Out West Volume 18 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... From the nature of its inhabitants, conditions and environment it can be nothing but a prosperous commercial community, an ideal agricultural valley. And it is perfectly natural for it to become a place of manufacture and a railroad center. Besides the main lines of the two great overland routes, the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe railroads, Pomona has the new Salt Lake road in the heart of the city and two branches of the Southern Pacific, running in from important neighboring towns and bringing to the place many visitors and much trade. There are two foundries and machine shops doing a large business and increasing their capacity. A furniture company has just secured a large building and is consolidating two factories in other cities and bringing them tc Pomona for a more advantageous location. The discoveries of oil in Soiith Snow On The Near Foothills--Orange Blossoms In The City. Photo bv Jittiev. em California and the water power in the mountains have come pretty near solving the power problem. One electric company has a 33,000-volt line running into the city. There are 7000 inhabitants in Pomona, which is connected with Los Angeles, 33 miles away, by three railroads. The city has all modern improvements--complete municipal government; 13 public school buildings and plans maturing for two large new structures, with 50 teachers and 1600 pupils; an excellent academy and business college; Pomona College, the third in importance on the Pacific Coast, in Claremont, a suburb, and Lordsburg College, a smaller institution, in another suburb; electric lights and gas; an unexcelled domestic water supply of pure artesian water; fire department of four companies; free mail delivery by four carriers; telegraph and telephone service (a mutual opposition telephone c...