EVOLUTION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 



outcome of the settlement of city workingmen on agri- 

 cultural lands. Riverside represents a higher degree of 

 social conditions, and is especially important and inter- 

 esting as an example of the influence exerted by an en- 

 tirely new element of population upon a country which 

 had been neither developed nor appreciated by its natives 

 and early settlers. A brief glance at the beginnings of 

 these two communities is essential to any just compre- 

 hension of the condition and tendencies of the southern 

 California of to-day. 



Anaheim was projected forty years ago by a party of 

 Germans in San Francisco. They were all mechanics 

 and small tradesmen, and each was possessed of a modest 

 amount of savings. It was proposed that this capital 

 should be united in a common fund and used for the 

 purchase and improvement of a large tract of land. For 

 this purpose a colony association was formed, the mem- 

 bers paying one hundred dollars each and agreeing to 

 make further contributions in monthly instalments. A 

 committee was sent out to discover a good location and 

 contract for its purchase. A body of land near the Santa 

 Ana river, twenty-five miles southeast of Los Angeles, 

 was chosen. A part of the colony was then detailed to 

 build an irrigation canal, divide the land into twenty- 

 acre farms, with a central village, and plant the whole 

 tract in orchards and vineyards. In the mean time the 

 main body of the association remained in San Francisco, 

 earning money and sustaining the work in the field. 

 When the colony had thus been completely prepared for 

 occupancy, the settlers came with their families, build- 

 ing their houses in the village and assigning the farms 

 to individuals by drawing lots. In order to make this di- 



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