POMONA  , a

city of Los Angeles county, in southern California, U.S.A., about 33 M . E. of the city of Los Angeles . Pop . (x850) 3634; (1900) 5526 (567 foreign-born); (1910) 10,207 . It is served by the Southern Pacific, the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake, and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railways, and by an inter-urban electric line . The city is about 850 ft. above sea-level, and has a Carnegie library and several parks, including Ganesha park (45 acres), which commands a fine view . At Claremont, about 3 M. north, is Pomona College (1888, co-educational), which in 1908 had 34 instructors and 488 students . Pomona is in the midst of a prosperous fruit region, devoted especially to the growing of oranges . Orchards of oranges, lemons, apricots, peaches and prunes surround the city for miles, and some olives are grown; alfalfa and sugar-beets are raised in large quantities in the immediate neighbourhood . Pomona was settled by a colony of fruit-growers in 1875, and was chartered as a city in 1888 .