. 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 .. . and there secured a quartersection of land near Topeka, which he farmed and afterward tradedfor a quarter section near Oklahoma City, Okla., where he engagedin agricultural pursuits for fourteen years. In Kansas he was amember of the Farmers Alliance, and both profited and contributedtoward the association with others in the same field. In the fall of 1906, Mr. Poling came to Pomona, and he
. 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 .. . and there secured a quartersection of land near Topeka, which he farmed and afterward tradedfor a quarter section near Oklahoma City, Okla., where he engagedin agricultural pursuits for fourteen years. In Kansas he was amember of the Farmers Alliance, and both profited and contributedtoward the association with others in the same field. In the fall of 1906, Mr. Poling came to Pomona, and here hepurchased an orange grove on San Bernardino Avenue, consisting ofnine and a third acres, which he afterward sold. Then he bought hispresent fine orange ranch of ten and a third acres, at 700 East KingsleyAvenue. He erected a fine residence and other desirable buildings,and otherwise greatly improved the property; and after he had intro-duced the most scientific methods in its management, he took in 1913about $9,000 worth of fruit from the farm. Since then he has dem-onstrated that in good years his ranch will produce 6,000 boxes offruit. He also bought a fine grove on East Holt Avenue of eight. tVS ^
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