i 9 4 Life in the Open 



mnarkable spectacles in the world, winter and semi- 

 tropic summer face to face. The Sierra Madre are 

 white with snow, a long range as high as Mount Wash- 

 ington, and farther to the east Mount San Antonio, ten 

 thousand feet in air, and Mount San Jacinto, still higher, 

 domes of purest white against the azure of the 

 cloudless sky. 



Drop the eyes and they rest upon the garden spot 

 of this country : thousands of acres in the highest state 

 of cultivation, groves of orange, lemon, olive, walnut, 

 and nearly every fruit ; great vineyards ; groves of 

 eucalyptus and live oak, telling the story of life in 

 the open in a land of balmy airs and eternal summer. 

 Here are some of the notable California ranches, as 

 Sunny Slope and Santa Anita, with their fine reaches 

 of forests, their lofty palms, and seemingly endless lines 

 of orange trees, ranch houses embowered in tropical ver- 

 dure, and the ranch property reaching away for miles 

 toward the distant sea. 



The coach rolls through great vineyards, and every- 

 where evidences of the highest cultivation are evident. 

 Later, at the vintage, gangs of Mexicans, men and 

 women, can be seen picking and filling their boxes with 

 fragrant Mission grapes ; no more delightful region for 

 coaching or automobiling can be imagined than this. 



Pasadena is a city of 25,000 inhabitants, recruited 

 from among the wealthy and cultivated people of the 

 East, and is said to be the wealthiest town of its size in 

 the world. It stands in the literal heart of an orange 



