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...HESPERIA, CALIF...
Kent Williams Hesperia, Calif...
Since then, Phillips has had a hand in developing many communities (see map), has lured more and more Californians into the desert, building them houses on the lots he sells. At his Hesperia development at the foot of the San Bernardino Mountains, the population grew from about 700 in 1954 to more than 4,000 now. Acre lots that sold for as low as $795 four years ago are now worth $6,000. His Edwards Estates at Edwards Air Force Base and Mountain View Estates at Victorville have grown from sandy wastes to thriving communities...
...resorts, surrounded by high-priced desert estates, have risen in California's Apple Valley, along the 30-mile-long Salton Sea (239 feet below sea level) and at Arizona's Scottsdale and Paradise Valley near Phoenix. New housing subdivisions have mushroomed into the desert at Palmdale, Lancaster, Hesperia and Lucerne Valley in the Mojave, at Indio, Coachella and Twentynine Palms in the Colorado Desert, across the floor of the Las Vegas Valley and out for miles on all sides of Tucson and Phoenix...
...Cambridge, Bill wrote a treatise on an ideal social economy, entitled it "Hesperia" (which his schoolmates nicknamed "Hysteria"). He began by locating his ideal community in a desirable latitude and longitude, and outlined many working economic features such as the staggered day of rest, etc., which seemed novel to us at the time. Later, by coincidence, the Soviet system embodied this and other devices in its own administration...
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