REDLANDS 
 
 
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 A PERFECT CLIMATE 
 
 THE FINEST ORANGE 
 GROVES in the STATE 
 
 BEAUTIFUL PARKS 
 and FINE RESIDENCES 
 
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 “ 1 have spent six weeks in your beautiful city; have 
 been out for a drive on more than twenty occasions, and 
 found something new and attractive on each. What a 
 mistake is made by those who give but two short hours, 
 or even two days, to your incomparable climate and 
 matchless scenery.”— Gen. Russell Hastings. 
 
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 EDLANDS is perhaps the most conspicuous example in all Southern 
 California of the evolution of a progressive, modern " City of Homes," 
 from what, a little more than a decade ago, was but a waste of sagebrush 
 and cacti. 
 
 The real beginning of Redlands dates from March 10, 1887, when 
 the town plat was filed. At that time it was but a hamlet comprising the 
 usual " brick block," a few score of small dwellings, one or two stores, and 
 perhaps one hundred acres of newly-planted orange trees. From that date 
 to this Redlands has never taken a backward step, but has made steady, 
 substantial and permanent progress, with nothing of the " boom " nature in 
 the gradual, healthy growth of the past five years, today it bears the enviable 
 reputation of " the best interior town of Southern California." 
 
 The present population of the city is 1 0,000, an increase in five years 
 of nearly one hundred per cent. The assessed valuation in 1901 was 
 $3,656,397; in 1907, $7,000,000. The property valuation in 1901 
 $9,000,000; 1 907, $2 1 ,000,000. There are 200 miles of streets, 
 eighteen miles of cement walks, and the bonded indebtedness will be but 
 
 $200,000 after the expenditure of $200,000 on the present improvement 
 and building of new roads and streets of asphalt and macadam. 
 
 As has been well and truly said, " What has been done in material 
 development during the past year has been more than duplicated along 
 intellectual lines. Redlands is a city that stands for culture, and with her 
 schools and churches, her women s clubs and her musical organizations, has 
 gone ahead, in this respect, with leaps and bounds. A city of homes, with 
 all the good that the word home implies, is what Redlands strives to be 
 and is." 
 
 
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 The Y. M. C. A. owns one of the most attractive properties in the 
 city, valued at $40,000 and entirely paid for. The Association maintains 
 gymnasium classes, reading room, game room ard a summer camp. 
 
The A. K. Smiley Public Library is a handsome, substantial brick 
 building in modified Mission style, containing 12,000 volumes, and with 
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 GRAMMAR SCHOOLS 
 
 The public school system of California is maintained at a high standard 
 of excellence, and it is universally conceded that there are no better 
 grammar or high schools in the State than those of Redlands. There is 
 one High School building, six large grammar school buildings, and three 
 others devoted to manual training. The aggregate cost of school property 
 is upwards of $350,000. Fifty-seven teachers are now employed, and 
 nearly 2,200 scholars enrolled. 
 
REDLANDS COUNTRY CLUB 
 
 LADIES’ CONTEMPORARY CLUB 
 
 UNIVERSITY” CLUB OF REDLANDS 
 
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 HOME OF WALTER CRAMP 
 ON ELECTRIC CAR LINE TO COUNTRY CLUB 
 
 The new home of the Contemporary Club, a woman's organization of 
 two hundred members, is a conspicuous ornament to the city. It has an 
 audience room with a seating capacity of 700, and, with the furnishings, 
 represents an expenditure of $25,000. Among the other social, literary 
 and musical organizations are the University Club, owning a handsome 
 building which cost $20,000 ; the Spinet, -purely musical ; the Country 
 Club with a picturesque club-house, golf grounds, tennis courts, etc., located 
 on " The Heights the Fortnightly, a men's club of limited membership ; 
 the Century Club, and the Redlands Medical Society. Twenty-six Fra- 
 ternal organizations hold regular and special meetings in attractively furnished, 
 convenient lodge rooms. The Elks have elegantly fitted quarters with cafe 
 adjoining in the second story of the $50,000 Post Office building. 
 
 BUNGALOW OF EDWARD S GRAHAM 
 
tem. The lobby has been entirely rebuilt and a large fireplace added, the 
 dining room enlarged to double its former size and inclosed by plate-glass 
 windows facing the flower gardens. Thirty baths and a number of new 
 rooms have been added and enlargements made to many others which have 
 been newly furnished and equipped. The kitchen has been entirely remod- 
 eled and numerous other improvements have been made throughout the 
 house, so that this year’s visitors will hardly recognize La Casa Loma of old. 
 The hotel is delightfully situated on slightly rising ground commanding a 
 magnificent view of the nearby orange groves and surrounding snow-capped 
 mountains, and is within easy walking distance of the public library, theater, 
 depots, postoffice, shops and churches. The ventilation and sanitary arrange- 
 ments of the house are absolutely perfect, and no trouble or expense has 
 been spared to make La Casa Loma comfortable, attractive and home-like. 
 
 Visitors to Redlands principal hotel, La Casa Loma, are afforded addi- 
 tional privileges and conveniences because of the fact that this house is now 
 one of the Linnard System of hotels of Southern California which includes 
 the Maryland at Pasadena, the Leighton at Los Angeles and the Virginia 
 at Long Beach. Mr. Linnard is undoubtedly one of the best hotel men on 
 the Pacific Coast. His great success at the Maryland, Pasadena, has won 
 for him a splendid reputation and a large number of friends, and he will 
 operate the Casa Loma on the same broad scale which has made the 
 Maryland so popular. Our Hotel La Casa Loma has always been a 
 favorite by reason of its superb location, extensive grounds and fine view. 
 During the past year approximately $50,000 has been expended on the 
 buildings and grounds, the hotel being put on a par with others of the sys- 
 
 MT. SAN BERNARDINO BY MOONLIGliT 
 
The Wissahickon Inn, a first-class family hotel of f ° rt y r °°™' s,e ' im ' 
 heated throughout, is very homelike and beautifully located. Hill Crest Inn, 
 on The Terrace, and numerous houses in the business section, accommodate 
 
 all classes of tourists and business men. , f . . • , 
 
 A handsome theatre, in the Spanish Mission style of architecture, with 
 a seating capacity of twelve hundred and a stage forty by forty feet, has 
 
 lately been erected at a cost of nearly $30,000. 
 
 Eighty miles from the ocean, Redlands nestles close to the foothills, 
 sheltered by a mountain range averaging in height on the north and east 
 about 5000 feet. From vast storage reservoirs an abundant supply ot the 
 purest mountain water, free from alkali, is provided for domestic use as well 
 
 WISSAHICKON INN 
 
 as for the irrigation of orange groves, flower gardens and lawns. Here the 
 Washington Navel Seedless Orange reaches the heigit o pei ■ 
 
 Soil, climate and cultivation combine to produce fruit that is ^surpassed or 
 beauty, flavor and keeping qualities. Throughout the length and bread 
 of California’s orange belt, no locality is so favored by nature for the succe 
 and profitable culture of this luscious fruit. Problems of scale and smut, o 
 extremes of heat and cold, of too much moisture or too little water, do no 
 vex the fortunate orange growers of Redlands. These conditions are due 
 
 entirely to the topographical situation ontheterminaldopeoftheSerm 
 
 Madre Mountains. With an almost absolute freedom from frost th ml nd 
 and elevated situation of the groves prevents the dreaded scale that 
 
INTERIOR OF AN ORANGE PACKING HOUSE 
 
The business section has kept pace with the rapid increase in popu- 
 lation, fully supplying the demands of its inhabitants. There are three 
 National and two Savings Banks, with deposits of more than $2,000,000 ; 
 two electric, two telegraph, two telephone and two gas companies. 
 
 • c ^° arc * T ra< k> one °f most active commercial organizations 
 in Southern California, with upwards of three hundred members, maintains 
 an exhibit room and Bureau of Information, centrally located, for the 
 convenience of visitors. 
 
 The Facts and the Review are respectively the evening and morning 
 papers. The Review issues a weekly edition. The Citrograph is a well 
 printed weekly, “a local authority on horticultural subjects as well as a 
 purveyor of news.” 
 
 favored localities must be held in check by extensive spraying and fumi- 
 gating. No Redlands oranges require washing and brushing to cleanse 
 them from black smut— that aftermath of the scale pest. The half-circle 
 of mountains protects the groves alike from cold in winter and from heavy 
 wind storms that would beat and bruise the golden fruit. These claims are 
 substantiated by the following indisputable facts, namely : first prizes at all 
 citrus exhibits ; greatest demand and highest prices in eastern markets ; 
 ninety per cent of the f. o. b. orders and the crop practically exhausted 
 when most other localities had thirty per cent of their crop on the trees 
 unsold. Shipments from fifteen packing houses have exceeded 3500 car- 
 loads in a year, the returns from this year’s crop aggregating $2,500,000. 
 
 A SCENE IN AN ORANGE GROVE IN JANUARY 
 
The Santa Fe and Southern Pacific 
 Railroads, with eight passenger trains daily, 
 maintain an excellent train service to Los 
 Angeles and the neighboring towns. The 
 San Bernardino Valley Traction Company 
 runs an electric road to Smiley Heights, the 
 Country Club and Terracina, accommodating 
 the residence and business sections. Also 
 to Highland, Colton and San Bernardino, 
 connecting at the latter point with all trains 
 on the new Salt Lake road. 
 
 
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Fifteen miles from Redlands, in a spur 
 of Mount San Jacinto, are the Eden Hot 
 Springs, where comfortable hotel accom- 
 modations, furnished tents and camping 
 privileges may be secured by those who 
 desire to avail themselves of these popular 
 hot and cold springs, which may be reached 
 every Wednesday and Saturday by stage 
 from Redlands. 
 
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HOME OF A. C. DENMAN, JR 
 
 f W^ PaP 'i l n"°r n,ain reSOrtS are cloSe at hand - At elevations o] 
 rom 3000 to 6000 feet and from twelve to twenty-eight miles distance 
 
 from our railway stations are Oakglen, Sevenoaks, Squirrel Inn, Skinner’s 
 Resort, Bear Valley Forest Home, Bluff Lake, Fredalba Park and 
 Mountain Home; all of them, cool, health-giving, summer resting places, 
 where hotel, cottage and camping privileges may be had. 
 
 HOME OF E. G. JUDSON 
 
HOME OF MRS. I. L LYON 
 
Neither the resident in Redlands nor the visitor need suffer from ennui. 
 The matchless climate and the more than three hundred sunshiny days in 
 the year afford ample opportunity for all sorts of outdoor sports and recrea- 
 tions. Horseback rides, coaching parties, golf and tennis may be enjoyed. 
 There are trout streams in the canyons beyond the city for the fishermen ; 
 quail and dove shooting on the foothills at the terminus of the car line, and 
 deer in the mountains for the hunter ; scenery and wondrous grandeur for 
 the artist, and for the lover of nature, beauty everywhere. 
 
 HOME OF MRS. CURTIS WELLS 
 
 The Edgemont Drive and the McKinley Drive, the former ten miles 
 over the hilltops, looking down into gulches and canyons, out upon valleys 
 green with grain and vegetation and up to Old Baldy, Mount San Bernar- 
 dino, Mount San Jacinto and Grayback, two and half miles high ; the 
 latter, through Library Park, Prospect Park on the Heights and Canyon 
 Crest Park, passing hundreds of beautiful homes and elegant mansions, with 
 their well-kept lawns, profusion of flowers and tropical palms, peppers and 
 shrubbery, will amply repay one for crossing the continent to see and enjoy. 
 
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 But what of " Smiley Heights ! ” Standing on the crest of this 
 beautiful park, surrounded by a tropical vegetation in midwinter, you look 
 down upon San Bernardino Valley, with its ten thousand acres of orange 
 groves and six thrifty cities and towns, chief among which and lying right 
 at your feet is the clean, sun-kissed, rose-embowered gem city of Redlands ; 
 then up to the grandest peaks of Southern California’s majestic Sierras, 
 whose snow-capped summits rise to an elevation of more than twelve 
 
 thousand feet. Bordering the more than three miles of roadway in this 
 park are upwards of twelve hundred varieties of shrubs and plants brought 
 from South America, the Islands of the Pacific, Australia, China, Japan, 
 Africa, Persia, India, the Himalayas and the Cape of Good Hope. 
 Flowers are everywhere — a limitless wealth of color, fragrance and beauty. 
 This park, with the scenery which it commands, is without question the 
 most fascinating of all the beautiful places made possible by the marvelously 
 fertile soil and balmy climate of Southern California. 
 
And the Climate ! Kate Sanborn says : " Spell it with a capital, and 
 then try to think of an adjective worthy to precede it. Glorious ! Deli- 
 cious ! Incomparable ! A climate warm with a constant refreshing coolness 
 in its heart ; cool with a latent vivifying warmth forever peeping out of its 
 coat-tail pocket. You can snowball your companion on Christmas morning 
 on the mountain top ; pelt your lady friends with rose leaves in the foothills 
 an hour later, and in another sixty minutes dip in the surf no colder than 
 Newport in July." 
 
 Hojais OF K C. STFKIilJSG 
 
 William McKinley, President Roosevelt. Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, 
 Prof. Liberty H. Bailey, Duke of Newcastle, Hon. James H. Eckles, Gen. 
 Wesley Merritt, Admiral Schley, Marshall Field, John James Janes, 
 David B. Henderson, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Lyman Abbott, Rev. 
 Minot J. Savage, Dr. E. S. Chapman, David Bispham, Julian Hawthorne, 
 Madam DeLussan, Julian Nordica, and Laurence Hutton are numbered 
 among the thousands of visitors who have said or written of Redlands as 
 follows : 
 
 11 The only view I have ever seen that compares with it is from the 
 road between Nice and Monaco along the Mediterranean." 
 
 " The most beautiful spot on earth." 
 
A REDLANDS HOME ON “T1IE HEIGHTS” IN FEBRUARY 
 
 11 The prettiest place I have ever seen.” 
 
 The view from the Heights will ever remain a pleasant memory. 11 
 
 You have beautiful homes and the finest shrubhery and orange 
 groves 1 have ever seen. It is the prettiest city I have seen on the coast. 
 I am just charmed with it. 11 
 
 " I have crossed the Atlantic sixty-six times and traveled over Europe 
 from North Cape to Gibraltar, and find Redlands beautiful beyond 
 expectation.” 
 
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WINTER RESIDENCE OF A. C. BURRAGE, OF BOSTON 
 
HOME OF W. F. HOLT 
 
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 HOME OF A. G. HUBBAKD 
 
11 1 am surprised and delighted 
 with Redlands." 
 
 SCENES IN PROSPECT PARK 
 
 " The whole city is one grand 
 magnificent park." 
 
 " I never dreamed of such a 
 grand place." 
 
 " I don’t wonder that the people 
 of Redlands are proud of their 
 city." 
 
 " It is a perfect Garden of Eden." 
 
 " This is nearer Paradise than 1 
 ever expected to get on earth." 
 
 " This is the cream of the whole 
 trip." 
 
 " I would die happy if I could 
 spend the rest of my days in Red- 
 lands." 
 
 " I wish I could remotely con- 
 vey an impression of the sights 
 enjoyed. No pen-painter could 
 do it justice." 
 
 " But the first city in California, 
 perhaps in the world, for beauty, 
 is Redlands." 
 
 " Here then, in a place like 
 Redlands, are all the conditions 
 for making a heaven on earth and 
 it is the heart and jewel of the 
 fruit regions of California." 
 
 " It is a veritable Paradise." 
 
" What a perfect panorama ! " 
 
 places and appeals so to the artistic 
 sense that I cannot say what I feel 
 about it.” 
 
 ” I never saw anything finer on 
 earth. The man who lives here 
 is lucky indeed. 
 
 ” Sentinelled by snow-crested 
 Cucamonga, San Bernardino and 
 San Jacinto, and bathed in sun- 
 shine, she looks down upon a 
 fruitful plain from whose lower 
 level she seems like a beautiful 
 panorama in bas-relief, with broad 
 avenues, lovely homes, rose em- 
 bowered arbors, and orchard trees 
 bending with golden fruit.” 
 
 "It is beautiful beyond descrip- 
 tion." 
 
 " It is a source of regret to all 
 that our stay could not have been 
 prolonged." 
 
 " There is nothing anywhere to 
 compare wrth it." 
 
 If all these commendations, and 
 more, are true of our climate, our 
 scenery, our orange groves, then 
 ought you to give, not two days, 
 but two weeks, yes, two months, 
 to Redlands? 
 
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