Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-01
Tustin Items

EDITOR HERALD:-We can now men
tion our street railway connection will
Santa Ana as in actual operation. Car
were put upon the track on Wednesday
last and on Thursday trips were made
regularly, and in some instances two
cars at time were insufficient to take
the number that would travel betweer
the two places. They have been wei
patronized and assure the stockholders
all they anticipated.
The writer has not been in California
vet three years and had we been told
when first coming street cars wouio sc
soon RIM between here and Santa Ana,
the statement would have seemed mos'
absurd.
There were then but three streets III
this place that could lay claim to any
beautv. the streets or roads were not
graded and where bitches ran parallel In
MANY places it seemed difficult to dis
tinpuish the ditch from the road, SO
much water went to waste in the road,
and causing great annoyance to travel.
A few fine dwellings were here and
mapy places were but just started. And
now. TO one accustomed to Eastern
places. would say our place must have
had at least twenty to thirty years
growth, All of our streets and high
ways are graded. Long avenues with
shaded walks on either side and the
bitches are made so that no
water never troubles the travel, and
we have an abundance of water
for irrigation. Many fine residences
have been added, though, perhaps, with
not so great an outlay as in those places
near Los Angeles, but our growth has
been entirely without the aid OF real es.
tate men to advertise our beauties and
advantages. People who have accident
ally, or otherwise, found us and, charm.
ed with our place, have added their
wealth ana energy to make up what can
not be disputed to be one of the most
charming and quiet places for a pleas
ant home in all southern California.
We have finely laid out city lots ana
squares, and streets and some beaut1fu!
avenues. We have now two stores OF
general merchandise, and soon another
will be added; postoffice, telephone sta
ton, livery staole. real estate office, a
graded school, three churches and first.
class society.
A hall is now in contemplation OF be-
ing built, and there is rumor afioat OF
a stock com pany being formed to erect q
a hotel-a much needed enterprise-al-
though it has not yet taken shape.
Many have signifed their willingness to
take stock.
The new railroad so soon to be built
to San Diego, cannot pass us by without
touching somewhere near, either one
side or the other. We are two miles
east of the Santa Ana depot, and our
street cars connect with all trains.
= A San Francisco gentleman was here
last week looking for a pleasant, quiet
place to build residence. He stated
that he had been to nearly every place
in Southern California to find his object
of search. and nowhere had he seen u
place that suited his fancy as did our
charming place of Tustin, and we invite
strangers to come and see us and we will
show them as much beauty as they can
find anywhere; and we can raise almost
anything that grows.
A meeting OF some of the citizens was
held on Saturday night last to take ac'
tion upon starting new Odd Fellows
Lodge, and another meeting is to be
held next Saturday to take still further
steps. a. d. v.
JUSTIN. November 90, 1886.