Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-06
nometers. What one of our capitalists
will initiate the example of Ralston and
the Kimball Brothers, and start watch
factory at Los Angeles?
A REGION OF ILLIMITABLE P0SSIBIL'
ITIES.

does he believe in it in the future. He
is sort of walled-up devotee of pessi-
mism, and the sooner he is Theoretically
sealed the better.
Fortunately for Southern California
and the future this class is, limited.
They are melancholy relic OF the old
time grumblers of twenty years ago. Few
in numbers originally, they are rapidly
becoming smaller by degrees and beau
tifully less.
AS a matter of fact, while we have
still amongst us an occasional representa-
tive of the croaker guild, his number is
small and his class is rebuked.
1t would be hard to get on the surface
of the earth region which so entirely
exemplifies every possibility OF produc-
ton as Los Angeles county. As the
HERALD has so often pointed out, we
have here the corn, wine and oil OF the
commerce of all ages of the world. In
addition to the oil expressed from the
olive, we have that which is yielded to
the drill from the rock in the shape of
petroleum-a source of wealth in which
Los Angeles and Ventura counties rival
the most favored regions OF Pennsyl
vania and West Virginia.
Our vineyards and orange groves are
but yet in the initial of their yield. In
terrupted momentarily through the
black, white and red scales as to the
orange, and through the NAL nero as to
the vines, everything is now on the up
grade. These pests seem to have reached
the limit of their powers for evil. There
is in truth nothing peculiar in this, be-
cause all virgin lands seem to be subject
to the ravages of such insects. In 1874
rs Nebraska and adjoining states were
simply given over to destructive pests.
They disappeared as quickly as they had
appeared, though not before they had
ruined thousands. In the years named
the grasshopper and locust were the
principal drawbacks complained of yet
both left as quickly as they came. The
orange pest, the scale OF all hues, and
the NAL nero, have apparently left this
country for its good.
Dismissing these drawbacks, which
appear to have been annihilated, the
outlook on every hand seems to be not
only encouraging but perfect. With a
railway system unparalleled on the
American continent, with waterways
which are surpassed nowhere, Los An
geles has entered upon an era of pro-
duction which is absolutely unexampled.
All over the broad expanse of this county
planting in all our semi-tropical special
ties has gone on at a remarkable rate.
One of the most sagacious citizens of
Los Angeles, who has for some years oc-
cupied an important state office, the
other day had conversation with a
Sacramentan. The latter could see no
good in Los Angeles. "Why," said the
official Angelefo aforesaid, within five
years the four counties, Los Angeles,
San Bernardino, San Diego and Ventura,
will be shipping $5,000,000 worth of
oranges yearly to Northern California,
the east and Europe"
He was quite right, and yet this ex-
pressed but limited note OF the devel-
opment which will take place in this
region in few years. In five years from
to-day if the present encouraging vine
yard developments keep up, Los Angeles
county alone will be shipping five or six
million dollars worth of wines and
brandies to the east and to Europe. And
even this is poor suggestion OF our pro-
ductive capabilities. The farmers of the
Cahuenga will, within five years, be
shipping million dollars worth of
early tomatoes and early potatoes, early
peas, early string beans, and half dozen
spring specialties-which with us means
the yield of midwinter-to the east. A
tremendous business will be done in flow
ers, which in Los Angeles flourish better
in the open air in mid-December and
mid-January titan at any other time.
The shipments of spring lamb and veal
will also become specialties of conti-
mental note. All these staples will be a
direct result OF climate which knows
no winter, and which at it's worst an
swers to the mid-April of the east
In addition, we shall have debouching
into this region couple of new trans
continental railways, which will be here
inside of eighteen months. They will
bring us the cheap coal of Southern
Utah and the almost unlimited ores of
Southwestern Nevada and Utah, which
supply the fuxes which will make easy
the reduction of the abundant though
rebellious ores of Arizona. As aresult,
manufactures will spring up here on an
unprecedented scale. Smelling works
will be one of the leading factors of our
manufacturing development. hisgreat
element of the wealth of Salt Lake and
Denver will be recorded here on a scale
of development not elsewhere chronicled
in the United States.
To cap all, we have our unmatched
climate, which will be an element of
commercial wealth Of absolutely incom-
measurable Importance and extent.
All these things are working, and
their delivery will be almost immediate.
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TIE boom which is certain in the near