Historic Trade Map of San Bernardino

This map with was printed between 1890 and 1892, by the San Bernardino Board of Trade, the precursor of the Chamber of Commerce. It was printed by Schmidt Label and Lithograph Co. of San Francisco, the largest printer on the west coast at the time. Started in 1872 it also was a major printer of citrus labels, which may have provided the contact between the San Francisco company and the East Valley citrus industry.

See http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/schmidt.html for more information. on the company.

The map is dated prior to the 1893 split of Riverside County from San Bernardino County. The map is dated based on information about Perris and the route of the railroad through Perris. According to the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum website at http://www.sdrm.org/history/cs/perris.html, “As the sums subscribed were considered to be inadequate. Box Springs won. Chief Engineer J. 0. Osgood received a telegram on December 1, 1881 to adopt the latter route. 1885, named Perris, to honor the Chief Engineer of the California Southern Railroad. The last spike was driven in the pass on November 9, 1885, joining the California Southern with the Atlantic & Pacific and all points east. Stricter economies, forced by the collapse of the great Land Boom, resulted in the consolidation of the California Southern Railroad, the California Central Railway and the Redondo Beach Railway in 1889 Surf line built before 1890, Perris Temecula bonded in 1892.” Therefore the map was printed between 1890 and 1892.

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