Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-05

)us that there is steady influx OF out
side capital into Los Angeles, which will
increase amazingly in volume as we ap-
proach the Fall months.
A fair presentment of the situation
would be incomplete without glance at
our geographical and railway advan-
tages. The government of the United
States and the powerful Southern Paci-
fc Railway Company are united in their
purpose to create great harbor at San
Pedro. The officials OF the Railway
named have announced it to be their pur-
pose to spend million dollars in the
construction OF harbor and mole at
that point, and the scale of their work at
the Oakland mole show how they exc
cute enterprises of the kind. The short
est line from Pacific to Atlantic tidewater
passes through the Angelic City, and
that by the easiest grades and below the
snow belt. With the whole continent
behind her. and with her unrivaled ad-
vantages of climate, our fair young city
may we'll plume her pinions for mighty
flight.
Enough data exists now for the claim
that Los Angeles is going to be one OF
the great railway centers of the world.
Practically four transcontinental railways
already center here, for We command
the facilities of the Central and
Union Pacific systems as fully as
San Francisco, and without pass
ing through the Bay City. The
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
the Atlantic and Pacific and the Sunse
route are all practically Los Angeles
roads, and we also enjoy all the ramifi
cations of the Texas Pacific. At leas
two more powerful railway combination
with transcontinental connections are
heading for this city, and they will be
here in the near future. Our transpor
tation facilities by water are about to be
greatly improved and extended. Of loca
railways we have no end, the county be-
| ing absolutely gridironed with them
The railway by which we at present com.
municate with San Francisco and the
central and northern counties is shortly
to be complemented by coast road which
will reduce the time of making the trip
by rail to San Francisco to fifteen no urs
and that by most delightful route
Motor roads, rapid transit and electric
railways, with splendid line of street
car service, shortly to be crowned with
one of the most extensive cable systems
of the country, tell the story Of develop.
ment as yet but in its infancy to the in.
telligent tourist or immigrant.
These are the cold facts Of the
situation. and to them must be added
the statement, made on the authority o.
the excursion agencies and OF the officials
of the Southern Pacific Railway, that we
are to have this year the largest immigra-
ton ever chronicled. The school census
shows that Los Angeles has grown forty
per cent. during the past year. With
such agencies of growth and progress al
work in measure never heretofore
known, we need not wonder if, in the
next five years, we shall have popula
ton of one hundred and fifty thousand
souls in the City OF the Angels.
Yes, we shall have them, and we shal
have them because of an unrivaled geo.
graphical location, splendid harbol
facilities, transcontinental and local rail
ways without end, the most prolific
lands and the most multiform produc
ton on earth, and climate which dis
counts that of the Riviera and OF the
Mediterranean Coast of Africa.