Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-03
,UR MrD-suMMER TRADE NUMBER,

OUR MIDSUMMER TRADE NUMBER.
The HERALD publishes today a splen-
did midsummer trade edition. Itcom-
prises great variety of interesting data,
and will give people living abroad
good idea of the wonderful strides the
city and county of Los Angeles are max
ing, Of the great variety of our attrac-
tions and of the illimitable future that
is before us. A great and opulent COM
munity is growing up around the city of
the Angels. 1t is now five years since
the collapse of the celebrated boom Of
1SS6-S7, and our people since then have
performed miracles in the line of pro-
duction. The old era of feverish specu-
lation in land has been replaced by the
multiplication of orchards, farm and
vineyard, resulting in substantial
prosperity that has nothing hectic or
ephemeral about it. Here man who
has earned competency, either in Los
Angeles or elsewhere, can sit under his
own vine and fig tree. But he can do
better than that. He can wander
amongst paths bordered by the pome-
granate and shaded by the orange and
lemon. He can raise upon his acres
pretty nearly everything grown on
earth, the line being drawn at the de-
cisively tropical plants. He can pur-
sue an energetic business career, and
yet feel that be is in the most poetical
and healing sanitarium in the world.
Daring the past five years city and
county have advanced pari passu. The
beautiful burg, famed over the conti-
nent and in other lands as Los Angeles,
is now q city of palaces. Her public
buildings are not surpassed in America.
Her streets compare in pavement and
sidewalk With those of any other mu-
nicipality. Her churches and school
houses are numerous and of the most
eclectic description. Her public IL
brary is rapidly attaining met
ropolitan status. Her transcon-
tinental railway system is already
the most complete on the Pacific coast,
embracing the Sunset route from Los
Angeles to New Orleans, and the Santa
Fe from Los Angeles to St. Louis and
Chicago, and ramifying all over the
continent. She also commands the
complete facilities of the Central and
Union Pacific, of the Atlantic and Pa
/ cific and the Texas Pacific. She thus
has absolutely three transcontinental
railways already. In addition, she is
about to have third, two years at the
outside being the limit of time during
which she will be obliged to
wait for the completion of
railway to Salt Lake. This, when COM
pleted, viii give her abundance of cheap
coal, which will admit OF her becoming
a great smelling center, immense depos.
it's of both the base and precious metals
being within short radius of our beau
tiful city. When we add that we have
already two serviceable barbors on the
Pacific ocean, and that the government
is about to create third for us, the at
fractions Of this fragrant and incompar-
able City of the Angels may be par
TALLY realized.
The most moderate statement of the
actual surroundings of Los Angeles
looks like an exaggeration, and yet it
is truly impossible to exaggerate as to
her. After the most roseate picture of
the actualities and possibilities of both
city and county the visitor will be
tempted to borrow the language of the
Biblical story, "The half has not been
told" When we add that, in half an
hour, one can be at the sea-shore at
Santa Monica, and that in an hour and
half one may be five thousand feet up
in the mountains vexing trout streams,
there is just hint OF our unrivaled
facilities for sanitation and amusement.