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Identifier: californiasoutht00sout (find matches)
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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ry, and a bayperfect for bathing and boating. Its wharf and hotels are allattractive. A branch of the railroad extends to Smeltzers and thefamous peat lands, where are grown the hundreds of carloads ofcelery that find their way to the eastern market every year. Veryproductive are these peat lands, and grow almost anything inabundance save large timber that have too heavy a step. Everytourist should make a visit to this interesting section, where hecan produce an earthquake all by himself. The trip from New-port to Smeltzers is one of much scenic beauty.t tim Tustin is the center of one of the older fruit districts ofTUSTIN j-hg south, and has many magnificent groves. Thetown is the center of a community well known for its wealth andrefinement. Nearby is the famous San Joaquin ranch of a hun-dred thousand undivided acres that extends from the mountainsto the sea. There are good roads in all this country, a peculiarrock formation known as Tustin cement being responsible formany of them.
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HOME OF MOD JESK A—ORANGE COUNTY39 The Watering Places of Southern California. No country in the world is possessed of more pleasing seasideresorts than California, South of Tehachapi. South of the thirty-fifth parallel of latitude, its semi-tropic sea permits of surf-bathingthe year round; few storms disturb the placid waters of this partof the Pacific, hemmed in by a chain of islands that themselvespossess large possibilities as pleasure places. The coast, pictur-esque, abrupt and frowning for many miles of its length hasnevertheless beaches that for beauty and magnitude are not ex-celled anywhere. The fame of Santa Barbara is world-wide; andSanta Monica, Long Beach, Terminal Island, Santa CatalinaIsland, Newport, and other resorts, all easy of access from LosAngeles, will before long have more than one country dancingattendance upon their surf lines in the summer days. The improvements of these resorts are notable; fine hotels,boarding houses, hundreds of furnished cottages and t

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