What to see in America . raceful pepper treefrom Peru, and palms, native and foreign. The watersupply is brought by means of the longest aqueduct in theworld across the desert and through mountain tunnels adistance of two hundred and twenty-six miles. In thenorthern part of the city is a belt of oil-producing territorycovering an area of two square miles. Here are hundredsof derricks erected in close proximity to dwellings. Eightmiles west of the city are asphalt springs which containwonderful bone deposits. Such springs are the most effectiveanimal trap known, and the asphalt preserves the bo
What to see in America . raceful pepper treefrom Peru, and palms, native and foreign. The watersupply is brought by means of the longest aqueduct in theworld across the desert and through mountain tunnels adistance of two hundred and twenty-six miles. In thenorthern part of the city is a belt of oil-producing territorycovering an area of two square miles. Here are hundredsof derricks erected in close proximity to dwellings. Eightmiles west of the city are asphalt springs which containwonderful bone deposits. Such springs are the most effectiveanimal trap known, and the asphalt preserves the bones ofthe creatures thatare caught in its de-ceptive and stickypools. Skeletons ofelephants, camels,sloths, condors,saber-toothed tigers,and many other ani-mals are being grad-ually dug out andset up in a the bones hasbeen found the skullof a human beingwho probably livednot less than 10,000years ago. Wonderful cropsare raised in the re-gion tributary to thecity. You are asked Devils Post Pile, Sierra Forest. 488 What to See in America to believe that corn sometimes grows to a height of twentyfeet, that pumpkins may weigh as much as four hundredpounds, and that holes from which beets have been pulledare of a size sufficient for fence posts. Near Whittier, afew miles south, is a pear tree which has grown fruit to thevalue of SI500 in a single year. More than a third of thestates annual crop of 1,000,000 tons of sugar beets is raisedin Los Angeles and Orange counties. A short distance east of Los Angeles, toward the citysmountain background, is the Mission Church of San Gabriel, erected after theearthquake of1812 had shat-tered the previ-ous church hasnever been dis-used. Seventhousand Indiansare buried in itscemetery. A littleto the north ofthe old Mission isPasadena. Key of the Valley and Threshold of the Moun-tains, the Indians called its site. As recently as 1880 theplateau here was a sheep-run, and the huts of the herderswere the only habitations.
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