Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-12
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the list of imports into Los Angeles pre-
pared by the Chamber Of Commerce.
Amongst the products and manufactures
in the list are articles that can be pro-
duced here in unlimited quantities
cheaper than elsewhere. To pay money
abroad for what we can raise here, is
simply suicidal. We arc complaining OF
the want of employment and OF
glut of idle men, and yet We
are sending hundreds of thousands
of dollars East to pay for pro-
ducts that ought to be raised right here.
What sense is there in country like this
having imported last year one hundred
and thirty-five tons of poultry and five
hundred and twenty-five tons Cor 1,05O,-
600 pounds) of eggs? And these only re-
present the poultry and eggs brought by
the Southern Pacific road, the Santa Fe's
figures not having been tabulated. Proba-
bly, twice the amount above stated would
not represent the actual shipments here.
The article of butter alone brought here
by the Southern Pacific amounted to 135
tons, when we have half million acres
in this county of the finest dairy
lands in the world. In this cate
CORY must be classed the importa-
ton by the same line of 100 tons of
cheese. Just look at the item of beer
alone. Think of it, 1921 tons of beer
brought here from Northern California
and Eastern breweries What guzzlers
of beer we must be! Old King GAM
brinus would find Los Angeles place
after his own heart. Seven thousand
six hundred and twenty.one tons of beer
represent a draft by Eastern breweries
upon Los Angeles of over mil
lion dollars, and by San Francisco,
San Jose and Nevada breweries
of another million. We are assured by
competent judges that as good beer can
be manufactured in Los Angeles as that
which reaches here either from Northern
California or from the East. Our con-
sumption would certainly justify the in
vestment of the capital which would be
required to cut off this great money drain
upon our county.
But the importations of last year will
hardly be paralleled this year. We shall
never again bring in from abroad such
quantities of articles that can be raised
or manufactured here. We have de-
termined to raise what we consume,
and we could not have had a more su-
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present to start in upon self-support-
ing policy. There is no reason why We
should not become exporters Of every
article mentioned in the Chamber Of
Commerce's list of last years imports.
And We believe that this season will see
the lever reversed and the brakes en-
tirely shut down upon this suicidal busi-
ness.
In respect to manufactures, we are
gradually stopping up the leaks and in
creasiDg our facilities for producing many
articles that have heretofore been i'm
ported. We shall soon have the largest
vitrifed clay pipe factory on the Coast,
producing pipe that is superior in every
respect to any manufactured in other
parts of the State. A shoe fac.
tory was started here short time
ago. In respect to iron works
we have several extensive foundries that
are turning out as good finished materi-
ais for building and other purposes as
any heretofore imported. Car works
have been started here, and before long
all the street-cars used both in Los An
geles and other parts of Southern
California will be manufactured by
our own people. The best plows
in use by our farmers are turned
out of our local foundries and ironworks.
There is room for far more fruit can
neries than we have, and capitalists are
now interesting themselves in the direc-
tion of filling this important want.
A few years will see great change for
the better in the home industries of our
city and section. The tendency of
capital and enterprise is in the direction
Of building up home manufactures.
Some of our new enterprises will
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as we grow in population, the
home demand will give them strength
to enlarge their facilities. Freight
rates from the East will operate
in favor of our local industries. The rates
now established are 30 high that they
will materially help to place new manu-
factories on a profitable footing. The
opening of the country between here and
Utah to rail transportation will give an
impetus to all manufactures relating
to mining, and will undoubtedly
lead to the establishment here of extern
sive refining and separating works. With
home factories in successful operation
and our agricultural resources developed
to their fullest extent, there will be such
revival Of good times in this section as
will make Los Angeles one of the most
prosperous and opulent centers in the
Union.
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