San Diego County Biographies
 
L. S. MASON

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is the owner of a very excellent seventy-acre ranch on the south side of  Lake 
Elsinore, about six miles from the city of Elsinore. It is a choice location, 
picturesque in the extreme, backed by the Santa Rosa mountains, the land falling 
in a gentle slope to the lake. The whole lake and adjoining country, together 
with the city of Elsinore and the distant mountains, form a most attractive 
landscape, which is so full of beauty that one will always delight to behold. 
This property is supplied with a pure stream of clear cold water, running from a 
tunnel made 150 feet in the mountains by Mr. Mason. It comes into the land just 
where wanted and is of immense value. Mr. Mason has improved the place with a 
neat small house, and shrubs and trees, and is about to plant ten acres of 
oranges, for which the land is well adapted. He has fifty acres tinder 
improvement, of which twenty-five acres are in trees, sixteen in figs and the 
remainder in plums. He has made a study of tree, fruit and raisin culture, 
having spent the most of his life in that business. He was in the lumber 
business in Alabama, Florida, and in the northern counties of California.  He 
also raised considerable grain in Plumas County, and engaged in mining. At one 
time he superintended the planting of the largest raisin vineyard in the world, 
800 acres in El Cajon, San Diego County, California. In a very short time he 
will have a place to feel proud of. In addition to the care of his own property 
Mr. Mason has charge of Mr. Balfour's grove of oranges, figs and almonds, fifty 
acres in all, all doing very nicely under his care, on lands adjoining his own. 
Since he has been in this valley he has dealt some in lands on his own account, 
and has been quite successful. Mr. Mason was born in Indiana, May 30, 1847. His 
father, Edson Mason, was a native of Syracuse, New York, and his mother, Mary A. 
Nelson, was a native of Pennsylvania. L. S., the fourth of a family of six 
children, was raised in Michigan, where he was educated in the public schools. 
He has been in California fifteen years, and at Elsinore five years. He is still 
a single man and of strict business habits.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  114