LONG BEACH, June 6.--[Correspondence of THE TIMES.] The people are pouring in here like sand through a seive.
    Several new families have decided to buy and locate here permanently, while the regular summer visitors are coming daily by the score.
    At a special meeting of the Board of Trade last Tuesday night the report of the committee sent to present Long Beach's advantageous position as a shipping point, was read by Mr. Roberts, one of the committee. Mr. Gird was favorably impressed, and promised his earliest and most favorable consideration.
    A petition will be presented to the Trustees tonight (the 6th) asking them to call an election at which the sentiment of the people may be expressed on the issue of bonds for wharf purposes.
    Beets have been grown in this immediate neighborhood, prior to the building of the Nadean refinery, that yielded as great a percentage of sugar as any beets grown in the State.
    E. Lockett was elected school trustee at Tuesday's election.
    Heading commenced on the Alamitos last Monday. C. Thornburg, the superintendent, says they will have the finest grain and the largest yield ever known on that ranch.
    Mr. Parish and mother of San Bernardino have rented a house of C. G. Brown for the season.
    W. J. Gregory of Brooklyn, N. Y., who has been stopping some time here, will leave today.
    Mrs. M. H. La Fetra and daughter of Glendora, have taken a house for the summer.
    T. B. Burnett, W. Wincup and W. F. McClure of the Terminal were down this week.
    John McClure and family are here for the season.
    Henderson, Burnham & Co., of Pasadena (four ladies) have taken the "Delmonico" for the summer.
    J. Starkey, who has been up north some time, got back to the old place this week.
    School closed Friday. Three and a half months vacation.

Source:

Unknown, "Long Beach," Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Sunday, 7 June, 1891, p. 7.