Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-10-03
The Los Angeles OF the Future,

Mr. A. s. IIolllngsworth Is the Santa Ana agent
tho HERALD.
The Los Angeles OF the Future.
1t does not often fall to the lot Of
editors of newspapers to live in region
which is enhancing at the wonderful
ratio which distinguishes Los Angeles
to-day. Whom, two years ago, we issued
the first number OF the ILLUSTRATED
HERALD, and infused our own sanguine
and impulsive temperament into our
forecast of the future OF this place,
there were multitudes of people who
pooh.poohsd our VACCINATIONS and
hoped for the advent Of the Fool-Killer
to end our career. We were set down
as visionary by tho charitable, and as
capper for the owners oil real estate by
tho cynical In the same issue of the
DAILY HERALD in which we announced
tho advent of the ILLUSTRATED HERALD
of May of that year, we said that July
OF 1881 would witness the elimination
of the long depression heroabouts, and
the beginning of an era in which tho
true signiiicanoes of the ownership of
land in this Paradise of the United States
would become apparent.
To the more intelligent of our land
owners our masculine and hopeful pro.
nunciamiento sounded like the Eolinn
whispers of the south wind over banks
Of violets. They did not believe what
we said, yet our predictions of the
pleasant things that were to come
soothed them like lullaby.
zr~Hnybody can be sanguine, il God has
blessed them with this benign temper
ament, but few can be both sanguine and
wise. The HERALD, by fortunate dis
pensation of nature, is blessed with this
duality of temperament. To add to our
gifts, and to give point and purpose to
our vaccinations, we happen to be a
meteorological sharp of remarkable acu-
men-one of the kind, in fact, who
never gets left
Disdaining to prophesy after the event,
we announce to our people that the
current winter will be both early and
wet. This is circumstance which is
locally happy in two regards. In the
first place, II argues splendid crops for
tho current season. 1t means fat and
jocund year, and the rehabilitation of
the fortunes OF many good people,
and the increase and confirmation
of the fortunes of those who have
been solid even through the ordeal
of three dry years. There are many
splendid fellows, whom we have in our
minds eye, who will absolutely be en-.
riched as result of this years abound
ing crops.
But this aspect of the matter, pleasant
as it is, counts for nothing when we
come to the more enduring benefits
which will accrue to this section from a
year of plenteous downpour. 1t really
means five good years in succession, with
the ground so drenched from the liberal
favors of old j. p. that even
an average rainfall will guarantee
splendid crops for years thereafter.
From the current year there will be n
gradual diminution of moisture to the
fifth, but it will be so nicely graduated |
that no sensible Inconvenience will be
experienced. This year all the fonts
and springs on thousand distant misty |
mountain tops will be "iilled full and
flowing o'er." There will be "riches
fineless' in this dispensation which will
be felt for years to come. In addition,
by the time the rainfall shall have di-
minished TO the proportions of the sixth
and seventh years of our regular cycles,
we shall have SO thoroughly learned the
methods of nature in Southern Califor-
MIA that good crops will be a matter of
course.
No one who has followed the vaticina.
tions of the HERALD in the past has ever
been deceived. They will share AN equal
immunity from deception in the future.
On the assumption that our premises
are correct, what superb future is
ahead for this sectiony We have always
held up Los. Angeles county and South
ern California as the ''eolectic" spot of
the American continent. The outside |
world is at last beginning to appreciate
this fact. As we predicted would be the
case, in the dark days of May, 1881,
there is not to-day, with all our unriv.
aled energy of building, a single vacant
house in our whole bailiwick, From all
quarters of the world people are throng-
ing here, to repose under their own vines
and fig trees. DuIng the next fifteen
years the population of the city is GER
tain to be 10, 900, and that of the county
800, 600 souls, with all the inevitable en-
hancements of real estate values Incl.
dent to such marvellous progress. The
truth is that the only questionable thing
about our postulate is whether the iif.
teen years will not be reduced to ten, so
universal is the preference lately devel.
oped for this favored spot OF earth.