Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-16
ACTIVE TINES AHEAD.

ACTIVE IlMES AAEABs
There are many straws which indicate |
that Los Angeles and the several resorts
in its neighborhood will this year be
unusually crowded. One of them is
the determination of the Messrs. Cow
ley & Baker to keep the Arcadia at
Santa Monica open during the whole
year. This has never been done before,
and as these gentlemen have unusual
facilities for gauging the situation it is
an excellent sign. The Redondo, as
usual, will run through the fall and
winter. The HERALD has sought to OBJ
tain reliable information on this head,
and with that object has sought the
views of excursion agents and real
estate men with The uniform result that
their advices all indicate an unusual
stream OF travel to this coast during the
fall, winter and spring. We have been
remiss in providing hotel facilities IN
the city; and, as consequence, we
must expect to see many OF the visitors
distributed to the attractive watering
places and other hotel resorts in this
and neighboring counties. The Tenth
street hotel ought to begin to loom up as
a profitable investment. The people who
have not given special attention to it are
aware of the extent to which Los Ange-
les is already filling up. 1t would as
tonish those who do not go round much
to learn the difficulty which already ex-
lists in finding small, eligibly located
houses, especially furnished ones. In
all portions of the city, except IN what
is known as Sonoratown, there are very
few houses unoccupied. Wherever
modern conveniences are provided the
tenants will be forthcoming.
The HERALD has no hesitation in say
ing that we will have more visitors this
year, tourists and intending settlers,
than at any time since the boom years
1856 and 1867. Foreign capital is
coming into our banks in large amounts.
One of these institutions alone has re-
ceived during the past ten days upwards
of one hundred thousand dollars from
the east, and all of them report the same
state of things to greater or less ex-
tent.
That business will be prosperous this
year there is no reasonable doubt. 1t
would require some great convulsion of
nature to make it otherwise. All the
conditions exist for exceptional activity
in the mercantile and all other lines OF
trade. The farmers have made money,
and plenty of it. They have never since
the boom shown such disposition to
spend it as during the current season.
The horticulturist has been quite as
lucky, or, rather, as legitimately pros
porous as the farmer. Great enterprises
calculated to stimulate production are
on hand in every direction.
It is great thing to know that we
can make our own sugar, and use it in
putting up our fruits. The drying, can
ming and crystallizing business is des-
tined to become a great and wealth
producing industry, to which no man
can set any limit. There is no reason
why Southern California should not pro-
duce some day sugar to the amount OF
$5O,OO0,OOO annually. We have the land
and capital will pour in to supply the
manufacturing plants. The great Oxnard
beet-sugar factory will shortly be dupli-
Gated by one ON the Centinela. There
is no speculation about this. The state
ment is made on the authority of Mr..
D. Freeman himself. Others will un-
doubtedly follow in other directions,
probably on the Laguna, the San vi
cente, the Puente, and towards the
north and south. That there is money
in it, and much money, has been dem
onstrated beyond peradventure. Los
Angeles and her sister counties can pro-
duce enough fruit to use up great por-
tion OF this saccharine wealth in canned
and crystallized fruits. 1t is most at
tractive business, and is bound to grow
with lightning rapidity.
Not all Angeleflos realize the great en-
terprises that are certainly maturing for
our development. In few weeks Mr..
Dick Kerens and his Terminal railway
associates will be out here to look over
the work already done by their corpora
ton. These gentlemen are members of
one of the most enterprising syndicates
in the northwest. We have their own
assurance that if the people of Los An
geles will only cooperate with them
we shall have railway to Salt
Lake in eighteen months. This
declaration was made by Mr..
Kerens to the writer on the occa-
sion Of his visit to Los Angeles, which
} was quite six months ago. 1t is some
what significant fact that the Union
Pacific magnates. have changed their
talk about not building towards Cali
fornia. The most energetic director and
official of that company the other day
expressed regret at not having pushed
the road energetically, and determine
ton to make up for lost time. 1t is a
significant fact that one OF the directors
OF the Terminal railway, Mr.. s. H. II.
Clark, has been for years director and
vice-president of the Union Pacific rail-
way. All these circumstances, taken in
connection with the vast expenditures