Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-03-01

with the result of materially increas;ng
the wealth of the city at large and of
creating quite q number of handsome
fortunes. The splendid output of the
Granite Mountain mine has laid the
foundation for the opulence of MANY of
the most enterprising of her citizsns
andtoday, after San Francisco and Den.
YER, the most important mining trans.
actions in the United States are reported
in the st. Louis mining board.
NEW BLOOD.
The fact has been apparent for soms
time that new blood is coursing through
the veins OF the people of St. Louis, for
long years the most conservative ana
somnolent big city of the United States
People OF push and energy have poured
IN here from abroad, and the rising gem
Grafton of st. Louis business men has
caught the infection of enterprise and
go-aheadativeness. The late Mayor of
| the city, now Governor of the State,
David R. Francis, is a representative of
this latter class. Not yet 40 years Of
age, in addition to filling respon.
sible official positions, he has
been indefatigable in assisting in the
new era of development. Such
men as Francis and his fatheri in-law,
Captain Perry, ars at the bottom of
nearly all the schemes of improvement,
railway and other, which are contri-
buting to place st. Louis in her rightful
position as the metropolis of the North
west. They have extended her railway
communications, and have lately
nearly completed the buildingo of second
railway bridge over the Mississippi, five
miles above that constructed by Captain
Eads. The Eads bridge cost, first and
last, about eleven million dollars. The
cost of the new one will be somewhere
within two million dollars. II is SO de-
signed that when the population of the
city shall demand it, provision can be
readily made for vehicular and passenger
accommodations, although at present it
is employed exclusively for railway
purposes. Already extensive ware
houses are being constructed in the
neigh oorhood of the new bridge; and
through its agency, Car and warehouse
will be brought together, thus dispensing
with the necessity for the expensive and
onerous carting and hauling incident to
the past methods of conducting business
in ST. Louis. This city owns its water
works, which are not only self-sustain-
ing, but source of revenue as well. A
plan is on foot to erect here the largest
system of water works, with perhaps the
exception of the Croton of New York, in
the United States. 1t is proposed to 90
out to Sawyer's knee, about twelve miles
up the river, aad to bring in, on an elab-
orately constructed aqueduct, a water
supply adequate for city of two million
people. The spirit of development and
expansion in all lines seems to have
taken possession of all classes in thie
community.
SOME BUSINESS REFLECTIONS.
Although Jay Gould aud others have
put their opinion on record that this is
to be an especially prosperous year, st.
| Louis seems to be the only great City
where these hopeful indications have
made themselves apparent. Taking the
Eastern cities as whole, there is
grave reason to doubt our being about to
experience any phenomenal prosperity
Chicago will unquestionably make a
spleedid showing in the census of 1890
but | question if the next decade will
show as pleasant q record for
the Lake City. The urban por-
tend Just now is Duluth, which,
from a town of two Thousand inhab.
Ithuts Al 1ooU, HoW uuLuueT5 elSnueeh
, thousand. Duluth, as respects Chicago,
, is cloud no bigger than a mans hand,
but may overspread tas heavens. Els-
vstors are multiplying there, and her
harbor is the finest on the Lakes. Grain
can be handled at Buffalo from Duluth
much more chesply than from Chicago,
and this circumstance will render an i'm
mense territory tributary to this ambi-
tious ard growing town. Minneapolis
and st. Louis are actively in the race as
competitors, also, and the Lake City can
not fail to suffer in the keen rivalry. Oh
course Chicago has within herself re.
sources that are reabsolutely incompatible,
but she cannot afford to despise her con.
testants, or to shut her eyes to the in
evitable.
JOSEPH D. LYNCH.
st. Louis, February 18Th.
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