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CITIES, AMERICAN. (POMONA, SHEBOYGAN.) 



with Sioux Falls granite. Gas and electric lights 

 are employed. The water works cost $125,000, 

 and a system of storm-water sewerage has been 

 completed recently which cost $40.000. Three 

 daily and 3 weekly newspapers are published. An 

 opera house, costing $50,000, has been built, and 

 the county courthouse, recently completed, cost 

 $80,000. There are 7 ward public-school build- 

 ings, and a four-story high school whiqh cost 

 $25,000; 25 teachers are employed. The high 

 school has a business college department. The 

 churches are: 2 Presbyterian (1 German), 3 

 Methodist (2 of them Swedish and German), 2 

 Catholic, 2 Baptist (1 colored), 1 Christian, and 

 1 Episcopal. Fifty thousand dollars have been 

 appropriated by the Federal Government for the 

 improvement of Missouri river at Plattsmouth, 

 and Fort Omaha was recently relocated 8 miles 

 distant, $500,000 being appropriated to begin 

 improvements. The principal shops of the Chi- 

 cago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad are at 

 Plattsmouth, employing hundreds of men, and 

 disbursing between $35,000 and $45,- 

 000 monthly. Brick and terra-cotta 

 works, with a capital of $30,000, turn 

 out 27,000 bricks a day. There are 

 also 4 cigar factories, 1 buggy and 

 wagon works, a steam laundry, and a 

 sash, door, and blind factory. The , 



city has a board of trade. ^dtf 



Pomona, a city of California, in 

 Los Angeles County, 32 miles east of 

 Los Angeles, on the Southern Pacific 

 and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe 

 Railroads, over which there are 8 pas- 

 senger trains daily each way. In 1882 

 it had 150 in habitants, and by the cen- 

 sus of 1890 it had 3,634. In 1880 it 

 was not in existence. It lies in a 

 beautiful and fertile valley, and views 

 taken from it include mountains from 

 9,000 to 12,000 feet high. Since the 

 introduction of a system of irriga- 

 tion, largely from artesian wells, trees 

 have been planted here with success, 

 and all sorts of fruits abound. There are exten- 

 sive orange, lemon, and olive orchards, while vast 

 quantities of figs and deciduous fruits are shipped, 

 as well as canned and dried. Grapes are raised 

 for wine and raisins. In 1890 between 300 and 

 500 men, women, and children were employed in 

 the cannery here, and 5 firms were engaged in 

 drying the apricot crop. One orange grove, 

 said to be the largest single grove in the world, 

 contains 300 acres. The orange crop for 1890 

 was 97 carloads. Olives are pickled, and olive 

 oil is manufactured. There are 100 miles of ir- 

 rigating pipe in the valley, and 40 of iron and 

 steel in the city, carrying artesian water, all 

 under fire pressure. The city is lighted by gas. 

 The gentle declivity of the site, without hill or 

 depression, leaves all the streets on a perfect 

 grade. It has an altitude of 857 feet above sea 

 level. Twenty teachers are employed in the 

 public schools, and bonds to the amount of $40,- 

 000 have been issued for the construction of 2 

 new brick buildings. A college has been located 

 4 miles northeast of the business center, and 2 

 miles distant is the United States Experiment 

 Station for Southern California. Eleven reli- 

 gious denominations are represented, most of 



which have church edifices. There is a board of 

 trade, and 1 daily newspaper is published, as 

 well as 3 weeklies. Of the 2 banks, 1 is national. 

 Mining is carried on, in addition to fanning and 

 fruit growing, and brass and iron goods are 

 manufactured. A company has secured a water 

 power in San Antonio Canon, to be utilized for 

 electric power and light. The climate shows a 

 variation of but 16 in the mean average. 



SIH-IMM trail, a city of Wisconsin, the county 

 seat of Sheboygan County, on Lake Michigan, 

 at the mouth of Sheboygan river, 52 milos north 

 of Milwaukee, and 43 miles east of Fond du Lac. 

 It has one of the best harbors on the lake, for 

 the improvement of which $25,000 have been 

 recently appropriated by the United States Gov- 

 ernment, and there is a shipyard and a modern 

 floating dock at the mouth of the river. Boats 

 touch daily at the port during the season. The 

 first settlement at Sheboygan was made in 1836; 

 in 1846 it was chartered as a village, and in 

 1853 was incorporated as a city. In 1880 the 



FEDERAL BUILDING, SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN. 



population was 7,314; in 1890 it was 16,359, the 

 United States census placing Sheboygan in the 

 list of the 10 cities in the country showing the best 

 per cent, of growth in the decade ; and in 1893 

 20,000 are claimed. The railroads that enter the 

 city are the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western 

 and the Chicago and Northwestern. In 1892, 

 450 buildings were erected, and $1,346,850 were 

 expended in improvements. Gas and electric 

 lighting are in use, and there is a fine system 

 of water works, in addition to paid fire and po- 

 lice departments. The fire department has an 

 electric alarm system. The streets are wide and 

 straight, many of them in the residence portion of 

 the city being bordered with shade trees. A street 

 railway operates 6 miles of track. The assessed 

 valuation of property for 1892 was $5,415,980, 

 exclusive of public-school property, placed at 

 $200,000, and church property, worth $260,000. 

 The. school population is 7.387, and there are 10 

 school buildings. In addition there are 5 pa- 

 rochial schools, and a flourishing business col- 

 lege. Eighteen religious denominations are 

 represented, many of the church edifices" being 

 fine specimens of architecture. Two daily and 

 4 weekly newspapers are issued. Two banks 



