Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-01

t will therefore be.seen at once that the
Of facts building up South |
ern California must be unus ually perma-
aent, with the tendency OF change for
greater results.
THE PROSPERITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Therefore rests on the broadcast and firm
est foundation of any part OF the world.
1t REQUIRES no prophetic vision to read
great things in the future. The densest
population of the American continent
will be here causing division OF labor and
specialties in every department OF litera,
ture. art and craft. Competition will
develop the highest results in each:
Labor will be cheap. The members of
families will utilize their time. Those
who are artists will concentrate their
greatest skill to outrival competitors and
they NAV sell their works. Those others
talented in handiwork consume other
wise unused time in making fine laces,
needlework, etc., close competitors send
ing to the best markets the products
most rare and marvellous in skill. So
also authors, poets and literary genluses
will give great time and care to produce
that which will rival all others, that they
also may find sale for their works. In
the product Of fabrics, ornaments, works
of art, machinery, and 80 in every de-
partment this competition will produce
maximum results.
In other lands the constantly fitting
cloud makes such an irregular reflection
of light from color and sizes
that no uniformity can be attained.
Hence all paintings from cloudy lands
are lacking in uniformity of colors. Here
the steady sunshine from a cloudless sky
reflects a steady color from paints, and
the artist can produce unity of coloring
not possible in other places. So also the
comfortable and invigorating climate will
enable anyone to do at least twenty per
cent. more work and not suffer.
THE FORTUNATE MAN
Is he who owns and in the future years
will own his home Or farm, or villa lot.
Lands in Southern Californis, have never
| vet averaged anywhere near their future
and permanent value. The semi-tropical
foothin belts of land with water
piped for domestic and irrigating pur-
poses will advance with more or less
rapidity to $5 900 per acre. The country
towns and villages, many of which are
now called paper towns, will become
substantial communities and business
points for the surrounding population.
The various colony enterprises will be
densely occupied by thrifty econom-
ical, educated and skilled population. in
which the labor of the family will be
utilized on their small farm and its
products. From these families will come
the choicest and most deliciously pre-
pared fruits that will be found in any
market. And with the facilities for
transportation that will exist, the world
will be the market.
The ownership of land will be prize,
parted with only in exceptional cases, in
the not distant future. This generation
will see it come to pass.
| THE GREAT MISTAKE
OF the laboring classes in Southern Cali
fornia to-day is in not buying land in
some form.
If you can buy five acres or ten acres
at $500 or 81, 900 per acre buy it. If not.
then buy 5000 per acre land or 500 pei
acre land, or $40 per acre land. Get ten
acres, the best you can. The best is
highest priced and generally the highest
priced is the best. But if you cannot get
the best, then get the ten acres you
can pay for even if it is now desert
land, or the rough, rocky spurs of the
mountains. If you cannot buy acreage
then buy building lot. Take the best
you can pay for. If you can do DO bet
ter buy $25, $50 or 500 lot on time in
any village or town site where you Can
get it. 1t is just as valuable for you to
build residence on as if it cost several
Thousand dollars. You or some one else
will want it.
| AN ILLUSTRATION.
In 1868, when the writer came to Los
Angeles, the hill land overlooking Los
Angeles City was sold at from 81 sc
to $27 per acre at auction. The pur.
chasers laid it out in lots, 60x165, and
up to $50, $75 and 500 per lot. The
laboring men of Los Angeles city could
each have bought one of those lots and
paid for it.
| BUT THEY DID NOT.
Those lots are to-day worth from $4,000
10 10000 each, and the laborers who
would not be swindled into buying then
ia 1868 are mostly to- day homeless. Thit
but illustrates the force of what has beer
said urging all to get land.
THE PRODUCTIVE VALUE
OF ten acres of Southern California land!
under irrigation is very great. Riverside
in 1888 on 5000 acres of orchards anc
vineyards sold over 81 600, 900 worth o
produce, over 5000 per acre for whole
community, or $1,000 income per yeal
from ten acres. The 160 acre-farms o
the eastern and western States will no
yield such results.
Five acres will feed, clothe and edu
cate family provided they utilize the
labor of the family to do all the work
cultivate the land by the square inch
and produce for family consumption
selling the surplus products to purchase
things not produced.
BUYING TO SELL AGAIN
Has been the short. sighted craze callec
boom. People have used every effort tt