Out of Doors - California and Oregon
J. A. Graves
A Motor Trip in San Diego's Back Country.
A Hunting Trip in the Long Ago
Professor "Lo," Philosopher
A Great Day's Sport on Warner's Ranch.
Boyhood Days in Early California
Last Quail Shoot of the Year 1911
An Auto Trip Through the Sierras.
To the memory of my sons Selwyn Emmett Graves and Jackson A. Graves, Jr. Both of whom were
nature lovers, this book is lovingly dedicated.
A Motor Trip in San Diego's Back Country.
Come, you men and women automobilists, get off the paved streets of Los Angeles and betake
yourselves to the back country of San Diego county, where you can enjoy automobile life to the utmost
during the summer. There drink in the pure air of the mountains, perfumed with the breath of pines and
cedars, the wild lilacs, the sweet-pea vines, and a thousand aromatic shrubs and plants that render every
hillside ever green from base to summit. Lay aside the follies of social conditions, and get back to nature,
pure and unadorned, except with nature's charms and graces.
To get in touch with these conditions, take your machines as best you can over any of the miserable
roads, or rather apologies for roads, until you get out into the highway recently constructed from Basset
to Pomona. Run into Pomona to Gary avenue, turn to the right and follow it to the Chino ranch; follow
the winding roads, circling to the Chino hills, to Rincon, then on, over fairly good roads, to Corona. Pass
through that city, then down the beautiful Temescal Canyon to Elsinore. Move on through Murrietta to
Temecula.
Three Routes.
Beyond Temecula three routes are open to you. By one of them you keep to the left, over winding roads
full of interest and beauty, through a great oak grove at the eastern base of Mt. Palomar. Still proceeding
through a forest of scattering oaks, you presently reach Warner's ranch through a gate. Be sure and close
all gates opened by you. Only vandals leave gates open when they should be closed.
Warner's ranch is a vast meadow, mostly level, but sloping from northeast to southwest, with rolling hills
and sunken valleys around its eastern edge. A chain of mountains, steep and timber laden, almost
encircles the ranch. For a boundary mark on the northeastern side of the ranch, are steep, rocky and
forbidding looking mountains. Beyond them, the desert. The ranch comprises some 57,000 acres, nearly
all valley land. It is well watered, filled with lakes, springs, meadows and running streams, all draining to
its lowest point, and forming the head waters of the San Luis Rey River.
You follow the road by which you enter the ranch, to the left, and in a few miles' travel you bring up at
Warner's Hot Springs, a resort famed for many years for the curative properties of its waters. The springs
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