Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-03
vo umne xxx.

With this number Of the HERALD We
enter on the thirtieth volume of this
journal. In the fifteen years Of its
publication we have seen many and
great changes in the history of our
fair city. The date OF the HERALD's
first appearance takes US back to 1873.
The building Of the Southern Pacific
railroad had been just commenced,
and thereby the foy ndations laid on
which our present "boom" has been
built. During the intervening
years the great resources of our mag
nificent section have been in part de-
yeloped, and the fine promise Of this
city partly realized. The HERALD has
seen our vineyards extend from small
area to an important industry, and our
orchard products increased from a
rather inadequate local supply to a
crop so vast that of oranges alone
1900 cars in one year have
been carried out of the country.
Cereal culture and that of vegeta-
bles of all sorts are now en-
terprises carried far beyond any ex-
perimental stage to point where
their su ccess and profit are unques-
toned and unquestionable. The pop
ulation Of this city has increased
nearly tenfold, and that of the sur
rounding country by largar ratio.
As we enter upon volume XXX
we look abroad over small empire
tributary to the angelic city, and she
herself looms up as veritable me-
tropolis of no mean order. we have
now two lines of rail connecting us
with all parts of the East directly,
and one via the central part of our
State. The Pacific coast steamers
which then made trips once in ten
days rather Indifferent steamers :
now make daily arrivals and depart
ures from our port, and that in float
ing palaces. The HERALD in her
fifteenth year looks out upon COM
mercial city whose half score
banks control a combined capital of
go, 900, 600. She is surrounded by a
dozen large hotels, and half hun
dred private boarding houses. Three
and four-story blocks of solid mason
ry cluster around this Office, and ex-
tend to great distance on all sides.
Nearly one hundred trains day ar
rive and depart from our depots.
As we look into the immediate fu-
ture we see two, if not three
more transcontinental roads head
ing for our city. We catch
the echo of the hammers at San
Pedro, where great harbor is being
constructed fsr the accommodation OF
our great and growing commerce with
all parts of the world. The broad,
rich plains of this seni-tropic Paradise
are studded with growing towns which
in year or two more would be tread
ing upon our own heels, were it not
for the certainty of our continued
increase Of prosperity. The entire
! countryis is being literally gridironed by
local railroads. A vast cable system
Of street railways is on the eve of be-
ing built, the streets are being paved,
the city being severed and all the
signs of great center OF population
and business, set in the center OF a
most fertile region, multiply, on all
hands. Before we shall have lived
half as long again as our present age
indicates, the HERALD hopes to see
m empire in reality in this matchless
land Of ours, and Los Angeles the cap
ital city Of State whose prosperity
and glory will be the envy Of all her
sisters in this glorious family OF
States.
II that forecast seem little enthu-
siastic, our only apology is that the
HxRALD has always been in the lead
IN Ill enthusiasm concerning this
Asction, and yet our forecasts have, in