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SAN BERNARDINO

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 127 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAN BERNARDINO , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of San Bernardino county, See also:California, U.S.A., about 6o m. E. of Los Angeles. Pop. (1900) 6150 (873 See also:foreign-See also:born); (191o) 12,779. It is served by the See also:Atchison, See also:Topeka & See also:Santa Fe, the See also:Southern Pacific and the San Pedro, Los Angeles & See also:Salt See also:Lake See also:railways, and by an interurban electric See also:line. The city is situated in a valley at an See also:altitude of about 1050 ft., at the S. See also:base of the San Bernardino See also:mountain range and 20 M. W. of San Bernardino mountain (11,600 ft.). Among the public buildings are a See also:Carnegie library (1903; the library was established in 1891), with 1o,000 volumes in 1909, and the county See also:court See also:house. There are two public parks, See also:Lugo, near the centre of the city, and Meadowbrook, on the E. outskirts. San Bernardino is one of several places (See also:Redlands, Highland, Rialto, Colton., See also:Bloomington, See also:Riverside, See also:Pomona) that See also:lie near together in See also:part of the citrus See also:fruit, See also:alfalfa and See also:grain region of S. California. The Santa Fe railway has extensive repair and construction shops here.

San Bernardino is popularly known as the " See also:

Gate City of Southern California." Five See also:miles N. of the city, and connected with it by electric railway, at the base of a mountain on whose See also:side is a See also:great See also:blaze shaped like an arrow-See also:head, are the Arrowhead Hot Springs (196° F.), resembling the See also:Carlsbad See also:waters; the hotel at the Springs is heated by their waters. Other hot springs near San Bernardino are the Urbita, 14 m. S., and the Harlem, 4 M. N.E. About 1822 See also:Spanish missionaries settled about 5 M. from the site of the See also:present city and called their See also:mission San Bernardino (from St Bernardin of See also:Siena). In 1851 the See also:Mormons established here a See also:colony, which was abandoned in 1857. The county was organized in 1853 with the county-seat at San Bernardino, which was incorporated as a See also:town in 1854. It was deprived of its See also:charter in 1861, but received a new one in 1864. The Southern Pacific in 1876 gave the city connexion with the ocean, and the Santa Fe in 1885 connected it with the See also:East. Under a See also:state enactment in 1905 San Bernardino adopted a new charter which provides for the " recall " by See also:petition, the initiative and the See also:referendum.

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