Los Angeles herald., 1893-01-01
THE PAST YEAR.
Southern Califor-
MIA in Detail.
Outline of Twelve Months
Progress.
This Sections Wealth and Re-
sources Fully Described.
Facts About Its Commercial and
Agricultural Growth.
A Showing of the Wonderful Rich
ness of This Section.
Cities and Towns and Their Unex-
ampled Prosperity.
A valuable Review of the Past Year.
A Most Satisfactory Showing.
The Country's Wealth
and Future.
A Showing of the Wonderful Rich
ness of This Section.
Cities and Towns and Their Unex-
ampled Prosperity.
A valuable Review of the Past Year.
A Most Satisfactory Showing.
The Country's Wealth
and Future.

The HERALD this morning greets it's
many thousands of readers with Happy
New Year. The columns which follow
give as accurately and faithfully as pos
sible review of the progress OF South
ern California for thu year 1892, now
past, and gone forever. The review
of this section of the state as whole
and by counties shows a gratifying in
crease all along the line. Counties,
cities and people as whole have -four
ished. Products, industries and wealth
have increased. The farmers and min
ers, the principal producers, have -four
ished, aud with them the merchant,
banker, broker and ether professional
classes have done well.
Los Angeles, the metropolis OF South
ern California, has moved forward
There has been gratifying increase in
wealth, population and substantial inn
provements. Its commercial position
has been greatly strengthened. Its
prospects are brighter than ever. The
coming year is big with promises OF
prosperity.
Organized efforts to induce proper i'm
migration have not ceased. Thorough
preparations have been made to put the
best foot forward at the worlds fair.
Large expectations result from the work
done in this direction, and the years to
follow will certainly witness growth
here almost unparalleled.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
is an entity by itself, separate and dis
tinct from the remainder of the state.
1t is made go by the Sierra Nevada, for
'&ountains interposed
Make enemies of nations who had else
Like kindred drops been mingled into one"
These mountains constitute the east
ern boundary of the state for nearly
half it's length on the north. at an av-
erage altitude of over 1000 feet above
sea level, and at about the thirty second
parallel of latitude swing around to the
southwest, and cutting the state. in
twain terminate in the bold bluff of
Point Conception.
Through these mountains are four
passes into Northern California, Gavi-
ota, TETON, Tehachepi and Walkers.
Only one OF these passes, the Tehachepi,
is at present used by railroad, to reach
Northern California; in fact, the Sierra
Nevada present an almost insuperable
barrier to enterprises OF this character,
on account of their great height. The
Mojave desert, which is part of the
great plateau, lying between the Rocky
mountains and the Sierra Nevada, that
reaches down to the low plains of
Southern California, is bounded on the
south by the Sierra Madre, through
which there are several easy passes.
This great fact makes Southern Cali
fornia and Los Angeles city, its metrop-
oils, the only natural commercial outlet
of the south Pacific coast of the United
States.
That part of California lying to the
north of this high range of mountains
has climate like that of France. That
part of the state lying south of these
mountains has climate like that of
Italy south of the Alps. The products
and interests of the two sections differ
as materially.
This southern portion includes the
counties of Inyo, San BernaYdino, San
Diego, Orange, Los Angeles and Ventr ra,
and parts of the counties of Santa Bar.
bara and Kern, embracing an area OF
about 10000 square miles.
1t lies between the Sierra Nevada
luOuuthlUb anu Juo uuCAlOuh Douhodiy
line, with the Pacific ocean on its west
and the Colorado river and the Nevada
state line for its eastern boundary, and
includes the extreme southwest corner
of the United States. Geographically,
it is between the 32d degree and 35th
degree parallels of north latitude and
Hath degree and 121st degree, longitude
west of Greenwich.
That there are three CALIFORNIA; is q
fact generally overlooked. The name
California was invented by 0. de Mon
talvo, Spanish novelist of the Elk.
teenth century. He gave it to a sup
posed island ION the right hand of the
Indies, very near the gates of the ter
restrial paradise" The Spanish ex
plorers applied the name first to the
peninsula of California, which for near
ly 100 years afterits discovery they sup
posed to be an island. With the exten
sion of Spanish domain northward il
the year 1869 to the AID degree of lati
tude they carried the name. Afterward
when the outlying province of Caliior
MIA was politically divided on about tn,
Sd degree parallel of latitude, the up