. History of Pomona Valley, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the valley who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present .. . DON RICARDO VEJAR. DON YGNACIO PALOMARES HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY 35 Mounting their liorses in the morning, the two crosstd the stream and rodeto the top of the hill, avoiding the thick growth of cactus on the south and eastand picking their way through the chaparral of the canyon and slopes on thenorth side of the hill. Arriving at the summit, a scene of wondrous beauty mettheir eyes. League
. History of Pomona Valley, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the valley who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present .. . DON RICARDO VEJAR. DON YGNACIO PALOMARES HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY 35 Mounting their liorses in the morning, the two crosstd the stream and rodeto the top of the hill, avoiding the thick growth of cactus on the south and eastand picking their way through the chaparral of the canyon and slopes on thenorth side of the hill. Arriving at the summit, a scene of wondrous beauty mettheir eyes. League upon league of virgin count^y lay below them. East, northand south it stretched away, gently sloping toward the south, where rolling hills,carpeted with green, rose to the nearer horizon. Far to the east the snowymasses of San Bernardino, San Gorgonio and San Jacinto glistened in the risingsun. Northward, hardly more than a half hours gallop away it seemed in theclear mountain air, the great mountains towered into the blue sky, range uponrange, from the nearer foothills to the snow-capped peaks which mark the loftyhorizon. Yet between them and the northern foothills lay a great carpet thou-sands of acres in extent, wh
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