The Press., 1888-04-05
Issued Every Thursday Evening.
LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA.
Pomona, March 1Tth, 1888.

Pomona March 17th, 1888.
 Editor of The Press Since I have written you Pomona has incorporated un- der the laws of the state, 1t having the reuuisite number of inhabitants, and has taken tue name of the City of Pomona, and has a full list of officers, and is di. vided into five wards. All saloons must pay license of $100 for the first three months, and as one saloon has been added to the original number since they were re- quired to pay a license, the edict has gone forth from the city council that they must pay $150 for the next three months.
 When I came to Pomona four years ago there were six or seven hundred inhabit- ants in the whole Pomona valley. We had one railroad, the Southern Pacific. We now have the Santa Fee, two and a half miles to the north, and the material has been bought for a motor road to con. meet the city with its station at North Pc. mona. The Pomona & Elsinore road is mostly graded, and it will be extended to San Diego. Work has commenced on the Pomona, Olinda x Anahime road, which will terminate at Long Beach, thus giving us the most complete railroad connections with all parts of the country of any inland city in Southern California.
 We have three street railways in opera ton, and another a-building, and with oul superb natural advantages we expect ir the near future to be a snug little city ol at least 15, 900 inhabitants.
 Parties from the east, who have been il the business, proposed to put up cannery here if the citizens would give the land tC put 1t on. A paper was immediately start ed, and before night $2, 200 was subscrib ed, the land bought, and the next day tn, papers were signed, agreeing to build { caunery to cost from $15,000 to $20.000 and one of the men have arrived heref f on
 the east to superintend the building, whicl
 is to be ready to receive fruit by June 1st
 Rev. MT. 0. B. Sumner has relinquishet
 the pastorate of the Congregationalis
 church to take the secretaryship and busi
 ness management of the Congregationalis
 college. The main building will be read
 to receive Q class of about fifty in Septem
 Der, and other buildings and dormitorie
 will be added each year, as the demand re
 quires. MT. Sumner has been to Sal
 Beauniventura, Santa Barbary, and To
 Angeles to make arrangements with tn
 schools as feeders for the college, and h
 will soon go east to engage a corps of tn
 most competent teachers and professors
 and introduce the best elements of the east
 ern colleges, and it is the intention of it founders to make it second to none in tn
 county
 The Holiness people, who have quite
 large number of adherents in Souther
 California, met at Los Angeles last week
 to deliberate and choose place to build
 college for their denomination, and, afte
 hearing reports and inducements from a
 parts of the state, they decided to locate
 in Pomona, the land being given by on of their leading men in this place. It wi
 be open to all good young men and W, } men, and they claim it will not be se } tarian, yet presume any who who ms wish to do SC will be instructed accordin
 to their theological views.
 } The Salvation Army have bought lC } and built their barracks at a cost of $3, ,20 and it was dedicated on the 4th with gre, rejoicing, accompanied with the corne
 the harp and the timbrel, and very lou singing.
 It may interest your readers to kno how Sunday is observed in Pomona. IT order of exercises in most of the churcht is-Sunday school at 10 a. m., preachin at II and at p. m. and think a large . proportion of the people here go to churc , than they do in the east, as the churchC all appear to be we'll filled, but they haN the afternoon for recreation. Last Sul day, March 11th, I looked out of my vii dow after dinner, and saw people ridin and walking ill all directions, and VI tempted to go and do likewise, but, course, having been brought up under u strict Puritan rules of New England, could not do so without good and suf cient reason, but 1t just then occurred me that l had been ill for a week and un ; ble to go out of the house, and that a driN in the fresh air would be of great benei , to me, and then I remembered of readin in some good book that it was lawful to good on the Sabbath day, and, withou } further debate, I hitched up the grey hor, and started for Pomona Heights, in whic ) direction the majority of the people wei going. Leading church members wei out with their best rigs and fastest horse the horse cars were crowded to thelr u most capacity, and pedestrians brought u the rear. Having a curiosity to see wh attractions brought so many people ther ,, drove around the hill and found gan of base ball was being played between u Pomona and Manrovia clubs, surroundt by holiday crowd, but, as have no i , terest in the game even on other days ! OhO "OOhJ PoooCA WlbDOul bbO : ping, and went up the heights, where } found more people with their faces turnt ; heavenward than are often seen in theI 3 degenerate times, and every eye was ta 3 ing in scene that no artist can paint 7 pen describe, for just below us lay u most beautiful valley that the sun shin, I upon, in the center of which nestled tl snug little city of Pomona, with it's grade , streets and avenues, each as straight as , line east and west, north and south, I | street less than seventy feet, and all tl 2 avenues a hundred feet wide, with the long rows of evergreen shade trees, han 2 some dwellingsand church spires, orchar, 2 of peach, apricot and almonds, all in flu
 bloom, thousands of orange trees ladt ' with their golden fruit ready for the ha D vest, herds of cattle, sheep and hors 3 grazing in the meadows, surroundir 5 towns i'll plain view ten and fifteen mil ' away, and carpet of green covered u landscape to the tops of the surroundir D foot hills, where they appear to join tl B mountains, and the whole valley protect, by a continuous chain of znow.ca mn.