County ; but the most extensive granite-quarries are those owned by Messrs. Declez and Beaudry, at Declezville, San Bernardino County. The South- ern Pacific company have constructed a railroad to these quarries, and there are now over one hundred men constantly employed get- ting out stone.
The stone from these various quarries is revolutionizing the ap- pearance of the business portions of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and San Diego.
NEW RAILROADS .- Starting from SAN DIEGO is the road to Otay and Tia Juana; the road to National City, South San Diego, Coro- nado Heights, and Coronado ; also to City Heights, University Heights, forming the Park Belt line. Then the Old Town and Pacific Beach road has been completed and is running. The latter road reaches the sea-side resort and College Town, Pacific Beach.
SAN BERNARDINO has new railroads connecting it with the Highlands and Arrowhead Hot Springs, with Redlands and Lugonia, and with Colton, Riverside, and Santa Ana.
Los ANGELES has during the past six months had new roads - completed connecting it with Orange, Santa Ana (making two lines
* See page 274.
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direct to these places), and Oceanside; * with Whittier ; with Long Beach ; with McPherson and Tustin; with Redondo Beach ; with Rosecrans; with Glendale; with Burbank; with the Soldiers' Ilome and Santa Monica; with Cahuenga; and another very im- portant enterprise that has just been completed is the " Rapid Tran- sit Road " from Los Angeles to Alhambra, San Gabriel, Sierra Madre, and Monrovia.
SANTA ANA, besides the railroads mentioned, has a road just completed to the flourishing town of Fairview, and two roads are in course of construction to the seaport town of Newport where extensive wharves are building.
SAN JACINTO has recently been connected with the Santa Fe system at Perrio by a branch railroad.
COMMERCIAL PROSPERITY .- Besides the remarkable business of the numerous railroads, the ocean commerce has increased decidedly during the past year.
For the year ending June 30, 1888, there were entered at the port of Wilmington t (San Pedro Harbor), which is the chief seaport of Los Angeles, 1,246 vessels. The largest item of imports was lumber, of which there were 195,053,000 feet. During the same year the revenue to the Government from duties collected on im- ports at the San Diego Harbor was over $300,000. Several wharves have been recently constructed at San Diego, while at San Pedro improvements are being made on a most extensive scale, the Southern Pacific company having begun work that will cost over two million dollars. Wharves are also being constructed at Re- dondo Beach, Santa Monica, and Newport.
GROWTH OF CITIES .- SANTA BARBARA has, with the advent of the railroad, taken on an active growth and added greatly to the comfort of the city by paving her principal street.
SAN BERNARDINO, { as was predicted, is becoming a metropolitan commercial center.
SAN DIEGO has, during the past six months, grown at a wonder- ful rate. The population has doubled in a year. Thirty miles of street railroad have been built. The corps of teachers in the pub- lic schools has doubled. There are new banks, new business
* Thus making a short line to San Diego.
t Sce pages 57 and 136. # See page 242.
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houses, and elegant new churches. The Coronado Hotel is one of the delightful wonders of the Pacific coast, and, unlike sea-side hostelries of the Atlantic coast, it is open and worthy of patronage the year round.
Los ANGELES is growing more rapidly than ever before. These lines are being written in midsuinmer, 1888, and the music of the hammer and the saw can be heard on every hand. Over ten million dollars' worth of buildings are now in course of erection- buildings creditable to any city. Rents have been unreasonably high, and the hope is that the great number of new buildings that are constantly being completed and rented will soon supply the demand to such an extent that rents will drop. Five hundred men are now at work building the third cable line in the city. This cable-road will cost nearly two million dollars, and will be a valu- able addition to the means of transportation. The Southern Pacific company has almost completed a new passenger depot that will cost about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. There have been numerons additions to the manufacturing establishments of Los Angeles. An ice-factory and cold storage-house has recently been built, at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars. Very large terra- cotta works have recently opened, and are doing excellent work. Crude petroleum from the wells of Los Angeles and Ventura Coun- ties is the fuel employed in all these factories. Street-paving is the order of the day ; various kinds of pavement are being used. The majority of the new pavements are of bituminous rock and as- phaltum. Granite blocks and porphyry have been preferred on some of the streets.
PASADENA * is an example of remarkable prosperity. It now has a population of ten thousand, and boasts of the fact that it has no saloon. Pasadena, Whittier, Riverside, Orange, and Long Beach are all local- option towns, and have banished the saloon. Pasade- na's elegant new opera-house has been completed.
SANTA MONICA is taking great pride in the National Soldiers' Home now being erected there. The United States Government has three hundred acres of rolling land at that point nestling at the foot of the mountains and in full view of the ocean, where have been begun buildings and other improvements that will cost in the
* See page 142.
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aggregate one half million dollars. There will ultimately be ac- commodations for 2,500 old soldiers. The work is being done un- der the superintendency of Colonel E. F. Brown, Inspector-Gen- eral of the Board of Managers, and Colonel Charles Treichel, Gov- ernor of the Home.
In submitting this volume again to the public it is with the knowledge that the pen has failed to keep pace with the develop- ment or to record one half the attractions of Southern California.
The Eastern reader of CALIFORNIA OF THE SOUTH who after- ward visits this coast will meet with many happy scenic surprises ; and the authors realize that, like the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night that led the children of Israel to the promised land, they have in this book simply indicated the best means of enjoying a tour through this far-away country, that abounds in many varie- ties of scenery, ranging from the desert to the orange-grove, and from the mountain trout-stream to the Pacific Ocean.
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INDEX.
A century in Los Angeles, 7. - A pleasant day's trip for the tourist, 95.
Abalone shells, 304. Advantages of the agriculturist or orchardist in Southern California, 314.
Advantages of the Southern trans- continental route, 55.
Agriculture, 46. Agua Caliente Springs, 234. Agua Tibia Spring, 234. Alfalfa clover, average crop of, 135. Alhambra, 154. Along the coast, 295. Amusements in Los Angeles, 92. Anacapa Island, 301. Anchorage of El Coxo, Santa Bar- bara, 296. Anaheim Landing, 178.
Anaheim Township, Westminster, Santa Ana, and San Juan Town- ships, 173.
Anaheim, the " Mother Colony," 173. Analysis of the Carlsbad water, 234. Analysis of the cold-water mineral springs of the Temescal Rancho, 307.
Analysis of Matilija Springs, 307. Analysis of Santa Barbara Hot Springs, 306.
Annual fiesta of the Del Valle fami- ly, 209. Antelope Valley, 123. A. O. U. W. of Los Angeles, 108. Appalachian system, 3. Appendix, 351. Apples, 364. Arcadia, 163. Architecture in Los Angeles, 90. Area of California, 67. Area of La Ballona Township, 129. Area of Los Angeles, 88. Area of Los Angeles County, 120. Area of San Bernardino County, 238.
Arlington Hotel, Santa Barbara, 286. Arrival in Southern California, 76. Arrowhead Hot Springs, 256. Arrowhead Springs, 249. Artesian wells of Compton, 134. Artesian wells of Pomona, 160. Asphaltum deposits, 341. Asphaltum and petroleum of South- ern California, 337. Athletic club of Los Angeles, 109. Atmospheric humidity, variations of, in the United States, 37. Attractions of Los Angeles, 118. Average rainfall in the United States compared, 118. Azusa, 167.
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Babcock, Jr., E. S., 213. Baldwin, E. J., his home, 162. Ballena, 220. Ballona, 130. Ballona IIarbor, 58. Banner, a mining town, 221.
Banning, 252. Barstow, 243. Bates, Dr. C. B., letter on the cli- mate of Santa Barbara, 290.
Bear, the largest grizzly recorded in history, 188. Bear Valley Reservoir, 252. Beaumont, 250. Bee-ranches, 185.
Beecher, Rev. Thomas K., his com- ments on Riverside, 263.
Beef-roasting at Camulos, 211.
Bernardo, 222.
Bidwell, Belle J., "Our Camp in the Cañon," 67
Big grape-vine of Montecito, 288.
Biggs, Dr. H. H., on the Hot Sulphur Springs of Santa Barbara, 305.
Blake, W. B., on the series of springs near San Bernardino, 259. Board of Education, 04. Bockman Soda Springs, 233.
Bovard, Rev. M M., 83.
Buchanan, President, 82. Buildings at Ontario, 244. Building-stone, 387.
Burbank, 133.
Cahuenga Pass, 129. Caledonian Club of Los Angeles, 109. California, area of, 67. Calico, a mining center, 243. "Camp-Life in the Canon," by Belle J. Bidwell, 167. Campo, 221.
Camulos, 208. Canned fruits, 362. Carlsbad, 223. Carlsbad and Sierra Madre water compared, 146.
Carlsbad water analysis of, 234. Carpinteria, 282.
Cemeteries of Los Angeles, 98.
Center of business in Los Angeles, 113.
Central climatic belt, 16.
Chaffee School of Agriculture at On- tario, 244. Chamberlain, Dr. W. W., letter on Pasadena, 144. Channel Islands, 59. Characteristics of the orange-tree, 346.
Chinese of Los Angeles, 101. Churches of San Diego, 219. Churches and philanthropic institu- tions of Los Angeles, 105. Chute Landing, description of, 296. Cienegas, 48.
Citrus - culture in Southern Califor- nia, 342.
City assessment roll, 113. City of San Bernardino, 240. Claremont, 167. Climate of Beaumont, by Dr. J. W. Root, 250. Climatic belts of the coast, 13. Climatic change from north to south, 30. Climate of the central basin and in- terior plain, 25. Climate of the Channel Islands, 59. Climate of Riverside, by Dr. Sawyer, 266. Climate of Los Angeles, 116.
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Climate and productions of San Ber- nardino County, 238. Climate of San Diego County, 227. Climate of Santa Barbara, by Dr. C. B. Bates, 290. Climatic and topographical features in which the different portions of the Pacific coast are unlike, 13. Climate, varieties of, on the coast, 11. Coal-mines of Elsinore, 226. Coal-mines of Santa Ana, 183. Coast plain of the Atlantic coast, 3. Coast Range, 4. College of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 103. Colleges of Los Angeles, 64. College of Letters of the University of Southern California, 83. Colorado River, 27 .- Colorado River Valley, 27.
Colton, 244. Colton Packing Company, 245. Commerce and trade of Los Angeles, 112.
Commercial development, 51. Comparative temperature of sea- water, 286. Comparative valuation of lands and products, by General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., 311.
Compton, 135. Conference with Indian captains, 207.
Cooper, Ellwood, the farm of 288. Coronado Hotel, 213. Coronado Beach, 213. Coronel, Don Antonio F., 195. Cost of a raisin-vineyard, 319. Cost of one acre of wine-grapes, 320. County Medical Society, 110. Crafton, 250.
Crematory of Los Angeles, 98. Crops in the United States, yield of, 316. Crystallizing fruits, 363.
Dagget, 243. Dana, Richard H., description of San Juan in his "Two Years before the Mast," 183. Deciduous fruits, 322. Del Mar, as a summer resort, 222. Del Valle family, their annual fiesta, 209.
Del Valle, Mrs., 208. Desert, the Mojave, 33, 123. Dibblee, Mr., his home at Santa Bar- bara, 285.
Dickenson, Prof. John, letter on the Arrowhead Hot Springs, 256.
Differences in climatic and topo- graphical features of the Pacific coast, 13.
Diseases, 67. Diseases which are benefited in Southern California, 68. Don Manuel Dominguez, 62. Don Pio Pico, as Governor of Cali- fornia, 79.
Downey, John G., 99. Downey, 141. Duarte, 167.
Earlham, 180. East Los Angeles, 96. East San Bernardino, 247. Education, 64. Educational Board of Los Angeles, 104. Educational institutions of Los An- geles, 102. El Cajon Valley, 220.
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El Cino Springs, 192. El Coxo anchorage, 296. Electric street-railway of Los An- geles, 96. Electric lights of Los Angeles, 84. El Monte, Azusa, and San José Town- ships, 155. El Monte, 157. Elsinore, 225. Encinitas, 222. Escondido, 222. Etiwanda, 243.
Expenses of the farmer of the East and West compared, 315.
Exports from Hueneme, 279. Exports from San Buenaventura, 277. Exported and imported fruit, 367. Exports to the East, 113. Extent of the southern coast plain, $1.
Fallbrook, 225. Father Junipero Serra, 192. Fenn, C. M., A. M., M. D., a letter on climate, 227.
Figs, 323. First auction-sale at Pomona, 159. First newspaper in San Diego, 217. First Protestant preacher in Los Angeles, 80. Fishing at San Pedro, 136. Florence, 138. Flowers, Southern California wild, 327.
Fogs of the sea-coast, 9, 36. Forest-trees, profit on, 325. Forests of Southern California, 333. France, viticulture in, 320. Franciscan Fathers, 194.
Fremont, General John C., as Gov- ernor of California, 79.
Fremont-Pico treaty, 129. Freeman, D., of Inglewood, 133. From San Diego, east and north, 220.
Fruits at present, 358. Fruits, the deciduous, 322.
Fruits, canned, 362. Fruit-culture, its profits, 367.
Fruit crystallizing, 363. Fruit-Growers' Union, its benefits, 365.
Fruit exported and imported, 367. Fruits in market, 121.
Fruits in olden times, 357. Fruit-raising, profits and methods of, 357. Fruit-trees, soil for, 360. Fullerton, 176.
Garden Grove, 178. Gaudaloupe, 294. Gaviota Pass and wharf, 292. Gila River, 27.
Glendale, 133. Glendale ostrich-farm, 134.
Glendora, 167. Grand Opera-House of Los Angeles, 84.
"Grand Round," a day's trip, 163. Grape-vine of Montecito, 288. Griffin, Dr. John S., 110. Grizzly bear, the largest on record, 188. Growth of Pasadena, 143. Gulf Stream, 3.
Hancock, General, his visit to Los Angeles, 81. Harbor at Hueneme, 278. Harbors, 56. Harlem and Rabel Hot Springs, 250. .
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Hazlett, Dr. J. W., on the hot springs near San Bernardino, 260. Helen Hunt Jackson, an accident to, 205. Helen Hunt Jackson, a letter about "Blue Eyes," 203.
Helen Hunt Jackson's visit to the Camulos Ranch, 197.
Helen Hunt Jackson, result of her efforts, 206.
Helen Hunt Jackson's letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 199.
Helen Hunt Jackson, a letter show- ing her fondness for Indian relics, 200.
Helen Hunt Jackson and the Mission Indians, 192. Hesperia Valley, 247, 389.
Hinckley, Frank, his home near San Bernardino, 247.
History of Pasadena, 148. IIollister, Colonel, the farm of, 288. Honey, the quality of, 185. Honey-crop of San Diego County, 222. Hot springs at Arrowhead, 256. Hot springs of Las Cruces, 306. Hot springs of Matilija, 282, 306. Hot springs of Santa Barbara, 305. Hot springs near San Bernardino, 259. Hot and cold sulphur springs of San Marcos, 306. Hot springs at Temecula, 225, 235. Hot Springs, the Tia Juana, 233. .
Hotels of Southern California, 308. Hotel, the Raymond, 152. Hueneme, 278.
Humidity of atmosphere, variations of, in the United States, 37. Hutchinson, Dr. G. L., on the climate of Colton, 245.
Imports into the United States in 1884, 315.
Improvements in Santa Ana, 181. Indians, the Mission, 192. Inglewood, 132.
Interior belt or plateau, 21. Irrigation of fruit-trees, 360. Island of Anacapa, 301. Island of Santa Barbara, 301.
Island of Santa Catalina, 300. Island of Santa Cruz, 302. Island of San Miguel, 304. Island of San Nicolas, 301.
Island of Santa Rosa, 303.
Islands of Southern California, 297.
Islands, the Channel, 360.
Jackson, Helen Hunt, and the Mis- sion Indians, 192.
Jamul Valley, 221. Janal Valley, 221. Japan Current, course of, 6.
Jenkins, Dr. J. F. T., 266.
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, his discov- ery of San Miguel Island, 304. Julian, a mining-town, 220.
Kearny, General, 80. Kinney, Hon. Abbott, 154. Kuro-Siwo current, 6.
La Ballona Township, Santa Monica, 129.
La Cañada, 134. Lamanda Park, 154. Land for oranges, price of, 322. Lang's Springs, 188. Las Cruces, 293. Las Cruces Hot Sulphur Springs, 293, 306. Lemons, number of trees, 344.
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Lemons and oranges, 365. Location of Los Angeles, 89. Lompoc village, 293. Long Beach, 138. Lordsburg, 167. Los Alamos, 294. Los Alamos Valley, 294. Los Angeles, 99, 389. Los Angeles County, Soledad Town- ship, 120. Los Angeles College, 103. Los Angeles County fair, 142.
Los Angeles, mean annual tempera- ture of, 17.
Los Angeles, rainfall per annum, 36. Los Angeles Township, 133. Los Angeles, why so named, 78. Los Nietos Township, Long Beach and Santa Fé Springs, 138. Lugonia, 249.
Magnolia or North Ontario, 243. Mail-matter liandled in Los Angeles, 113. Manufactures in Los Angeles, 110. Masonic Order of Los Angeles, 108. Masonic Lodge, 81. Matilija Hot Springs, 282, 306.
McCarty, Dr. T. J., analysis of the Santa Catalina water, 300.
McClay Theological College, 127.
McPherson, Robert, a paper on raisin- culture, 179.
Mean temperature of Santa Monica, 130.
Medical College of Los Angeles, 103. Mesa Grande, 221. Miles, General Nelson A., 106.
Miles, General Nelson A. On the com- parative valuation of lands and products, 311.
Mineral springs in Los Angeles Coun- ty, 186.
Mineral springs of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, 305.
Mineral springs of San Diego Coun- ty, 233.
Mineral springs of San Bernardino County, 256.
Mission Indians, history of the, 192. Mission La Purissima Concepcion, 294.
Mission San Luis Rey, 223.
Mission, Santa Barbara, 283. Mission, San Bernardino, 249.
Mission, San Buenaventura, 276.
Mission of San Fernando Rey, 125.
Monroe, W. N., 164.
Monrovia, 164.
Montecito, 286.
Monte Vista, 127.
Morton, Hon. Oliver P., visit to Santa Barbara Hot Springs, 306.
Mojave Desert, 33, 123.
Mud-baths at San Juan Springs, 187.
Murder of More, 274.
Murietta. 225.
Nadcau Vineyard, 137. National City, 215.
National Ranch, 221.
Navel orange, 349.
Necessaries for an overland trip, 74. Newhall, 122. Newport, 182.
New railroads, 387.
Night-fogs on the sea-coast, 9.
Nojoqui Falls, 293.
Nordhoff-the Ojai Valley, 279. North Ontario, 243.
North and South California, 1.
Northern climatic belts, 13. Norwalk, 141.
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Observatory on Wilson's Peak, 155. Oceanside, 223. Odd-Fellows, 108. Odd-Fellows' Lodge, 81. Oil companies and the capital in- vested, 341. - Oil region of Southern California, 337.
Ojai Valley, 279. Ojai Valley as a health resort, 281. Old San Bernardino, 247. Old San Diego, 216.
Old Santa Monica Canon, 130. Olive as an article of food, 210. Olive-culture, the profits of, 323. Olive-oil, its value in cases of con- sumption, 215.
Olive-trees at the San Fernando Rey Mission, 125.
One acre of wine-grapes, the cost of, 320.
Ontario, 243.
Orange-culture in Southern Califor- nia, by William A. Spaulding, 342. Orange-culture, its profits, 345. Orange-groves of Riverside, 263. Oranges and lemons, 365. Orange-lands, price of, 322. Oranges, profits of, 322.
Orange product of the State for the season of 1887-'88, 346. Oranges of Riverside, 265.
Oranges, Santa Ana and Tustin, 178. Orange-trees, characteristics of, 346. Orange-trees, the number of, in the different counties, 344.
Orders, societies, and public organi- zations of San Diego, 219. Ostrich-farm, 134. Otay Valley, 221. Other sulphur springs, 308.
"Our camp in the Canon," by Belle J. Bidwell, 167. Overland trip, how to enjoy it, 73.
Pacific Coast Steamship Co., 297. Pacific coast of America as con- trasted with the Atlantic coast, 2.
Pala Mission, conference beld with the Indian captains, 207.
Palmdale, 381.
Palomares, 167. Parks of Los Angeles, 106.
Part I, 1. Part II, 73.
Part III, 311.
Pasadena, 142.
People of the Western interior val- ley, 26.
Petroleum and asphaltum in South- ern California, by D. M. Berry, 337.
Pierce, James M., 219.
Pinacate and Rock House villages, 226.
Pixley, Hon. Frank, comments of, on Riverside, 263.
Places of amusement in Los Angeles, 92.
Plains of Southern California, 31.
Planting of fruit-trees, 360.
Poem on Monrovia, 167.
Point Arguello, 296.
Point Conception, 295.
Point Purissima, 296.
Point Sal, 296.
Polar current of the North Atlantic States, 4. Political future, 65. Pomona, 159. Population of Los Angeles in 1860, 82.
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Portland, rainfall of, per annum, 35. Pottery at Elsinore, 225. Potrero, 221. Poway, 222.
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