Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1890-1893, 1891-12-22
PREPARED TO TAKE A METROPOLITAN
STATUS.

Angeles county and of Southern Califor-
MIA at large during the past four years.
Probably no other section of the United
States has progressed with equal rapid
ity during the same period. The areas
set out to orchard and vineyard during
that time are immense. Water has
been developed in all quarters, although
the possibilities in this line are still in
calculable. Perhaps San Bernardino
has surpassed all other counties of the
state in water exploitation, although
great things have been done in Fresno,
Kern and Tulare counties in utilizing
the streams which pour from that pro-
digous watershed, the Sierra Nevada
mountains. In San Bernardino county,
when the extension of the Bear valley
reservoir and the great Arrowhead dam
shall have been completed, new mira
Giles will be added to those which are
now being witnessed at Riverside, new
and old San Bernardino, Redlands,
Grafton, Rialto, Alessandro, and score
of other places which are destined to be
the centers OF unique production.
Not only have we made great head
way in production-in which Los An
geles county has been in the van horti-
culturally and agriculturally-but we
have been signally blessed in the ex-
tinction of pests. The redalia cardinals
rang the knell of the scale-bug in the
,,ok, rJs of 4ba Can Gohr;a al ollox, 1ba
orange grower has found that all he
needs to have bright and productive
groves is that he shall exercise little
ordinary care. The vine pest is disap-
pearing and our vineyards are assuming
their old healthy appearance.
Agriculture, pure and simple, as it is
understood in the east, has received a
great stimulus during the past four
years. In the height of the boom we
drew most of our supplies OF eggs, ba-
con, ham, butter and garden truck from
Kansas and other states OF the north
west. Per contra, this year we shipped
$4,000, GOO pounds OF potatoes to the east
by the Southern Pacific railway alone.
The shipments by the Santa Fe would
doubtless show an equal amount. Innu-
merabe carloads OF early green peas,
early tomatoes, and other staples that
grow here in the open air all through
the year, have found market in the
same section, while our shipments OF
oranges, lemons, English walnuts, wines
and brandies would foot up colossaly
since the bursting" of the so-called
"boom."
During the last four years we have
seen within our city limits the consum-
nation of one of the finest systems OF
cable roads in the United States, and
within the current year the splendid
scheme of the Consolidated Electric
railway has made great Roadway. Its
mammoth power house is one of the
largest in the country and capable of
operating 200 miles of road. The South
ern California railway during this period
has honeycombed this section with
branch roads, all of them tributary to
Los Angeles. A new candidate for
popular favor, in the shape OF the Ter
minal railway, has made its appearance
in our city, it has spent large sums of
money in building useful branches radi-
ating from Los Angeles, and there is
well-grounded belief that, through
the enterprising gentlemen who
are connected with its man
agement, we shall soon have a railway
connection with Salt Lake, thus open
ing up to us the exhaustless coal mines
of Southern Utah, which will provide
us cheap fuel for domestic and manu-
featuring purposes, and assuring the
development of the rich treasure depos.
its of Southwestern Nevada, Utah and
a very rich mineral section of Southern
California. Smelling works will, as a
matter Of course, follow in the wake Of
these developments. The Southern Pa,
cific railway, not to be behindhand
where everything points the way to
wharf at the Santa Monica cai1on,
where, under the ample protection OF
Point Dune, a secure and serviceable
harbor will be created. II is engaged,
at the same time, in pushing it's coast
road southwark, and Los Angeles will
soon have another railway, on a short
and practicable route. which will
dispense with the San Fernando
tunnel, and which will reduce
the ii ne between this city and
San Francisco to fifteen hours or less.
When these projected improvements
are completed, and well-informed au-
place the probationary period
within twelvemonth, Los Angeles will
be surpassed by no place in the United
States as a railway center, and she will
have, besides, the advantage of three or
four serviceable shipping points on the
broad Pacific, not the least of which
will be that which the Terminal railway
is building at Rattlesnake island. The
new railways with which Los Angeles
has been favored of late are so numer-
1us that we had almost overlooked the
Redondo Beach road, with its wharf and
iourishing little port.
What wonder that, with all these adj
1antages, Los Angeles is filling up at
such rapid rate? The wonder would
De If she were not. No place on the
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