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Show The Tanners and the San Bernardino Mission the people 21 wanted. over the earth, which was apparently 175 what the Lord Brigham Young for reasons clear only to him, intended to put stop to the building of San Bernardino. This city was the symbol of the superiority and desirability of California over Utah. As long as it continued to lure Latter-day Saints from the valleys of the mountains, it presented a threat to the great latter-day work. Brigham Young's attitude of putting pressure on Myron Tanner, can be in terpreted as a pique over the success of a rival city in southern Cali fornia. But this was not just a passing mood of the Great Colonizer, a his future would show how dead earnest he moves still was .. things to be told about San Bernardino before Brigham finally put his foot down on the whole project. When the Saints took over the Lugo Ranch in 1851, there were scarcely But there twenty acres producing are some of land under cultivation. What owners came from livestock for its - The Mormon farmers horses. revenues the ranch principally was cattle and all that. changed In 1852 their wheat fields covered 2,000 acres; in 1854, 4,000 1856, 6,000 acres. Some sources indicate this land acres; and in At this yield their was producing as much as 32 bushels per acre. wheat crop would have been approximately 200,000 bushels. A very unusual situation for pioneers in such a short time." 6,000 acres sown to wheat another 2,000 planted significant plantings of barley, oats, and garden and the whole thing adds mention vineyards and orchards The wheat field alone if in one piece a staggering figure. be a mile wide and more than nine miles long. Added to the to com not to up to would along with - - The assessment rolls for the county at the end of 1856 indicated that San Bernardino was progressing in wealth in other areas as well. They were being taxed on more than 14,000 head of cattle and oxen, 1,500 horses and mules, 4,000 sheep, and 1,000 goats and hogs. Their total grain on hand was more than 50,000 bushels. They had planted more than 100,000 strawberry and grape vines, and their peach and apple trees totaled over 6,000.24 The Mormons enjoyed an excellent reputation in southern Cali fornia, and cities such as San Diego and Los Angeles were looking . expectantly to the time when flour, grain, fruit, vegetables, poultry, and dairy products as well as lumber would be brought to their door by the industrious Mormons. Even with the slow transportation |
