Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-10
A Oonnlnta Annwer.

1u0 ScCIoD VI tno poIbloboue AuAoiOPAO
sentation to which this section is sub
jected may be traced to the fact that it
possesses so much more merit than other
parts Of the State. II we had a poorer
soil, with less possibilities, a more rigor.
GUS climate and fewer attractions,
Los Angeles would be left severely
alone. But our traducers know that
strangers have only to come here to
realize our matchless advantages, and to
become immediate converts to our un-
approachable merits, and therefore they
bead all their efforts to the prevention OF
travel this way. We were astounded,
day or two since, to learn from a gentle
man here that the President of great
corporation which ought to have close
relations with us, had discouraged
his company from extending its
business to Los Angeles because
there was nothing here to justify the
step. He had been so inoculsted with
the virus of SANDER, SO freely dealt in by
our maligners, that he really came to be-
lieve that we were without resources
and bankrupt in everyth ing that goes to
make up the stock in trade of a
prosperous community. He clung
to this false impression until a
friend of his, in whose veracity and
Judgment he had unbounded confidence,
came here, spied out the land, and wrote
to him the facts as they are. He at once
revised the views he had imbibed from
the false reports he had heard, and
wrote to his friend here that he was
agreeably surprised at the accounts he
received from him. Then, in justice to
himself and to the company over whose
interests he presided, he made up his
mind to come here and see for himself.
In a few days that gentleman will be
here. His visit will be fraught with re-
suits of great importance to our section ;
for the impressions he will carry away
with him from here will eventuate either
in placing US in connection with another
important railroad system or putting off
| indefinitely the time when that con-
nection will be made.
We have a6verted to this incident
merely to show what harm the menda-
cious and malicious reports that have
been industriously spread abroad about
our section are doing. 1t is an old adage
that lies travel with seven league boots,
while truth goes on crutches. But in the
end truth, though slow, will reach the
goal, and then comes the reck'
oning. 1t is doubtful whether
mere correction and refutation oi
the food of lies placed in circulation
about us will accomplish the object. II
is very easy 10 treat what We may say
| lightly, and to break its force by charg'
ing us with zeal in bad cause, because
we are interested parties. But we shall
soon have an answer to the ISLANDERS oi
our enemies, which they will not be able
to set aside, and which will vindicate the
matchless merit of our section in a way
that will be irrefutable.
We allude to the unprecedented vol
ume of crops of all kinds, from cereals
to fruits and wines, that will be produced
in this and adjoining counties the cur
rent season. There is every prospect
of the grandest productive year ever
witnessed in these parts. Moth
ing but phenomenal calamity
can prevent this. The acreage plowed
and seeded in this county alone is nearly
double that of any previous year, and
Los Angeles will give an account of herself
in harvest that will astound and con-
found the people who have so grossly
and so persistently misrepresented us.