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necessity, viz., a piped water-system, Palm Springs 

 possesses: the next in value, electric lighting, may 

 shortly be expected to arrive. As yet we are free 

 of the everlasting jingle of the telephone, yet have 

 the really useful telegraph at command. Daily 

 train service both east and west, with its corollary 

 of daily mail and news service, need hardly be 

 specified: they may be taken for granted. 



To conclude: we are well served with stores: 

 possess a neat church, nominally Presbyterian, in 

 which services are regularly held (there is also 

 a Roman Catholic church on the Indian Reserva- 

 tion) : our school is creditable: we are furnished 

 with the indispensable garage, well appointed: and 

 the services of an excellent physician are always at 

 our disposal except during the very hot months of 

 the year, when the white population is practically 

 nil. 

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Travelers coming BY TRAIN should buy tickets not 

 to Palm Springs, but to Whitewater, which is the 

 station at which the auto-stage meets the train. 

 (Palm Springs Station is connected with the village 

 only by a very poor road, not available for auto 

 travel.) The distance to the village is nine miles, 

 which is covered in half an hour. By road the route 

 from the coast is via Pomona, Ontario, Riverside 

 or San Bernardino, Beaumont, Banning, and the 

 main desert road through Cabezon and Whitewater. 



