Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-25
LOS ANGELES MARCHING ON.

1t is universally admitted that Los
Angeles is building up more rapidly
than any other city on the Pacific coast.
This refers not only to the residence
portion but to the business quarter
Many of the business buildings and
blocks now under way are not surpassed,
either in beauty of architecture or in
massiveness of style, by the improve
ments of the largest cities in the union
Our business streets are increasing, and
the march of their improvement is COM
mented favorably upon by all who visit
US.
There never was time in the history
of our city when larger number or a
more elegant class of residence houses
were in the course of erection. In all
the streets in the western part of the
city new houses have been built or are
going up. So, too, of the hill portion,
which possesses attractions for resi-
dence nowhere else to be found. The
southeastern district and what may be
termed our intra rural suburbs East
Los Angeles and Boyle Heights-are also
keeping step to the march of imp rove
ment in all other parts of the city.
The population of Los Angeles is in
creasing steadily, and if census were
taken today it would be found that we
have at least 900 Inhabitants.
We have heard it frequently remarked
by travelled strangers, upon visiting Los
Angeles, that it, has the most stirring
and healthy business look of any city in
the west. Indeed, our business streets
are frequently so crowded with traffic
and vehicles as to make them almost
impossible. New firms, as we'll as new
industries, are being constantly started,
and when we once solve the cheap fuel
question, which will soon be achieved,
Los Angeles will become a manufacture
ing center second to none other on the
coast.
The man who doubts that Los Angeles
is to become very large city in the near
future, is blind to the facts that govern
the growth of large cities. She is the
commercial and financial focus of one of
the most extensive agricultural and
horticultural regions in the United
States. Tributary to her business are
no less that FIVE large counties and the
greater part of two immense territories,
rich in mines, cattle ranges and other
sources of wealth. Southern Nevada
an6 TItoh har n1 tx;lo -:
and their trade, ranges and mines will
contribute to swell our commercial great
ness as soon as we are placed in direct
rail communication with them. That
this much wished-for contamination will
be an accomplished fact III few years,
we have not the slightest doubt.
Ia the meantime, however, our imme e.
diete back country is being rapidly set
tied upon by class of people who create
wealth quickly anywhere, but who, in
80 favored section Of country az ours,
will grease the wheels OF commerce to
an astonishing degree. In all directions
new orange groves are being set out, and
vineyards and fruit orchards of all kinds
are coming into beautiful and productive
life The crops that are reaped in this
section are the most profitable of any in
the country. When the orange grower
can boast OF returns as high as $500
from an acre OF treeg, and deciduous
fruit growers can count upol returns of
from 500 to 5000 to the acre, the secret
OF the rapidity with which our lands
are being improved is seen at once.
1t will be but few years until all our
available horticultural lands will be
densely settled. We shall then have a
very large tributary population reaping
marvellous rewards from orchards and
vineyards. AS the country settles up
this city will grow, and this growth will
be accelerated from other causes to a
degree that will make it in few years
city as large as San Francisco now is.
Shall we stop at that? We think not
The Nicaragua canal will send another
great commercial impulse to aid our
growth. The fact that the government
has determined to spend several million
dollars here to give us deep-sea har.
Dor will establish Los Angeles as the
nearest city to the Atlantic by overland
carriage, and that, with the tea COM
merce that will seek us from Japan and
China, and much of the commerce of
the Polynesian islands that will come to
Los Angeles for distribution to Atlantic
marts, all 60 to warrant us in drawing
even more optimistic picture of the
future greatness of Los Angeles than we
have limited at above.
Los Angeles is destined to be one of
the great metropolitan cities of the
United States, and those who have the
sense to realize the fact now will be our
rich men of the future.
IRRIGATION INAUGURATED.