Los Angeles daily herald., 1884-11-18

the tenor oi the uttcrances OF the
press OF that city. With an occasion
al exception, and the Post, the
Resources Of California and the News-
Letter are chief amongst these ex-
amplcs which prove the rule, the
tone Of criticism Is hostile TO this
section, and particularly so to Los
Angeles, which looms forward as the
bright particular star OF progressive
movement and development. The
Chronicle, of the 18th inst, was
particularly invidious in its editorial
outgiyings. Under the heading,
"Blow your Trumpets," il said;
According to the statistics which
are now being collected ut Sacrament
to, the county OF Los Angeles has in
creased in population in the last four
years 81 ,6l9 souls. No other county
in the State increased half as much,
Alameda and Sacramento, which
come next, only showing an increase
Of some $4,000. OF course, the aston
ishing increase of Los Angeles is due
mainly and originally to the fneness
OF its climate and the richness of its
soil. But these causes would not
have produced 80 surprising result
in so short q period OF time but for
the energy with which the advant-
ages OF the county had been made
known to the world. Every one in
the East has heard of Los Angeles.
Every one knows at least something
about its orange groves, its almonds,
its figs, its lemons and its raisins.
Almost every one would like to go
there at least for visit. The name
is a household word. All this il the
product Of intelligent, industrious
work, perseveringly pursued for
several years.
There are half dozen counties in
California as happily situate as Los
Angeles in regard to climate and soil
and some OF them better off as re-
CARDS water Fresno is an example. |
Fresno will grow everything which |
can be grown in Los Angeles, and |
thus far the water supply for irriga- |
ton from Kings river and other |
sources is adequate, Why do not the |
people of Fresno or some Of the other |
counties club together and make the |
resources of their county known to
the world? The East is full of people |
OF moderate means, who are seeking |
home whore they can do better than
earn bare subsistence. Why not
take measures to attract them to |
FrcsnoP With little pains and a
little money the job can he done.
The advance in population and in
general progress noted in this extract |
from our esteemed contemporary is
true, although it is not fully stated.
II is also true that we are little be-
hind Alameda in our vote. All the |
same, il all the. qualified citizens of
Los Angeles and Alameda counties
were to be allowed to vote on u regis
tration Of thirty days this county |
would be at least thousand in ad-
vance OF its charming rival by the
Bay.
II is further true that the attractions
of Los Angeles county have been ad-
NtItiFtl luI itilti Nlhts oNlilE w tIit
enterprise of our local press--and it
is hardly necessary to say that the
HERALD has always been in the ad-
vance in this salutary propaganda
we have lost nothing by not trumpet
ing our own solid merits. We have
borne in mind that aphorism of an
interior Missouri paper which runs
Whose blowcth not his own bazoo.
The same shall not be blowed.
Nevertheless, it is gross injustice
to Los Angeles county to place it on a
par, in any respect, with Fresno and
other interior counties of California,
and we propose, with due respect to
those promising regions, to show why.
Our San Francisco contemporary
coolly assumes, in the first place, that
Los Angeles and Fresno counties are
exactly on a par as to the rainfall.
As n matter OF fact, on the other
hand, while we are surrounded by
comparatively dry counties, with the
single exception of a short strip of
country which impinges on the Mo
jave Desert, Los Angeles is moist
region. Taking range of ten years,
the rainfall here is exactly that of the
Sacramento valley, with the very
material difference that hall an inch
here, owing to our semi-tropical
climate, goes as far as does an inch
there. 1t is true that irriga-
ton, to certain extent, is re-
sorted to in Los Angeles county,
but it is principally in the case of
orange groves and vineyards. 1t is
really not needed for the grape, after
the first year, but it is freely used be-
cause it increases the weight of the
fruit; and, therefore, its selling value,
while perhaps deterioratng its
quality. OF the three million, three
hundred thousand acres which COM
pose Los Angeles county, at least a
million acres will raise plentiful crops
of the cereals oftener, without irriga-
ton, than they can be raised in the
Sacramento valley. The fact has
only been recently discovered that
with intelligent farming, adapted to
the country, drouth in this county is
not near us frequent as in the best
farming regions of New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Our San Francisco contemporary
artfully conceals the fact that in Los
Angeles county we have not the
extremes OF heat in summer or cold
in winter, which characterize the
San Joaquin valley, especially the
southern portion OF it,
Above all things, in estimating our
phenomenal growth, it overlooks our
unrivaled facilities Tor marketing our
products and our commanding com
mercial location. Instead of being
shut in from the ocean, like Fresno,
we have sea-front OF nearly
hundred miles, with the
excellent harbor OF Wilmington
and number of capital road
steads. In addition, we have
the best railway system OF any place
on the American continent, being in
that respect incomparably ahead OF
San Francisco herself. There is no
earthly reason why Los Angeles, with
the whole sweep of the continent be-
hind her, should not rapidly advance
to the position Of a considerable com
mercial emporium. On the contrary,
there are n hundred reasons Why she