Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-13
LETTER BAG.
j. w. Potts Pays an Eloquent Tribute to
Los Angeles.

j. w. Potts Pays an Eloquent Tribute to
Los Angeles.
EDITORS HERALD Il have in my scrap
book communication that wrote for
the HERALD about fifteen years ago, on
irrigation and the future possibilities of
Los Angeles. At that time we had no
storage reservoirs for irrigation in the
state, except small reservoir at what
is now reservoir No. 4, built by the
Canal and Reservoir company, but not
used to any extent for irrigation. In
that communication l advised the city
to construct storage reservoirs, and said
the building OF them would encourage
others on the Santa Ana, San Gabriel
and other streams to build other reser-
voirs that would food the whole county
with water that would increase the pro-
ductive qualities of the soil, 80 that in a
few years our valley would give homes
to $4,000 families, and that we would
soon have 100000 people in Los An
geles county.
This was a bold operation for that
early day; but what would we think
now of lowering the estimates.
We had then not to exceed 10000 peo-
Pile in the county, now we have 150, 900 /;
at the same ratio OF increase in fifteen
years. more, we will have 2,5O0,0 and
in another fifteen years, if we continue
to increase at this ratio, as see no rea-
son why we should not, where will San
Francisco, New York and Chicago
stand, when compared with our own
| CITY of the Angels.
l believe that Los Angeles is destined
to become one of the greatest cities in
the United States, as it has everything
in its favor, and absolutely nothing
against it. Here we have a more
even and healthy climate than Rome,
or any part of the boasted Italy, and
here we can grow to perfection every
thing that can be grown anywhere in
the known world. When the possibilities
are known of our foothills, which
are the very best and most valuable
lands we have, without frost, that will
produce from 100 to 200 sacks of potatoes
| to the acre in the winter time, and from
eight to ten tons of tomatoes, fifteen to
twenty-five tons of cabbages, and all
other kinds of vegetables in great abund.
ance; and these lands will never wear
out, as there is enough of alkaline and
gypsum to keep up the fertility of the
soil and keep it supplied with plant food
! With two to three crops per annum on
the irrigated lands and one crop in the
winter on the hill lands worth more
money than the three crops on the low
lands-a land free from cyclones, lorna
does and billiards., famed by the pure
breezes of the Pacific ocean. with rail
roads radiating to all parts of the conti-
nerit, and the largest ships coming in on
the ocean from all parts of the world,
who can with any accuracy predict the
possibilities OF this city?
No wonder the old padres christened
it the city OF Angels, and this name is
to be more appropriate in the future
than in the past as the most intellectual
class of the nations are coming here and
bringing with them the arts and sciences
Of all other people. Here will spring
up new civilization that is destined in
the near future to stand ahead of all
past ages and places. There is perfect
mania here for building churches and
colleges and school houses, and every
thing now bends to these institutions.
A new village is hardly started before 1T
has its two or three churches and school
houses, and all classes and creeds join in
to help build them. With all these
grand advantages, wonder that it has
not reached the two million line before
now, G kt
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