Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-22
salt Lake and Los Angeles both
On the Up.Grade.

salt Lake and Los Angeles Both
On the Up-Grade.
There is great and general expecta-
tion of better times in Los Angeles re-
sulting from the extension of the Union
Pacific and Denver and Rio Grande rail-
ways to this city. The great railway.
building energy in Salt Lake City has
already sent the price of real estate
there booming. It will be only a very
little while until Los Angeles will also
experience the great pulsations of this
movement. In addition, we have such
q variety Of resources and such capability
of manifo Did production that no other
region in the United States can hope to
rival us in the rspidity of our advance.
Ten years from today Los Angeles
county, in addition to selling yearly ten
million dollars worth of wines and
brandies to the outside world, will also
be selling Christmas lamb, Christmas
veal, green peas, string beans, early
potatoes, winter tomatoes, straw berries,
lines, lemons, oranges and crystalized
and canned fruits to a similar amount.
While we sometimes grumble that
our production is not greater than
it is, when we remember that, fifteen
years ago, this was "a COW county," and
our principal reliance for revenue was on
wool and hides, We have really made
marvellous advances. Fifteen years ago
there were only about score or 30 OF
American looking houses in Los Angeles.
Now it is crowded with palaces. Two
years ago we had scarcely block of good
pavement and sidewalk. The last report
of the Superintendent of Streets shows
that we have made upwards of sixty-s
thousand feet of unsurpassed thorough
fare.
Nothing is palmer than that we are
shortly to be brought in connection with
the unsurpassed coal fields of st. George
county, Utah. We have the word of
Senator John P. Jones that he and his
partner, Mr.. D. o. Mills. are going to
bring to US the cheap fuel of their Alaska
coal fields. Supplementary to this We may
point to the fact that the development
of petroleum is proceeding at a rapid pace
in Los Angeles and the adjoining county
of Ventura. Already millions OF dollars
worth of petroleum are being annuslly
taken out of the oil wells of this county
alone. The practically illimitable capacity
of our oil easures is just beginning to be
realized. Natural gas undoubtedly ex-
lists here, and will shortly be developed
One of the most experienced oil men of
Western Pennsylvania, who had exam
ined this section extensively, told the
writer that, when We choose to 60 for It,
We will find as much gas as has ever
been discovered in the Keystone State.
With mountain of iron within thirty
miles of Los Angeles as the crow flies,
and with mountains of the best glass
sand obtainable at 50 ton, which costs
$40 ton in Pittsburg, why should not
Los Angeles be a great manufacturing
center? Why should she not be tre-
mendous smelling center with the in
Vulnerable rich lodes of gold. silver, lead
and copper which surround her on every
side?
She will be all Of these, and the great
est railway center of the American CONT
nent outside of New York, besides. Our
people are just now 60 busy paying the
unnecessarily heavy taxes to which they
are subjected that they do not care to
cast their eyes on an horizon fairly
ablaze with hope and development, and
which nowhere reflects city of greater
promise, or more immediate promise,
than the City of the Angels. We have
put in two years getting rid of the boom
and of the kite.fying speculative guild,
and We are now entering the era of solid
prosperity and development. Capital is
pouring in here from abroad in large
measure; and if our ten commercial and
five savings banks will just realize that
their conservative mission has been full
filed, and that this is the time to back
cp all legitimate enterprises that look
towards developing the country, Los
Angeles will know, during the next
twelvemonth, the best times ever chron-
icled here.
THERE seems to be pretty general