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  1. The U.S. Postal Service said the small community of #Blythe #Junction was in #San #Bernardino County; the Santa Fe Railroad said it was in #Riverside County.
    A new survey of the entire county boundary would solve the problem, but would cost several thousand dollars. Meanwhile, people in Blythe Junction couldn’t #vote because no one could say which county they lived in.
    Blythe Junction itself was home to just over a dozen people. It offered all the usual vices to the travelers passing through: liquor, women of low morals and gambling. Train passengers who didn’t spend all their money on such vices were frequently robbed of what they had left.
    pressenterprise.com/articles/b