Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-07-13
THE COMING CITY.
The New San ta Monica-ImprOveme
of Los Angeles-Our Beautiful VAL
ley-The Profit TO JOnes-N0 Recep-
tion Necessary.

The New San ta Monica-ImprOveme
of Los Angeles-Our Beautiful VAL
ley-The Profit TO JOnes-NO ERecep-
tion Necessary.
EDITOR HERALD: Before I comment
on this important topic, will preface
my remarks with the admission that
1 neither wish to add to or detract
FROM the real merits of the case, but
simply give an unbiased view of the
situation and the actors controlling it.
No one is working for love. Every
puff in newspaper has its equivalent
in gold. Every minor actor is en-
gagged to perform his part. In every
undertaking there isa controlling pow
er concentrated in the word capital and
this power predominates over all
others. At its bidding the hills are
alive with men and the products of a
thousand industries meet the eye on
every hand; quill drivers and men
and horse drivers, all perform their
allotted tasks.
THE COMING CITY.
And in this way the coming city
was planned built and baptized by its
noble founder, who was so enthusias-
tic in his work and so descriptive Of
its future greatness, that many be-
lieved in its actual existence and
bought corner allotment near some
intended public institution or on its
principal streets leading from the sea
to Los Angeles. For months past 1
have been favored with the glowing
reports of the work in hand. Things
were, however, always to receive fresh
impetus from the arrival of some
minor actor on the stage. To-day the
wharf has been extended so many feet;
tomorrow the grading was so many
miles from Santa Monica, and the
next day so many miles from Los An
geles. If the whole arrangement had
been owned by company and most
of the shares had been on the market,
they could not have kept it better be-
fore the public nor eXerted their wits
to better advantage. Even now Santa
Monica is ringing in my right ear,
and in notes of most exquisite cadence
Senator Jones is echoing in my left.
So We'll have the minor actors acted,
that every sound l hear is mingled
with Santa Monica; and, as If I had
just emerged from great darkness to
light, the coming city, with its plazas,
public buildings, monuments and
charitable fountains for dogs, it's shady
streets and hundred other attractions
too numerous to relate, keeps fitting
before my gaze and mingles with my
line of sight into every other object
presented to my view.
THE IMPROVEMENT OF LOS ANGELES.
On the principle that whatever is is
right, so has this and all other
schemes terminated in the progress of
Los Angeles and the development of
Southern California. What does it
matter to the people of Los Angeles
whether Mr.. Jones spends one hum
dred thousand dollars few miles east
or west of Los Angeles, so that the
enterprise results in its advancement.
One thing, however, is evident-no
one has worked his actors harder in
his own interest than Senator Jones;
and in so doing no one has benefited
Los Angeles more. His railroad and
his wharf are not only ringing in my
ears, but in the ears of citizens, black
and white, from the st. Lawrence to
the Rio Grande. Hundreds = yea,
thousands-have travelled night aud
day to the valley studded with orange
groves, and are now scattered over the
surface of its irrigable land, reading,
under the shade of the evergreen trees,
of the horrors they have left behind
and happy day dreams of the future,
many of which will never be realized,
for gaze where you will, either on the
undulating hills or wide expanse of
land, one impression only is created,
that there, there is no rest from toll,
human expediences must supply the
deficiencies of nature, or in other
words, distribute its resources so as to
realize its productions. The face of
nature, in many places bleak and un-
must be changed by the
toll of man. North, South,
East and West, of where we are cap
ital has been freely spent for the de-
velopment of various projects, nearly
all of which have been successful and
will continue to be so as long as the
Pacific slope furnishes good field for
investment and home for the indus
trious and enterprising people of the
East, who are compelled by over COM
petition and the severity Of their long
Winters, to seek the balmy air of
resting forever, free from
infections which rob success of its
pleasure and life of its sweetness.
INDUCEMENTS TO IMMIGRANTS.
For all who desire to exert them
selves, this is as fine country for the
display of physical and mental powers
as exists in the world; and, notwith-
that schemers may advance
speculations, covered with
Ill the imaginative tints of an ideal
mind and attractive enough.to decoy
many who consider themselves expe-
fenced in all kinds of California
ricks to raise the wind or sunken
hip. The city and its surroundings
will advance in accordance with the