Los Angeles herald., 1892-03-02
POMONA.
EXTRAORDINARY PROGRESS IN
PLANTING ORCHARDS.
A Big Cannery Proposed and Flour Mill
In Prospect-The Leap Year Ball.
News Notes and Personals.

Special Correspondence to the HERALD.
POMONA. March 1st.
"Never saw the like," was the an
swer we received from an old-time nur-
seryman here when we asked him
"How about tree-planting this year ?"
The olive, orange and lemon take the
lead, and it is remarkable to see the
quantities upon quantities OF trees that
are taken to sll parts of the valley ior
planting. The Pomona valley in few
years will be a continuous orchard of
various varieties, and if fruit raising
pays in the years to come this valley
will enjoy snug income. In connection
with this subject we hear many people
talking up a cannery. This is certainly
a good point for the location OF such an
enterprise, and we are astonished that
it has not been done before.
NOTES.
The Cohn case comes up today.
Professor Fall OF San Diego is up on a
visit. He owns some fine property
here.
The statement on appeal in the Green
liquor case was settled and signed yes
terday.
DR.. G. E. Conner left yesterday for
Lompoc, where he expects to locate per-
manently.
The college baseball nine is happy.
The boys went to Riverside recently and
beat the Riversiders by score of to l..
Gid Burdick, who went to Memphis,
fox he ic hov,,o
He went to stay, but now he is back in
Pomona to stay.
The Rincon people and all that i'm.
mense section of miraculously rich
country lying between here and South
Riverside are watching with keen inter-
est railroad developments in the hope
that the Santa Fe will tap their section
by line bisecting their kite in it's
greatest diameter. We hope the good
people will not have to watch and wait
long.
A gentleman was here few days ago
to figure on establishing Touring mills,
the whole plant to cost in the neighbor-
hood of 100000. He was impressed
with the desirability of this location,
but from some cause or another, after
remaining four or five days, he shook
the dust from his feet and wended his
way to some other part of the moral
vineyard.
The leap.year ball given at the opera
house Monday night was, as we pre-
dicted, one of the most successfully man
aged and pleasant parties ever given in
the city.V The committee of arrange
ments was Misses Anna and Lena Dre-
her and Miss Mullally, and Miss Carrie
Lorbeer, Miss Anna Dreher and Mrs. g.
G. Ramsdell were floor managers. The
opera house was crowded, and the light
fantastic was tripped until after the
hour of II. The music was furnished
by Los Angeles band and was pro-
nounced faultless.
The Pomona restaurant, where mine
host Ackerman caters to the hungry
hosts who daily visit his well conducted
dining rooms. came near being burned
to the ground Monday night. Had it
not been for the herculean efforts OF
Constable #. O. Hanker, who first saw
the flames, the building and all it's con-
tents, Frankel's store and numerous
other buildings adjacent, would have
been totally destroyed. Mr.. Ackerman
and all the occupants of the restaurant
were absent at the time the fire broke
out. It is supposed to have caught
from the range in some way. The dam.
age was light and confined altogether to
the kitchen.