Los Angeles herald., 1893-01-01
POMONA.
Fine Prospect for the New Year In
This Suburb.

Fine Prospect for the New Year In
This Suburb.
POMONA, Dec. 3l.-The second of the
series of winter dances was given by the
Social Hour club of young gentlemen, at
the Hotel Palomares, last evening, be-
ing quite brilliant affair, some so
couples attending, many from Riverside,
Ontario and Los Angeles.
Mr.. Daniel Gibbon, late of Illinois, a
friend of Mr.. Woy, ST., bought, through
Overton & Firey today, the &. M. B.
Maughs place Rosemont, near Clare
mont, the consideration being $4,000.
The growers of deciduous fruits in
Pomona valley can look back over II
months of unusual prosperity. With
the exception of 1890, the past year has
been the finest for deciduous fruit crops
and prices for the same that our people
have ever known. There is no doubt
the product of prunes, peaches, plums,
apricots, nectarines, pears, grapes and
small fruits in Pomona in 1892 has
brought to our people in every way
about $3.50, 900. When it is considered
that only 10 years ago there were less
than 200 small deciduous fruit trees in
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of the production is the more notable.
The average age OF the prune. apricot
and peach orchards in this place is
about seven years. So it is easy to see
how much Pomona people expect from
their deciduous fruits when the orchards
get to be 10 or IL years old and when
several thousand acres more of young
trees not yet in bearing get to producing
crops annually.
The prices offered for the present or
ange crop have been source of delight
to everyone who has an interest in the
citrus fruit orchards here. There have
been several seasons when seeding or
anges started at 80 cents and 81 box
and navels at 50 box. This season,
however, we have an enormous crop,
and the prices have already started at
$1.25 and $136 box for seedlings, and
$2.40 and $3.50 for navels. The price of
the fruit has uniformly advanced at
about February /, and for this reason
there are many well-posted orange-grow-
ers here who believe that, unless some
damage is done to the crop, navels will
bring So and over before March, and
seedlings about $3.50 box. At those
prices there is many an acre of bearing
oranges here that will bring $400 to it's
owner and some even $3.50 an acre.
There are undslivered kilograms at
the Western Union telegraph Office, op-
posite the postofice, for Henry Hoffman
and HI. A. Rott.
An immensely interesting lecture on
the Life and Works of Ralph Waldo
Emerson will be given at Overton's
hall on Second street, on next Tuesday
evening, January Sd, by Prof. Ulysses
G. B. Pierce. Mr. Pierce has long been
a resident of Concord, Emersen's home,
and has made his life q study. All the
people of our city who are at all
literary in their tastes, will find this
lecture of Prof. Pierce's of exceedingly
great profit and pleasure. After the
lecture large number of Btereopticon
views of Emerson's home and haunts
and illustrating the lecture will be
exhibited. We bespeak for the
professor large audience, as there is a
large element in Pomona who are inter-
ested in such matters.
Our exhibit for the worlds fair is
gradually increasing in eize. The board
of trade committee, charged with col
lecting and preparing the fruit, have
rooms at Graber's warehouse, where
fruit is delivered and preserved. Al
ready quite an interesting exhibit has
been collected in green fruits, but very
little 30 far in the dried fruit line. The
exhibit of olives is exceedingly fine. en-
bracing great many different varieties,
and exhibited in different forms-fresh,
picked and on large branches. There
are small but exceedingly fine exhibits of
peaches, pears. apricots, grapes. guavas