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Ontario
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In the few short pages which follow it is our desire to set
forth such facts as we ourselves would wish to know were we in your position
seeking facts regarding a new country.
| Ontario is situated thirty-seven miles due east of Los
Angeles on the three transcontinental railroads, the Santa Fe, Southern Pacific
and Salt Lake. From a population of 760
in 1900, Ontario has grown to a city of 5000, and the major portion of this
growth has been in the past three years.
The city lies on a gradual slopeing mesa, with the mountains
rising in their splendor some seven miles to the north. Between these mountains and the city is to
be seen what appears to be one immense citrus grove, but in reality made up of
ten and twenty acre orange and lemon orchards, owned and occupied by a happy,
prosperous and contented people.
To the south as far as the eye can see is one vast stretch
of prairie land, divided into small holdings and occupied by those engaged in
raising alfalfa and other hay crops. To
the east and southeast thousands upon thousands of acres of bearing peach and
apricot orchards and vineyards are to be seen.
These environments, then you may look for when you come to
Ontario. |
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City lots range in price from $200 upwards. Country lands range in price from $50 per
acre upwards. Improved orange and lemon
groves sell from $1000 per acre upward, depending upon the nature of the
improvement. The Chamber of Commerce
does not quote specific prices. All
inquiries for city and country property are given careful attention. Lists are made out for the real estate men
and are open to all members of the organization. Persons who write for information are sent lists of real estate
dealers belonging to the Chamber of Commerce.
This organization provides data for homeseekers and investors, but
matters of detail are left to the persons who buy and sell as a business.
As an evidence of the growth of Ontario in the past three
years, we herewith give the figures of the postoffice receipts for the years
ending March 31, 1907 and March 31, 1910.
For the year ending March 31, 1907 they amounted to $8,578.30. For the year ending at the same time in 1910
they were $15,573.95. This is an
increase of a trifle over eighty-one per cent in three years. During that time Ontario has had free
delivery established in the city.
Ontario has two banks and at the time of the publication of
the last statements there was on deposit in them $573,434.76. It must be remembered in this connection that
there is the town of Upland, spoken of elsewhere in this pamphlet which adjoins
Ontario on the north and there are two banks at that place which make a good
showing so far as deposits are concerned.
In California we grow crops in a different way than you do
in the east. In this western country
there are several months in which no rain falls.
We necessarily must make arrangements for watering growing
vegetation. This Ontario has done. In the nearby mountains an inexhaustible
supply of water is to be obtained.
Ontario has obtained it. The
mountain streams have been harnessed and the water diverted in different
directions until our groves and orchards are bountifully supplied with
moisture. The thousands of acres of
alfalfa are watered from wells on the ranches.
Abundance of water is to be had most anywhere a well is drilled. The peach, apricot and grape crops are
produced without irrigation. The rich
sandy soil loam holding the moisture of the winter rains in sufficient
quantities to insure bountiful crops.
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