Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-20
a Great City.


oughly inspected Southern California he
reserved the expression OF his views to
the last, and gave them to gentleman
daring his stay in San Diego. He said,
with his usual sententiousness, "Los
Angeles is destined to be great city-a
very great city,"
No man could be more opposed to the
ordinary idea of a boomer than the
Republican Senator from California. He
is very guarded in his utterances and
perhaps phlegmatic in his temperament.
He is cool, calm, deliberate and ssgaci-
Gus, and is perhaps the most conserva-
tive financier on the Pacific Coast. His
interests are largely identified with the
northern and central counties. To speak
fguratively, he is in the habit OF looking
before he leaps. On this account his
Judgment is specially valuable.
The Democratic Senator from Califor-
mia, the Hon. George Hearst, is equally
nreserved in bis belief in the future Of
this city and county. In conversation
with the writer, he said that Los Angeles
county would one day be practically
city from the mountains to the sea. He
had the most unbounded confidence in
our urban and rural greatness.
And Los Angeles will, and will shortly,
in the language Of Senator Stanford, "be
great city-a very great city," All the
conditions of phenom email growth exist
here in unlimited measure. They are
contributed by nature, and will be aug
mented by intelligent artificial auxil-
iaries. The leading valleys tributary to
this city are fruitful up to the standard of
either the Scriptural or the classical mar
rative. Our geographical situation is un-
surpassed. The shortest railway line
across the continent runs from San
Pedro to Galveston. The conformation
of the continental passes is such
as to center all the transcontipental
railways south of the Central Pacific in
the unrivaled Los Angeles valley. Three
great transcontinental railways already
center here, with the Atlantic and Pa
cific and the Texas Pacific as feeders to
these great roads, viz, the Central Pa
cific, whose terminus is as fully in Les
Angeles as in San Franciso, and which
reaches Los Angeles via Sacramento and
Lathrop absolutely independent Oft the city
of the Golden Gate, the Sunset route and
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. The
HERALD has advised its readers of the
fact that the work of construction on the
three hundred and eighty-fve miles
which &c parate the present terminus of
the Union Pacific from Barstow will be-
gin with the end of the hot season, which
will give the great Union Pacific Rail-
way terminus at Los Angeles.
Why should not Los Angeles be
great city when, for the one transconti-
mental railway which ministers to the
growth of San Francisco and Portland, che
already has as feeders of her trade five
great transcontinental railways, with the
imminent probability of a sixth in the
immediate future?
Already the second city on the Pacific
Coast, with all her rivals except San
Francisco far in the rear, why should she
not enter into a hopeful and emulous
rivalry with San Francisco herself? 1t
would puzzle any intelligent man to give
q reason to the contrary. If the ratio of
growth which has been maintained here
for the past five years should be contin-
ued for the next ten, the problem will
be decided in favor of the Angelic city.
In the only contest which is ahead for us
as we have already distanced all rivals
the glamour Of our climate and orange
groves will undoubtedly count for much,
and so will our multiform and prodigal
production, which embraces nearly avery
staple known to man.