History of Pomona Valley, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the valley who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present ...

Chapter One Mi'.xic.w Imoneers 3.^

First X'lsrr ui- Tahimakks and \'i:.iar to tiik San Josk N'aluky — Tin-: Grant

FROM GOVKRNOR AlVARAIK) — Sa\ JdSK DaY — SlRVKV AND LifJUXDARIK S oK

THE Rancho Sax Iosk.

Chapter Two Life Ox The Raxchos IX Ifie Fori'ies .... 41

OCCI'PATION OF TIIK RaNCIKi IIV I'ALOM \Ki:s AND \'i:jAR l-.\MlLli:s — lIoMlC l,ll"i:

IN THE Hacie.vdas — Tin-: Mission of S.\n Gauriel — ISrancii Missk'N .\t San Bernardino — Indians of the X'alley — Story of IjI'Ried Treaslri-; — Grants Adjoin km. the Kanciio San Jose — Henry Dalton and .\zrsA — Don .\ntonio Li'co and the Chino — La Piente Rancho — The Rdw-

LANDS AND WcRKXIANS DesCRII'TKIN .\NI) PARTITION liF THE RaNCIHi SaN

Jose — Connections with the World CX'Tside — ^The War of 184') — • Battle of thi: Chinh Ranch IlmsE — Tin: Gold 1'"ever.

Chapter Three

THE Ul ARIER CEX 11 R^ 1 OELOWIXC; IHE CESSION OF CALIFORXIA TO THE UNITED STATES 6^'

Willow Grove. Lexinc.tox and Monte — Early Settlers and Life at El Monte — Becinnincs t)F Spadra — Schlesinc.icr and Tischler P'oreclusire — Uiris Phillips and His Ranch — 'I'he RrnoTTd.MS at Spadra — The Fryers and Other Settlers — The Overland Stac.e — Bttterfield and HoLLiDAv — The Stac.e at Spadra — Death of Hilliakd P. Dorsev — Other Tragedies — Kewen Dorses .

CONTENTS- Continued

Chapter Four The Spanish Settlement At San Jose' Hills 89

CvRus Bi'KnicK, THE Pioneer of Pomona — Revolutionary Forp.ears — Overland JouRNEv — Residence at San Gabriel — Earthquakes — Removal to San Josii Valley — First Orange Grove — Mexican Life at the Spanish Settlement — Passing of the Early Generation — Children of Ygnacio Palomares — The \'ejar Families — The Ygnacio Alvarado House and Its Activities — The Indians — The First School and Its Teacher, P. C. Tonner — First Schoolhouse — Tonner the Teacher — Tonner the Student AND Poet — Sweet San Jose — The Loop and AIeserve and Other Early Tracts of the San Tose De Ariba.

Chapter Five Beginnings Of Pomona U3

Coming of the Railroad — Tonner-IU'kdick-Palomares Contracts — Los Angeles Immigration and Land Cooper^^tive Association — The New Town OP Pomona — Public School — Collapse of the L. A. I. and L. C. A. — Pomona Land and Water Company- — The Boom — Po.m(i\a in 1882 and 1885 — Constable Slanker and Other Old-Timers.

Chapter Six Water, Light And Power Ls5

Three Sources of Water — Old Settlement \\'ater — Canyon Water — Artesian Wells — Water Companies — Tunnels — Conservation — Electric Light and Power.

Chapter Seven Industries Of The Valley 145

Spadra, Puente and the Grain Country — Spadra After the Railway — James M. Fryer, F. M. Slaughter and Senator Currier — -Vineyard and Orchard — Viticulture — Deciduous Fruits — Olive Culture — Oranges and Lemons — Cooperative ^Iarketing — Business and Manufacture — Pomona Manufacturing Company — Business — Banks.

COXTKXTS-Continucd

CIIAPTKR KKiirr

SOCTAI , 1\ ri:i.I.KCTL'AI. A\D SPIRITUAI, 1,1 1-K

OF POMONA 1^'^

TKRNITIKS — XlCWSl'Al'KRS — PoMONA TiMKS PoMONA PROGRKSS — TlIK RE- VIEW AND Other Papers — Plblic Lhjrary — Social Life in Pomona.

CHAPTKR XIXE

I'OMOXAS ML.MCIPAI. LIFE 17!

Incorporation and Liquor P'ight — P>ei"ore Incorporation — The Great Issue — Drl'nkenness — The Conflict — Chi.nese Prchlem — Othi:r I^ripiu.ems AND Contests — The Murchison Letter — Mi-nicii'al Solidaritv.