Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-01
TUESDAY, JANUARY I, 1889.
The Old and the New Year as TO
Los Angeles-ttExcelsiO

TUESDAY. JANUARY Is 1859.
The Old and the New Year as TO
Los Angeles-ttEXcelSiO
In the annual review of the events OF
the year the columns of the HERALD will
be found very complete this morning.
AS brief record and chronicle of the
times to-day's issue of this journal will
be surpassed nowhere in the United
States-a statement which means that it
will not be surpassed in the world, for
the United States, the premier nation OF
mankind, is easily first in all efforts of
journalistic enterprise.
OF late this journal has not cared to be
very assertive about this region, not be-
cause we doubted its outcome but be-
cause we desired to be very onssrvative
in our utterances. The HERALD has
been the journal which set the
keynotes to the development of
this section. Its views have always been
confirmed by the result in the past and,
with reputation to preserve, we were
naturally anxious to have it maintained
spotlese. The late Los Angeles boom
was introduced by the first number of the
Los ANGELES ILLUSTRATED HERALD,
which was issued on the first day of May,
1880. In that special issue of this journal
we said that about the middle of July of
the current year the Sheriff would cease
TO be competitor in the disposal Of resl
estate, aud from that time forward values
would steadily appreciate. We added
that the most phenomenal movement
ever recorded in real estate transactions
in California would begin Immediately
thereafter.
The controllers of this journal do not
claim the gift of prophecy, but they say
without reserve that if certain inspired
prophecies had had the directness and
the immediate information of ours as to
Los Angeles there would be fewer theo-
logical skeptics than exist to-day.
We simply point casually to the record
of this journal in the past. We claim at
least attention to our provisions to-day.
In 1880 the United States census
showed that in the city of Los Angeles
we had total population of II 300. In
the Presidential election of this year we
had total vote in the city of 13, $50.
The population of the county had ad-
vanced pari passu. Here is city in
which, in eight years, the vote alone had
exceeded the total population last Off
cially recorded by nearly three thousand.
The population of the city and county
of Los Angeles, in its registration, was
exactly one-half of that OF the city and
county of San Francisco.
Nor does that tell nearly all the story
of our wonderful increase. While the
registration Of our voters placed us at one
half that of the registration of the city
and countyof San Francisco, Los Ange-
Hes has been the beneficiary Of tre-
mendous Eastern and Western immigra-
ton that did not figure on the electoral
rolls, because the laws Of California
require that even qualified voter shall
be resident at least year in this
State before he can vote. AS it is,
we show fifty per cent. of the popu-
lation of the city and county of
San Francisco. AS matter of fact,
if all the qualified voters of this imperial
county had been resident long enough,
We should have shown fully sixty per
cent Of the population of the City of the
Golden Gate. 1t requires years resi-
dence here to permit man to vote.
The ambitious residents there can
ponder this proposition.
The HERALD, while the collapse of the
socalled boom has been imminent, has
been very modest. Paper towns, princi-
pally fioated by Easton & Eldridge, of
San Francisco, for time interfered with
our legitimate development. Fortunately
for the exploitation of Southern Califor-
mia and Los Angeles county, this hectic
incident was of short duration.
The paper towns have disappeared;
while, in their place, stands
magical development without pre-
cedenr in any country or any age,
and development which is even yet
in its infancy.
Los Angeles is destined to be one OF
the half dozen phenomenal cities OF the
worlds history. 1t is on the exact par
allels of latitude which have recorded all
the sensational developments of luxury
and wealth known in the worlds annals,
and it is already one of the great railway
centers of both America and the world.
A 'dobie town ten years ago, it is already
city which challenges comparison with
any municipality at home or abroad.
Having already achieved half the pop
ulation of the city and county of San
Francisco in a competition which has
only lasted seriously five years, we
risk nothing in predicting that, in the
next decade, Los Angeles will pass San
Francisco both in population and
wealth. In fact, We advise the capital
lists Of San Francisco to move down here,
not only ~ . precaution 70 maintain