Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-13
The Liar Abroad In the Land
What Can BE Done.


what Can BE Done.
Time was, and only few years ago,
when Southern California was mere
range for sheep and cattle. Even the
imperial Los Angeles county was then
only known as one of the COW counties.
The city of Los Angeles ten years ago
was simply a 'dobe town. Where the
superb Phillips block now stands, even
less than two years ago, was wretched
block of 'dobe buildings, behind which
stood the County Jail. Things change
30 rapidly hereabouts Of late that one
has to be constantly on the move to pre-
serve enough typographical knowledge
to get around the city without serious
confusing Of ones locality.
All these things happen as incidents
OF the mighty transcontinental and even
international movement which is build
ing up in Los Angeles a unique and
splendid city on the Pacific Coast, whose
progress has been SO rapid that even the
magical history of San Francisco has
been discounted in the comparison.
The city of Los Angeles has grown from
the eleven thousand some odd hur dreds
of the census of 1880 to the unquestion-
able status of a population of eighth-fve
to ninety thousand souls in this year Ct
grace, with every modern agency Of
development in full blast TO make her
the ideal metropolis Of the Pacific Coast.
So unprecedented was our advance that
the jealousy, not only OF Northern and
Central California, but of the press Of
the East and Northwest, was aroused.
Such cities as Minneapolis, St. Paul and
many other cities of the Northwest, and
even such Eastern cities as
Boston and New York.. saw such a
hegira of their best and wealthiest
citizens to Los Angeles and Southern
California that. all at once, an unfair
and jaundiced crusade was begun against
this section. While this hostile move
ment will no more permanently affect
the development of Southern California
pan did King Canute's imbecile beating
the waves divert to success his maligp
tunes, it had its effect temporarily.
Herberated from the New York Her
and from hundred minor echoes
ughout all quarters of the United
es, it for the time injured this region.
be following from Lancaster penn
ania) paper is one Of tie faint echoes
be organized campaign against South.
California during the past Fall and
Winter:
General James A. Walker, of Withe-
vile, Va, is in receipt of letter from
young Virginian who recently moved
to Los Angeles, California, which may
serve as q warning to aspiring young men
from going to Southern California. Gen
eral Walkers correspondent writes:
'sThis is the most overrated country in
the whole world. They have nothing
here except climate, and-such climate
You nearly freeze in the morning and
evening and burn up in the middle of the
day. Everything is at a most exor-
bitant price. What do you think OF coal
being $40 per ton and wood at $l4 per
cord? The fruit here is not half so good
as it is in the East, with the soli-
tary exception of grapes, which are the
finest have ever seen. The only thing
that brings farmer any revenue is
alfalfa hay, which they can raise only by
which is very costly. The |
whole OF Southern California is laid off |
into town and city lots, st from 5000 to |
S., 900 per acre, and each owner expects !
TO sell at those figures to some Eastern |
T., tho ahoxya uo boyo ap aobo of fl1. |
most malignant OF the untruthful rough |
,hings said of this section. General |
Walkers correspondent is probably one
,f those enfeebled representatives Of the
grand old State which was once known |
rs the mother of statesmen and which is |
low sometimes content to be chronicled |
IS the grandmother or the great
grandmother of imbeciles "a de-
'cent which is even now found
n Virginia to be as easy as that which
Virgil found as facile as that of He'll.
rhe fact is that Southern California
'6ers 30 many advantages, even from the
,oint of view of horticulture and agricul-
ure, to say nothing of climate, as COM
Jared to any other region Of the globe,
hat it is Eclipse first and the rest no.
Vhere. A farmer here, on ten acres, if
e is industrious, can make more money
han his brother in the East can make
n one hundred and sixty acres. With
ight crops of alfalfa yearly here, as
gainst the crop and third of clover in
range county, New York. or Bourbon
ounty. Kentucky, the California farmer
9 natural born loafer. In addition, the
outhern California horticultural knows
rat the great oceans of all ages beat
yainst the walls Of bis vineyard and or
lard, and that the world is his market.
nd he knows, in addition, that from the
'ange to the grape vine and the tomato !
ne the Angelef1o is independent of sea- i
ms. This Lancaster fellow can come o
1t here and make more money, in a
,ok of the Cshuenga hills, in month,
an he could in year in the region in
hich he was born. Here we have the =
rennial vegetation which multiplss y
snifold every proposition Of the East d