Santa  Ana,  the  metropolis  and  county  seat,  contains  six  thousand  or
nearly  one-third  of  the  population  of  Orange  county.    By  a  wise  lore-


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sight  it  was  located  inthe  center  of  the  valley,  on  the  border  between  the
dry  orchard  lands  reaching  away  up  to  the  foothills,  and  the  wet  artesian
belt  stretching  down  to  the  sea.  The  trade  of  both  regions  has  naturally
come  and  crossed  there.  The  city  has  built  and  maintained  its  own  com-
plete water  system,  furnishing  abundance  of  pure  artesian  water  to  its
inhabitants  at  cost  ;  constructed  and  put  into  operation  a  complete  system
of  separate  sewerage,  and  maintains  two  public  parks  and  an  electric
system  of  street  lighting  that  covers  not  only  the  business  and  residence
portions  of  the  city,  but  also  the  princiijal  thoroughfares  leading  to  it.  So
extensive  and  well  managed  are  its  business  houses  that  almost  any  article
sold  in  the  Los  Angeles  market  can  be  bought  as  cheap  (and  in  many  cases
even  cheaper)  at  the  county  seat  than  in  the  "  City  of  Angels."

The  last  municipality  to  be  founded  in  the  county  was  the  town  of  Ful-
lerton.  When  the  Santa  Fi  railroad  built  through  the  county  in  the
"  boom  days"  of  '87,  Fullerton  was  laid  out  about  two  miles  north  of
Anaheim,  and  in  immediate  contact  with  the  Placentia  orange  and  walnut


Sll,Gt STICKS  or  Amakeim.
