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Ontario as a Health Resort
While Ontario is second to none of the California cities as
a health and pleasure resort, it does not depend upon the tourist business for
its financial stability. Among
commercial interest which the tourist can in no way effect, the city has a
large manufacturing establishment known as the Pacific Electric Heating
company, where are manufactured electrically heated flat irons, cooking
utensils, ovens, etc. Hundreds of men
are employed here the year around. The largest packing houses in all Southern California are
located here and during several months of the year, when the oranges and lemons
are being packed for shipment thousands find employment in these various
houses. The Golden State Canning
company which puts up annually many millions of cans of peaches and apricots
employs something over 500 people when the canning season is at its height.
The hundreds of carloads of hay and other
farm products which are annually shipped out of the place gives employment for
many more hundreds of people.
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STREET SCENE SHOWING VIEW OF BEAUTIFUL EUCLID
AVENUE
(7.75"
X 2.9")
The climatic conditions at this favored place could not be
improved upon. With a maximum of
sunshinny days and the very minimum of cloudy ones, the well known Southern
California climate is here exemplified to the highest degree. No cold weather at any season, with flowers
blooming their brightest in mid-winter, no frost, no snow, and only just enough
rainfall to put vegetation at its best, the ideal winter is here found. In the summer the cool sea breezes temper
the heat of the sun and the day that is sultry further away from the coast is a
delight here. To suffer from heat is
unknown, while the nights are such as to make heavy covering on your bed a
necessity the year around.
Gas for cooking, heating and lighting, and electricity for
power, heat and light, are amply supplied to every part of the city. Electric power is generated by the water as
it comes from the mountains and is remarkably cheap for manufacturing purposes.
(No subtitle printed, sign on building reads:
ONTARIO POWER CO
SAN ANTONIO WATER CO.
Note the snow on Cucamonga Peak and the foothills)
(3.5"
X 2.6")
Excellent telephone service is maintained by both Sunset and
Home companies.
Southern California is becoming world famous as a winter
resort, and the extensive travel to Los Angeles is fast reaching Ontario. Each season sees an increasing number coming
to this beautiful spot. Ontario always
has a welcome for the summer visitor and the winter visitor, but the advantages
offered to them appeal also just as forcibly to the man of family looking for a
home, where climate, surroundings, schools, churches and general social
conditions are of the very best and to such Ontario offers attractions that are
of the very best.
CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY
(3.5" X 2.5")
The thriving city of Upland, which adjoins on the north is
practically a part of the same place.
There a community of some 2000 inhabitants have incorporated their own
municipality and are forging ahead in everything that goes to make the live,
wide-awake town.
To most of the eastern states the prices of land in this
vicinity will appear high, but it should be remembered that land is worth what
it will pay interest on. In this case,
irrigated land at $250 per acre is often relatively cheaper than unirrigated
land at $50 per acre, which will only raise grain and hay. There are bearing orange groves in Ontario
that pay interest on $2500 and acre. It
must be understood, however, that it requires considerable time and money, not
to speak of experience, to bring them to this point of productiveness.
One of the surprises to new arrivals in this section is the
small amount of land needed to support a family. It is a fact that many families here not only make a good living
on five acres or less, of irrigated land, carefully tilled, but also manage to
lay something by every year for a rainy day.
Ten acres are, in fact, about all that one man and his family can attend
to, if worked to their full capacity.
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