Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-12
Some Cold EactR.

The HERALD has always claimed the
right to put in good word for the Sec
tion in which it is published-Southern
NIT itself to ignore Los Angeles, which
is the Corinthian capital of a charming
region of almost illimitable possibilities.
About April of last year the underpin-
nings were knocked out from an artificial
"boom," premature and feverish. which
was inaugurated in Los Angeles by lot
of spectators from Kansas City and
other flash towns in the Northwest,
whose own sporadic and occasional pros
perity have nothing but corn and hogs
to rest upon, and every element of whose
growth is as prosaic as a pumpkin or q
shingled shanty.
These people did Los Angeles a great
deal of injury simply because they were
q little "too previous" They have not
blotted out single one of the elements
which have made Los Angeles the
Riviera of the American continent, and
which will shortly make her the beauty
spot of the world, as we'll as the center
of tremendous commercial and manu-
featuring activities. Our climate is still
here; and the United States Signal Ser
vice Office, now as heretofore, registers
the meteorological details which are
steadily concentrating the attention OF
the medical profession OF the whole
world on Southern California. Neither
did they tear up single one of the in
Vulnerable railway tracks that have
marked out Los Angeles as one of the
great transcontire railway centers of
the American continent.
And here we would halt moment. 1t
is not many years since a stage line to
San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Bar
bara and to the Tehachepi, with an &C.
casional steamer from San Pedro to San
Francisco, represented every means Los
Angeles had of ommunicatiDg with the
outside world. How is it now? The
number of heavily laden passenger trains
that enter and depart from the elegant
depots with which this city is now sup
piled is absolutely bewilderiDg. As to
any and all other points on the Pacific
Coast, Los Angeles, like "Eclipse, is
first, and the rest Nowhere" San Fran
cisco is dwarfed in the comparison. Los
Angeles is the terminus of three trans
continental railways and the center of al
most innumerable local systems. To
complete the significance of our railway
notifications the Union Pacific Railway
is pushing its Utah Southern from Mil
ford to terminus here. with easily &C.
cessible coal, iron and metals of lead,
gold and silver galore, as a consequence
of it's extension. The indications are that
our port facilities will soon not even
be inferior to those of San Fran
cisco, with San Pedro and Santa
Monica as emulous rivals in the
cheap delivery of Australian coal, d,
Washington Territory lumber and every
thing that will make manufactures FEAST
BILE and profitable and building cheap.
In addition, We have already repaired
the damage done to this fair region by
the spectators from the Northwest.
Their brief reign was marked by de-
vastated vineyards and orange groves,
and by the marking out CT fair farming
lands into paper town lots. During the
past fifteen to eighteen months we have
resumed the profitable role of produc.
ton with an energy never heretofore
known, and have conquered the scale
bug. Our farmers have buckled down
to their work in earnest, and never be-
fore have our crops been go manifold in
character or so abundant in yield.
Why should not Angelo nos look for
ward to the future with confidence? No
man can come in here and buy any
where with any degree Of judgment with
out making an enormous and almost i'm
mediate profit. Eighteen months ago
matters were on false basis in almost
every line of real estate investment out
side of the city. Now the lands that