The herald., 1893-10-23
WHAT WE ARR COMING TO.


We are already receiving from the
east the avant-couriers of an unprece-
dented stream of visitors this winter,
many of whom will cast their lot with
US. The attractions OF Southern Cali
fornia, and especially this portion OF it.
placed in the worlds fair have had the
effect OF raising this section 80 high in
the estimation OF visitors to that expo
sition as to create widespread desire
among them to share in the marvellous
future OF q country so bountifully bleet.
The Vaccinations OF all of our people
who have marked the effect of our dis
plays at the fair is on the eve of reali-
cation. and from this time forth we may
confidently look for rush hitherward.
No one will be astonished if the next
three years sees a wonderful impulse in
the settling OF our lands with people
having the means and the enterprise to
more than double our present produc-
tive area. Places that are now neglected
will be turned into beautiful and pro-
ductive homes, and the well-to-do popu-
lation tributary to this city will be at
least doubled. and perhaps quadrupled.
This will, of course, mean that Los An
geles will more than keep pace with the
growth OF its immediate back country.
Then the railroad development which
ia now progressing between this city and
Utah will open to US vast treasure
house of mineral wealth, the usufruct
of which will inevitably concentrate in
Los Angeles. The promise of these in
computable riches will not only ado to
our Importance as commercial center,
but will enable us to develop manufae-
turing industries OF the most varied and
extensive character.
We must never forget lin considering
the factors which will add to the growth
of our city the seductiveness of our
matchlees climate. That is now being
supplemented by system of sewerage
that will make Los Angeles the most
healthy city in the world. The success
full laying of our outfall sewer i nto the
sea will give us a drainage 80 perfect
that diseaee will almost be an unknown
quantity in this delightful spot, and the
allurement our city will offer to all who
suffer will be so great that it will attract
thousands OF wealthy families here to
spend their days in climate
where spent health can be re-
stored, and life enjoyed to its utmost.
The time is fast approaching when
our maritime future can be counted
upon as cutting very important figure
in the commercial greatness of Los An.
gsles. The government is committed to
the construction of deep sea harbor
on our coast, which will give us the
empire of the sea. The great wharf at
Santa Monica, or Port Los Angeles, has
given us the foretaste of what can be
done in the interest OF building up
great seaward commerce, and our situa-
tion on the shortest line between the
two oceans gives us "a bond OF fate" in
assurance of the immense traffic that
will spring up here when we have a
deep sea harbor on our immediate
coast. ~
When we take into consideration the
wonderful advances this city has made
IN the past decade, and look calmly into
the manifold and varied advantages of
our situation, we do not feel that we are
justified in limiting its growth in the
next decade to less than quarter of q
million inhabitants. We believe that
it will considerably surpsss that, but
even if we should only increase in the
ratio of slow development compared
with the possibilities at our command,
the opening of the new country will see
US with the population we have
named. That means a large city. 1t
means that many OF our present resi-
dence streets will become the marts of
business, and that we shall reach out
with our villas and attractive homes to
Santa Monica. But the new energy and
the fresh enterprise which the activities
of our growth will infuse into all our in
dustries and undertakings will make US,
ten years hence, wonder that we could
limit the growth of Los Angeles at that
time to a quarter of million people.
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