The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1893-05-10
THE OUTLOOK FOR THE IMMEDIATE
FUTURE.


THR OUTLOOK FOR THE IMMEDIATE
FUTURE.
There has never been as much trave
into California as during the past fall
winter and spring, the latter OF course
not completed. 1t is the duty of q
newspaper published in a growing
country to make note OF such facts
The incureion OF people from the east
and even from the Pacific coast has en-
braced all the southern counties, and
has extended as far north as Fresno,
which ia most progressive and grow
ing section. But this movement has
been especially great in the counties OF
San Bernardino and Los Angeles. This
large immigration has been intent on
securing homes to great extent, and it
is simply astonishing the universally OF
the demand for property, not for a
speculative purpose, but with view to
income and residence. This demand
keeps up even now, and the HERALD
predicts that it will last ell through the
! pNhihipi Rha Will hbbHiA - FOiublD
the fall and winter not even approached
by the famous "boom" years Of 1862
and 1898.
VIII there be boom2 Undoubtedly,
but it will be boom based on produc-
ton. There will be no more cutting up
OF fine residence and orchard properties
into lots 25xl50 feet. Desirable ranches
will be in great demand, and the time
has come when they should be subdi-
vided. AS an incident OF the great
movement of which we speak number
OF most important transactions have
been contaminated, which will result in
the placing of very valuable properties
on the market with the very desirable
consequence OF large settlement in re-
gions which have been comparatively
neglected, and whose dedication to
sheep and cattle raising and to wheat
and barley have retarded the growth of
the city in many directions. There will
be a great and most desirable movement
in this line of development towards the
ocean. We have reason to believe that
q syndicate has been formed to buy such
portions of the Centinela rancho as Mr..
Dan Freeman does not care to retain for
himself. Ex-senator John Wolfskill is
getting ready to place large portions of
the BuenoH Ayres ranch within the
reach OF purchasers. Such adjustments
of the interests of Messrs. Jones and
RaIrar m TIM ranohna Ga, - Il
Santa Monica have taken place as will
bring those valuable properties within
the reach OF the investor and settler.
1t 10 about time to look for movement
on the Cerritos and Alamitos, and it
would not be surprising il even the La.
guna should be subdivided.
With these regions opened up to the
settler we ought to see great popula-
ton springing up in tho i.a.~sdi~ee y.
cinity OF Loo Angeles. Settlement and
development towards the east and north
have, been all that could be desired, and
they have extended clear to the Sierra
Nevadss. Redands, in the rapidity Of her
progress, has fairly matched Pasadena.
In fact, in ratio of growth the little
"wonder city" has far surpassed the
progress of the "Crown Of the Valley"
wonderful as that has been.
The fact ought to be borne in mind
that Los Angeles, while it is highly de-
eirable that her immediate tributary
territory should be developed, ia by no
means exclusively dependent on it,
Her commercial position is one of the
best on the American continent. With
the shipping facilities that che will
shortly command her ability to become
a great city is equal to that OF any point
on the Pacific coast, and that on strictly
commercial principles. Her position on
the shortest practicable route from tide
water on the Pacific to tidewater ON the
Atlantic ocean within the limits of the
United States gives her tremendous
commercial advantage over San Fran
cisco. Her "back country" is greatly
more extensive and valuable than that
of San Francisco. The character OF the
products raised in the region tributary tc
Los Angeles is very much more valuable
than that of those which mainly so to
make up the staples which are handled
in the Golden Gate. 1t will not be Ions
before we shall have communication
with Salt Lake City by rail, and wheI
that connection shall be made we shal
have an absolutely imperial stretch o
country which will do a large and lucra
tive business with us. That connection
will be accomplished, the Herald veril,
believes, inside OF eighteen months.
The mining developments which ar
about to take place in the region whicl
is traversed by the Nevada Southern
railway will, we firmly believe, be tn
greatest known for years in the Unite
States. They will tend directly to tn
building up OF this city. They will EN-
brace gold, silver, lead. coal, iron an
about all the base metals. They wi
: tend to make Los Angeles the scene {
/ great smelling and reduction works, s
' they will afford the huxes for handln
l the rebellious ores of Arizona.
t No wonder people pour in multitude
= into country with such possibilities
= The wonder would be if they did no
9 The coming fall and winter will,
II course, witness the greatest immigration
g but it will be large during the summe