SKMi-Tnopir r \r. /Fort.vrj. 
in 
extended 
nardinu. 
TAKlIt'i INTO COSailUEItATlOX 
tho direction of San Ber- Old •• i i 
.ts, “ »< n. 
-Poles and no*. ir *?* , ® r J atmosphere ,.f San Bernardino rminiy 
The above favorable condition of afT.ir. 1 v«U.-y ..... 
I ~* K '. mining and tramporut,on | eommg into ■ . • tn. adrao..*.. • 
both from _ __ _ 
standpoint it is certainly not strange that 
San Bernardino is extraordinarily active. 
Hut one of the innvi gratifyii g featm** o| 
the matter is that the sgrir ultoral and 
horticultural resources of the vtlb r *r<- 
now to be developed to ihn fullest eiten! 1 
A great market ha. opened almost at the I 
very doors of tho farmers and their »up|.' 
products will command the highest price, 
for many years to ootno. When n„ con¬ 
sider the comparatively limited area of 
arable land in San Bernardino . ,..<y 
when compared with tho mineral districts 
it is rcrrwrkaldo that men about to engage 
"I agricultural pursuits do not secure a 
foothold in a region with such a promising 
future while there i» yet n chance. I.ct ua 
briefly review San Bernardino Valiev from 
an agricultural and horticultural stand- 
point. 
LANDS, soil. AND WATRft. 
The county of San Bernardino contain. 
23,472 square miles, equal in extent to half; 
the size of the slate of New York. The! 
valley embraces an arm .,f about 1,50 d; 
square indes of arable land. These land* 1 
are of several classes, some being adapted 
to grain raising, R.uno to atork, ami by far 
the largest amount to fruit. In manv | 
locations crops thrive without irrigation, ‘ 
hut in the matt.-r of water there is 1,0 are grown in the world than 1 
scarcity, for besides the Santa Ana river Juced here, and we bebevr 
11 ml a great number of small streams there mart -1 for the finer varictu-* can 
arc over 4.3(1 flutviug artesian wells, the .orr*t.wked. N. .tU all of tl .. 
eat 1 mated daitv 
flow of 
Kl.l.VV'OO 
hms. A b u it 
dance of surface 
found in almost 
all portions of 
tho valley at a 
depth varying 
from 15 feet to 
150 feet, 
will thus 
seen that there 
is an abundance 
of water for tho 
present and fu¬ 
ture licet wilics 
of tlm valley, 
ami (i v a n if 
there worn not 
this abundance. 
fo ‘tu 
>'■ I 
uhlj 
A SAN BKRNAnmNO COl'NTV ORAN 
would by 
mean* hctliaas- 
Irons, as we 
are convinced 
by observation 
that many or¬ 
chards and vineyards neat San 
will yet be ruined by cxecssivi 
nut wosm. 
Fmit is the principal and 1 
most desirable and piofitable 1 
Bernardino Valiev- The orany 
KKS1UBNCR OF DU. FOX. 
Bernardino 
I adapted to 
lianecuHint 
■ 
1 doubted ly 
op io San 
bra, 
varieties of 
