Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-05-01
immigration Society.

From time to time there is spas
modic effort to get up an immigration
Society for Los Angeles. Several have
been organized here and usually con
sisted Of President and Secretary, the
latter to be salaried officer. All these
societies died when the money gave out
The streets of Los Angeles are populoui
with the ghosts of these departed soci
les, whose glories have faded and
whose salaried secretaries go about the
streets like Rachel, refusing to be com.
forted. But ever and anon they rise VI
in their posthumous robes and call loudly
for new cooked society and an old
secretary warmed over. About thrice a
year, contemporaneous with small pox
scare, these spasms attack these chronic
secretaries in search of a salary. The
efforts are harmless and generally mex
pensive, while at the same time they are
utterly useless
| The Los Angeles HERALD has been o
perpetual Immigration Association for
ten years past, and by means of daily,
weekly and illustrated editions, has
sent broadcast over Europe and America,
full and exhaustive reports of the price
OF land, the crops produced, the climate
and vast resources of the country, and
everything that an cmigrant needs to
known before starting for Southern Cal
nornia. There is an Association in San
Francisco that is attending to the fur
nishing OF information to emigrants and
immigrants and these people largely
settle in this part OF the State, which is
the best advertised part OF the globe at
the present day.
| Besides the daily labors of the press
in behalf OF this portion OF California
the Southern Pacific Railway Company,
as announced previously in the HERALD,
has sent most accomplished agent to
Europe for the purpose of giving all
necessary information about California,
in that country. The company has also
in use line OF steamships between
French ports and New Orleans, for the
purpose of bringing emigrants to Cali
f6rnia at the nominal sam of S35 for
a trip of $500 miles, or one-third the
distance round the globe. They are also
distributing pamphlets in Europe printed
in the English, French, German and
Scandinavian languages, describing Cal
ifornia and how to get here. Besides this
an agent is stationed at Council Bluffs, that
great railway center of the northern
States, who is constantly attending to
California immigration. AS result of
these agencies the tide of immigration to
California is very strong, like the rush
OF Argonauts in ''f49."
Since January l, 1888 to date, 3,49l
immigrants have arrived through these
agencies. OF this number 6,824 arr we'd
in April, and l,795 in last week, besides
large number who have come through
other channels independents of these agen-
cies. The Council Bluffs agent is send.
ing two hundred and fifty persons per
week to this State. Our real estate
dealers and hotel keepers and lumber
merchants eau testify that Los Angeles
and San Bernardino counties are getting
their full share OF this arrival of settlers.
They are buying lands from San Diego
to San Luis Obispo, building houses,
planting trees and vines. opening mines,
establishing industries in various parts of
the country, and learning how to get a
living in various ways.
These agencies to send the people
here, and the press of California to de.
scribe all the peculiaIities of the various
sections OF the State, appear to be ample
to attract the people here, and our hum
dreds Of real estate agents are ever on
the alert TO find farming lands for their
settlement. The people appear to be
coming as rapidly as they can conven-
iently settle and get into a profitable
business and good living, and there is
no doubt but that the tide of emigration
will be large for all the year and for
future years. All our real estate dealers
are immigrant agents. without cost, ex-
cept to themselves, and the thousands
who arrive in town become agents to in
duce their friends in the East to follow
them here. The local columns Of the
HERALD will continue to be an encyclo.
pedia to the emigrant and immigrant Of
the resources OF our favored land with.
out salary. Under all these circum.
stances there appears to be no need fol
another Immigration Association, with
an Office and q set Of salaried officers tc
make sinecures for the people to sup
port.