Riverside, a beautiful city of California, the county seat of Riverside co., is situated on the Santa Ana River, in a fine fruit-growing section (oranges, lemons, raisins, &c.), watered by extensive irrigating canals, 9 miles S. of San Bernardino, and about 60 miles E. of Los Angeles. It has 15 church organizations, an opera-house erected at a cost of $117,000, 4 banks, a public high school, a free library, several social and fraternal clubs, and offices which issue 2 daily and 2 weekly newspapers. Pop. in 1890, 4683.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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