POMONA, CAL., lies half way between the cities of Los Angeles and San Bernardino, with both of which it is connected by 
transcontinental railroads, the Southern Pacific and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. 
Is the most important town on the Southern Pacific between Los Angeles and El Paso, Texas. In 1884 a hamlet of 200 inhab¬ 
itants; ten years later an incorporated city of over 5000 people. Is situated at an elevation of 1000 feet above the sea, in a 
valley surrounded by mountains, to which may be attributed a climate unexcelled anywhere on the globe. 
Its rapid growth and great prosperity are due to a most productive soil, abundance of mountain and artesian well water, and 
the energy and thrift of a population derived chiefly from all parts of the United States and the British possessions. 
In Southern California, Water, not land, is of the first importance. Irrigation ensures crops, and is the foundation of suc¬ 
cessful Horticulture. The Pomona Valley offers perhaps the best all round water supply in the whole southern part of 
the State, and this should be remembered by intending settlers. 
Water For Irrigation is distributed through more than 100 miles of cement pipes, and the purest artesian water is 
carried direct from the flowing wells in pressure pipes to the business houses and beautiful homes of the inhabitants of 
the city. 
The Cuts on the reverse side, taken from photographs, portray one of about 100 flowing wells, which give life, productive¬ 
ness and beauty to the valley; also one of the main avenues of the city, in illustration of the rapid growth of shade trees 
under a California sun; and also the two main buildings of the Pomona College, located about a mile from the city limits, 
at the pretty suburb of Claremont, which assures to the youth of the city and surrounding country the benefits of the highest 
education. 
Pomona has exceptionally fine school buildings for a city of its size, is noted as a “ City of Many Churches,” while all 
the leading secret and beneficiary societies have organizations in a flourishing condition. 
Pomona has first-class tourist and commercial hotels, good boarding houses and restaurants. 
But ITS Reputation is founded on the fact which assures its continued rapid development and future prosperity, viz: that it 
is THE GREATEST ALL ROUND PRODUCING CENTER FROM AN AGRICULTURAL STANDPOINT IN THE 
WORLD. The list of successfully cultivated crops embraces EVERYTHING cultivated in a northern or semi-tropic clime. 
Oranges and Lemons (crop 18942000 tons), Apricots (crop 1894 2300 tons), Peaches (crop 1894 2000 tons), Grapes (crop 1894 
1000 tons), lead in production, besides which are producing to a lesser extent orchards of Olives, Pears, Apples, Nectarines, 
Prunes, Figs and Walnuts, while the small fruits are represented by Strawberries, Raspberries and Blackberries, which are 
exported in carloads to neighboring cities. Cattle and sheep graze on a thousand hills, wheat and barley rejuvenate the 
plain each springtime, while alfalfa fields on hundreds of acres of semi-damp land produce their TEN TONS OF hay to The 
acre each year without irrigation. 
The Olive Industry, which is exciting so much attention on the part of the most practical minds, has its center in 
Pomona, it being the largest nursery for this stock in the world, 511,000 trees being exported between January 1st and 
July 1st, 1894. 
Adjoining the City on the southeast, and extending over thousands of acres, lies the now famous Chino Ranch sugar beet 
lands owned by Mr. Richard Gird, from which were produced in 1894 nearly twenty million pounds of sugar, manufactured 
at the factory on the ranch, the factory being the largest in the world. 
The Altitude OF Pomona, comparative immunity from fogs, unexcelled climate, and matchless drinking water, all 
combine to put Pomona at the head of the health resorts. The sufferer from bronchial or pulmonary ailments is here 
assured of relief, if not of absolute recovery. 
IF you seek a home in California, visit the Pomona Valley, whose varied interests assure it, under all circumstances, a large 
and ever growing prosperity in the years which lie before it. 
