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Price of orange-land, improved and unimproved, 322.
Prices at hotels and restaurants, 77. Prisoner's Harbor, Santa Cruz Isl- and, 302.
Productions and climate of San Ber- nardino County, 23S.
Products of Santa Paula, 275.
Products of Southern California, 50. Profits and methods of fruit-raising, by Milton Thomas, 357.
Profits on forest-trees, 325.
Profits of fruit-culture, 367.
Profits of orange-culture, 345. Prunes, production of, 364. Pruning of trees, 359.
Puente, 157. Public Library of Los Angeles, 106. Public organizations, societies, and orders of San Diego, 219.
Public-school enrollment, 355.
Public schools of Southern Califor- nia, by Hon. John R. Brierly, 351.
Public-school system of California, provisions of, 351.
Public-school statistics, 355.
Pupils enrolled in schools, 355.
Quail and wild water-fowl, 225. Quaker colony, Whittier, 140.
Rabel and Harlem Hot Springs, 250.
Railroads, the transcontinental, 55. Railroads of La Ballona Township, 129.
Railway rates to California, 376. Railway tables, stations on Southern Pacific Railway, 374.
Rainfall, 9. Rainfall in the central basin, 25. Rainfall in inches, average, 118.
Rainfall in months at Riverside, 271.
Rainfall of Riverside and other points in the United States com- pared, 265.
Rainy seasons of the central and southern belts, 33.
Raisin-crop in California, 180.
Raisin-grape, the acreage of, in the southern counties, 318.
Raisin growth in Southern California compared to that of Spain, 313.
Raisin industry, 261.
Raisins of Riverside, 266.
Raisin-producing section, 179.
Rates to California, 376.
Raymond Hotel, 152.
Real-estate transfers, 113.
Receipts and expenditures for the support of public schools, 356.
Redlands, 249.
Redondo Beach salt-works, 136.
Reservoir, the Bear Valley, 252.
Resources of the central climatic belt, 19.
Resources of Southern California, 313.
Rialto, 380. Rincon, 262. Riverside, 262.
Riverside climate, by Dr. Sawyer, 267.
Riverside, rainfall of, 271. Riverside raisins, 266. Riviera of the Pacific, Santa Barbara. and Ventura Counties, 273.
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INDEX.
Roasting beef at the Cam ilos Ranch, 211.
Rock House and Pinacate villages, 226. Rocky Mountain system, 21.
Roe, Rev. E. P., his views on Monte- cito, 286. Root, Dr. J. W., letter of, on the climate of Beaumont, 250.
Sacramento, mean annual tempera- ture of, 17. Sacramento, San Joaquin Valley, 17. Salt-works at Redondo Beach, 136. San Antonio Cañon, 167. San Antonio Township, 137. San Bernardino as a railroad center, 242. San Bernardino, city, 240.
San Bernardino County, its climate and productions, 238. San Bernardino County mineral springs, 256. San Bernardino Mission, 249. San Bernardino County, water-supply of, 253.
" San Bernardino County Wines," by Major Ben C. Truman, 252.
San Bernardino Valley, east, 247. San Buenaventura, 276. San Buenaventura Mission, 276.
San Buenaventura schools, 278.
San Buenaventura shipments, 277. San Clemente Island, 297. San Diego Bay, 212. San Diego City, 216. San Diego County, 212. San Diego County, honey - crop of, 222. San Diego County mineral springs, 233.
San Diego Flume Company, 219. San Diego Harbor, 57. San Diego, mean annual temperature of, 17.
San Diego schools, 218. San Dieguito Ranch, 222. San Dimas, 167.
San Fernando, 126, 385.
San Fernando Township, 124.
San Fernando Sulphur Springs, anal- ysis of, 191.
San Francisco, rainfall per annum, 35.
San Francisco Ranch, 274.
San Gabriel, 154.
San Gabriel Township, 142. San Gabriel Wine Company, 154.
San Gorgonio Valley, 250. San Jacinto, 226.
San Jacinto Valley, 226. San Juan, 182.
San Juan-by-the-Sca, 183. San Juan Capistrano, 183. San Luis Rey Mission, 223.
San Marcos Hot and Cold Sulphur Springs, 306. San Miguel Island, 304. San Nicolas Island, 301. San Pedro, 136.
San Pedro Harbor, 57.
Santiago Cañon, 180. Santicoy, 276.
San Vicente, 220. Santa Ana, 181. Santa Anita Ranch, 162. Santa Barbara, 282. Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, 273.
Santa Barbara County, 273. Santa Barbara, climate of, by Dr. C. B. Bates, 290.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Santa Barbara Hot Springs, 305. Santa Barbara Island, 301. Santa Barbara Mission, 283. Santa Catalina Island, 60, 298. Santa Clara River, 274. Santa Cruz Island, 302. Santa Fé Springs, 141. Santa Fe Springs, ingredients of the waters, 186. Santa Margarita Ranch, 223. Santa Maria, 294. Santa Maria Valley, 220, 294. Santa Monica, 130. Santa Paula, 275. Santa Rosa Island, 303.
Santa Ynes Mountains, 293. Santa Ynes Valley, 293. Santa Ysabel Ranch, 220. Savanna, 157. Schools of Los Angeles, 64. Schools, receipts and expenditures for the support of, 355. Schools of San Buenaventura, 278. Schools of San Diego, 218. Schools of Wilmington., 136. School statistics, 355. Sea-breezes, 40. Seasons, 8. Sca-water, its temperature, 286. Secret societies and kindred organi- zations of Los Angeles, 108. Señora de Guilen, 154. Seven Palms Station, 252.
Sewage as a fertilizer, 137. Shells, abalone, 304. Shrubs of Southern California, 331. Sierra Madre, 154.
Sierra Madre Villa, 154. Sierra Nevada system, 3, 32. Sight-sceing in Los Angeles, 90. Signal-Service reports, 117.
Signal-Service reports of Riverside, 270.
Silver-mines, 185. Simi Ranch, 279. Sitka, the rainfall per annum, 14, 35. Size of the five southern counties, 311.
Smuggler's Cove, San Clemente Isl- and, 298.
Social life at Long Beach, 139.
Societies, public organizations, and orders of San Diego, 219. Soda Springs, the Bockman, 233. Soil for fruit-trees, 360.
Soledad, 189. Soledad township, Los Angeles County, 122. South and North California con- trasted, 1.
South Pasadena, 152.
South Riverside, 266, 379.
Southern California hotels, 308.
Southern California products, 50.
Southern climatic belt, 29.
Southern California schools, 351.
Spadra, 159. Spence, Hon. E. F., 99.
Sprague, the More murderer, 274. Springs, Arrowhead Hot, 256. Springs, mineral, of Los Angeles county, 186.
Springs, mineral, of San Bernardino county, 256.
Springs, mineral, of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, 305. Springs, mineral, of San Diego County, 233. Springs of Agua Caliente, 234. Springs, the Las Cruces Hot, 306. Springs, the San Marcos Hot and Cold Sulphur, 306.
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Statistics of the five counties, 310. Statistics of the public schools, 355. Steamship Company of the Pacific Coast, 297. Stewart's Station, 222. Studebaker, Messrs., 166. St. Vincent's College of Los Angeles, 103. Sulphur Springs, the White, 188. Sunshine, 38.
Table of mean annual temperatures, 147.
Table of temperatures, 45. Temecula, 225.
Temecula Hot Springs, 225, 235. Temescal Rancho mineral springs, analysis of, 307.
Temperance colony, 293.
Temperature, 43.
Temperatures in the United States compared, 147.
Temperature of the hot springs at San Juan, 187.
Temperature of sea water, 286.
Ten acres enough to cultivate, 318.
Ten acres enough to support a fami- ly, by D. Edson Smith, 369. Theatrical attractions in Los Ange- les, 98.
The Los Angeles crematory, 98. The Los Angeles of to-day, 97. The olive, 323. The Pacific shore ccean-current, 6. Tia Juan Hot Springs, 233. Timber-belt of the Pacific coast, 15. Tomale, 89.
Topographical and climatic features in which the different portions of the Pacific coast are unlike, 13. Tourists' pleasures at San Diego, 220.
Trade and commerce of Los Ange- les, 112.
Transcontinental roads, 54. Transfers of real estate, 113. Treaty, the Fremont-Pico, 129. Trees, shrubs, and wild flowers of Southern California, by Mrs. Jeanne C. Carr, 327.
Trip, overland, how to enjoy it, 73. Truman, Major Ben C., a letter from, 113. Truman, Major B. C., summary on the wines of San Bernardino Coun- ty, 252.
Truman, Major B. C., his description of the founding of Anaheim, 173. Tustine, the gem of the Santa Ana Valley, 182.
Two Californias, 1. Two great interior valleys, 22. "Two Years before the Mast," by Richard H. Dana, 183.
Type of civic and country life, 61.
University of Southern California, 102.
Upper and Lower Ojai, 280.
Valleys, the two great interior, 22. Valley of the Colorado, 27.
Value of improved lands for culti- vating raisin-grapes, 318.
Varieties of climate on the coast, 11.
Varieties of people, 99. Varieties of peaches, 365.
Ventura County, 273. Verdugo Cañon, 134.
Vernal year in Southern California, 327.
View from the hill back of Whittier, 140.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Vineyard, the Nadeau, 137. Visalia, mean annual temperature of, 17. Visalia, rainfall of, per annum, 35. Viticulture in France, 320.
Walnut-crops near Downey, 141. Warner's Ranch, 221. Water for irrigation, 48. Waters of Carlsbad and Sierra Madre compared, 146. Water-supply of Los Angeles, 88. Water - supply of San Bernardino County, 253.
Water-supply of San Diego, 215. Westminster, description of, 176. W. C. T. U. of Los Angeles, 109. What to see in Los Angeles, 89. White Sulphur Springs, 188. Whittier, the Quaker colony, 140, 380. Why the heat is not oppressive on the Pacific coast, 7.
Wild flowers of Southern California, 327.
Wildomar, 225. Wilmington, 135. Wilmington Township, 134. Wilson's Peak, 155. Winds, 38.
Wine Company, the San Gabriel, 154.
Wine-grapes, the cost of one acre of, 320.
Wine interests of Los Angeles, 113. Wines of San Bernardino County, 252 Wool from Santa Rosa Island, 304.
Worthington, Dr. Henry, a letter on Temescal Hot Springs, 235.
Yield of one acre of land, 179. Yield of important crops in the United States, 316.
Yield of raisin-grapes in Southern California as compared with Mala- ga, 318.
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