Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-05
A LEoIrIMArE uPHEAvAL AHEAD.

taking place IN Los Angeles. In the
city 1t is apparent on every hand.
There has never been period when,
leaving out public enterprises, there has
has been so much building as now. Go
where one will, the tide of improvement
is rushing along at food. Private resi-
dences, ranging from $4,000 down, are
in course of erection in all parts
OF the city, while business houses
costing from 100000 down. are being
pressed forward. Our population is
ON the up grade, and heavily so, a fact
which is proven by the extraordinary
thropgs in our streets, and which is con-
frmed by the new directory, and by our
schools, gas and water statistics. The
same signs of progress greet one every
where in the country. Pasadena ought
properly to be called suburb of Los
Angeles. Call it what one will, the
beautiful Crown of the Valley is making
wonderful progress. She is recruiting
her population daily from the most
desirable class of immigration. People
come in there from the East, and some
of them start in at once on the erection
of houses to cost from $4,000 to $780,
600. As consequence, real estate
values there have begun to recover from
the unreasonably low figures which
they struck after the subsidence OF the
boom. What is taking place in Pasa-
dena is noticed in lesser measure every
where. Realty in Santa Mon
lea and Redondo is undergoing q
steady enhancement. which is founded
upon the rapidly growing prosperity of
our people; and the knowledge that, at
an early day, preferred locations will be
in demand at what would now be looked
upon as extravagant figures. The in
terror of the county is filing up with
energetic settlers. and there has never
been a period when the prospects of
both city and county looked. go bright
as now, as whole. Mayor Lukens,
of Pasadena, most competent judge,
yesterday told us that much property in
Pasadena had enhanced fully 100 per
cent during the past year, and as to
great deal of it, he looks for an en-
hancement Of another hundred per cent
on last years. figures during the next
two years. There is no exaggeration in
these statements. They are prosaic
truth; and, in greater or lesser meas
ure, the same thing is taking place all
over the county. While it is unques-
tionable that the prices of realty were
carried tn too his--~ nguro in 1000 oTi
tney were borne down to ridiculously
low figure by the collapse OF that highly
artificial boom.
With come highly absurd people
there may be a question as to whether
an advance in the price OF Los Angeles
real estate, in the line of recovery, is
warranted in the degree indicated by
the figures we have quoted. As to Pasa.
dena it certainly is. Los Angeles is
really getting ready to assert herself as
the most progressive place on the
American continent. And why not,
pray? Every other city of anything
like her size is vulgar in comparison.
is an exceedingly common proposition
when it comes to this incompatible re-
gion of palaces and perfumes-and the
palaces, numerous as they are, are but
just beginning to go up. But putting
aside her palaces, and her fast throng-
ing inroad OF millionaires and producers,
Los Angeles is really the most strategic
point, commercially, on the Pacific
coast. She is the nascent metropolis
on the shortest line between tidewater
and tdewater. between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. She has whole conti-
nent behind her, and the possibilities of
this back country, to say nothing of her
immediate California back country,
which embraces the counties of
San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa
Barbara, Ventura, Kern, Tulare, Inyo
and perhaps even Fresno are almost
incompatible. With such local and
continental possibilities, with a cli-
mate which far surpasses the Riviera of
the Mediterranean, why should not Los
Angeles resume her old imperial march
There is no sense in speculating on the
matter. She has already resumed it.
John Sherman once said, in reference to
specie payments, that the way to resume
was to resume. That is precisely what
the City of the Angels has already done.
Without saying a word to anybody, she
has simply fallen into line, and already
the lights ahead of her are taking on
an irridescent hue. Commonplace Incl
dents and phrases apply to commonplace
cities. There is nothing OF the common
place about this City of the Angels.
Having had enough of the depression
following upon undue speculation, enc
has simply cleared the Slough of Des-
pond at a bound, and is again on the
pleasant uplands, with 'excelsior'' az
her inspiration, and whole continent
and whole world, for that matter, as
tributaries to her onward and upward
career which will have, in the future
as in the past, sensational episodes, but
always in the line Of replacing that which
is good with that which ia better.
The movement of region of which Los
Angeles is the center will always be
characterized by periods of upheaval
and of rest.
We have passed through our period