Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1883-06-30

The Present Local Situation.
On the supposition that an honest
man, with sanguine temperament, does
the writing, there is nothing more diff.
cult than to indulge in fair do.
scription Of Southern California, espec.
tally Of Los Angeles county. We know
this by long experience. We have
deemed 1t our duty to encourage q propa-
ganda looking to the settlement OF
Southern California by men Of means.
To do Us justice, we have invariably
interposed caution against poor mon
coming to settle here. We have always
regarded this section Us essentially the
eclectic region OF the rich--as that
dear, that consecrated spot" to which
people Of impaired constitutions and big
bank accounts ought to resort as to q
refuge in which physical rehabilitation,
II It were possible, was sure to result.
In addition, we have dwelt upon the
geographical and railway possibilities
which mark out Los Angeles to us as
The second city on tho Pacific Coast, In
the near future. We have often been
taken 10 task by intelligent persons,
who have regarded our pictures as over
drawn. Where the character Of our
interlocutor has been such as to justify
the experiment, we have arranged pro-
grammes, at our own personal expense,
which have enabled them to see Los
Angeles county thoroughly, under our
own supervision. with the accompani.
ment Of the local knowledge which
years OF residence In this county
enabled us to supply. 1t is a fact
worthy Of mention that, in no single
casa in which we have played ciccroni
TO visitor, has he failed to say that, If
anything, we had understated both the
reality and the possibilities. In every
Instance in which, piqued by opposition,
we have taken the charge of such pee-
Pile they had, either rs visitors or resi-
dents, boxed the whole compass OF the
Mediterranean countries Of Europe. In
the most extended sense, they were tray.
eled persons. Curiously enough, as we
have said, we never landed single
one of them, after an extended
trip, in the City of the Angels, who
was not thorough convert to our views.
Tho fact is that we have often permitted
ourselves to be browbeaten in picturing
the possibilities of Los Angeles when, in
truth, we have rather restrained than
yielded to our naturally sanguine tenn
permanent in what we have said.
With the present season Los An
geles county, energies from the repres.
sive experience OF three consecutive dry
years. For at least FIVE years to come
the seasons will be much better than any
we have experienced since 1880. And
yet We have done exceedingly well, all
the same. The crops last year were
large enough to guarantee very marked
degree of prosperity to our people; and
yet 1t goes without saying that, this year,
our crops of the cereals will be at least
forty per cent. larger than those which
rewarded the labors of the husband
man q twelvemonth ago. As to all
our other agricultural and horticul-
tural interests, they are amaz-
ingly in advance of anything in our
previous experience. The vineyards
which have been set out this
year show a gracious advance
which laughs TO scorn the efforts
of certain morbid element of our popu-
lation to repross vine planting. Hardly
shoot has been stuck into the ground,
in the whole ample expanse of Los An
geles county, that does not show a pro-
life impulse. The rains, while stinted
in their volume, came most OPPORTUNITY
as to time, and the numerons new vine
yards will be memorable for the hardy
vigor which was an incident of their
starting out.
Going back five years, everything
which the HERALD then said about the
possibilities of the future has been
already far exceeded in the fruition. An
occasional cousin german of Doesticks's
friend Damphool still looks upon us as
an enthusiast and empiric. As q matter
OF cold. prosaic fact we should be
afraid to trust ourselves just now to a
n-picture OF the future, and the i'm
mediate future at that, OF Los Angeles
county. Yet the truth is that, however
fervid and apparently iiamboyant it
might be, it would really be exceeded by
the reality, and in tho period of de-
cade, at that. In the Fall OF 1876 the
HERALD said that Los Angeles county
was in truth the eclectic region of the
( globe, Much has been done to con-
firm our Judgment during the past
seven years. During the next decade
what looked like vaunt will be proven
to have been mere ordinary business
announcements