The herald., 1894-01-01
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Guiding the Santa Fe, and through the
Santa Fe the Atlantic and Pacific and
st. Louis and San Francieco, and
through the Sunset the Texas Pacific.
With the splendid harbors that are
growing up on our seRboard, including
Port Los Angeles, Redondo and San
Pedro, we have here all the conditions
of a superb commerce absolutely CONT
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 is only lately that it has been the
fashion to regard Los Angeles as man
ufacturing point OF any marked promi-
nence. All this view of our future has
been neglected in the past, but 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 foundries
will follow as a matter OF course. Manu-.
factories of crystallized fruits will be
leading feature of our industries, and
very considerable beginning has already
been made in this line. Wines and
brandies are distinctively manufactured
staples, as are olive oil and picked and
preserved olives and the canned and
preserved fruits. Our petroleum depos-
its have already begun to attract the at
tention of the outside world by the
magnitude of the production in Pico
csfion, in the Puente oil fields and in
Ventura county.
Meanwhile there is no contesting the
supremacy of the region contributory 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 grews that we have been
able to do go 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 uncontssted on the
American continent now, and in these
specialties We shall soon be able to
challenge the world. All the came, the
fruits Of the temperate zone, and the
cereals as we'll, flourish here in unsur-
passed perfection.
Not only has Los Angeles a trans
continental railway system unapproach-
ed on the Pacific coast, but it ia not sur
passed anywhere. We omitted to say
that the Central Pacific railway belongs
as fully to US as to San Francisco, and
we can utilize all it's advantages with
out going near that city. Our local
railway system is probably not equaled
anywhere. Los Angeles is simply grid
ironed with railways, broad gauge and
narrow gauge, steam and electric. The
citv has one of the most perfect cable
and electric systeme on the American
continent, the latter with the capacity
OF propelling cars over 200 miles OF
track. Variety OF production, railway
ramiications, an unrivaled expanee OF
tributary territory. the contieuity oil
gold, silver. lead, copper, iron, anti
mony, coal, nitrates and other minerals
too numerous to mention; climate, an
eclectic population growing in more
rapid ratio than any other city on the
globe, combined with Typographical ad-
vantages really unapproachsd-a all these
capital distinctions unite to assure the
Angel City, in very few years, pri-
macy over all the cities on the Pacific
coaRt