Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-26
SANTA ANA.
The South End of the
County.
oonING RAILROAD CENTERs.

The Solid End of the Boom Which
No Possible Disaster Can
Touch.
Santa Ana grows with rapidity
Of pace second only to Pasadena, if
indeed the eouth-end town does not
equal Los Angeles nearer neighbor.
A census is being taken, which plainly
indi Gates that the municipality con-
tains 400 people. The city limits are
very narrow, and the immediate
vicinity for miles around is peopled
about as densely as the city proper.
Then Tustin City is tributary to Santa
Ana, and Orange is partly so.
Santa Ana is being built upon
solid style, commensurate with the
substantial basis on which her
prosperity rests. While the climate
Of the lower end OF the county is
second to none, that section does
not have to look to the invalid as the
only means of development. The
resources Of this part of Los Angeles
county are marvellous in their variety
and in their richness. For 10 to Is
miles seaward stretches q plain of
wonderful fertility. Thousands of
acres of this land are the home of
hog and hominy quite as emphatically
as the richest of western prairies.
There is no better cattle land out of
doors than this is. The orange flour.
ishes with an absolute perfec-
ton. and it is the raisin-grape
section Of this part of the
State. Plenty of water flows through
the big bitches Of the Santa Ana
water company, or comes from the
many great artesian wells that sparkle
in the snow in all directions. These
are facts too well known to need COM
ment
THE HOTEL BRUNSWICK.
Santa Ana has one of the hand
soonest hotels in the State. 1t is a
very ornamental brick block Of SUBJ
stantial structure. 1t is called the
Brunswick and is kept by one Of the
best hotel men in the State. U. w.
Ward has kept hotel nearly all his
life. His home at Santa Ana is
known to every commercial traveller
in California, and every guest who
has ever stopped there goes away
singing the praises of tho Bruins
wick and the tune is not set in a
minor key.
RAILROAD FACILITIES.
Santa Ana has the S. P. rail.
road at her doors, and also
the T. T. road which passes
on to Sans Juan-by-the-Sea and
eventually will reach San Diego. A
motor road from Santa Ana via Fruit.
land and Fairview will at once be
com,rrueree 70 s,.w s,.w~rort harbcr, The,
Nj. W. ii. Sturgeon and his associ.
Gates have organized standard gauge
road from Santa Ana to the same
point on the Pacific. This is soon tx
be built via South Santa Ana. A
town with four railroads will need NJ
railroad commission to regulate itl
traffic. Competition will do that, anl
the result will be favorable to the in
terests Of the town.
The climate is as perfect as the sol
is rich. In winter no cold winds from
the mountains or from the north car
reach this section without having the
sting taken ont of it, being modi
fed by the warm breeze that comes
up from tho ocean near by. In the
ssnmer when the days are warm in
the interior these south winds
come cool and pleasant and
make the temperature most
delicious. Such are the elements oui
of which the boom grows in the
south end of the county. They arr
such as cannot be discounted or done
away.
It is out of these elements SAINT,
Ana derives her growth. On all thu
street corners great blocks of solit
brick are going up in most artistic
forms. All the houses in the city arr
occupied, and there is not vacan
store in Santa Ana. Some half 8
dozen new blocks are now being
built. The streets are full of people
at all hours of the day.
THE SURROUNDINGS.
Below Santa Ana lies the great Sal
JOAQUIN ranch. As soon as this f
sold it will throw 100000 acres o
land open to settlement. In all di
rections stretch rich domain of fer
tile lands, whose population will b,
very dense, and all directly or indi
rectly tributary to Santa Ana. Tha
end Of the county is capable of sup
porting $1,000 people, and SAINT,
Ana stands to number at no very dis
tant day 25 900 souls.
FAIRvIEw.
This is a new town about midway
between Santa Ana and Newport.
has but recently been laid out. Tht
streets are all graded. The leading
avenues are 100 feet wide, the other
so feet. The motor road is to ruI
along the main thoroughfare. A nict
hotel has been built in the center o
the town. It is just ready for occupa
ton and will be opened in few days
The new town has real estate Office
q restaurant and three houses. Here
is the natural gas we'll so much
spoken of. It is there and
NO mistake. A small gasometel
has been erected over it, and a pipe
attached to this furnishes a steady
stream Of gas which burns with a clear
steady stream. The we'll is to be sunk
10 4 greater depth and a better supply
Of gas obtained. The water from the
we'll, with which the gas rises, il