Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-02
a 0rudglnE Ad Mission The Truth
In ExtemsO.

VI taiIoFnu Whicu - hvuB VII its Pa''
reputation. II Is needless to say that
wc allude TO the San Francisco Bulletin.
Time was when the brightest spirits on
this coast contributed to It's columns,
and when men wrote It's leaders who
were pre-sminent in the newspaper
gulld for sagacity Of view and felicity Of
utteranoe. That err in It's history has
long gone by; and, for years, 1t has been
posturIzing as wissaere on the strength
II its old time repute for wisdom and
enterprise. lis issue Of the 28th ultimo
contained an article, under the head Of
''Ths Drifts Of Trade" from which we
take the following extract:
Another commercial ccntsr, on small.
Or scale, has recently obtained some
prominence In Southern California.
4 That center, In small way, is at Los
Angeles. A few years ago there was
great deal Of hostility In that city and
vicinity towards the railroad. A great
many hard things were said. But the
railroad was pushed south from that
city and finally opened up Arizona. A
great deal Of trade began to drift to Los
Angeles. The city took . new start.
II suddenly Awoke from its old letharey.
Real esiats advanced In price within the
limits Of that city. Farms in the vicini
" were bought at an advance, in many
Instances, Of hundred per cent. The
= much abused railroad nearly or quite
doubled the value Of real property In
Los Angelica county. That city has in
some ssnss the key TO the Arizona trade.
etocks Of msrohandise were increased.
Aflzona became . liberal purchaser Of
III sorts Of fruits D. well rs for dry
goods and groceries. The consequence
8 +, that Los Angeles never at any former
psriod had ~ much prosperity as it has
to.dAy.
II ever small article was written in
small way 1t was penned by the pundit
who, ON the 2sth Of last month. domin-
atsd the columns Of the Bulletin and
inditsd the foregoing In comparison
Nth, tsgre1wsh of Portland attention Is
lirccted, by this censorious critic, to the
commerce on ''smaller SCALE" which,
in "a small way" is developing Los
Angeles. On the strength of single
transcontinental railway, as against our
four or five, and on the strength OF a
diminished steamer service to Portland
~ against the largely increased service
to the Southern Coast, the Bulletin does
its feeble best to whistle the Los Angeles
boom down the wind and to subordinate
tito the dscaying boom Of Portland. This
h Of q piece with the general service
the business men Of San Francisco lately
tried to render Los Angeles. when they
waited upon the managers Of the Central
and Southern Pacific Railways, practi-
cally in body, and essayed to bring
about rescission of the commercial
privileges which those persons had very
sAgaciously, in the interest Of the de
velopment of the state, conceded to
Los Angeles, Sacramento and one or two
other points which could facilitate the
mercantile transactions of the people of
this goodly Commonwealth.
Tho HERALD proposes to release the
nAscent young metropolis of the future
State OF South California, of which Los
Angeles will unquestonably be the capi-
tai, from this degrading rclegation to
''smaller" and "small" centers of trade.
The truth is that the Central Pacific
Railway, which will shortly be disused,
is - much Los Angeles as it is a San
Francisco road, il we shall choose to
avail ourselves of its facilities Forum
+ ately, however, we are thousand times
better off; and on shorter and more
practical lines. Through the Mojave
branch of the Southern Pacific Railway,
and its junction at the Colorado river
with the Atlantic and Pacific Railway,
we have the benefit of the whole line of
the latter road for communication with
the East, without the necessity, which
Is imposed upon San Franciscans, OF
dropping down a distance Of four hun
dred miles or so, over the most II O.
mendous grades in the United States,
over the Tehachepi mountains, before it
can be made available. We have, be-
sides, the most ample command, in our
intercourse with the people of the East,
Of the utmost facilities of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe, of the Texas Pa
cific and Of the Sunset routes, which the
people of San Francisco can only attain
at sacrifice OF five hundred
miles, over the same heavy grades men,
toned, plus those of the San Gorgonio
Pass. As against the one transconti-
mental railway available to the people of
San Francisco--the Central Pacitic-and
the one .ranscontineutal railway availa-
---ble to the people of Portland-the
Northern Pacifc--how happy and COM
manding is our position, from the trav-
cling and transportation point of view!
Dropping the unrivaled railway aspect
OF our existing commercial and develop
ment status, Portland is threatened by
the competition of Seattle, Tacoma and
other points on the tremendous Puget
Sound. No such specter shadows our
future. Portland will be the benetici-
ary OF a restricted wheat area, OF a
salmon fishery which of course has its
limitations, and OF red apple area
which is not illimitable. The coal and
mineral and timber developments which
will undoubtedly be incidents of the
growth of the northern lands whose
watershed is the Pacific ocean clearly
point towards Puget Sound towns.
In face of the really restricted agen-
cies of development which coneenter al
Portland, how imperial and practically
illimitable are our own. Here we have
in unstinted measure, the corn, win,
and oil OF the commerce OF all ages. No
only that, but we have, within he limit
OF Los Angeles county, petroleum depos
its quite up to the measure OF those o
Pennsylvania, or OF those which are nov
vivifying Russia on the borders of tn
Caspian Sea. Iu addition, nearly ever,
fruit which is mentioned in scriptural o
classical story, the grape, the orange
the lemon. the banana, the pomegrahate
has here its most prolific home
So thorough has been our worl
Of local development that single 10
Angeles vigneron, Mr.. III. Rose, make
yearly what, between brandy and wine
would be equivalent to seven hundre,
and fifty thousand gallons of wine.
Nor Is that all. Los Angeles county