The herald., 1894-01-01
SAN DIEGO AND ITS PROSPECTS,
Some Pleasant Business Point
ers From Bay'nclimate.
Her Business Men Speak Of the
Future With Hope.
Big Capital Invested in Large Enter
prIsss and Development Going on
5urely-A Glimpse at Her
Natural Advantages.

with nearly all other new towns who's
hopes were inflated beyond all REASONABLE
chance of immediate realization, stiIl i
her courage good and her grit right a.
to the sticking point.
| The idea of stimulating another boon
| is as remote from the minds of her bust
ness men as need be to promote healthy
and permanent growth in the pyesen
and future.
| If the signs OF commercial and indus
trial enterprise mean anything certainly
the n few cities on either coast of the
! United States can claim brighter out
| look.
Other localities may derive amuse
ment in referring to the 'city of bay'n'
| climate" as though everybody there
was given wholly up to ecstatic exclam
alton and contemplation of those most
desirable and undisputed bounties which
Dame Nature has showered upon the
fortunate denizens OF San Diego. Still
the fact remains that thousands of en-
terprising business men there, and
wealthy men, too, both residents and
visitors from the effete east, are leaders
in some of the largest enterprises in.
tended to develop San Diego county.
They are not entirely devoted to sucking
their thumbs and looking across to Cor
onado.
The partial practical opening up oi
that section is believed to be near at
hand, and then such endeavors as are
illustrated in the railroad to Yuma, the
irrigation of vast tracts OF virgin soil,
the efforts to promote the Nicaragua
canal, etc., will be better appreciated
by the present doubling Thomases, and
the wisdom and push and integrity of
their authors receive their proper need
of praise and the reward of many
ducats.
The natural advantages of San Diego
are scarcely surpassed in the world and
must be enjoyed to be appreciated COM
pletely. ufes ..a
Nice, in the south of France, is San
Diego's only rival as land of perpetual
sunshine and flowers, and possesses 80
even and salubrious climate both sum-
mer and winter. Probably the harbor
is the best in the world. it being 81 miles
long and one mile wide and so sheltered
to give perfect security to all kinds OF
vessels.
The country rises gradually from the
ocean, and 30 miles back beco mes
chain of mountains OF about 5000 feet
altitude. Long SUGGESTIONS OF ;yalhays,
hills, tablelands and slopes give sunh
variety of soils, climates and Conditions
as no land of such limited compass can
claim elsew here on earth. Oranges,
pineapples, lemons, bananas, figs,
olives, raisins and all sorts of vegetables
grow and ripen in the open air. In fact,
the whole section described is practical
ly frostless belt. which commands
view OF the ocean and has the tempered
breezes both summer and winter.
To get at the reasons for the conf
denee in the business future Of San
Diego the HERALD correspondent had
interviews with several prominent men.
The president of a bank said; "The
outlook here is certainly better than
ever before In the history Of this city.
The day of sbnona' aud ankees ls
past. II we had only speculative
value to offer we would be left. AS it is
we have value for value with cent per
v1uS pur year increase on every invest
ment, whether it be in lands, stocks in
our various irrigation companies or our
new railroad bonds. Whatever may
have been in the past, we are today
sure of our foundation, and if the HER
AID will publish the truth about US, it
will have been engaged in one of the
best among it's many promotions OF the
interests of Southern California"
A leading real estate mRn endorsed
the above and added: $50 far as the
market in real estate is concerned,
please say that there is very little for
sale at sellers prices. Where people
with cash come here and will get what
pieases them at any price whatever,
and therefore pay much more than the
true value. they not only hurt their
own pocketbooks, but they also hurt us.
An illustration in point is the recent
purchase by the widow and children OF
ex-Presideut U. s. Grant-though, as a
matter of fact, the daughter of Senator
Chaffee paid for the property"
The hotel men are always "in the
swim" at this season and expect to, and
usually do, make q fortune in few
months.
One of them remarked that "Of.
course they lived on climate and
Yankees, and always expected to do SO"
In a country where people can live in
huts and houses, as they choose or cir
cumstances force them, the hotel keep
er's remark is very suggestive as to
what the chief source of supply for
Southern California reallyis.
The wealth, resources and history OF
San Diego county can scarcely be better
written than by quoting from the Los
ANGELES ILLUSTRATED HERALD OF July,
1898. Itis as follows;
Area, 1851 square miles.
Population in 1899, 81 A89.
Assessment of 1892, S29, 1862, ,808.
San Diego county is one OF the origi-
nal counties of the state, having been
organized in 1850. 1t is the extreme
southern county OF the state, and the
southwestern OF the United States. TO
its south is Mexico, west is the Pacific
ocean, north are Orange and San Ber-
nardino counties, and EAST is Arizona.
The Sierra Madre divide the county,
running north and eouth. About two
thirds Of the county lies to their east,
and is known as the Colorado deaert.
1t is o vast V-shaped basin, with its
apex to the northwest, bemmed in on
two sides by high mountains and open
ing southeasteTly toward the gulf OF
California. The general slope of this
basin is toward the northweat. 1t gives
every evidence OF once having been an
inland sea, possibly an arm OF the gulf,
and certainly at one time received the
waters OF the Colorado river. 1t 10 now
q waste. The summer heat is intense.
The only inhabitants are few villayes
of INDIANS, scattered here and there.
where are water holes surrounded by