RIVERSIDE COUNTY HAS
An area of 4,500,000 acres with only 250,000 as yet under cultivation.
Nearly 15,000 children in public schools, with 475 teachers.
Extensive mineral resources of a wide variety and of profitable commercial character.
Land which produces from six to eight crops of alfalfa per year.
A wide variety of agricultural possibilities, climatic conditions and altitude ranging from 265 feet below the sea to 10,950 feet above.
The only practical commercial date sections in the United States.
The largest and most varied fire clay deposits on the western coast.
Dairying, hog raising and poultry raising conditions so favorable that these industries are rapidly increasing.
Over 2,600 farms and room for many times that number.
Health conditions unsurpassed in both variety and excellence, with eight hot mineral springs resorts and numerous very beautiful mountain camping retreats.
The Citrus Experiment Station and School of Sub-Tropical Agriculture, ten splendid high schools, a Junior College, and an unexcelled chain of county libraries in every town in the county.RIVERSIDE COUNTY CALIFORNIA Compiled by the
RIVERSIDE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE and issued by the
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Riverside County, CaliforniaRiverside County Court House
We present this little booklet of Riverside County with the hope that it will interest you in our county.
It is just an introduction, and we will, upon request, very glady send you any further information. When you visit Riverside it will be a pleasure to be of service to you. Riverside County has good soil, plenty of water, and a fine climate. Riverside County is located in SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA a little way southeast from Los Angeles. It extends from the Colorado River on the east to 12 miles from the Pacific Ocean on the west, and is about 40 miles in width.
RIVERSIDE COUNTY
Riverside County is two hundred miles long and forty miles wide, lying as a band across the state. The western end of this band reaches, at one point, to within twelve miles of the Pacific Ocean, while the eastern end is bounded by the Colorado River and Arizona. The county contains 7,325 square miles, or about four and one-half million acres. Of this immense area only about 250,000 acres have as yet been placed under cultivation, but each year the homemaker and the farm-maker are adding to the improved area, and are causing what was idle land to respond to the demand for increased production.
This work of home, farm and ranch development is progressing so rapidly in Riverside County that one cannot tell the story today and not find it misleading tomorrow. Five or six years ago we considered cottononly as a possibility, but it is now one of our staple crops and reasonably profitable. A few years ago date culture was an experiment; now dates are one of our established fruits and are an exceedingly interesting as well as very profitable crop.
There is probably no other county in the state, and if so, then certainly not in the nation, with a wider range of agricultural possibilités than Riverside County. From its eastern boundary, where the Salton Sea nestles in the gray light of Coachella Valley, 265 feet below the level of the sea, to the pine studded summit of stately old Mt. San Jacinto, with an altitude of nearly 11,000 feet, we find an almost limitless range of climatic conditions, and in almost every step upward some fruit, flower, grain or vegetable is at home in native climatic conditions.
This county, and especially Coachella Valley, seems to be the testing ground of the nation. In all parts of the world agents of the Agricultural Department are searching for fruits or plants which will prove valuable to the American people, and many of them are first tried out here. There are now many strange plants and fruits being tested which may adjust themselves to our conditions, and in the years to come add valuable products to the farm.
Riverside County is the early home of citrus culture and almost every known member of the citrus family finds climatic conditions most favorable here. There are nearly twenty-six thousand acres devoted to citrus culture in the county, calling forth its attending complement of packing houses, picking and fumigating camps and accompanying industries.
The cultivation of other fruits and nuts is also forging rapidly ahead, there being nearly 30,000 acres planted to apples, apricots, cherries, peaches, prunes, walnuts, almonds and pecans.
The greater part of the population of the county is concentrated in the extreme western portion. Here the city of Riverside lies in one of the most beautiful and most fertile valleys in the world. On all sides it is guarded by frowning mountain peaks, many of them snow-capped a large part of theOne of (lie two original Washington Navel Orange Trees, from which sprang all of (lie Navel orange trees in the tinted States. Now transplanted to and eared for in a little park at the head of Old Magnolia Avenue, Riverside, California
year, a warrant of ample water supply. This valley is largely devoted to citrus culture, and it is here that the far-flung fame of the county as not only the early home, but the leading producer of, oranges and lemons was won. Corona, the largest lemon shipping point in the nation, Arlington and Highgrove, are also located in this valley.
The Income Home
While there is comparatively little uncultivated land in this part of the county, yet it is here that the “income home” finds its fairest setting. There is no section of Southern California which offers more alluring attractions for the home seeker than this part of Riverside County. Every element that enters into the making of a real home place is here. And it is not the home of the millionaire we are thinking of —the one who can carve his home wherever his fancy leads him—but the home of the common citizen.
Water Is King
In California water is king. Riverside County has water conditions almost as varied as those of climate. Some of the most complete and well-appointed irrigation systems in the state are located in this county. Many sections find the source of their water supply in mountain streams, while others pump from an underground supply. Electric power lines reach nearly every section of the county.Marketing־ Facilities
The ever-increasing population of the cities of Southern California furnishes a splendid market for every sort of farm produce. In addition to the four lines of railroad which tap the county, a system of state and county paved highways adds to the ease and cheapness of transportation. An endless number of automobile trucks augments the railways in transporting the enormous hay crop of the county to market after the numerous dairies and stock ranches have been supplied. A system of trucks is operating daily into all parts of the county transporting milk from many large dairies to the Los Angeles market. Eggs •and poultry from the ranches are collected daily and delivered to the city market.
Ideal Dairying Conditions
The value of this county as a dairying and stock-raising section is steadily becoming more evident. The vicissitudes of the dairyman and the expense of building and caring for his herd in the rigorous climate of the north and east finds a comforting comparison in the mild and plea-ant winters here. Alfalfa lasts practically all the vear round and two excellent silage crops of corn may be grown in one season. The coast cities provide an insatiable market for both butter-fat and whole milk. In the past year several shipments of purebred dairy cattle have been made from the east and there are several fine herds in the county.
Livestock Breeding-
Many ranches have established purebred herds of beef strain of cattle and consider the raising of such stock in this climate very profitable. A number of large hog ranches in the county have been doing a thriving business in pork production. As hogs mature rapidly in this climate, requiring little shelter and care, they can be crowded onto the market in a few months. The western market calls for a smaller hog than the eastern, the weight desired being about 200 pounds. There are many large ranches producing hogs of this type in from six to seven months, running them on al-Many tons of apricots grow in Riverside County
falfa and topping with barley and milo maize.
Goats
The milk goat is coming very prominently to the fore and the demand for well-bred animals of good milking strain has caused the establishment of numerous goat-eries in the county. At the Southern California Fair, held in October of each year, the goat show has exceeded any ever held.
Vegetables
Irish potatoes and sweet potatoes and nearly all kinds of vegetables grow splendidly and are very profitable if given proper care. Growing of vegetables for the market promises a fine income to a person who is willing to give the necessary care and attention.
The grain sorghums are becoming profitable and popular, and Indian corn is steadily increasing in use.
Alfalfa
Alfalfa is very much at home in the soil and climate of Riverside County. The yield varies with the altitude. In the Coachella Valley alfalfa is cut every month in the year save one. In other sections of the county seven and eight crops are harvested, yielding six or seven tons per acre. The proximity of Los Angeles, with its ever-widening market, makes a steady demand for this wealth-producing crop. The organization of a grower’s association has resulted in stabilizing the price.Honey
Southern California is the greatest honey-producing section in the United States, and Riverside County leads the section in this production. The long season and the wide variety of honey-producing bloom, attract the apiarist until the numerous apiaries throughout the various parts of the county contain over 50,000 colonies of bees.
County Organizations
There are numerous organizations in the county, in which the agriculturists of the county are especially interested. The chief in this line is the Farm Bureau with eighteen farm centers throughout the county; then the Riverside County Chamber of Commerce, the California Fruit Exchange, the Alfalfa Growers’ Association, the Milk Producers’ association, Beekeepers’ Club, Riverside County Milk Goat association, Poultry Producers of Southern California, Riverside County Rabbit Breeders’ association, the Duroc-Jersey Breeders’ association, the Prune and Apricot Growers’ association, and others.
Riverside
It is difficult to realize that Riverside, so well known as it is throughout the nation and to the travelers of the world, was established in 1870. It now has an estimated population of 22,000, is the county seat of Riverside County, and is situated in one of the most beautiful valleys in the state. It has an altitude of 851 fefet, and on every side may be seen pine-clad mountains, the tallest peaks being snow-clad for many months of the year.
Nature has closely collaborated with every human agency in making Riverside “The City Beautiful.” This was the first city in the nation to employ a tree warden and place the control of street trees in the hands of the city, the result being a most wonderful system of shade trees and parkings. Thus Riverside has become a city of beautiful homes, parks and drives. Within the city are 108 miles of paved, tree-bordered streets with ornamental lighting systems and miles of roses and everblooming flowers.
From Riverside as a center a splendidAs Riverside City appeared many years ago
system of state or county highways radiates in all directions. The fertile farming sections lying around the city are placed within easy access and these modern boulevards form a constant source of pleasure to both resident and visiting autoist. Some of the resorts of the Pacific Ocean may be reached in less than two hours’ drive to the south, while the same distance to the north or east will reach the towering peaks of San Jacinto or the San Bernardino mountains, where every facility for camping, and fishing and hunting in season is at hand.
Three transcontinental lines of railroads converge from the city, serving its transportation requirements, the Santa Fe, Southern Pacific and Union Pacific, while the Pacific Electric Railway supplies it with an entirely modern street-car system as well as interurban connections with Los Angeles and all surrounding cities. Automobile stage lines and an ever-increasing number of freight trucks supplement the railways in supplying adequate transportation facilities.
Riverside is essentially a city of churches and schools, those companion requisites to a home community. There are thirty-two church structures ranging in value from $1,200 to $125,000, reaching a wide requirement in class and creed. The school system of the city is its especial pride. From the very best attainment in kindergarten instruction to a fully accredited Junior College, every grade and department isthe best that competent school authorites can provide. The Polytechnic High school is one of the best in the state. Two additional buildings for the high school and one for the Junior College will be erected this coming year at a cost of $250,000. There are fourteen grammar schools located in various parts of the city, with modern buildings and the best equipment. Two Junior high schools will be stablished this coming year. The teaching force is of a very high grade, and the ideal of the faculties of the high school and college is to render community service through the students.
One of the best equipped and modernly operated libraries in the country is located here. A unique feature of this library is that it maintains a school for librarians. There is a short summer session of this school beside the regular long course of finished training. Graduates of this school are scattered all over the country.
Other public institutions of the city are a $100,000 Y. M. C. A. and a fine Y. W. C. A. building, both maintainig fine organizations ; Masonic, Elks and Odd Fellows buildings, and a Woman’s Clubhouse that is a model in the state. The county court house occupies an entire block and is one of the finest structures of its kind in the United States. The Federal building and post office is a splendid structure.
At the eastern end of the city is located the• Citrus Experiment Station, a branch of the University of California, an institution provided for the study of tropical agriculture. A force of specialists is maintained at this station who have continually under investigation the many problems which affect the great citrus industry. They are also in close touch with other fruits and plants of semi-tropical nature, which have been introduced into this country. Riverside county, more than any other county, is the testing bed of the nation, and this station is the guiding center for this work.
Another educational institution which will at length become an important feature of this city is a branch of the State Agri-tural College, which was located here by the last legislature. Land has been pur-The World I'ainous Glenwood Mission Inn
chased for this farm school, water has been assured, and it promises to become a very important agricultural institution.
One of the foremost items in the description of Riverside is the Glenwood Mission Inn, that alluring hostelry known as far as travelers travel, for what man who has gained the distinction of being a traveler has not visited this restful Mecca at Riverside? This narrow space will not permit anything approaching an adequate description of this wonderful hotel. In its every point and outline the mission idea is exemplified. The most wonderful collection of bells in the world can be found here. The attractive reproduction of Spanish architecture, its cloister, its maze of underground courts, each nook and corner containing something of compelling interest, and its splendid, yet unobtrusive service, with the fact that its founder and builder, Frank Miller is still “Master of the Inn,” places the Mission Inn first among the California hotels.
There are also splendid accommodations for the tourist and commercial traveler offered at the Reynolds Hotel and Hotel Tetley, together with a number of well-appointed apartment houses, bungalow courts, and rooming houses.
Riverside has the reputation of “daring to be different.” There are within thecity limits 28,160 acres of very fertile land. This area is mainly divided into small tracts and “income homes.” Upon this municipal area nearly 16,000 acres of citrus groves are growing, which maintain numerous well-equipped citrus packing houses. Riverside is the home of the Washington navel orange, and one of the two parent trees from which all navels were propagated, is still preserved. Not only is this the home of the greatest citrus producing district in the world, but it is the home of the citrus commercial handling and packing industry, where the most modern machinery for this׳ work was devised and introduced. A number of the most modern citrus packing houses in the state are located here, and it continues to be the greatest citrus shipping point, sending out on an average for the past six years 5,300 cars of oranges, receiving about $5,000,000 annually for this product.
The many beautiful parks lend a great charm and attraction to the city. Fair-mount Park is the playground, not only of Riverside, but of the surrounding country. It is well-equipped with swimming pool, lake for boating, commodious shady picnic grounds, bandstand, playgrounds and auto camp. White Park, a five-acre resting spot in the center of the city containing a wonderful collection of cactus and flowers, Evans Athletic park, and numerous other small beauty spots are in the city limits.
Sherman Indian Institute is one of the leading educational institutions of the Indian Service, where about 800 Indian students, representing practically every Western tribe, are given vocational training. The school buildings are located on a highly improved 40-acre campus on Magnolia Avenue.
The Southern California Fair is held in the fore part of October of each year on the grounds of the Fair association near Fairmount Park. This is becoming a noted agricultural, horticultural and livestock exposition, with an attractive racing program each season, and is participated in by the various counties of Southern California.
The County Farm Bureau, with headquarters in the city, is an organization of allRiverside and Corona produced many carloads of very fine lemons
the county farm interests, and acts as an agency through which the University Extension Service, with a Farm Advisor, Assistant Farm Advisor and Home Demonstration Agent, assists and advises the farmers of the county.
Among the industrial institutions of the city may be numbered fourteen fruit packing houses, and two canneries which take care of a large output of deciduous fruits, olives and vegetables.
The Albers Olive Company have one of the largest and best-equipped olive curing plants in the state. They have a capacity of 300 tons of olives and employ 60 people.
The Riverside Portland Cement company’s plant, located at Crestmore, just at the city limits, is one of the largest institutions of its kind, the plant costing approximately $3,000,000,, and employing a large force of workmen, with a daily output of 24,000 sacks.
The city owns its own electric light plant and water system, and the plant has been very successfully operated for years.
Riverside has produced artists, musicians and literary folk of national renown. All phases of civic and social endeavor are represented and actively followed. In Riverside will be found the true California; from Riverside all of California may be seen.Rubidoux Mountain, where as many as 20,000 people have gathered at sunrise to commemorate Easter morning
Community Pageants
Mount Rubidoux, at the edge of the city of Riverside and towering above it 500 feet, is one of the most noted beauty spots of the city. A wonderful roadway winds around it to the top, and one of the finest views of the southland may be seen from its summit, where is erected a cross in honor of Father Junipero Serra, one of the noted padres of olden times. At Easter, and again on Armistice Day, this mount is thronged with people, many of whom come from long distances to take part in the services. All the night before Easter automobiles are winding up the mountain to take the people to vantage spots for the service at dawn. Just as the sun rises the first trumpet blows, and then follows a beautiful and unique program of songs, poems and prayer. On Armistice Day the program is at eventide and each year some one of our allies in the great war is especially honored.
In the fall of each year the Desert Play is given for two days in the mouth of Tah-quitz canyon near Palm Springs. This play is founded on the old legends of the Indians in this region.
The Hemet and San Jacinto valleys were the scene of the closing episodes in the life of “Ramona,” and here Helen Hunt Jackson wrote her novel. A pageant is being planned founded on the story, and this will be an annual event at Hemet.Arlington is becoming a large poultry center
Arlington
Arlington, within the corporate limits of the city of Riverside, fifty-two miles from Los Angeles, and with Magnolia Avenue, the main artery of traffic to Orange County, passing through its business district, is served directly by the Santa Fe and Pacific Electric railways, and is afforded passenger service with trolley connections by the Union Pacific.
Fertile soil, free from alkali, plentiful water supply from unfailing artesian wells, temperate climate and congenial surroundings are offered the homeseekers. Situated in the center of a world famous citrus belt, with the groves and packing plants of two of the country’s largest citrus companies, the Arlington Heights Fruit Company and the San Jacinto Land Company, their holdings aggregating 3,500 acres concentrated within three miles, Arlington has not dedicated itself entirely to the industry for which is most famous. Led by the citrus culture, the deciduous orchard, the farm, the dairy, the English walnut, the poultry plant and the apiary vie in the production of food products.
The English walnut ranks next to the citrus industry in importance. Growers average 75 to 150 pounds to a tree and from three-quarters to two tons of nuts per acre.
The Arlington cannery industry is steadily growing. Canneries make term contracts, and put Arlington labels on their packs.Arlington dairy products reach city markets daily by means of a truck collection system. The district’s dairy hay commands a premium on the market.
Hundreds of cases of eggs leave the Arlington district by truck each week. Five hundred thousand chicks were hatched in Arlington hatcheries last season.
Bee ranches produce orange blossom honey in the spring and then move to the hills for sage and wild buckwheat later in the season.
La Sierra Heights, on the west, is a tract of 10,000 acres recently added to the district’s irrigated lands. It is accorded city water, telephone and mail service.
Arlington is included in the Riverside City School District. It has the newest and most modern school building in the city, Liberty School, recently erected at a cost of $50,000. The Parent-Teacher Association operates a modern cafeteria where pupils may obtain a warm noon-day meal at small cost.
Four churches, a bank and a good library serve the community.
Sherman Institute, on Magnolia Avenue, adjoining Arlington, is one of the best-equipped of the United States Government’s Indian schools. Government expenditures on it have reached a total of $800,000. Operated in connection with the school is a farm of 160 acres.
An industrial school recently has been established in La Sierra Heights by the Southeastern California Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The school site was purchased by the Conference for $110,000, and the first group of buildings cost $100,000.
The Neighbors of Woodcraft have established a Home on Magnolia Avenue, near Arlington. Both men and women are cared for, and a home for children is to be added. Recent additions have doubled the Home’s capacity.Wonderfully fine cherries grow at Beaumont
Beaumont
Beaumont, the “land of the big red apple,” is located on the main line of the Southern Pacific railway, at the mouth of the San Gorgonio Pass, at an elevation of 2,556 feet above sea level, the highest point reached by the railway between Los Angeles and Tucson. It has five churches, three grammar schools, high school, two newspapers, two fruit packing houses, a new dehydrating plant, two lumber yards, a bank, and a fine library.
A Woman’s Clubhouse is a great credit to the women of Beaumont. The club members conduct a moving picture show every week, and their clubhouse is the center of many community undertakings.
A mutual water system is splendidly conducted by the town.
According to figures from the County Horticultural Commissioner, the value of the apples shipped last year was $195,000, and most of these went from Beaumont. There are 489 acres of cherries in bearing and 71 acres not yet bearing. This crop is next in importance to the apple, but pears are making a big showing and peaches, apricots, plums and grapes thrive and produce well.Banning as the “bird man” sees it
Banning
Nestled in the crest of the San Gorgonio Pass, between the guardian peaks of Grey-back and San Jacinto, at an altitude of 2,360 feet, lies the prosperous city of Banning. Few places in the state have been blessed by nature with a wider range of agricultural, scenic or climatic conditions, and none have taken more active advantage of these endowments. Banning is widely noted for her almonds and is each year adding many acres to this valuable crop. Prunes are next in importance, and peaches and apricots are also crops which are produced in unsurpassed excellence at Banning.
Situated where the desert winds temper the winter breeze and the mountains protect from the hot winds of summer, there is much to attract in climate the year round. Banning is located on the main line of the Southern Pacific Railway and on the Ocean-to-Ocean Highway, about 85 miles east of Los Angeles.
Banning is well provided with good streets, splendid business buildings, modern schools and churches. A large cannery is located here and there are many fruit dryers, but in addition to these provisions for handling fruit there are many tons of peaches and apricots shipped to other canneries for packing each year.Banning has many fine almond orchards
Blythe
The Palo Verde Valley, in seven years, has emerged from desert waste to a wonderfully productive section; located at the eastern end of Riverside County, 180 miles from Riverside, on delta and alluvial lands of the Colorado River. Transportation facilities are furnished by the Santa Fe line. There are over 31,000 acres of land under cultivation and irrigation in the Palo Verde Valley, and of this the greater acreage is in cotton, which is exceedingly poductive in this valley. Melons, early vegetables, grapes, sorghums and alfalfa are other successful crops. All the alfalfa produced in the valley is sold for local consumption at the highest market price, and much more is demanded.
The irrigation water supply for this wonderful valley is secured from the exhaustless Colorado River. The intake, located about fourteen miles above the city of Blythe and the main part of the valley, has been placed by man where nature provided a wonderful barrier of solid granite to withstand the ravages of this fitfulCotton is the leading crop in tile Palo Verde Valley
river and there is little danger that the elements will ever disturb this solid embankment of granite and concrete. After the water enters the intake a system of settling basins has been provided to remove the silt from the water. This silt is splendid fertilizer, but it also fills the ditches and canals, and this settling system saves much time and money.
Fruit and vegetables do well in the Palo Verde Valley, but so far there has been comparatively little fruit planting on account of the attractiveness of other crops. The price of land is very low considering the crop results obtained. It is not infrequent to see a crop of greater value than the land upon which it is grown.
There are several dairies in the valley, and a wonderful opportunity is offered for practical dairymen. The highest price can |	be secured for whole milk or butter from
p	the local trade. Raw land is sold at from
$75 to $125 per acre, owing to location. Water stock is $35 per acre, either cash or on terms. Clearing and leveling costs from $35 to $50 per acre.
Blythe is a city of about 3,000 population, with good schools, churches, three banks, creamery, three cotton gins, ice plant, and local telephone and electric light systems. There are several smaller towns in the valley.The finest dates in the world grow in the Coachella Valley
Coachella Valley
The Coachella Valley is located in the south central part of the county, from eighty to one hundred miles east of Riverside, on the main line of the Southern Pacific Railway and the Ocean-to-Ocean Highway. The agricultural area begins at the western end of the valley at an altitude of some fifty feet above the level of the sea, and extends to the Salton sea, 2G5 feet below the level of the sea. The soil of this valley is a rich silt, there being little doubt that it was once the bed of an inland sea.
An abundant supply of water, which the government analysis shows to be almost absolutely pure, is secured from artesian wells and by pumping.
In 1900 the government began to investigate the practicability of date culture in this valley. The experiment so carefully started and persistently carried out by the government, has developed into an established commercial industry, with almost limitless possibilities.
The government station is located near Indio, at about sea level. The government also has a garden at Mecca, where some of the oldest trees in the valley are carefully watched.
The agricultural importance of Coachella Valley is not confined to dates, however. Early grapes make a most alluring crop. After the vines get well into bearing theyrequire comparatively little attention except at pruning time. Grapes, figs and apricots ripen very early in the valley and are usually very profitable. Cotton is being increasingly produced. Onions, spinach, lettuce, etc., will continue to be commercially produced, as they can be put on the market so early.
Located in this valley are four thriving towns and some smaller communities.
INDIO is located about 75 miles from Riverside, at an elevation of 22 feet below sea level. It is a division point of the Southern Pacific Railway, with railway shops, roundhouse and division headquarters.
COACHELLA is three and one-half miles east of Indio and is surrounded by a wonderfully productive country. The first date packing house along commercial lines was built here, and large quantities of fruit and vegetables are crated and shipped from this point. At present the one bank of the valley is located here, also the ice plant, electric power plant and the new Masonic Temple.
THERMAL is four miles farther down the valley and is a thriving business center for several thousand acres of fertile land. It also is a shipping point for large quantities of fruit and early vegetbales.
MECCA is eight miles east of Thermal, near the shores of the Salton Sea.
CALEB is a community center down near the Salton Sea and on the main line of the Southern Pacific. The crops grown are grapes, dates, grape fruit and early vegetables. It is the earliest trucking district in the county and also ships the first grapes to reach the market. Every farmer in that community is a member of the County Farm Bureau.Corona “The Cirele City”
Coronel
Corona is widely known as the “Circle City,” from the wonderful macadamized boulevard, costing over $100,000 to construct, which encircles the city. This circle drive is bordered by beautiful pepper trees and is over three miles in length.
The climate at Corona is par excellence, having dry, healthful air, giving health to all. Both the summers and winters are very enjoyable. We have an abundance of cool mountain water to drink and always plenty of pure irrigation water.
Corona is situated 50 miles from Los Angeles, 108 miles from San Diego, 40 miles from the beach and 4f<> miles from the mountains on a gentle slope, giving us exceptionally fine drainage. It is located on the Santa Fe and Pacific Electric Railways, and is served by three motor passenger lines going out in all directions. Its highway connections are also most attractive for automobile travel, being on the main line of the Los Angeles to San Diego improved highway, the famous Magnolia Avenue, with its double tree-lined driveway, to the north connecting Riverside, and the improved highway through the Santa Ana canyon to the south furnishing the shortest route to the ocean and the beaches.
For several years Corona has been the largest lemon-shipping point in the United States. Supplementing this paramount industry with its numerous modern packing houses and fruit-handling equipment, thereare two of the largest and best-equipped citrus by-product plants in the country located here. These plants transform cull lemons into citric acid and bring money to the grower from a source which was an entire loss previous to the establishment of this industry. Last year they utilized over two thousand carloads of cull lemons, paying the grower a good sum and furnishing a $75,000 payroll.
In 1921 the citrus crop brought returns amounting to over two million dollars, and the growers received the highest price for Oranges of any community in Southern California. Corona’s lemons are of a very superior quality, evidenced by their winning the first prize at the State Fair in 1922.
There is adjacent to Corona several thousand acres of unusually fertile land, subdivided in five and ten-acre tracts, with an abundance of water. All of this land is exceptionally well adapted to growing a wide range of crops, such as alfalfa, grain, peanuts, apricots, peaches, all kinds of deciduous fruits, livestock and poultry.
The plant of the Blue Diamond Materials company represents on investment of $500,-000, and has a capacity of 1,500 tons of crushed rock per day, furnishing employment for thirty-five to fifty men.
The Glen Ivy Hot Springs in Cold Water Canyon, near Corona, with its new modern hotel, furnishes a wonderful hot springs health resort.
Corona has a most complete school system, with adequately equipped modern school buildings. The leading church denominations have attractive edifices, practically all the leading fraternal and lodge organizations are represented. It has a modern city hall, a splendid public library, one of the best-equipped Woman’s Club buildings in Southern California, and a good country club. Adjoining the city is a nineteen-acre park with all modern playground equipment and free auto camp ground.Beautiful Lake Hemet, the source of Hemet’s water supply
Hemet
The wonderful little city of Hemet and its surrounding rich and fertile valley, according to Indian legends, derived its name from the beautiful Indian maiden, “Hemi-ca,” who spurned her two contentious lovers at the foot of the sparkling waters of the North Fork, from which waters the city and community now derive their domestic water supply.
Hemet lies thirty-four miles east of Riverside and ninety-four miles southeast of Los Angeles, in the center of a fertile valley which yields an abundant harvest of a wide variety of fruits and field crops, in this valley of wonderful possibilities nature has conspired with every human agency to bring about prosperity and plenty.Hemet has an altitude of 1,600 feet and is surrounded by lofty mountain peaks which help to temper its climate to that delightful mean so desirable for the year-round home.
In the Hemet Valley there are 4,000 acres of apricots with a normal yield of 30,000 tons of fruit per year. There are about 2 000 acres of peaches, which yielded approximately 12,000 tons of fruit in 1922. The English walnut is becoming popular on account of the healthy, vigorous trees and the fine quality of nuts grown. There are about 1,200 acres set to walnuts. The olive grows to perfection in the Hemet Valley, being free from scale and blight common to many other sections.
There are other varieties of fruit which do well, such as apples, pears, oranges, lemons and grapefruit. The normal output of oranges is 100 cars per year. Grapes, figs, pomegranates, guavas, strawberries, all flourish under our climatic conditions.
Practically all farm crops prosper in the Hemet Valley. There are 3,000 acres of alfalfa yielding profitable returns; 12,000 in grain, potatoes, hay, milo maize, tomatoes, etc.
There are two large, modern canneries at Hemet, the Cooperative Cannery having a valuation of $265,000 and employing nearly a thousand hands in their busy season. There is an orange and walnut packing house, also the California Prune and Apricot Association have their southern packing house located in Hemet. There are several fruit drying establishments in the valley, and the city and community enjoy advantages of electric light and power, steam laundry, ice plant, paved roads, etc.
The Hemet water system furnishes an abundant supply for irrigation and domestic purposes. Land located under this system has an assured supply of gravity water. In addition to this, many ranches secure their supply from wells which yield abundantly.
There are many dairy farms in this valley which are proving it an ideal dairyingElsinore “The scenic health resort”
section. Last season nearly $300,000 worth of hogs were shipped to market. There are many profitable poultry farms.
The city of Hemet is a delightful place to live. There is a complete modern school system—grammar schools, high school and intermediate high school. Good church buildings, a public library, several fraternal organizations, Woman’s Club, Tahquitz Country Club, including tennis courts and golf links, also a theater and a thriving business section. Transportation facilities are furnished by the Santa Fe Railway, with bus and stage lines connecting with Riverside, Los Angeles and San Diego over concrete boulevards.
Elsinore
“The scenic health resort of California.” It is located 88 miles from Los Angeles, on the famous Mission Road, the improved inland highway from Los Angeles to San Diego, and has an elevation of 1,300 feet above sea level.
The beautiful Lake Elsinore provides a great attraction for this valley for tourists and seekers after health and climate. An added attraction are the hot mineral springs for the benefit of whose healing properties thousands visit this resort each year. Elsinore is only 20 miles by direct line from the ocean, and the tempering sea breezes tend to soften the climate all the year round.
There is a beautiful driveway entirely en-Extensive Clay Works near Elsinore
circling the lake, and a number of palatial residences have been erected on this drive overlooking the water, and encircled by mountains on all sides.
This wonderful valley also presents unlimited agricultural possibilities and practically everything -grown in Southern California can be successfully grown here. One of the big canneries of the California Growers’ Association is located at Elsinore, and takes care of a large portion of the fruit and vegetable supply of the valley. There are in excess of 1,000 acres of olives in the Elsinore Valley, with about 600 acres of walnuts, 700 acres of apricots, and many other kinds of fruit in some lesser proportions.
Hot sulphur springs at the border of the lake provide the source for baths and health resorts not exceeded in Southern California. There is a wonderful future for Elsinore as a health resort.
The greatest variety of clay deposits on the coast are located near Elsinore at Al-berhill, where the Los Angeles Pressed Brick company, the Alberhill Coal and Clay company and the Pacific Sewer Pipe company maintain large plants and employ many men. Over one hundred varieties of clay have been discovered and almost limitless manufacturing possibilities are open for development.They raise many hogs and cattle at Perris
Perris
The town of Perris is located in the midst of Perris Valley, comprising an approximate area of 25,000 acres of fertile land. It is eighteen miles southeast of Riverside, on the Santa Fe Railway and the county highway. The elevation is 1,500 feet above sea level, and is nearly surrounded by mountains.
The Perris Valley comprises an empire within itself, and in the variety of production is almost empire wide. The preponderant crops of the valley have been alfalfa, hay and grain. Cotton is now entering the list and bids fair to be a close competitor of alfalfa. Probably 2,500 acres have been planted to cotton this year, and a modern gin has been erected in Perris to take care of the yield.
Corn, the grain sorghums, potatoes, beans, beets—all do well in this valley. All varieties of deciduous fruit grow successfully, and the average is steadily increasing.
Dairying and stockraising are becoming attractive industries in the Perris Valley, and a number of fine herds have been established. Hog raising is also becoming a leading industry, and a number of pure bred herds of the leading breeds are in a prosperous condition. Poultry raising is also a profitable industry.
The water supply for the valley is secured from wells. Electric power lines reach all parts of the valley, and each ranch is supplied with its own pumping plant.San Jacinto has many fine dairy herds
San Jacinto
San Jacinto is one of the oldest towns in Southern California, but new and modern in business methods, buildings and industrial enterprise. It is about 35 miles southeast of Riverside in a beautiful valley at the base of Mount San Jacinto, which protects from winds and guarantees an abundant water supply. It has an elevation of 1,600 feet, and is free from fogs of the lower altitudes and tempered from either excessive heat or cold.
The Santa Fe Railway furnishes transportation facilities and a concrete boulevard places the valley in close communication with Riverside and the beach cities.
Nature has been generous with its provisions for this valley, allotting it an abundance of pure water, rich soil, and an even climate, which lend every assistance to the establishment of an income producing home. These conditions in the San Jacinto Valley make a perfect setting for a great variety of agricultural production. Both deciduous and citrus fruits grow as in their native element here. Peaches, apricots, apples, olives, have proven their worth by producing large crops of the highest gradeand the acreage in these fruits is steadily growing.
Alfalfa raising and dairying is an industrial partnership which prospers in the environs of San Jacinto. The ever-increasing demand for dairy products makes the milk cow a safe investment in a section where an abundant water supply assures an alfalfa crop. These conditions have been tested many years in the San Jacinto Valley and are well known.
San Jacinto has a very complete school system, with modern buildings, good churches, and every comfort and convenience which a city can provide its citizens. Several hot springs and health resorts are near San Jacinto, and a two hours’ drive over good mountain roads will take one into the pines and to splendid mountain resorts and beautiful camping places.
Smaller Communities
Moreno Valley, lying about twelve miles east of Riverside on the county highway, is a very fertile section which is rapidly settling up with prosperous and enterprising ranchers. Water is supplied by wells and pumping plants and a plan is on foot to secure an additional supply by gravity from the mountain watershed. The soil of this valley is well adapted to a wide variety of crops. There is a large acreage in oranges and also in deciduous fruits and olives. Many of the farm crops are profitably raised on dry land, and hay and grain are the principal industries.
MURRIETTA is a thriving village in the heart of the Murrietta Valley, which has attained wide notoriety for its fertility. Much of the land in this valley produces good crops of alfalfa and other farm products without irrigation. A very fine quality of alfalfa seed is plentifully produced, and wheat and barley of the Murrietta sec-'Ibis olive orchard is growing either at Nuevo or Moreno
tion is of a high grade. The farmers own their own grain elevator at Murrietta.
WINCHESTER is a community center surrounded by alfalfa fields and apricot orchards. The greater part of the shipping business is that of hay and grain from the valleys round about.
WILDOMAR and TEMECULA are business centers in fertile sections of Riverside County.
HIGHGROVE is a prosperous village four miles north of Riverside. There are 2,000 acres of citrus fruit groves, tributary to town, and seven fruit packing houses handle the products from these and other adjacent groves and give employment to a number of people.
Transportation is furnished by three transcontinental railways, the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and Santa Fe. There is a good business section at Highgrove, with modern school and church and an active Chamber of Commerce.
NUEVO is the youngest town in the western portion of the county, but it is one of the huskiest youngsters in the large family. This prosperous community isabout 24 miles southeast of Riverside on an improved highway in a fertile valley which the ceaseless energy of its citizens has made a beauty spot as well as the center of heavy agricultural production.
This valley embraces an area of some nine thousand acres, the water supply for which is secured from a number of large electric pumping stations, which produce an unstinted flow at reasonable cost.
Last year Nuevo produced 1,000 tons of apricots and 500 tons of peaches. They had a large acreage of fine wheat and barley, and shipped something like 30 cars of potatoes. All vegetables do very well, and poultry farms are successful.
Nuevo is a live community, and has built a fine community hall for entertainments and meetings. They have a good school and many conveniences.
JURUPA, GLENAVON and WINE-VILLE comprise about 20,000 acres of fine farming land in the section of Riverside County lying west of the Santa Ana river, sometimes designated as West Riverside. Of this acreage about 3,500 is devoted to citrus culture and maintains two packing houses. Around Wineville are many hundreds of acres of grapes, and peaches and apricots are also a paying crop. One of the largest canneries in the state is busy most of the year at Wineville. In addition to the fruit raising, one of the best general farming districts in the county is located in this section, with good soil and reliable water supply. There are three good grammar schools in this district, and the Union Pacific railway furnishes transportation facilities. The state highway passes through the center of the valley.Idyllwild Tavern “among (he pines” in San Jacinto Mniintains
Health and Pleasure Resorts
Riverside County has the greatest number and variety of hot springs of any county in the southland.
CONSOLE MINERAL SPRINGS is located east of Riverside in Reche Canyon, at an elevation of 2,000 feet.
GLEN IVY HOT SPRINGS is seven miles southeast of Corona, and is a very popular resort, reached from this point over auto road, where nature has provided splendid scenery, running brook and warm sulphur springs for drinking and bathing.
ELSINORE HOT SPRINGS, health and pleasure resort, offers a splendid combination of attractions. The water breaks forth right on the margin of the only fresh water lake of note in Southern California. The hot mud and mineral baths are given under the skilled attendants in well-equipped bath houses. The springs are right in the city of Elsinore, and three good hotels are located within two blocks of the springs. There is good hunting, fishing and boating close at hand.
MURRIETTA HOT SPRINGS are known far and wide. They are located four miles from the town of Murrietta, and are reached over the Santa Fe with auto connections, or over a fine boulevard. A splendid hotel, cottages and tents are provided, and no ef-fort is spared in making the resort beneficial and attractive.
RELIEF HOT SPRINGS lie four miles north of San Jacinto and seven from Hemet. They are reached over the Santa Fe with auto connections at San Jacinto or Riverside. These springs, long noted for their wonderful curative qualities, have no superior for many ailments.
EDEN HOT SPRINGS lie between Beau- : mont and San Jacinto. Here the visitor will find good hotel accommodations, pleasant surroundings and beneficial waters.
SOBOBA LITHIA SPRINGS are also near San Jacinto, on the very margin of the Indian .reservation made famous by Helen Hunt Jackson in her romance of Ramona.
PALM SPRINGS is located at the foot of San Jacinto mountain, on the eastern side, looking out over the desert. The Desert Inn stage connects with the Southern Pacific trains at Palm Springs station. People come from all over the world to visit this place. About two miles from the hotels are found Palm Canyon and other strange breaks in the steep mountain side. The wild palms native to this desert, grow in abundance here. Spring on the desert, after a wet winter, shows the greatest profusion of flowers ever seen, and many people make an annual pilgrimage to see this sight. Splendid accommodations of all kinds have been provided.
IDYLLWILD and KEEN CAMP. The resorts in the San Jacinto mountain are easily reached and offer a most delightful change from the semi-tropical valleys. Idyll-wild, over a mile above the sea, where majestic pine, oak and cedar clad mountains encircle a wooded valley, where the waters of Strawberry Creek sing merrily over a rock strewn bed between banks of fern and wild roses, where the speckled trout darts temptingly through the clear, cold mountain stream, where the air is clearer where the stars are larger, where the wild mountain flowers bloom the brightest, where the birds sing the sweetest, where the atmosphere of homelike cordiality makes you want to stay—that is Idyllwild.The hotels, both at Idyllwild and at Tah-quitz, are open in the winter, and many parties make the trip after a heavy snow to enjoy the winter sports. Thanksgiving and Christmas parties are almost as numerous as Fourth of July or Labor Day parties.
It is conceded by all who have visited Idyll-wild that for scenic beauty it is without a rival in Southern California.
You can have your own summer home in Idyllwild. A portion has been subdivided into generous lots covered with large pines, cedars and oaks.
There is a good hotel at Idyllwild, and there are cabins, housekeeping tents and lodges that may be rented.
The county maintains a county playground in the valley that is being increasingly used. Piped water and all camp facilities are furnished free to all.
The Boy Scouts also have their summer camp near by.
Keen Camp, or Tahquitz Lodge, is a few miles nearer Hemet than Idyllwild, and many people go up every week-end for a breath of the pines. There is a good hotel at this point also.RIVERSIDE COUNTY PRODUCTION Year 1922
Oranges ..........$4,000,000.00
Lemons ........... 1,250,000.00
Apples ............. 195,000.00
Apricots ........... 558,000.00
Cherries ............ 24,000.00
Peaches .......... 1,500,000.00
Pears ............... 80,000.00
Prunes .............  22,000.00
Almonds ___________  132.000.00
Walnuts ............ 137,500.00
Pecans ............
Berries .............. 7,500.00
Dates ............... 35,000.00
Figs ................ 10,000.00
Grapes ............. 350,000.00
Plums ................ 6,250.00
Olives and Oils ...	14,700.00	8,321,950.00
Cotton ...........$1,320,000.00
Beans ............... 30,000.00
Beets ............... 34,000.00
Grain ............... 800,00.00
Hay .............. 3.450,000.00
Potatoes ........... 112,500.00
Corn ................ 16,000.00
Sorghum ____________  50,000.00
Onions ............. 900,000.00
Tomatoes ............ 54,000.00
Watermelons ......... 15,000.00
Peppers ........... 6,781,450.00
Cattle ............$ 900,000.00
Pigs .............. 175,000.00
Dairy Products.... 750,000.00
Sheep ............. 150,000.00
Poultry ........... 1,500,000.00 3,475,000.00
Honey .............$ 200,000.00
Cement ............ 1,750 000.00
Clay Products......	85,000.00
Citric Products
(citric acid)...	601,600.00
Rock ................   450,000.00	3,086,600.00
$21,665,050.00RIVERSIDE COUNTY PRODUCTION Year 1922
Oranges .......$4,000,000.00
Lemons ........ 1,250,000.00
Apples .......... 195,000.00
Apricots ........ 558,000.00
Cherries ......... 24,000.00
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Temperature and Rain Table
The following־ table, compiled from records covering a long period years, shows the average maximum and minimum temperature and rainfall per month:
	Av. Max. Temp.	Av. Min. Temp.	Av. Rainfall
			
			
January 			58.9	35.1	2.39
February 			67.1	37.9	2.016
March 			72.6	38.4	2.12
April 		.......77.6	44.2	.749
May 					..78.5	49.8	.316
June 		.......86.1	56.3	.033
July 					92.2	59.3	.026
August 			93.4	56.5	.172
September ...		88.5	52.7	.143
October 		.......87,6	45.1	.518
November .....		75.7	39.9	.77
December ....		68.5	37.1	1.57
Average rainfall for 37 years—10.828 inchesThis is a Beauty Spot
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