Los Angeles herald., 1890-11-27
A PHENOMENAL RECORD.

III hio newspaper VIC PiOPScO w oN Oil
ourselves of that privilege within rea-
sonable limits.
If we have within the boundaries of
the United States section which EN-
bodies every attraction of the health
and pleasure resorts of Southern Europe;
if we have resorts which surpass those
of Cannes, Nice, Mentone, and the Med
iterranean coast OF Africa, we see no
reason why we should not say so. The
public ought to be informed of such
matters.
And we have these resorts, and with
all the accompaniments OF American in
stitutions environing them, and they
stretch from Point Conception to the
American line, below San Diego.
AS matter of fact, Santa Monica is
filling up today with fasteners, who
have at last realized that, on the shores
of old ocean, within the limits of Los
Angeles county, they have a winter
pleasure and health resort tincomparably
better than anything to be found in
Europe, or any where else in the world.
The down Santa Monica trains are daily
loaded with eastern visitors, who have
already taken nearly every vacant house
in the City by the Sea.
But that is by no means the most sig
nifcant feature of the situation as
respects Los Angeles and Southern Cali
fornia. In recent issues OF the HERALD
D;x,ar,;Ia of fha
magical development, remunerative be-
yond precedent, which has characterized
this section of late. We have shown that
even in a comparatively recent settle
ment single acre of land, covered with
orange trees which are as yet in their
first growth, has been known to yield as
much as $2250. This is, of course, as
tonishing to an easterner. But the fact
that he is astonished does not change
anything. He is simply surprised,
while the surprising fact remains.
Dropping the magical story OF the pc
cuniary account rendered of the citrus
fruits, the easterner who desires to know
something of Southern California can
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San Bernardino counties which have
been known to yield from eight to ten
crops of alfalfa yearly. This means from
twelve to sixteen tons per annum of
clover which is quite as rich and nutri
tious as any eastern clover, where the
extreme yield, with first cutting and
an aftermath, is from two and hall to
three tons yearly.
And so of the usual cereal crops, where
irrigation is employed. They can be
grown from two to three times yearly.
This is the region in which spring lamb
and spring veal can be supplied for the
table at Christmas, danked by spring
peas, spring string beans, strawberries
and every delicacy which could appeal
to the midwinter palate, all grown in the
open air. The supplying of the eastern
market with these priced delicacies,
together with early tomatoes, lettuce
and hundred other garnitures OF well
furnished table, will some day pour i'm
perial revenues into Los Angeles county.
And still the story of our capabilities,
involving unlimited coin coming to Los
Angeles, is not half told. Few people
know the prodigious expansion which
our wine and brandy and dried and
canned fruits are destined to attain.
With only ordinary industry, persever-
ance and intelligence, Los Angeles
county alone will sell between five and
ten million dollars worth of those sta
Piles yearly. With the ability to grow
about everything known to the agricul-
ture and horticulture of the footstool !;
with the corn, wine and oil of the COM
merce of all ages; with the oil pressed
from the olive and the petroleum we'll
ing up from the rocks; with the vine,
the fig, the olive, the pomegranate, and
every staple known to scriptural or
classical narrati Je, why should there not
be an eager and uncomfortable move
ment from the prosaie east to poetical
Southern California? The impulse is
quite natural. 1t will continue, and it
will gain accelerated force from day to
dav.
The principal mission OF the HER
AID until Los Angeles county shall
contain a quarter of million
inhabitants is propagandist one.
The longer any one who has
contemplated making Southern Califor-
mia his home neglects it the more he
will regret his dilatoriness. He will
find. when he arrives, that he has been
preceded by thousands who have picked
up the bargains which he might have
had. There are today thousands of peo-
pie who are loaning out their money at
from to 10 per cent. who will realize, a
year from now, to their dismay. that
they might have made one hundred per
cent. and upward by investing in real
estate in Southern California at the bed
rock prices which have prevailed for six
months or more.
That these figures were bedrock the
tremendous developments which are un-
der way on every hand around us prove
There is no limit to the activity which
characterizes this whole country from
the foothills to the sea. 1t is highly sig
niticant of a coming boom, and of boom
founded on production, railway extern
sion, climate and low prices for real
astata Tho man who hes;fotes IN on