The herald., 1894-04-11
UNIQUE IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Something About the City
Which Now Holds Carnival.
Young Men Are Here Today Who Can
Recall the 'DObe Days.
A City Which Has Not Only Exceptional
Advantages OF Climate but the
Commercial Elemsnts
OF Growth.

It is not out of place now, while the
city is crowded full of people, to speak
few words of praise for the city which
aspires to furnish festival such as
has never taken place before.
There is no occasion for any exRggera-
ton in treating of the city and county
of Los Angeles, or OF any other cities or
counties of Southern California. They
are absolutely without parallel on the
American continent. They are all that
Nice, Mentone and the Mediterranean
coast of Africa can be to any ybody, and
far more to an American. They possess
the climate OF the Riviera with the ad-
ditional overwhelming attraction that
they are under the gladstone swey Of
the stars and stripes. This fact is grad.
ually becoming widely known.
Restricting ourselves 10 Los Angeles,
there are many things that can and
ought to be said of a young city that in
unique in the history of American citiet
for growth. There are today in the So
miles which form the supefhcies OF Los
Angeles quite 80, 900 people. This wide,
tious. 1t is within q fraction OF being
one-third as large as the territory en-
braced in London, which contains 4, ,000,-
600 of people.
Shall we ever fill It? Undoubtedly,
with certain limitations. The Angel
City, outside OF certain central portions.
will never be a crowded city. 1t will
always be noted for its exquisite, Dark
like residences. fragrant and kaleido-
scopic from the aroma aud the parti-
colored brilliance OF flowers and lawns,
oranges, lemons, magnoliae and cypress.
Where is there more appropriate
place for yearly festival such as this
1t will grow up into a city such as we
shall seek in vain to parallel anywhere
else on the footatool. There are young
men here who can remember Los Ange-
les as 'dobe town. They have seen
her pass from the 'dobe into the stage OF
the modern American dwelling and busi-
ness house, employing wood, brick and
stone. There are men in our midst, not
very young, who will live to see Los An
gsles a city OF marble. brownstone and
onyx. 1t will all be in the regular and
natural progression. Who can put
limit to the growth OF q place that is
making headway at such seven-league
boot pace?
Los Angeles has not only the excep-
tional advantage of climate to assist
her in her rapid advancement, but she
is now seen to possess unsurpassed COM
mercial elements of growth. From Los
Angeles to Galveston is by long odds the
shortest route across the continent
within the limits of the United S.ates.
and this rule holds good whether we
Iro bo line from San pa6ro RadondO
or Santa Monica. Not only is thia dis
tAnce less than half that from San Fran
cisco to New York, but commercially it
is shorter still. There are no great alti-
tudes involving heavy grades; there are
no snow sheds, with large sums for their
erection and maintenance. Not only
has Los Angeles the shortest road across
! tho continent in the Sunset route, but
has almost q monopoly OF all the
desirable transcontnental lines, in
cluding the Santa Fs, and through the
Santa Fe the Atlantic and Pacific and
st. Louis and San Francisco, and
through the Sunset the Texas Pacific.
With the splendid harbors that are
growing up OF our seabosrd, including
Port Los Angeles, Redondo and San
Pedro, we have here ali the conditions
| of superb commerce absolutely conti-
mental in magnitude. The early com
pletion OF the Nicaragua canal under the
auspices of the United States or some
other power will greatly enhance these
advantages.
1t ie only lately that it has been the
fashion to regard Los Angeles as a man
ufscturing point of any marked promi-
nencs. All this view OF our future has
been neglected in the past, bnt intelli-
gent people are making up for lost time,
| and are revising their estimates, as we'll
they may. The prospect of the early
completion of the Nevada Southern rail-
way will pour into this city immense
quantities OF both the base and the pre-
cious metals, and reduction works,
smelters, rolling mills and ioundries
will follow as matter of course. Manu-
factories OF crystsllized fruits will be
leading fen ture of our industries. and
very considerable beginning has already
been made in this line. Wine and
brandies are distinctively manufactured
staples, as are olive oil and picked and
| preserved olives and the canned and
preserved fruits. Our petroleum depos-
it's have already begun to attract the
attention of the outside world by the
magnitude Of the production in Pico
canon, in the Puents oil fields and in
Ventura county.
Meanwhile there is no contesting the
supremacy of the region centributary to
Los Angeles in the citrus and many of
the deciduous fruits and in the English
walnut and other nuts. The fact is that
the wonder grows that we have been
able to do 80 much in the brief period
which has Circumscribed our efforts.
Our leadership in the great staples of
commerce OF all ages, corn, wine and
oil, is certainly uncontested on the
American continent now, and in these
specialties we shall soon be able to chal-
Ienge the world. All the same, the
fruits OF the temperate zone, and the