ABSTRACT
The country between Los Angeles and San Bernardino varies greatly in quality. Some parts are very fine. About Ruebottom's, where stage passengers stop to dine, there is first-class farming land; ten miles beyond you reach the famous Co cam un go vineyard, which produces a great deal of what seems to me a poor and very spirituous wine, and also a good deal of brandy. Beyond that you cross for ten miles a tract which was once, I believe, fertile, but has been covered by a wash of boulders, stones, and gravel from the mountains. Then you enter the valley after which San Bernardino is named, which, with the adjoining foot-hills, contains a great tract of first-class farming and orchard land-perhaps as much as half a million of acres, most of it easily watered. A part of this is in private hands, some in considerable tracts j but a large part of it is Congress land, now reserved from entry until the Southern Pacific Railroad shall have located its alternate sections, but likely to be open to entry at the double minimum rate within the year 1872.
