The herald., 1893-08-22
TEE FUTURE GREAT CITY OF TIE
COAST.

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THE FUTURE GREAT CITY OF TIL
COAST.
The writer encountered General Man
ager X. H. Wade of the Southern Cali
fornia yesterday. To an inquiry as to the
general outlook for business that gentle
man replied that it could not we'll be
better for Los Angeles. He added that
this was unquestionably the nonpareil
region Of the American continent, and
that everything Was most roseate here.
As an instance of the demand for our
products from abroad he stated that the
Santa Fe company during the past week
had shipped twenty-seven carloads Of
potatoes to the east. We only instance
this shipment because only few years
ago we we're receiving our potatoes from
Kansas and other eastern states and
from Northern aud Central California.
OF course the potato grower will
grumbls in Los Angeles county because,
with irrigation, he can only grow two or
three crops of potatoes year, supple
mented, in the same twelvemonth, by
one Of beans or peas.
General Manager Wade seemed to be
thoroughly possessed with the idea that
Los Angeles county waa the "boss" spot
of the universe when we met him. and
right he was, not only from the point Of
production, but from other points. From
the point of production. because nearly
everything known on the earth's surface
grows here to perfection. but from many
other points with equal justice.
Those who place the future of Los An
geles on her products, beautiful, remun-
erative and manifold as they are; or on
her climate, unapproached as that is,
even by the Riviera Of Italy; or on the
fact that she has been characterized by
an unparalleled growth in population
and wealth. and will presumptively be
go characterized in the future, do not
realize the real elements of growth in
the future OF the Angel city. These are
all potential factors, but they are not the
dominating ones.
Climate itself would OF course build up
great city here in time. The United
States will soon possess one hundred
million inhabitants, and today we have
an overwhelming number of people OF
means to whom climate is an overmas-
tering consideration. Not invalids, but
persons who know that at fifty years OF
age they can do 40 we'll as respects
hygienic considerations ss persons OF
thirty, With suggestions Of pulmonary
and other troubles in the east. Instead
OF sinking into the condition Of invalids
there. as they would under the eastern
climatic conditions, they will have be.
come robust and virile men, quite capa-
BILE OF enactina their part in this work
a-day world. There facts Of our situa-
tion will Of course count largely in our
development.
So will the circumstance that, in an
incredibly brief space of time, . man
can create q POLITICALLY beautiful homo
in Los Angeles county. in which he may
sit under his own vine and fig tree, and
see the breezes play amongst the foliage
Va POAO8id idAnecbt OiAhkO UA0 l0nOn
trees and fan the most prodigal fora on
the footstool. All these things natur-
ally tend to swell the tide of immigra-
tion to the American Eden and the more
than rival to the Italian Riviera, and
they surely oHght 40 to do.
But the real cause Of the intelligent
and confident belief in the future OF
Los Angeles lies deeper than the charm
ing attractions at which we havs binted.
The Pacific coast must some day have
a great city. 1t is probably in the or
dination of nature that in time the
greatest city in the world will be located
on the Pacific coast. 1t was Bishop
Berkeley that proclaimed the sentiment
that westward the tide Of empire takes
it's way," and that times greatest tri-
umphs would be his last" In the age OF
steam and electricity time and space
count for nothing. California alone is
capable of containing twice the popula-
tion of France. That the completion OF
the Nicaragua canal will bring millions to
this coast. of the desirable clsss of i'm
migration that formerly sought Iowa,
Nebraska and the other northwestern
states, cannot be doubted.
They are coming here in millions, and
to a land in which they can not only
raise the corn, wine and oil of the COM
merce OF all ages, but every cereal and
every fruit of the temperate zones and
every product OF the semi-tropic zones.
Such immense masses of mankind will
need a representative and typical city.
and whore can they find it so we'll desig-
mated by God and Nature as in Los An
geles?
The whole physical configuration OF
the continent points to Los Angeles as
the natural entrepot and outlet OF the
whole stretch of the continent. reaching
from Atlantic to Pacific tidewaters.
From Santa Monica or San Pedro to Gal
weston is less than half the distance from
San Francisco TO New York via the Cen
tral and Union Pacific Railways. This
whole stretch OF rich continent is di-
rectly tributary to Los Angeles. The
summer temperature prevalent in it is
such as to make it inevitably tributary
to our seaside and mountain summer re-
sorts. The fragrance of our orange
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