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Show WAS A UIOQLIVE OROWEn. Il.r. Iliarlr. r. tip1 N.nl I orlaa In )ll.orlir.l. Tho Itcv. ChiSi 1'. Ixjop, ono of tho pioneer of Poana valley and an early Amcrlcainldrnt of Santa Clara county, who neatly died nt hi homo In Pomona, CsLit tho ago of 75 years, was one ot thivgesl land owners In Pomona vallc; He leave an estate valued at nbnot'loOO.OOO n)s the in 1'ranclsco Chrntle Mr 1iop was the best knows sdve grower In Amcr ten. He spent i fortune nnd year ol study nnd toll h developing olivet suitable for (WJornla soils and climate cli-mate Hc'wioliil over southern l!u-ropo l!u-ropo In his irt.ii for the most suitable suit-able varieties of olives, for propagation propaga-tion In Callfortl Ho Imported the first oilye Unset tho present popular Tarlrtlruioj"l as the nrt Amart-can Amart-can to cnra la olive growing as an Industry, irobsbly no man In California Cali-fornia hu written so much about olives as lis deceased Mr I.oopwcnt to Cillffcll. by n ox team In 1819, and scttii In Santa Clara county Hi was an itlmste friend of Gen. John C Kreraat. who only a fow months beforo billed visited Mr. I-oop In Pomona Po-mona it l-oop was a very charitable charit-able mssf Ten years ago he pressnto-l to I'omcus 15000 marblo statue, copied cop-ied from Its famous statue ot Pomona In tho lil gallery at Florence He was a rfireJ. nplscopallon minister |