Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-01-19
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lnorcuFial people on earth than
those Of Southern California. They
nFc always either in the deepest
dumps Of depression or on the most
airy and exalted heights of rosy
Who of US has for.
gotten tho roseate and eloquent
pamph.ets Of Hon. Tom Fitch de-
acriptive of the imminent and
overshad lowing "City by the Sea"
yclept Santa Monica? To read the
enAnations from the Hon. Toms
more than tropically exuberant
fancy, one would now expect, on
going down to Santa NfH"ica, toI
zee . sort Of infant y
Palmyra. Damascus
eTn Llverpool--a sort
mosaic Of what is to be seea~ ID
the Bay OF Naples and London
Docks. Yet one would hardly find
it there at the present writing, or
for some time to come. To employ
. cant phrase, we are apt to be
s'little previous" in this country.
Doubtless ten years wilt work won-
d6rs at Santa Monica. Long be.
fore that time shall have elapsed,
the "Clty by the Sea" Of Tom
Fitch will be q flashing watering
place and will have large and
prosperous population.
San Diego has been more exten.
sively, exhaustively aud ecstatl'
cally advertised than Santa Mon
lea. We have before us an adver-
tisement of Arnold & Choate's Ex-
tension to tho former city. This
glowing achievement OF an ardent
real estate mind, ii one could only
believe it, contains a perfect apoc.
niypse of the future af our neigsibor
ts harhpr auti climate. There ia
something epic aid transcendental
about this effort which is not In
keeping with the practical object
that Of selling city lots-for which
It was written. The effusion is re.
ally poetieal though the quite ev-
ident quid pro quo sought by its
author gives it rather prosaic as
pect. After describing the special
merits Of the lots which, as this is
= "Reminiscences and not an adver-
tisement, we omit, this glowing
prospectus goes ON 10 say:
We are on the direct line and
nearer than San Francisco to
China, Japan, Australia, the South
Sea Islands. South America and
Mexico, aud will. as n natural con-
sequence, be the great shipping
point upon the Pacific for all these
places. BY the Texas aud Pacific
Railroad we are 300 miles nearer
Chicago and 600 miles nearer New
York than San Francisco, aud it
has no heavy mountain ranges to
cross, and is below tho snow belt;
therefore upon its completion 1t
will be the great national highway
from the Atlantic to the Pacific
for the Asiatic trade, instead OF by
the UsIon and Central Pacific, as
1t is now forced to go.
In the foregoing these eloquent
real estate man have simply
opened up their prenises-laid
ground. as it wore. Their advertls.
ing achievement would not have
deserved the name of an apoca-
lypse il 1t had not been authorita-
live and prophetic. What is to fol-
low the completion of the Texas
Pacific Is thus told in colors SO rose
ate that the impulse to buy some
Of those lots must become absolute
ly irresistible to tho average reader:
Then San Diego will be to the
Pacific Coast what New York is 10
the AtIantic-San Francisco rank
Ing second. The California Coast
Road is now almost completed,
bringing our semi.tropical valleys
to our doors and giving us railroad
communication with the northern
portion of the State. The Union
Pacific Railroad has already pushed
its road far this side of Salt Lake,
down that great valley, and will
ere long he completed to our mag.
nIficenL harbor, passing through a
rich, level country, and either side
Astounding in minerals; thus max
ing San Diego the terminus of two
great trans-c0ntinental railroads.
There il no uncertain or trem-
bling note-none OF the evasions of
Delphic oracle-about this out
giving. One of its predictions
anFrancisco ranking second to San
,lego--if San Franciscans knew
would sit like lead upon the stom-
chs Of the denizens of the Golden
date. But the probability is that
they rejoice in that bliss which is
supposed by the poet to spring from
ignorance.
San Diego, like Santa Monica,
and perhaps to even greater ex.
tent, Is destined to come out hand
somely In the coming years; but, in
her case. as in that OF the "City by
the Sea-" there is apt to be long
and weary period of probation.
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