Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-04-04

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relied on as correct:
For several successive years the citi-
zens of Los Angeles have shown their
appreciation of Santa Monico as a
watering place by forming temporary
encampments in that delightful re-
treat and removing their families
thither during the warmest OF the
Summer months; going down them
selves by buggy, public stage or on
horseback once, twice or thrice week
as opportunity offered or their business
would permit, The natural beauties
and advantages of this place having
been thus prominently brought before
our people, it is not to be wondered at
that many of your prominent business
men and capitalists should have con-
ceived the idea of devoting their
wealth and experience to the develop
ment and improvement of a locality
for which nature has done so much.
Santa Monica, Nesting as it does at
the foot of Sierra Santa Monica, which
completely shelters it from the south
winds; with its magnificent sea views,
its miles of beach, its fertile soil eX-
tending for miles over cOmpositely
level plain, its advantages as point
of shipment, having deep water COM
paratfvely close in shore, and its close
proximity to the city of Los Angeles,
presents such an opportunity for the
establishment OF prosperous and
beautiful town thatthe wonder is that
it has remained so long without being
devoted to the purpose for which it is
evidently intended and for which 1T
possesses so many desirable quall1lca-
tions. A number of wealthy and in
fiuential gentlemen have accordingly
associated themselves together for the
purpose of laying out a town in this
vicinity, building a broad gauge rail
road from thence to Los Angeles and
by way of Cahuenga Pass and San
Fernando to Cerro GordO, construct
ing % wharf to deep water, at
which steamers and ships can receive
and deliver cargo directly from and
into the railroad cars; and the con-
struction of q hotel, built in accord
ance with well considered plan and
possessing such an amount of archi-
tectural elegance of design as will
make it one of the most pleasing fea-
lures of the landscape, to which we
can invite persons of wealth, taste and
refinement from the East and from
Europe without compelling them to
foregO those attentions, conveniences
and amenities of civilized life to
which they are accustomed in their
own residences. During the past VIM
ter Our hotels have been crowded and
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tain accommodation of any description,
and have been compelled to return to
less favored localities for want OF the
commonest shelter; on this account
alone the projected hotel at Truxton,
the name of the proposed town, will
meet great public want, it will be
designed to offer accommodation to from
800 to 500 guests. 1t will contain a
spacious general entrance hall of noble
proportions where all the male guests
can assemble for friendly or business
intercourse; a large ladies reception
saloon where ladies can receive guests
or visitors calling upon them; well
proportion dininghall with private din
ing rooms for those who prefer them;
a ball room, private parlors, billiard
hall and has lofty well ventilated
bed chambers with private bathrooms
and other conveniences. Adjoining
the whole, surrounded with spacious
verandahs and balconies upon which
the choicest floral treasures of the eli
mate can be kept continually in bloom
all the year round. A building such
as this under tirst-class management
and with an experienced and efficient
staff of subOrdinates, situated in well
kept grounds, and not thrust close up
to a hot and dusty street will be the
means of attracting the best class of
Eastern and European visitors. While
from it's close proximity to the sea de-
licious rambles along the beach, boat
ing, catching, and fishing excursions
and sea bathing can be INDUCED in at
the pleasure of its guests. While to
those who would prefer hunting for
grizzlies, deer, mountain sheep, or
smaller game, the Santa Monica range
of mountains close at hand will pro-
vide them with ample opportunities
for engaging in such sports. 70 many
persons in weak health the tedium of
overland travel especially during the
Winter months is insupportable, and
its high attitudes and rarified atmos-
phere are certain destruction to their
weak systems; to such persons the
ocean trip by Panama with its
vantages over that by rail, and as the
directors of the Pacific Mail Company
are in accord with the projectors of
the new town of TruXton, and have
undertaken to build wharf of their
own for their steamers to call at regu-
larly, to land and receive passengers
and freight, the establishment of the
new port will be great boon to
large class of people who travel for the
benefit of their health, as well as to
shippers of freight. The existence
of such town as TruXton is pro-
posed to become, in which all the re-
quirements Of an extensive SANTA
rum will be provided, and which is
one of the objects which the gentle
men who have taken this project in
hand have in contemplation, cannot
but be productive of enormous benefits
both to the new town Of TruXton
and also to Los Angeles and its
vicinity. Our citizens must bring
themselves to regard this and
other kindred subjects which aim at
the elevation of Los Angeles from a
small provincial county town to a
large commercial center in the broad
est possible light We want popula-
ton, but not an impoverished one.
We want men of energy, of wealth,
refinement and education to settle
among us. To the natural beauties
of climate and scenery by which we
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conveniences of living and opportuni-
ties for thorough enjoyment of them,
without which it were vain to expect