Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1890-1893, 1891-10-06
AN INsPIRITING OUTLOOK.

ought to have BEEN No community
could have supported such hectic exGlta-
tons as were then a characteristic of
this community, and have still enjoyed
healthy life. The gamblers short
lived delirium had been added to the
legitimate development incident to our
unexampled railway expansion, and the
result was, naturally, halt.
That halt has been improved upon to
an unheard of extent. The stakes that
marked supposititious towns founded up
on "boon" have been pulled up, the
lands subdivided for purposes of specu-
lation have been dedicated to produc-
ton, the car of progress has rolled over
all visionary schemes; and common
sense, enterprise buttressed by in
dustry, and an unstinted yield
OF profitable staples, have replaced the
gambling saturnalia. Today, from the
mountains all round to the sea, the
farmer and the horticultural has got in
his fructifying work.
All the while we still have the splen-
did climate, which recalls the splendors
and healing of Italy, with her hitherto
unmatched skies. That of itself would
count for much. But Los Angeles, with
an unrivaled capacity for production,
recorded of any portion of the earth, dis
dams to be relegated to the humble role
of sanitarium.
The HERALD has intimated, a number
of times of late, that the boom founded
upon production was about to put in an
appearance in this section. 1t is already
here. Our streets are thronged as they
have never been before for three years,
at least. The GUdnt c0ufiers of tremen-
dous immigration have already reached
us. Our population is being daily re-
cruited from the east, from northern and
central California, and from Oregon,
Washington, Utah, and the other
states and territories of the
west and northwest. 1t does
not need the assurance of railway people
and excursion agents to give us confrma-
ton strong as proof OF Holy Writ that
another great movement of population is
upon US. Theoryis not needed to help
us out in a demonstration that we are
again in the swim, and that the past
three years and half have exhausted
the period of probation.
The new era is fairly upon US. There
is not, in the whole expanse OF Los An
geles county, region where real estate
is not good buy. The bedrock has
been passed, and the upward move
ment has begun in earnest. From the
center all round to the sea exist oppor-
tunities OF profitable investment. There
is no acreage property in Los Angeles
county today that is held at one-half
the figures which prevailed in 1887, and
yet every acre is worth twice what it was
then. The scale-bug has been exercised
and the vine pest has disappeared.
Orchards and vineyards are springing
up on all hands. Farming has fourished
on scale never heretofore chronicled
in Southern California.
Instead OF nearly everything we con-
sumo being imported, as was the case in
1887, we export thousands OF carloads
OF high-priced specialties to the east
every year. The day is not far distant
when an average Of hundred carloads
a day of our distinctive staples, includ-
ing the citrus fruits, wines, brandies,
dried and canned fruits and vegetables,
will leave Los Angeles county for the
eastern states. The bulk of our ship
ments to that section will cover the fall,
winter and spring. OF course, we will
have to grow up to this standard, but it
is there all the same, and we need not
advance upon the ratio of production of
the last ten years to realize this exuber-
ant picture of production in less than a
decade.
We have still our old and unrivaled
railway system, local and transconti-
mental. Readers of the HERALD are
aware of the fact that this journal is
always conservative in its outgivings,
and that our sources Of information are
accurate. We have no hesitation in say
ing that railway developments of unusual
interest are Immediately ahead. They
center around the Terminal railway sys-
tenn. We aie not at liberty to give what
we know on good authority now. But
the outlook in that direction could not
well be better, and the advent of new
transcontinental railway to Los Angeles
will not be deferred very long.
Look where one will the prospect for
Los Angeles is roseate and inspiriting,
and quite clearly indicates metropolitan
status for our lovely young city. The
rate at which local improvements are
within our municipal limits
ls equaled by nothing that we have
heard of outside Of Chicago, land there the
stimulus comes from the Worlds Fair. !
Everything conspires to assure to the |
second city west OF Denver an excep-
tional and lightning growth, and not the
most disprized factor in this phenome-
nal progress will be climate which the
surgical department of the United States
army has officially declared to be the
finest and healthiest on earth.
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