Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-10-09

that q given month would be wet
one that month was wet. When 1t
passed a given month without any
special outgiving that month was
sure to be dry. For four years we
walked the weather slack wire with
unexampled skill. Don Juan War
ner and j. W. Potts SUCCESSFULLY
went down, but this journal never
missed a weather point. Taking
last year, the gaps in the rainfall,
as recorded at the Signal Service
Bureau, merely accumulated the
pauses of the HERALD's outgiv.
ings. Unlike Vennor, when We
did commit ourselves we were al
ways right, and our omissions to
prophecy were always as ssgacious
as our positive outgivings. By ne
device could the weather-clerk cir
cumvent us. A triumph of this
kind, continued for four years, is
worthy of the scrutiny both of the
friends of development in Southern
California and The scientist. There
lie no joke in the matter. We have
achieved q phenomenal triumph
both as to our predictions of the
weather and our anticipa.
tions of the fluctuations of local
real estate values. Such a
record enforces extreme eau
ton upon the part of it's owner.
Therefore, for the present, we pass
the weather and proceed to a cor
relative proposition.
II the season in Southern Califor.
mia shall this year prove to be q
wet one an era of anexsmpled
prosperity will open for Los Ange.
les county. There will be great
prosperity even If there should be
a moderately dry year. But, with
year of cepious rainfall, following
upon the drouth in the East, there
10 no reasonable limit to the pros
perity which will bless Southern
California. There will be an un.
precedented travel to this section
from the East during the Winter
and Spring months. For at least
Eve months Of an average year
Southern California is the most
charming region on the footstool.
Grass and flowers and foliage are
SO artistically compounded that,
for the greater portion of Los An.
geles county, 1t would really look
as if landscape gardener had been
abroad and had exhausted the re.
sources of his art. When the Wis
itor learns that the lush grasses
which 60 abundantly contribute to
the scenic splendors which sur.
round him are cured by nature into
a nutritious hay, he is apt to think
that he has dropped into a region
of unexampled promise, and he is
right. Los Angeles county is the
home of the frugal calculator oil
chances. Nature here does more
for man than labor elsewhere.
We have no hesitation in ex.
pressing it as our belief that lands
which can be purchased in this
county for 800 an acre to-day will
sell for $500 inside of ten years;
while other lands that can be had
for SIS will sell for 500. We risk a b.
solutely nothing In this prediction;
while, in forecasting the weather
for given year, we have always
been subject to that caustie and
correct maxim that all signs fail in
q dry country. AS to the city, it
has now about twelve thousand
five hundred inhabitants. 1t will
have fully eighteen thousand at
the end of the next five years, and
the transitions of real estate values
In the interim will recall the expe-
riences of Kansas City in the de-
eade between 1s60-1S70. Transson-
tinental railways, apparently with.
out number, will contribute to our
phenomenal growth. Even should
their number be eurtailed we have
already the most perfect system on
the Am erican continent.