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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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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him to so graceful a tribute has puzzled many a patienttoiler at the Thirteen Fatal Books. Two hundred feet wide, theavenue cheerfully accommodates sidewalks, a double driveway,several rows of splendid shade trees, and an electric railway. Over seven of the nine miles of the avenue runs this scenic rail-way, and a five-cent fare will lift you from the 980 feet elevation atthe Southern Pacific station to the half-mile elevation at the headof the avenue. It is a line of great interest, and famous for thegravity car of older days, when the patient mules that had ploddedup the long incline found their reward while, with ears laid back,and mouths wide open, they drank in the scenery from a backplatform, as passengers, on the down grade. Ontario is on the valley divide, and is an ideal fruit country.Two thousand acres of deciduous fruits in Blackburns addition,south and east of town, have been added to the very large hold-ings to the north. The city, in its prosperity, smiles at two new, 23
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big packing-houses, new churches, new business blocks, a newdormitory for girls at well-known Chaffey College (for youmust know that every Southern California town is a center ofeducation), and new houses too numerous for the local mathe-matician. The city shipped iooo carloads of fruit during thepast season, and there is no wonder at it having three banks. It isalmost unnecessary to mention the electric lights, sewer system,excellent schools, ten church organizations, and the other citysigns. The mountains to the north of Pomona and Ontario, cul-minating in Mt. San Antonio, familiarly known as Old Baldy, arepossessed of many charming summer retreats both in canons andat higher elevations. Excellent hunting and fishing may be hadin the untrodden ways that lie beyond the habitat of the ordinarypleasure seeker. Five miles south of Ontario, on the southern side of the loopline, between Ontario and Pomona, is Chino. Chino is very different from its neighbors, and yetCHINO equally producti

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