The herald., 1893-09-25
WHY Los ANGELES GOES TO rHs FRONT

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city in the United States that has re-
ported an increase in her clearing house
returns. We should perhaps add, for
the sake Of exact accuracy, that Balti-
more on one single occasion kept Los
Angeles company in this gratifying Pc
culisrity, although notin as high ratio.
During all the dreary months Of panic
through which the whole country has
passed, the Angel City was the one
point from which steady glow of prog
reRs has emanated.
And it has been varied and stimu-
lating progress This seems to be the
only region on the continent whose peo-
pie are not afraid to believe in their
own future and that of the United
States. The rest OF the country seems
to be inextricably in the dumps. They
have allowed the speculators of Wall
street to take a stuffed club and beat
them into q comatose etate. For de-
cades to come the current year will be
known as the bogie year, when great
people permitted themselves to be
ranged as zsnies and correctly de-
scribed as idiots.
However it may have been with the
rest of the United States, this has en-
phatically not been the case with our
own fair land. We have realized that
on this portion OF the footstool at least
the watchword is excelsior.
And why should not Los Angeles be
the promised land OF all sections of the
United States? Where else on earth
can such climate and such variety and
value OF production be found as here
Where else is there such q widely RAM
flying system of railways, or such facil-
tiles for shipment by sea, as exist here
Every roadstead on our expansive sea-
board is as smooth as the Mississippi
river for $50 out OF the 365 days of the year.
When, to our great tranecontinentsl and
international system of railways, is added
the innumerable local systems already
equipped and doing service in the devel-
opment of this section, the mind is really
confused. When to all this is added the
fact that railways will be completed
within two years that will traverse the
treaHure, coal and iron regions of South
ern California and southwestern Ne.
vada and Utah, and which will open up
to US the rich trade of the Utah basin,
in addition to the splendid sweep of the
continent between tidewater at San
Pedro and Santa Monica and Galveston
and New Orleans on Atlantic tidewater,
it is small wonder that Angelefios look
hopefully on the future.
That our position is understood abroad
will be very quickly recognized ON the
closing of the Chicago Columbian
worlds fair. There are connected with
that momentous enterprise, and in the
city OF Chicago in various business ca
pacities, at least 10000 persons who in.
tend to make their homes in Los Angeles
or in its immediate neighborhood. There
is nothing strained in this. For year,
or even years past, the people we speak
of have had in view home in Los An.
geles as the fruition OF their hopes.
The peculiarly gratifying state oi
things shown by our Clearing House re-
turns ia by no means the only cheering
circumstance in our present situation
Even during the past summer Los Ange.
les has been tull of people to an extent
never known before even in the heydey
of our boom. Our population today is
unquestionably quite seventy thousand,
as against the 50,3SO of the census ol
1890. We believe that this really un-
derstates the figure. A Saturday after.
noon promenade on Spring street in Los
Angeles shows greater crowds than can
be encountered on Kearney street, in
San Francisco. AS against eight thou
sand empty houses in the Bay City
there are scarcely score in Los Ange-
les, and certainly none in an eligible
quarter and of modern construction.
The Gas and Water companies are ae
busy as they can be in supplying con.
nections with their respective systems.
Capacious as our facilities are, 30 great
is the growth of our population that in
some districts they have to take turns
in attending the schools. Building is
going on at rapid rate. Many resi-
dences that can fairly be called palaces
are in course of erection, or have been
recently erected, and two of the hand.
soonest business edifces in the United
States are upon ths point OF receiving
their finishing touches.
Why should not Angeleflos be cheer
full? The range of production here
abouts, already unprecedently large, is
being steadily and even rapidly extend
ed. The establishment of the Cudahy
packing plant here has created great
hog interest in Los Angeles, to which
there is no reasonable limit. The busi-
ness of raising sugar beets. to be con-
verted into sugar, has made most graft
Tying headway, and this interest is GER
tain to expand to tens of millions OF
dollars annually. The outlook for our
citrus and deciduous for our canned,
dried and crystallized fruite, for cur
olives, hams, bacon, brandies, wines,
wheat. corn, barley, potatoes, and all
ranges of early vegetables, never was
better. No wonder, we repeat, that the
clearing house returns hereabouts regis
ter an unprecedented return. They do
60 for the simple reason that no other