Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-04
rhe Latest Prcvaricater.

For the past three years q real
estate boom has been in progress In
Los Angeles, California. Relying
upon the statements of interested
parties that the State was the garden
spot of the continent, and Los An
geles the gem of the garden spot, emf
grants focked to the town in large
numbers and paid fabulous sums for
realty. The result is summed up in a
letter to the Minneapolis Tribune, q
paragraph of which reads:
"There is no property selling. can buy
more than can pay for here OF parties who
paid one third down and want to drop their
holdings and lose what they have put in
and save their paper from protest. The
country is full of malaria, and a small
druggist told me that his, sales OF quinine
were over three thousand grains week. |
feel like joking these re Il estate dealers
| about their boom, but they are so serious
that it is like trying to joke a corpse"
And the country is full OF malaria.
This is verification of the predic-
tions of the climatologists, who hold
that, once California is thoroughly
irrigated, all that portion of the State
not seven thousand feet above the
sea level will be Observation-Disclosures,
Ia, Paper.
The above paragraphs were sent to
a resident in this city from a brother
in Iowa. The clipping was accom-
panied by letter, as follows:
PARKERsBURG, Iowa, 21st February.
BROTHER CHARLIE: Since writing you
| yesterday l chanced to pick up a Dubuque
paper containing the inclosed extract from
| q 1arf ri fO q ic
| l wonder if the writer had the shakes
while there? Three thousand grains OF
quinine in one week is pretty good-a little
over six ounces. Allowing six grains to the
dose, which is about the average dose,
would be 500 doses. Say there are ten stores
| in the city selling an equal amount, which
would make $4,000 grains week. or 1000
doses of six grains each, that would be one
$4,000, making it out that ten per cent. OF
the whole are troubled with malaria in
your city. But it is not supposed that each
one got just the six grains, but from ten to
that would reduce the per cent down to
about three per cent or three and half per
cent. So it don't make it SO terrible mala
rial after all. Los Angeles should be about
only about half the altitude the writer
gives as above the danger line as 1000 feet.
Los Angeles should be a Libby prison in the
| Tropics of peace and civilization.
terested in a Minneapolis boom. or he may
be one of the subsidized writers OF the
press"
Irrigation no doubt has and will have
marked influence on. the climate and
health of the people,. also on the diseases,
their nature and effects, etc, the wonderful
growth of vegetation and the decay that
will follow will influence a country. for
health. But when we take into considera-
ton the dry atmosphere and the clear cold
streams of pure water that go thun dering
down the mountains and through the
cailons out upon the beautiful valleys still
pure 1T cannot in my mind produce any great
amount OF malaria diseases. But presume
Los Angeles will go right along just the same.
WILLIS.
P. s. On taking a second thought, Los
Angeles is only about 400 feet above sea
level, making it still more perilous for the
city.
There is no use attempting a serious
discussion of this question. Our
views will not reach the readers OF
the Minneapolis Tribune in this way,
and our own readers know, as well as
we could tell them, how thoroughly
false every view here set forth is.
For example, sales of realty last
month overtopped $7,600,00O. The
sales yesterday reached 1924, 900.
There are no people here who want
to "drop their holdings" excepting at
an advance of 100 per cent.
Malaria, as we are all aware, is al
most unknown. But why waste time
answering those fabrications, made,
no doubt, by interested persons.
DURING the month of February