.398 .380 .348 402 Ada Langworthy Collier. 22, 120, 257 15 .G. H. Howison. ..523 ..538 Louise P. Heaven.. .465 ..S. A. Clarke.. ..164 ..Dagmar Mariager. .479 Edwards Roberts. .449 .548 .429 .436 ..652 THE LARGEST PACIFIC COAST COMPANY. The Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. HOME OFFICE, Southwest corner of California and Sansome Streets, D. J. STAPLES, President. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. W. J. DUTTON, Secretary. E. W. CARPENTER, Asst. Secretary. AGENTS IN ALL PRINCIPAL LOCALITIES. РОМONA, Los Angeles County, California, A town of about fifteen hundred inhabitants, contains fine and extensive Schools, many Churches, ABUNDANT WATER, AND FINE, IRRIGABLE VALLEY LAND, ADMIRABLY ADAPTED TO ALL VARIETIES OF Domestic and Foreign Grapes, and all Semi-Tropic and Deciduous Fruits. Large orchards of Oranges, Lemons, Apricots, Peaches and Pears are in successful bearing. Some of the vineyards bear TEN TONS OF GRAPES to the acre without irrigation. The Land is divided into Forty-Acre Tracts, Each forty acres fronting two roads, thus being readily divisible into one twenty and two ten-acre tracts, with proper road front. The water supply from the San Antonio Canyon, Artesian Wells and Cienegas is abundant and being well developed; the water is unsurpassed in purity, and softness, being the best water for domestic use in Southern California. THE TITLE To both Land and Water is unquestionable. The water will be conducted by the Company through the tract in pipes, and supplied for irrigation in heads of from ten to eighty inches, as desired. The land is generally level, sloping gently to the south, and is in quality a sandy loam, mixed more or less with gravel, being very similar to the San Gabriel soil for oranges, and with limestone sufficient to give it the fine grape-producing qualities of the adjacent Cucamonga vineyard. THE CLIMATE Equals if it does not excel that of any other point in Southern California. The location is peculiarly exempt from dry or boisterous winds and frosts, and is especially adapted to those suffering from throat and lung diseases, or those in generally delicate health. The Southern Pacific Railroad Passes through and along the land for a distance of more than seven miles, and the greater part of the land is within less than two miles of the railroad, Riverside on the east, and Los Angeles on the west, are about equally distant. The tract comprises one of the Most Beautiful and Prolific Valleys in California, and has an average of one thousand feet elevation above the sea level. All persons looking for Desirable Homes are invited to visit the tract, investigate and invest. Address, FROM THE ALTA CALIFORNIA, S. F., APRIL 10, 1885. SUCCESSFUL FIRE INSURANCE. The attention of merchants, business_men, property holders and insurers in general is particularly directed to the annual statements in another column of The Lion Fire Insurance Company of London, The Orient Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., and the Washington Insurance Company of Boston, Mass., of which GEO. D. DORNIN is Manager, and WILLIAM SEXTON, Assistant Manager, for the Pacific Coast, with offices at No. 322 Montgomery Street. These three strong companies have a subscribed capital of $7,125,000, and assets aggregating $4,225,000. The Lion Fire Insurance Company is the first of the English companies to file its annual statement with the Insurance Commissioner, as required by law. A synopsis appears in our advertising columns this morning. Notwithstanding the almost universal disasters to underwriting interests in 1884, this Company shows a gain over losses and expenses, and adds about $18,000 to its surplus account. The Orient of Hartford is one of the few companies which has shown profitable results on the business of the past year, having increased its premium income, gross receipts and net surplus. Its coast business, under Manager Dornin and Assistant Manager Sexton. shows a gain of over 400 per cent. in premium income over the previous year. The Orient has $1,000,000 paid up capital and assets $1,474,443.10. The Washington Insurance Company of Boston is one of the leading American millionaire companies. Its assets at the close of 1884 were $1,607.414.78. The aggregate income for 1884 was $873,458, and expenditures $841,074.82. The company shows a clean surplus over capital and all liabilities, including reserve for unearned premiums, of $83,890.60. The success of the past guarantees a large and increasing business on this coast for these strong companies during the present year, as they are under the management of successful and skillful underwriters. 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