Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-07
The UDaiIv HeraldD
MONDAY, JULY Z, 1890.
AkR PAST AND FUTURE.

population of Los Angeles about 5000,
and in 1880 about 1000. The census
just completed gives us somewhat over
$4,000. There are nearly 10000 people
in the suburbs south and west of the
city, Vernon, the University and Rose
dale. The people of these districts are
parts and parcels Of our population so
far as business goes. Lines OF street.
cars make frequent trips each day with
all of them, and their people come and
no here with as much regularity as those
within the city limits. This gives Los
Angeles nearly 10000 population as the
census finds it. 1t lis pretty generally
believed that the count did not get all
the people. 1t is certain that three
years ago there were not less than
10000 more dwellers in the city than
there are today.
So far as the census returns for the
country go there seems to be twenty-one
: cities in all our borders of over 100000
, people each. Four of these have crossed
! the line and entered this first-class dur
! ing the decade now closing. Two or
! more of these had less than $4,000 peo-
I pie each ten years ago. 1t is a large city
/ that contains 100000 souls, and it is
very respectable one that reaches to half
that dignity. Will Los Angeles get into
the first-class by the end of the century?
She is one of about thirty cities now
that belong to the second-class of be-
100 Lot.
She will outstrip every one of them and
enter the irst-class long before the next
federal census is taken. 1t is we'll
established fact that the country in
all this section is now rapidly
filling up with people. The attraction
is mainly fruit-culture. So large are the
profits of this industry in many of its
branches, as it is made possible by our
soil and climate, that this movement is
sure to increase for years to come. With
the growth OF the country that OF the
city is sure to keep pace.
There is but one influence that car
possibly prevent this contamination sc
devoutly to be wished, that is the hold
ing of the large ranches intact and thus
preventing the settling up of the country
The interior valley beyond the San Cab
riel river is nearly all subdivided. Much
of the land contiguous to Los Angeles il
still held in large Jumps. The Puent'
lies just beyond the river and is mor'
directly connected with Los Angeles thai
with any interior city. Along the rive
on this side lie the vast Baldwin posses
sions i'm the Santa Anita. San Francis
quito and San Felipe Lugo. There is 1
great deal of land in the San Gabrie
valley held in large slices. Right by
the city is the Laguna, and beyond thu
New river are the Stearns ranchos, the
great San joaquin and the Alamitos
all held in compact bodies. Towards
Santa Monica: are La Brea, the Rodet
de las Aguas, the Buenos Ayres and thu
San Vicente, all held in nearly thei
original shapes. If these are held bacl
from settlement, new corners will b'
forced to pitch their tents in tn
valley remote from Los Angeles
and THUS be of but indirect benefit t.
the city. But this will hardly be tn
case. The owners of these splendit
bodies OF land will put them on the mar
ket as soon as there develops decided
demand for such lands. There is sucl
q demand now in moderate measure
and little push on the part of proprie
tors might easily induce every desirable
settler to the immediate neighborhoot
of this city.
If one glances ahead and looks at Lo
Angeles as the objective point on th'
Pacific coast of two or three transconti
mental roads, with the ocean at ou
doors, utilized as it will be for the car
rying trade, and with the vast business
to be done overland, the future of thi
city cannot be over-estimated by tn,
most sanguine imagination. 1t is only
about 1000 miles from San Pedro t.
Corpus Christi, or about half the dis
tance between San Francisco and New
York, and with no SNOW or steep grad
tents to contend against. These fact!
open up certain future to this city o
such splendid magnitude that one hesi
tates to accept what is really as sure as
fate.