. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . uced by the varied hues of green pre-sented by vegetation. There was not time for much analysiswhen the great attraction to the Easternresident appeared in the shape of orangegroves laden with their golden fruit. Thetrain was dropping into the Santa AnaValley and soon it stopped at is called one of three jewels of thisvalley, the others being Riverside andSan Bernardino. traordinary wayside. About noon on May8th, Redlands is left behind and no stop ismade till Los Angeles is re
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . uced by the varied hues of green pre-sented by vegetation. There was not time for much analysiswhen the great attraction to the Easternresident appeared in the shape of orangegroves laden with their golden fruit. Thetrain was dropping into the Santa AnaValley and soon it stopped at is called one of three jewels of thisvalley, the others being Riverside andSan Bernardino. traordinary wayside. About noon on May8th, Redlands is left behind and no stop ismade till Los Angeles is reached at we are 2,000 miles -from New Or-leans. In the run from Redlands the trainhas passed through the famous San Ga-briel Valley. There is an old mansionhere near to which General Kearney de-feated the Mexican forces. It is a formidable task to write aboutthe wonders of Los Angeles. In littlemore than twenty years this place hasrisen from a village to a city of 100,000inhabitants. Fruit gardens supplied theriches, but now orange groves and oil-well derricks are found mixed up, incon-. CACTUS NEAR TUSCON. ullEtK NE.\R SAMT.\ CRUZ. food for vegetation. Two hours out ofYuma, beginning at Flowing Wells, thetrain traverses for 60 miles the bed of adried-up sea, and descends 260 feet belowsea level. From the ancient sea bottomthe track trends upwards till it reachesthe crossing of the San BernardinoRange, 2,592 feet above sea level. Whenthat summit is passed the train dropsdown rapidly into the realms of the orangegrove that is surrounded with orchardsrich in almost every kind of fruit culti-vated for mankind. It was good daylight when the trainemerged from the ruins of the ancientsea, and the party could watch the ro-mantic scenes that presented new pic- The party stopped at Redlands for threehours to enjoy sight-seeing amidst theluxuries of nature, which are rich beyondconception throughout the whole of South-western California. The beginning oforange growing in the n
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