80 RURAL CALIFORNIA 



in a twelve-mile main ditch and laterals, and the like, 

 for a total outlay of $1400. This was not only the 

 first fruit-growing colony of California, but it freely 

 gave more for the money than has ever been secured 

 from colony promoters since that time. The last 

 survivor of the original cooperators in the Anaheim 

 colony died in 1921, and a few of the first subdivisions 

 remain in the ownership of the families of the original 

 settlers. 



About fifteen years after the beginning at Anaheim, 

 colony enterprises began to be projected on a large 

 scale, and by that time they had become less coopera- 

 tive and more proprietary and speculative in their 

 character. Settlers were sold land but not always 

 water with it, only a right to buy water, the owner- 

 ship remaining for a time or permanently with the 

 projectors who purchased or appropriated it and built 

 the works to bring it to the land. In spite of finan- 

 cial sufferings, sometimes to the settlers and often 

 to the water companies, the outcome of irrigated 

 colony enterprises as a whole has been for the pros- 

 perity of those participating in them and notably for 

 the development of the State. Almost all have 

 grown into large centers of population, production 

 and trade, famous throughout the country and 

 beyond, for their attractiveness to tourists and 

 investors and for the satisfaction that permanent 

 residents find in them. 



The irrigated citrus settlements at Riverside, Red- 

 lands, Pasadena, Pomona and other similar enter- 

 prises began before 1880. About the same time irri- 



