Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-04-28

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A GLANCE as the Future.
We are sometimes tempted to
ask how 1t will be in Los Angeles
when we have the State of South
California and home industry shall
have taken root. First: The cap
ital of South California will be in
Los Angeles. Our city will be the
geographical center Of the New
State, and as we have four times the
population of any other place in
Southern California, of course,
the capital will be located in the
geographical and populous center.
We shall build a stately State Cap
itol, and we shall plant the grounds
with oranges and lemons, lines
and pomegranates, bananas and
pineapplss, for experience has
proved that both Of these last grow
perfectly hsre-grow quite as we'll
Is the distinctively semi-tropical
fruits. Just out of mere vanity,
and to show how lush and vigorous
all forms Of floral growths are in
Los Angeles, we shall train hello
tropes up to tho turret Of the Capt.
toll building, and this plant, ofsuch
gigantic growth, q thing peculiar
to Los Angeles, and in full bloom
in mid-winter, will proclaim how
generous and even prodigal is the
land in which We live-a sort OF
mid-May climate and productive
ness In all seasons of the year.
With Los Angeles as the Capital OF
q semi-tropical State, with legis-
lature convened here which will be
mainly interested in giving atten.
ton to genealogical and agricul.
tural questions, Southern Califor-
MIA will soon be recognized as q
sort of semi-tropical Arcadia.
BY the time we can accomplish
the new State, the industrial ques-
ton will have had results. 1t is
yet debatable whether the coal.
beds back of Santa Monica and in
the Santiago cafion will not supply
US with the fuel needed for manu-.
features. But, whether they do OF
no, the coal beds of Washington
Territory, British Columbia and
Australia are just as accessible te
Us as they are to San Francisco
We are prepared to compete with
Eastern manufacturer because the
distance Is of itself an immense
premium, compromising over ant
over again for the disadvantage O.
expensive fuel.
This being the case, what car
we manufacture? In the frs
place, we have, on the very Dor
ders of Los Angeles county-ai
Temescal-an extensive deposit o.
tin. Arizona is full ofcopper. The
Northern Mexican State Of Lower
California, accessible readily by
water, is full of iron and copper.
We have the crude metals in abun-
dance, within easy reach. We
may, therefore, expect to see an
occasional smoke-stack peering
from our orange groves and vine
yards, emitting an amount Of
healthy carbon which will rein.
force the matchless efficacy Of our
ordinary climate in all pulmonary
diseases.
A second element of our manu-.
featuring resources, which we Ger.
tainly will develop, and which
ought to be developed, is the tan
ming Of hides and the correlative
industry of shoe making. There
are prosperous cities in Massachu-
sets which depend altogether on
this industry. They have no such
advantages as we have. When we
think of the incredible number oil
hides which have been shipped
from Los Angeles county in the
last forty years, and reflect that no
Angeleiio has ever tanned one of
them, We YELL to a feeling Of pro-
, found surprise. 1t is simply in
credible that, year after year, we
should have parted with all these
hides without making shoe. We
shall get over this idiotcy in the
next decade, and the element which
has built up Lynn will contribute
to our growth. The pasture ranges
of Southern California and Ari-
zepa are simply illimitable; and,
in tue "Sweet by and by" Los An.
geles will manufacture the hides
of the animals which eat our nu.
tricious grasses.
But one branch of manufactured
10 ours by prescription. We have
the water power to manufacture
wooden fabrics to great advantage.
All that is needed is the skilled
supervision, which We will surely
not long lack. I'VE shall get over
the lunacy Of shipping our woods
to New York and Boston, u dis
lance, via Panama, of over five
thousand miles, to have them re-
turned, similar distance, to be
sold In our own markets.
We shall profit largely by the