Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-06-16

The question is frequently asked
will the present boom last? viii the
rapid strides Los Angeles is now
making in prosperity continue?
There can be little doubt ON this
point. This city has more to make
II prosperous In the future than it
ever had in the past. 1t might to the
uninformed be a source OF some won
der how the city grew to its present
size, and maintained its prosperous
condition but there can be no ques-
ton as to how il will grow and remain
prosperous hereafter. In the first
place, this is the first year that there
have ever been complete railroad
facilities for the people OF the older
States TO visit this section. With the
different lines OF road reaching out
to all points East, all who desire TO
come here now have the best possible
means of doing 30. In the next place
there we're never before equal reasons
for Eastern people to remove here
and settle. The winters all through
the older States are constantly grow
ing colder and the deadly cyclones
are becoming more and more frequent
and destructive. According to all
Corners the people of those States are
literally by thousands making prepa-
rations to come to Southern Callfor-
mia as a place OF sale refuge from
these calamities. All who come TO
stay must necessarily invest, which
will maintain values OF real estate.
And there need be no fear OF over
crowding. Los Angeles county IL just
about the size OF Massachusetts,
which has over million and half
of inhabitants, while our natural adj
vantages are certainly in most re-
spects superior to those OF the Old
Bay State. After this may be men,
toned the effect o. the new railroad
now being constructed down the coast
from San Francisco. Nothing that
ever happened will so tend to raise
Los Angeles to the rank OF an impor-
tant metropolitan city as the compile
ton of this road. Following this are
numberless other railroad projects,
many Of which will be successfully
carried out, and all of which will
greatly aid in the building up and
development of this city. Then the
great Raymond Hotel will soon be
opened, to add its hundreds OF wealthy
tourists who will spend their money
here, to the supporting elements
of Los Angeles. This, in itself, will
create an important addition TO the
business of Los Angeles, besides be-
ing of inestimable value as a means
of advertising and making known to
wealthy persons, who might not
otherwise visit us, the excellencies
and resources OF this section. The
Hotel Arcadia at Santa Monica will
also soon add greatly to the general
prosperity in the same way. As to
crops OF all kinds, the fundamental
source of the wealth and greatness OF
our section, this is the model farming
country OF the world, for either the
cereals or fruit culture, and the area
cultivated is being extended year by
year TO more than keep pace with the
growth OF the city. Besides these
things there are street railroads and
buildings enough already under way
here to make times good in this city
for at least year to come, II there
were nothing else to depend on, while
the invalids who come here to restore
their healths are OF sufficient number
to support quite a large population !;
and their numbers are constantly in
creasing. In addition to all these
elements, the great oil developments
now being made promise to be OF sui
ficient extent to support large and
populous community through the oil
industry alone. In view OF these
varied facts there is little danger OF
the cessation of the boom. In fact
the boom has only begun.