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Some Dry Ranches.Last Friday afternoon found us on the. road to Rincon where* we I had been intending to go for some weeks. The day was almost perfect. . Driving across the mesa the b fresh coast breeze fanned one gently, Itlling the lungs with the invigorating and healthful breath from old Xeptune’s briny dominion. Ahead of us and on both sides the gently sloping mesa stretched away witli oven incline from the vorduro-clad sides of the Temescai mountains on the left to where the green fringe of willows and cottonwoods marked the course of Temescai creek on the right. Still farther to the right, beyond the bluffs that align the north banks of the Temescai, extends a broad valley with here and there a clump of trees showing the location of a rancher’s home, and in the bosom of the vale is seen the new and rapidly growing town of Chino which thrives upon the pure air, abundant water and fertile soil like its own orchards and vineyards. Stretching still away and away the plain shems as if it would scale the' very mountains which loom up at its uttermost verge, twenty-five miles or more to the northward,■ their rugged outlines softened by the distance and a dreamy purple haze enveloping them in its ether- 1 iai embrace. Beneath their frowning peaks, where the a mbitious plain laps over upon their bases a score of towns and villages can be distinguished with orchards upon every hand speaking of plenty and peace. The whole forms a magni-cent landscape.The boulevard is crossed and'the town left behind us. Quickly we ..reach the Arroyo, its bed green l with shrubs and trees and we 1 notice a goodly stream rushing along its boulder-strewn bed in mad haste to wed the placid Santa Aria. It is the waste water from the big pipe line. The mesa is dry now and the luxuriant herbage and the carpet of many lined {lowers ’ that covered it a few months ago are gone but it is still grown over thinly with the variegated foliage of drouth resisting herbs. As we approach Itincon the mesa becomes rolling in character and in a few minutes we pass an old burying ground on the left, an unfinished reservoir on the right and then the : road angles down a stoop bank and the town is before us. In a minute - more we have halted in front of the Pioneer store of John Noble. Mr. Noble is an old settler having come here nearly thirty years ago. He : has sold goods to the people of this region for many years, and is 1 postmaster lyider the present regime.The Hotel Rincon,1 the largest and most imposing building in town, has about twenty room's and was built last winter. It is neatly furnished .and gives the traveler better accommodations than many a town several times the size of Rincon. Mrs. Hitchcock is the hostess and her guests may always look for the best treatment.G. W. Willfong has purchased , the business of J. 11. Newberry and does a general merchandise business and keeps a lumber yard. The express and railroad offices ate ' also in his store. !The townpit'e is largely. covered'! kwh!; a- vineyard cf . mion grapes.:
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South Riverside Bee
South Riverside, California, US
Thu, Aug 30, 1888
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