Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-11-13

| A IlItle over tnfet inOItIiS uSo thS
Los Angeles immigration and Land
Cooperative Association selected de.
lightful site for settlement in the
San Jose valley, thirty-two miles East
of Los Angeles, and christened it Po-
mona. The plan of subdivision, sale
and improvement was similar to that
carried out so successfully by the same
company in Artesia. A tract of
twenty-seven hundred and fifty acres,
consisting of portion of the San Jose
Ranch, was first purchased, and after
wards additional purchases were made,
making All aggregate of about
SIX THOUSAND ACRES.
OF this only the first tract has been
surveyed and placed on the market.
This constitutes Pomona-city, village
or hamlet, whatever it is destined to
be--and the outlying agricultural
section stretching across the valley to
the area of a mile square. The tract
is laid off into town lots of two and
three acres, and, for agricultural pur-
poses, lots of five, ten and forty acres
lying around the centre. Three
months of we'll directed, energetic eff
fort have accomplished wonders in the
way of establishing the nucleus for
prosperous settlement.
AS WE SAW IT
On arriving at the railroad depot
Thursday evening, Pomona presented
quite an inviting appearance. 1t has
fourteen or fifteen houses, including
the elegant little hotel built by the
company, two stores, saloon, etc.
AS yet nearly all the improvements
made in Pomona are within the limits
of the town proper. Our little party
was not unheralded it seems, as we
found Mr.. II. M. Towne, Assistant
Manager of the Company, in waiting
for us with teams ready to take us
sightseeing about the country. We
were favored with q seat IN his own
conveyance, and from o'clock until
we spun around at lively rate be-
hind his nimble-footed animals. A
more u.s..
DELIGHTFUL SPECTACLE
We have never witnessed than the
sunset of Thursday evening as seen
from the valley. On every side, APP
parently, we were hemmed in by lofty
mountains, while around us stretched
out plain smooth as threshing-
floor. In the East and North the
sides of the Cucamongo range, Mount
San Bernardino and old Grayback
We're flecked with gOssamer clouds,
while the West glowed like the fires
of Vulcan lit up from behind the less
pretentious peaks. The scene was wor-
thy of painters hand.
From the head of the valley to the
West and South there is gradual but
very decided slope. Though scarcely
perceptibIe to the casual observer the
ascent will reach probably fifty or
: sixty feet to the mile. In the highest
portion, and just at the foot of the
mesa lands on the Northern side Of
the valley, is located @-
THE WATER SUPPLY
From which the managers of the Po-
mona enterprise expect to irrigate
their entire tract. The source in
which so much reliance is placed con-
sists of series of cienegas, or boggy
springs, which it is said always have
water standing on the surface. They
are supplied, doubtless, from the
mountains lying back of them, and
the flow is ineXhaustible. -Four arte-
sian wells have been bored here to the
depth of sixty-siX feet, and all have n
good flow.
FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS
Will of course be necessary to secure
II large and constant head of water,
but there is no doubt of the fullest ex-
pectations being realized i'm time.
About five miles of dltches are already
open, though this is hardly com
mencement of the contemplated plan.
TO secure the best results it is the tie
sign of the managers to flume or ce-
ment the entire system of zanjas. A
reservoir of two and half million
gallons capacity has been constructed
for the more even distribution of the
water night and day. This reservoir
only awaits the construction of Il short
fiume to be filled up to its brim and
rendered at once available.
| OTHER SOURCES OF SUPPLY
Are owned by the company, which
1 consist of water rights from running
4 streams and springs in the neighbor-
4 hood. The title to the water is per-
feet, having been purchased from Don
Francisco Palomares at an expense OF
$4,000 in coin. The right to its use
will pass to the purchaser with every
0 acre disposed of, according to the plan
laid down by The Association. Surface
!, water is found anywhere on the tract
! from twelve to fifty feet.
: THE SOIL,
After the water supply, is the matter
: of next highest Importance to be con
. sidered in California. And here Po'
i mona is not found wanting. In places
the soil is light loan, slightly mixed
$ with gravel, though the gravel disap'
I pears entirely in the lower parts of the
$ tract. The ground is apparently loose
and mellow anywhere, and we ure as
sured that the soil is deep and strong
1t seems best adapted to
, FRUIT CULTURE, .n
# And every advantage Of the location
J: points towards that branch of indus
try. The valley is high and abunC'
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