Identifier: oldmexicoherlost1883bish (find matches)
Title: Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Bishop, William Henry, 1847-1928
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel California -- Description and travel Arizona -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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nment is of a simple sort, and consistsof a justice of the peace, constable, water overseer, andschool trustees. Anaheim, settled by Germans, w^asone of the first established colonies, and has become atown of importance. Santa Ana had a special bustleat present, as the terminus, for the time being, of therailroad in process of building from Los Angeles to SanDiego. Perhaps, however, the greatest general air of distinctionis worn by Hiverside. This colony seems to have beensought to an exceptional degree by persons in good cir-cumstances. It is fifty-seven miles lower down than LosAngeles, and reached by a drive of seven miles southwardfrom the Southern Pacific Railroad at Colton. Fourmiles north of Colton, on the other hand, takes you toSan Bernardino, an important place of six thousand peo-ple, originally settled by Mormons. The regular Mor-mons withdrew to Utah by order of Brigham Young onthe threat of the coercive war there in 1857, and only SAN DIEGO, AND THE MEXICAN FRONTIER. 449
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450 OLD MEXICO AND HER LOST PROVINCES. a few Josepliites now remain, whose practices do notdiffer greatly from those of other people. At Kiverside is found a continuous belt of settlementand cultivation twelve miles long, by two miles in averagewidth. It will be twenty long when all complete. Thepopulation is not large, but revels in a great deal of room.The general situation is a valley of about forty milessquare, at an elevation of twelve hundred feet above thesea. The access to this valley is by four several passes,one each on the north, south, east, and west, as if so manydoors had been providentially left open in the encom-passing mountain ranges. The settlement forms an oasisin the midst of the desert, after the general plan. Itsfresh greenness, and canals of clear water, along whichsylvan glimpses, almost English, are met with, deriveadded charm and interest from the desert. The rest ofthe liigh, quadrangular valley, capable, no doubt, of asgreat development, if water can be br

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