The herald., 1897-12-12

| Under the rules Of the association the
nuts are prepared for market by the in
dividual growers and on delivery at the
warehouse for shipment are subjected
to rigid inspection.
| The sales are made by the manage
ment under q guarantee as to grades
represented by the trademark, which is
stamped with the growers name on ev-
/ cry bag, which average about ITO pounds
each.
The Rivera walnut growers for two
years have marketed their crops under
| this cooperative system, and the result
to growers and consumers has been
most satisfactory
This section has also been q large
producer of oranges. The shipment of
the crop of 1896 amounted to 12O car
loads of 300 boxes each.
| AS q social center, Rivera is most
charming little place. The neighbor-
hood represents families of long stand
ing In the valley, and the young folks
at least a large portion of them-were
born and raised here, and are a typical
representation of cultured and refined
American citizenship.
THE CHURCHES
The religious wants Of the community
are supplied by the Cumberland Presby-
| terian church, Rev. G. w Maxson, pas
| tor; the Baptist church. Rev. ]. d.
Green supplying the pulpit made vacant
at the recent death of Rev. Dr. Pendle-
| ton; the Christian church, which at
present has no pastor assigned, and the
Ranchito Methodist church, at which
Rev. w. r. Lawrence occasionally
breaches. Each of the church societies
| has a church edifice which is a credit to
them and to this prosperous community
| For social purposes Rivera has COM
modious town hall, handsomely fur
nished and arranged to accommodate
| the several fraternal societies Of the
place. 1t is provided with large stage,
drop curtain and convenient ante
rooms, which fill all requirements for
which the hall was designed.
EDUCATIONAL
The public schools of the town and i'm
mediate vicinity are Rivera school, Prof.
r. f. Sullee, principal, with Mrs. Elsie
D. c. Tweedy as assistant; Ranchto
school, prof. r. N. Bird, principal, with
Miss NJ. Ella Coach as assistant.
FRATERNAL SOCIETIES
The fraternal and benevolent orders
are we'll represented. They are Walnut
Grove lodge, /. o. o. F.; Court Rivera,
Independent Order Foresters; Rivera
lodge, Good Templars; Ladies' Aid and
Missionary society, Christian Endeavor
and Baptist Young Peoples union.
IRRIGATION AND AGRICULTURE
This section of country, reaching to
the gateway spoken of in the commence
ment of this article, is also well watered
by a network of irrigation canals, fed
from the two San Gabriel rivers The
Arroyo Ditch company, Gates Ditch
company and the Walnut Irrigation
Ditch company distribute the water to
the lands in the vicinity, the land own
ers being the ditch proprietors.
While walnuts and oranges are the
main crops shipped from this point,
there are also large quantities of corn
and other crops, for which the San Ga
briel valley is noted, grown in the neigh
borhood.
In this section the vines We're entirely
swept away by the Anaheim disease, and
wine-grape growing and nurseries are
an industry of the past, but there are no
regrets on the part of the people here
Tor II is saying among them that 1t was
best that they should go.
Swinging around the circle from east
to west. this beautiful strip of the Low
er San Gabriel valley of which we have
written has environs which are entitled
to liberal share of all that has been
said in it's praise.
| SURROUNDING COUNTRY
Whittier, nestled on the sunny slope
of the Puente hills, famed for it's
churches, lovely homes, oil wells, pros
poets, cannery and Whittier state school,
Santa Fe Springs, with its tepid medic
| inal sulphur waters and orange groves;
Old Los Nietos, with it's orange groves
and walnut orchards; thence around to
Norwalk and Artesa, which rival the
Downey section in productiveness and
business enterprises; thence swinging
around to Los Alamitos, the new sugar
factory and hamlet; thence to the city
| of Long Beach, and around to Comp
| ton, six miles west of Downey; thence,
still around to the westward, to Flor
| ence and Fruitland. All Of these are
from four and not to exceed twelve miles
| from Downey. In a twelve-mile limit.