Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-03-15
4 AsoRe.mEADEo COOK.
An Iowa Liar on his Travels Base
Falsehoods. and Plenty of Them.

An Iowa Liar on his Travels Base
. Falsehoods. and Plenty of Them.
One G. 4. Cook, fellow too honest
to work and too lazy to steal, who came
to Los Angeles last year and failed to as
tonish the people by his knowledge, and
to get living in the real estate business,
writes letter, that is printed in the
Marshalltown Daily Times Republican,
Iowa, about our city, as follows
II will speak OF Los Angeles, as that
is the fsr-famed city, and is more lied
about than all the cities on the coast.
To begin with, there are about seven
months that you have dust until you
can't see; but the rainy season is very
good.
"The difference OF temperature be-
tween noon and 7 o'clock in the evening
Of each and every day is from 80 to so
degrees, and one needs heavy overcoat
in the evening. The water is controlled
by few and you must pay just what
they have mind to ask, or go
without, and / question the abil-
ity Of the supply in dry time.
The river. as it is called, that sup
plies Loa Angeles with water is SO much
Of it taken out and run in pipes through
the city and gardens, that what little
there is left Of it becomes disgusted with
its futile attempt to be river and sinks
into the sand, in the bed where there is
o river when there is large freshet.
This bossted resort for invalids has no
sewerage system. and no water to make
one. and how this city can be a healthy
place is beyond my ability 10 compre-
hend.
"5oft coal is $50 ton and wood Sl2 a
cord. 1t will cost as much to keep fire
here as in Marshalltown, or very nearly.
''There are no sidewalks but dirt ones,
excepting in the business portion. The
city is scattered over a great deal of
ground and is the worst laid out city l
ever saw. The site Of the city is every
thing from small mountain TO low
river bottom. with nothing beautiful
about it excepting few beautiful homes.
1t is quite business place, but all lines
OF business seem overdone except whole
sale. Real estate men are as thick as
flies around the molas,es barrel, and l
am told are rough set"
This is bundle Of lies of large mag
nitude. The city of Los Angeles is more
free from dust than any Eastern city of
its size. The soitis largely made up of
disintegrated rock and dees not easily
rise when the wind blows. 1t requires
. strong wind to raise much dust in Los
Angeles. and there are not twelve gales
Of wind in year, and a hurricane is un-
known. There is more binding dust
from the light mould of the soil of Iowa
or Illinois, in prairie town in month,
than there is in Los Angeles in two
years.
As to the fluctuations Of temperature
the writer is fearfully false. The month.
ly temperature for the month of Februa-
ry last, recently published, shows the
greatest daily range Of temperature for
the month to have been 29.7 degrees
and the least daily range to have been
81 degrees. The lowest temperature of
the month was 49, 6 degrees above zero,
while in Iowa the lowest was 40 degrees
below zero. difference Of only 1876 de-
grees between Iowa and Los Angeles.
Instead of the water being controlled
by few, in Los Angeles, the water be-
longs to the city and the people pay for
what they use, rich and poor alike. The
rainfall in Los Angeles this year is much
greater than the rainfall in Iowa for the
same time. Besides the drainage from
the rocks of the mountains and the long
caiions nearly double the supply Of wa
ter. The Los Angeles riverremains liked
quantity in dry seasons all through the
summer. and shows no diminution of
volume. Its supply comes from the high
plateau beyond the mountains, aud is
always the same through all the summer
and fall months. By reservoirs aud pipes
it viii supply 25, 900 acres of land with
an abundance of water for irrigation.
As to a system of sewerage, the city
has about ten or fifteen miles of sewer.
age, and there appears 10 be enough
water to give tho sewage lively flow.
The city is admirably situated, a part
being beautiful plain adapted to vine
or orchard growing, and charming
tract of bluffs and rolling hills for resi-
dences and gardens. Few cities have so
many and beautiful features as are to be
found within the corporate limits Of Los
Angeles. The city is the delight of all
landscape artists, on account of its in
finite variety Of hills and dales, and
slopes and elevations, which afford the
finest field for the exercise of taste and
Judgment. The real estate men in Los
Angeles will compare favorably with
those in any other city, bat it is a source
Of regret that this +. C. Cook belongs to
them.
1t is evident that the writer knew
that he was lying when he penned the
letter from which we make the extract,
but was so ambitious to appear brave
and bold that he wrote without any re-
gard for the truth. Next.