Southern California; . g the hour of travel from Orange to LosAngeles, several thriving little towns are passed whichare devoted to fruit culture and walnut growing, whilein the intervening country are grazing lands for stockand fields of grain. At La Mirada a model orangeorchard is under cultivation, covering several hundredacres and with a picturesque tiled-roof mission home setin the midst of the grove. The stations here and atCapistrano are especially appropriate in design, follow-ing the mission architecture in a very effective is next passed — a thriving fruit and grainc
Southern California; . g the hour of travel from Orange to LosAngeles, several thriving little towns are passed whichare devoted to fruit culture and walnut growing, whilein the intervening country are grazing lands for stockand fields of grain. At La Mirada a model orangeorchard is under cultivation, covering several hundredacres and with a picturesque tiled-roof mission home setin the midst of the grove. The stations here and atCapistrano are especially appropriate in design, follow-ing the mission architecture in a very effective is next passed — a thriving fruit and graincenter — and from Santa Fe Springs, a little farther on,may be had a very pretty view of Whittier spread outupon the foothills above. Evidences of the proximity of a large city soon appear as the siren whistle announces our approach toLos Angeles. The city, set upon its hills and spreadingover the adjacent valley, lifts its toviers, chimneysand spires high above us, and we are soon standingbefore the Santa Fe LOS ANGELES. ON the fourth of September, 1781, a party of twelvemission soldiers, together with their families,amounting in all to forty-six persons, took pos-session, under direction of the Governor of California,then located at San Gabriel Mission, of a tract of landfor the purpose of forming the Pueblo de la Reina de losAngeles. The government furnished them with suchnecessities for farm life as horses and cattle, tools andagricultural implements of a rude character. The citywas laid out around a plaza and land for homes andcultivation was allotted to the heads of families, to beretained so long as they were kept improved and in goodrepair. Nine years after the formation of the pueblo, whenthe first census was taken, the town consisted of a hun-dred and fort3-one persons, a large proportion of whomwere Spanish-Americans and mulattos, while fifty yearsfrom the date of organization the population numberedbut seven hundred and seventy. Standing today upon one of
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