Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-03-02


psIopmsni, and upon the fact that
5ple generally had profited by the
hs Of adversely, aud had applied
lmselves to increasing the production
the county with diligence worthy Of
I'll admiration. The mere fact that SO
ymany persons who had settled here were
greatly plenaed with the climate and
the possibilities Of Los Angeles county
has resulted in The setting in towards
this section of stream Of immigration
which II even more exceptional IN its
character than IN its numbers. As re-
suit, IN the last two years, the popula-
tion Of the city has risen from the eleven
thousand three hundred odd Of the cen
sns Of 1880, to easily twenty-five or
twenty seven thousand souls.
We see nothing TO lead us 10 believe
that there will be anything TO check our
growth until we shall have attained a
population Of fifty thousand in the city
and one hundred and twenty-five thous.
and In tho county, and then II will be a
rest rather thnn check. This journal
claims a patent for the idea that the
three million three hundred thousand
acres Of Los Angeles county will, within
fifteen years, be the sceno Of happy
homes for fully three hundred thousand
people, quite q third Of whom will be
grouped In the city Of Los Angeles. In
deed, we regard II as no whit extrava.
giant to look for fully fifty thousand in
habitants in this city during the next five
years.
The other day we had conversation
with . number Of intelligent gentlemen
from the East. Their confidence in the
future Of Los Angeles county il possible
even exceeded our own. They informed
us that TO no portion OF the East could
one go without encountering people
who were informed about and inter-
estei in this city and county. This is
questionably the best advertised spot on
the American continent, and the best
thing about Il oil Is that IL deserves to
bsso advertised. The more travelled ones
lntetlocutor has been the more hearty is
his tribute TO the future and TO the pos
abilities Of that portion Of Southern
California known as Los Angeles county.
Until the enormous population indicated
by rs has been attained no one need
have any reserve in >urging people Of
msans to come here.
Probably no one who sver visited Los
Angeles county ever had more san
Guiie view of this city and county than
Gen. Hancock. He also was of the
oplniou that we had been more skillfully
and slaborAtely advertised than any
other portion of tho United States.
Eraywhsrs In the East he had found
thAt mnltitndes Of people were interest
"a in this eclectic spot Of Southern Cali
iotnia. IA result Of this fact and Of
our manifold resources, he believed that
La Angeles was one Of the regions of
oaxth that was destined to be perhaps
ovsr.populated.
What our people. need ITO encourage
)hsir n.y. festy ylsstiny is to stcrnly frown
! upon high rents and extortionate
figures for real estate. Wc should aim
~ welcome and not repel settlement,
nd tho snrest way to do this is by the
determination Of our "solid men, to af-
ferd the intending settler every oppor-
( tenlty for easy aud pleasant location.
o. courue, great cnhancements Of real es
A4ls will be inevitable incidents Of our
fapld growth, but there should be o
&oqaervativs spirit amongst our prop.
Nv holders and a sagacious apprecia.
Hen of the fact that Give and let live"
4 the motto Of enduringly progressive
cpmmunities.