The City And County Of San Diego by Theodore Strong Van Dyke

Author:Theodore Strong Van Dyke [Dyke, Theodore Strong Van]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Geschichte
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2017-07-06T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER X. THE NORTHERN DIVISION.

THE San Luis River Valley is a long strip of the same gray granite alluvium that forms the river bottoms generally with slopes of red land leading from the mesas and rolling hills on either side. About twelve miles from the coast this runs through the Rancho Montserrate, a fine tract of valley and mesa, containing some six thousand acres of plow land from three hundred to seven hundred feet above the sea, running on the north into the district of Fallbrook. Beyond Montserrate the river wanders through the high, rugged hills for some five miles to the old Mission of Pala, with valleys and low slopes among the adjoining hills, embracing from the sea up to Pala (exclusive of Montserrate) about six thousand acres of arable land.

Returning to the coast we find on the north of the San Luis the great rancho Santa Margarita, threaded by the Santa Margarita or Temecula River, and containing some fifty thousand acres of arable land. This rancho runs from the coast some fifteen miles back, reaching an elevation of about eight hundred feet on the south side of the river and on the north some three thousand feet. On the south it is nearly all high, rolling mesa; on the north of the river a long, low strip of fine mesa reaching to the line of Los Angeles County, rising gently from the sea for a mile or two, then swelling into high hills clad with scattered oaks and abounding in little valleys and parks of rich land. Along the river are some five thousand acres or more of rich bottom lands of granite alluvium.

South of the river the mesa continues beyond the line of the rancho and forms the settlement of Fallbrook at a general level of eight hundred feet above the sea and fifteen miles from it. Here are some five thousand acres of deep rolling red land, not including Montserrate, which here joins it. Fallbrook affords a good instance of the manner in which the average tourist and land hunter examines San Diego County. The railroad passes some six hundred feet below through a narrow, rocky canon. At Fallbrook the train stops twenty minutes for meals at a little station on about three acres of ground at the mouth of a narrow canon up which the road leads a mile or so to the highlands above. Ye tourist alights, looks around the hills, and then contemptuously at the little bit of land around the station, and sagely remarks, "So this is Fallbrook, eh ? Well, I don't want any of it." The district of Fallbrook embraces some twenty thousand acres of land lying some four hundred feet above the railroad and unsuspected by the traveler. Its population is about four hundred. The town has some three hundred people and is rapidly growing.

Northeast of Fallbrook some rive miles lies a rich little valley of about one thousand acres, called the Vallacito; but most of the land from

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