What to see in America . 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-
What to see in America . 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. Hi^^^ A Glass-bottomed Boat, Santa CatalinaIsland 490 What to See in America for miles over a tractthat was barren desertuntil it was Riverside the seed-less navel orangewas introduced in theUnited States. Fouryoung seedless treesthat had been broughtfrom Brazil were setout here in 1873, andsix years later the twotrees that survived be-gan to bear. Thesetwo ancestral trees,whose progeny produceby far the larger partof the states orangecrop, are the most ven-erated monuments ofthe region. Riversidehas a park which contains three hundred varieties of Avenue, one hundred and fifty feet wide, andmany miles long, is bordered by magnolias, eucalypti, andvery tall fan palms with hairy trunks. Before sunrise onEaster morning a procession leaves the town to ascend thenear-by brusque pyramidal Mt. Rubidoux, on the summitof which is a cross consecrated in 1907. Since then clergyof varying creeds have addressed the early morning multi-tude which is attracted thither ea
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