What to see in America . An Oceanside Oil Field California 489. Mission Bells, San Gabriel settled in 1851 by 500 INIor-mons. They paid the Mexi-can owners of the land $7500for 37,000 acres. The placehas an agreeable winter cli-mate, but blinding and stiflingdust-storms frequently whirlthrough Cajon Pass from theMojave Desert. At the baseof the mountains, seven milesdistant, is a health resortwith its boiling springs, oneof which has a temperatureof nearly two hundred de-grees and a daily flow fromthe rock of half a million gal-lons. Numerous importanttowns have grown up in the region adjacent
What to see in America . An Oceanside Oil Field California 489. Mission Bells, San Gabriel settled in 1851 by 500 INIor-mons. They paid the Mexi-can owners of the land $7500for 37,000 acres. The placehas an agreeable winter cli-mate, but blinding and stiflingdust-storms frequently whirlthrough Cajon Pass from theMojave Desert. At the baseof the mountains, seven milesdistant, is a health resortwith its boiling springs, oneof which has a temperatureof nearly two hundred de-grees and a daily flow fromthe rock of half a million gal-lons. Numerous importanttowns have grown up in the region adjacent to San Bernardino. One of them is Red-lands, w^hich has close about it a crescent of snow-mantledpeaks, some of which are more than two miles high, over-looking an Eden of matchless fertility. Bear Valley, Pine ^ Lake, and numerouscanyon retreats en-tice campers, hunts-men, and anglers. Somewhat to thesouthwest is River-side, which has beencalled a populatedorange grove. Un-wavering lines of well-groomed, round-topped trees spread
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