The herald., 1893-10-10
has always been her last grest and never

has always been her last great and never
failing resource.
While other places have been ground
almost to dust and powder between the
upper and neither millstones OF "bu'sted
booms" and subsequent hard times,
Los Angeles has never actually been
crushed.
There is no record OF an Angelefio ever
having starved to death. In the early
history of the pueblo one of the pobla-
dores or colonists was unable to buy
shirt, although he was the owner of real
estate and considerable amount of per-
sonal property in the shape OF several
hundred horses and neat cattle. The
reasons the historian gravely gives are:
First, the colonist had no money to buy
a shirt; and, secondly, there was no
cloth in the country for that purpose.
Still they had plenty to eat and drink.
Their herds afforded flesh; the vine
yards and orchards drink and fruit;
their fields grains and vegetables. As
to shelter, they had the same incompara-
BILE climate which we now have.
During all the hard times of Spanish
and Mexican rule Los Angeles slowly
and steadily grew in poplation and
wealth.
After the great mining boom of 40
and 80 in Northern California had
burst. her citizens returned home. ALL
through the long years of the ante-raii-
road period Los Angeles continued 10
grow.
The coming of each of the two trans-
continental railroads has been attended
by real estate boom. Their undue
initiation of realty prices likewise affected
other values, which correspondingly
suffered with the subsequent contrac-
tions.
The city has nobly rallied from every
sinking spell, revealing invincible VI
tality. The last boom-the one Of
l8S6S7-was one OF the greatest fnan-
cial puff-balls that ever grew in the
worlds historical soil. Los Angeles
was the ''storm-center," yet when the
cyclone went by she still lived.
For the last six months the United
States has been suffering from one of
the severest financial depressions ever
felt in SO years. A small volcano broke
even here and smoked for day or two.
Her terra frma soon ceased trembling.
The records of the Los Angeles clearing
house show decided superiority in the
percentage of business over those OF sll
the other cities in the United States.
Los Angeles today ia in the best fnan-
cial and materially prosperous condition
of any other city in the union, even
| Chicago not excepted.
The reason for this all is her ability to
sustain herself from her own resources
when all others are cut off. The post
railroad period has not only witnessed
great improvement in the local irriga-
| ton system, but has witnessed the de-
velopment of scores OF surrounding irri-
CATION colonies, of which space forbids
more than an allusion. These colonies
are all tributary to-in fact, are parts of
Los Angeles. San Fernando, Pasade.
ma, Azuss, Pomona. Ontario, San Ber-
nardino, Redlands, Riverside, Anaheim,
Santa Ana and Downey are just as much
suburbs of Los Angeles as are Fruitland,
Vernon or University. The prosperity
OF Los Angeles is based upon the SUBJ
stantial foundation of irrigation. 1t can
never be destroyed except by some great
natural catsclysm.
The destiny of Los Angeles is three
fold: First, the capital Of the state OF
Southern CALIFORNIA; second, the metro
polls of the Colorado basin; third, the
entrepot of oriental and occidental coni :.
merce. For this glorious fate che is
pre- eminently fitted by location, climate
and resources.
These natural conditions make possi-
BILE the building here of cne of the
great cities OF the world, manifesta-
tion of the highest civilization. The
golden age is to come. AS Babylon,
Baalbec, Palmyra, 1hebes and other
great cities of ancient civilizations were
founded on irrig alton and lett unfading
glories, go will Los Angeles become q
| civilized center, in the best meaning OF
the term, whose glories and ecstacies
will only be less than those of the New
Jerusalem.
Happy the people whose lines are cast
in such pleasant places.
ARID LANDS AND MORE MONEY.