Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-08
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1850.


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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1859.
Senator Hearst and she HarbOr.i
The local department of the HERALD
to-day devotes considerable space to the
visit of Senator George Hearst to this city
and section, and particularly to San
Pedro harbor. Senator Hearst is now on
his way to Washington, where he will
arrive in time to take part in the closing
scenes OF the Fiftieth Congress. There
will not be much to do this year in any
direction of legislation but next Decem-
ber the Fifty-First Congress will convene
and organize, and Senator Hearst will be
q member of that body also. Indeed, he
will be in the Upper House, an infuen-
tial member, until the year 1898. 1t is,
therefore, most happy thing that he
should find the time just now to
spend few days here looking over the
ground and taking note of the growth,
promise and needs OF this section. He
will see here new enterprises just
set on foot, budding industries
opening into bright flowers OF
promise, population increasing
rapidly, most prolific section with inn
measurable possibilities. Around him
lie elements out of which an empire may
be created. He sees here city whose
present standing is more than respecta-
BILE from all points Of view, and whose
future will be second to no city on this
Coast, with, perhaps, the single exception
Of San Francisco. We say perhaps; for
the Bay City will be Obliged to look
sharply after her metropolitan laurels or
the Angelic City will snatch them from
her fair brow and place them on her own
feirer one.
Among the prime necessities of this
section is the improvement of our
shipping facilities. Los Angeles is at
one terminus of the shortest track be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
within the limits of the United States.
We are much nearer China, Japan
and Australia than San Francisco is. We
are many hundreds of miles nearer the
Atlantic sea-board than any place on the
shores of the Pacific in the United States.
Here three transcontinental railways
have their terminal facilities, and several
others are now working this way with an
energy which indicates the importance
such enterprises attach to our situation.
Via Salt Lake, the distance from tide
water on the Pacific to the central region
of the United States is much shorter
than by way of San Francisco. Traffic to
this section is larger by much than its
population would lead one to expect.
We produce here in the greatest profusion
fruits obtainable from no other portion Of
this Union. All the grades and
varieties of table vegetables ripen in this
region all months in the year. Our soils
are redundant in their fertility, yielding
not only enormous crops, but several OF
them year from the same bit of land.
Then the mildness of this cline is
magnet of giant force, drawing to our
shores thousands and hundreds of thou
sands of tourists, who come to spend the
winters and escape the rigors of that
season at the East, or to sojourn during
the summer months, when the heat
renders existence a burden, if not an
impossibility in those superheated and
unhealthy sections. All these factors
in the problem mean that there will be
developed here a large and steadily in
creasing volume of business of all sorts.
From far Cathay the argosies of richly
freighted fleets will flock to our harbor
to disembark their cargoes for tranship-
ment to the East. The whole west coast
of the great American continent will be
tributary to our port.
These are the facts which eyes less
keenly practical than Senator Hearst's
must see on looking over this section.
With his large and varied experience of
affairs on the largest scale, the distin-
guished Senator will take these points in
in all their multiform bearings. Hee
ciEes great influence in the Senate, and
will be able to do US splendid service.
His patriotic impulses will spur him to
exert himself in our behalf to his utmost
ability.
Senator Hearst will not only see what
we should have in the way of the better
ment of our harbors, but be will also see
how great the neglect from which this
section has suffered in this respect.
Private enterprise has done good deal
for us already, is doing much
now, and is planning much more.
Nearly all there is at San Pedro is the
result of private effort. The aid the
Government has extended us in twenty
five years is mere bagatelle. Private
enterprise is doing great things at Re-
dondo, and here the Government has
never contributed single cent. We de-
serve better treatment at the hands OF
our servants at Washington. Senator
Hearst will now return there fully
equipped with information in all the de-