Southern California; . e generally blows inthe afternoon, and the dryness of the air makes the heatendurable. The mountains of the Elsinore region are rich inmineral and clay. Ore heavy with gold and silver hasbeen discovered, asbestos has been taken out in quan-tities suflficient to make it a commodity of commerce ona small scale, and a coal mine is located here, constantlyemploying a force of from fifteen to thirty are mountains of potters clay in the same vicin-ity, which is capable of supplying an almost unlimiteddemand for material not only for pipe and tile but alsofor the m
Southern California; . e generally blows inthe afternoon, and the dryness of the air makes the heatendurable. The mountains of the Elsinore region are rich inmineral and clay. Ore heavy with gold and silver hasbeen discovered, asbestos has been taken out in quan-tities suflficient to make it a commodity of commerce ona small scale, and a coal mine is located here, constantlyemploying a force of from fifteen to thirty are mountains of potters clay in the same vicin-ity, which is capable of supplying an almost unlimiteddemand for material not only for pipe and tile but alsofor the most refined products of the potters craft. With all this mineral wealth, with its sulphur springs,its boating and its agricultural resources, the Elsinoreregion will certainly some day be one of the importantsections of Southern California, but it needs the quick-ening touch of enterprise and capital to develop itsresources which lie so close at hand. Already there isa good hotel here, and the rest will come with 86 SAN DIEGO COUNTY. THE histarj of California is written iu the deeds ofbut three full generations of men. A little overa century ago it was the undisputed home ofhosts of Indians who lived their simple life in its valleys,undreaming of the vast changes which many of themwould be called upon to witness. To be sure, there werevague stories among them of strange men who hadvisited their shores, for Cabrillo and Vizcaino had beenhere more than a century earlier, and Sir Francis Drake— a dim foreshadowing of the two races which weredestined in time to contend for supremacy in this landby the western sea — but the simple people lived thelife of their fathers, hunting for game in the mountains,grinding their acorns in stone mortars, weaving theirbaskets, loving and sorrowing with little thought of themorrow. It was the pious zeal of Father Junipero Serra whichoccasioned the first great change. He had longed todevote his life to the conversion of the CaliforniaInd
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