Show The Th S I Story of the Strange Old Mormon Land Mark Selected as s the th Trade TradeMark h 1 Mark of ef the S Sn n Pedro Roe Ro Road Ld d JLe e stationary of tho San UPON Pedro l edro Los Lo Angeles An Salt S U Lake road upon the cars ft t will wUI ave perhaps s also aleo on the locomotives blaz bIaz blazoned blazoned upon n its Re advertisements and stand ut wherever It is Ii to have he th the reed will be J representation ot of the San 0 Arrow There are arrow and arrows ar s but bat there is I only one San n nI I and aDd Utah and calls forth a flood of ot reminiscence e of ot the days when Utah I to ta the present pre ent great state of ot Califor California California nia nm Men Meu cannot tell the origin orl in of ot the San Bernardino arrow Some there are among the devout who believe that Gods own finger Anger traced the arrow upon the mountain side aide for the guidance of ot the bond f t Mormons who more than half a 3 century ago pushed beyond to the north of which was as an arrow arrowhead arrowhead arrowhead head upon the side of ot the th mountain for Joseph Joeeph Jo eph Smith had seen such auch a scene ace e ea in a vision The Th 1 penetrated the valley of at San Bernardino and there saY saw the goal toward which they had pressed through so many privations and hard hardships ships the arrow upon the tha mountain mountainside side The settlement founded there was not enduring however The original thai inal settlers after building b a few rude t tr r I I a aI at aI I I a t t a art a aI ak rt I k I 4 F 4 u I ITHE THE SAN ARROW ASKOW Reproduced From rom a Photograph Bernardino arrow and the emblem has hasa a n significance adapted adapt d to the wan a desert when were su Cu supreme supreme preme in the Golden Goden state and when r the Mormon pioneers wended their way wY westward to open up a new empire It calls alle to mind aTM also the of a apart apa apart part pa rt of nf these sane Mormon pioneers i LW The Son San Pedros Arrow Arro Trademark t San Pedro road Like all arrows it YI typifies speed but unlike other othe arrows it ft signifies es a union between California Utah to the coast state Whatever its it today stands boldly out on the mountain side about fifteen miles from San Bernardino Cal the most famous landmark In the vicinity of ot the theold theold theold old city The San Bernardino arrow comprises an arrOW shaped tract of nearly acres aeres in extent on the side of the mountain where the vegetation is of at a strikingly different color from that which surrounds It Aside from the theory ry that the arrow arro was formed miraculously there is another that the Indians cleared the spot many years ago to indicate the presence of ot the sulphur springs springe which gush forth near the point of the arrow The Indians were Yere fond of ot this water and used to travel many man miles to Imbibe it The generally em accepted theory theor however is that years ago a fire burned off of the I original vege to leave the th burned b r im tract tr t in exactly e x this shape shap Nature Instead of o replacing the vege vegetation tation t as It WAS AS S before caused a growth of white sagebrush h to spring g gup up making the arrow stand out vivid vividly I Ily ly as It does today I IThe The San Bernardino arrow first fig figured figured in history a ago According to the story stor as it has been handed down in San Bernardino a I party of or Mormon pioneers started westward wes ard looking for a fertile valley vaHey houses and a fort abandoned the place In 1851 however a year later the permanent settlement was formed be beneath beneath beneath neath the sign of the arrow Amasa M iyman ryman and Charles C Rich started from Payson Utah in March with about colonists bound for southern California Call Their object was to establish establish establish lish an outfitting post to aid Mormons on their way toward Utah from the west This time they bought from the grantee antee Berdugo 1000 l acres of ot land including some of the richest section of or this fertile valley vaHey A fort Tort of adobe was erected and the town of San Ber Bernardino Bernardino Bernardino nardino was laid out The name is said to come from San the Span for Saint and from tl tt name of the former owner The town was laid out in a manner similar to Salt Lake The streets run running running ning north and south SOR SO were wet lettered fr m east to W we weg I tranA th aT east ij ted from the south tot the north noth Here the tha th early Dearly M rmon settlers erected their homes soil and lived for years rears in peee pee and prosperity pr Thus they helped to lay the foundation foundation foundation tion of or the great state stae st of pf California as a they were the firs firt fir f of ot the state of or Utah and thus does the San Bernardino arrow signify sip ICy the linking of o the fortunes of ot two great states |