and the workingman who finds employment in consequence is rapidly 

 adding to the consuming class and augmenting demands upon the soil 

 products. Riverside County offers not only in its fruit-growing industry an 

 opportunity for the safe investment of capital, but it offers also an opening 

 for farmer, stock and chicken raiser, miner, and business man. 



Its people have provided themselves with admirable schools, both gram- 

 mar and high, under capable and progressive instructors. Its churches and 

 public libraries are numerous and well equipped. It has no liquor saloons, 

 and its people are public-spirited and law-abiding. In the city of River- 

 side, the county seat, a Chamber of Commerce and a General Information 

 Bureau Is maintained, and they will be glad to send you information, liter- 

 ature, and maps upon application. 



Orange County 



J. A. WILI.SON 

 Secretary Snnta Ana Chamber of Conimerce 



DOWN by the Sunset Sea, to the south of Los Angeles, between the 

 brown line of the Temecula Hills and the warm tides of the Pacific; 

 where golden lime-trees flower and fruit forever; where the largest 

 walnut orchards in the world spread their branches to the sun as it 

 rises in the east amid groves of orange, or sets In the west beyond 

 green fields and broad pastures In which the cattle of Holland and the 

 horses of Kentucky stand knee-deep in blooming clover; where unnum- 

 bered miles of wide avenues bordered by the trees of every clime cross 

 and checker the broad valley, the waters of whose rivers and artesian 

 wells have been turned Into gold; where the springtime always lingers, 

 where winter never enters, and where the last rose of summer Is never 

 seen; where mingle together the grapes of Italy and the Rhine, the figs 

 of Smyrna and the dates and olives of Palestine; there where the palms 

 of the South bend to Northern pines, and the richer foliage of the tropics 

 blends with the flowers of all the zones; where rains fall gently and ocean 

 winds breathe softly, under the blue of the Western sky and in the glow 

 of the setting sun,— there is Orange County. 



Originally part of Los Angeles County, and adjoining it on the south- 

 east, it is unsurpassed for fertility, beauty, and substantial resources by 

 any similar area In the State of California; magnificent from the stand- 

 point of industrial wealth, taking In a broad sweep of orchard and grain 

 lands, lying within the valley of the Santa Ana River from the mountains 

 to the sea. It has the best and cheapest Irrigation system in the southern 

 part of California, Its source being the Santa Ana River, and the largest 

 artesian belt and peatland district, as well as a large territory practically 

 frostless. The land Included in the irrigated territories Is devoted to all 

 kinds of fruit-raising, citrus and deciduous, oranges, lemons, walnuts, 

 peaches, pears, apricots, loquats, and all other fruits found in tropical 

 and semitropical countries. The land included in the artesian belt Is 

 devoted to general farming, dairy products, stock-raising, alfalfa, corn, 

 vegetables, and deciduous fruits; in the peatland district, to celery chiefly, 

 and to all kinds of vegetables, and land not subject to irrigation, to barley, 

 wheat, beans, and sugar-beets, the last-named product being extensively 

 raised and manufactured Into sugar within the county. 



Orange County boasts of the standard of its public schools, which, 

 together with Its high schools, are the equal of any in the State. The 

 poultry and bee Industries are becoming extensive, and from the white 

 sage the most delicious honey is produced. Oil is produced in large 

 quantities from hundreds of oil wells. 



Santa Ana, a rapidly growing city of 8,000 inhabitants. Is the county 

 seat, thirty-four miles southwest of the city of Los Angeles, situated on a 



