RIVERSIDE  , a

city of southern California, U.S.A., and the county-seat of Riverside county, situated on the Santa Ana river, in the San Bernardino valley . Pop . (189o) 4683; (1900) 7973 (1525 foreign-born); (1910) 15,212 . It is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Southern Pacific and the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake railways . The city occupies a slope (about Boo-l000 ft. above sea-level), rising toward the east is beautifully built and is a winter and health resort . In the Albert S . White Park there is a notable collection of cacti; and Huntington Park is high and rocky, is well planted with trees and has a finely shaded. automobile drive . Magnolia Avenue, bordered with pepper-trees, is 10 m. long and 130 ft. wide; and Victoria Avenue is similarly parked and lined with semi-tropical trees . Riverside is the seat of an important (non-reservation) boarding-school for Indians, Sherman Institute (1903), which in 1908 had 699 students . Riverside is devoted to the cultivation of oranges, lemons and other subtropical fruits, and has a large trade in these products . It is in the centre of the finest orange district of the state; near Huntington Park is the state citrus experiment station (1906), with an experimental orchard of 20 acres . The cultivation of navel oranges was first introduced from Brazil into the United States at Riverside in 1873; the two original trees, protected by an iron railing, were still standing in 1909 .

The domestic

water supply is obtained from artesian wells . In 187o the site of the present city, then called Jurupa Rancho, the name of the old Spanish grant, was purchased by the Southern California Colony Association . The settlement was chartered in 1883 as a city, with limits including about 56 sq. m . Riverside county was not organized until ten years later . From 1895 there were no saloons in the city .