Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-10

Settled Values-AM Assured FUTURE
There is perhaps not more interest
ing thing to student of mankind than
the growth of new communities, and the
opportunities for this study are nowhere
more multiform than in Southern Cali
fornia, and in Los Angeles notably, as
the metropolis of Southern California.
To-day, by all standards of computation,
this county contains one hundred and
fifty thousand people, and the city quite
seventy-6ve thousand souls. This is a
five hundred per cent. increase as con-
trasted with the census of 1880. The
election this Fall will afford no fair
standard of computation of our popula-
ton, although the vote polled will be
twice that of 1886; because, under the
law of California an immigrant to this
State must have resided year amongst
us before ne can vote, and it was
during the last year that we have had
our tremendous upheaval in population
increment.
In this section we have had our booms
and eactions-answering to the inflow
and the retrogression of the tides OF the
ocean. We have had them based upon
a few lines of stage coaches, supple
mented by steamer to San Francisco
twice month. Later we had a strong
one based upon the completion of the
Southern Pacific Railway from San
Francisco to Los Angeles. Then we had
a really rattling one, gauged by all known
standards, based upon the extension of
the Southern Pacific Railway to
Arizona. Almost coincidently we had
q slap up, bang up boom,
following the connection with Los
Angeles of the superb Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe system, with the
Southern Pacific converted into the
grand Sunset route, and the placing of
Los Angeles high above San Francisco,
and every other Pacific Coast point. on
the pinnacle of the railway ramifcations
of the west side of the American conti-
nent.
OF course the initial stages of such
phenomenal railway and other items of
progress resulted in boom of Temporal
rily unhealthy proportions. After the
first febrile excitement the people were
obliged to draw their breath and take
stock of their surroundings. Such mo-
ments are always those of reflection, of
doubt and of enforced settlements.
The latter is where the rub comes in.
Here in Southern California we have
already gone through this ordeal of set
tlement, which was a crucial one. We
have come out of it without panic, with
travail and agony for the moment, but
we have nevertheless emerged from it.
No disastrous failures have attended it's
progress, the community has encoun-
tered the sea like staunch ship, and it
now rides the waves.
As we emerge We encounter the follow
ing gratifying facts:
Los Angeles is to-day one of the great
railway centere of the United States and
of the world. AS railway center it
casts San Francisco far into the shade.
Counting local trains, on the most
perfect railway system existing any
where, nearly ninety trains q
day enter and leave the City
Of the Angels. Every one of these trains
carries from ten to forty times the num-
Der of passengers that were won't to be
carried by the four or five stage coaches
of twelve years ago.
We are about to have steamer lines OF
transportation, beginning with the LIST
day of September, which will land
passengers at San Pedro from San Fran
cisco in twenty-six hours.
The area of production in Los
Angeles county has increased i'm
during the past seven
o. eight years. The area in the
whole Of Southern California devoted to
in the first report of Viticul-
Eural Commissioner Rose, was 5, III acres.
Now there aro ct least eighteen thousand