The herald., 1894-05-31
WHAT WE ARE COMING TO.

Savings bAu hIO pthCiuh shOhA AS~OS
that will make for them either comfort
able homes or investments that will
bring them in handsome incomes. vi
course the great bulk OF the building
now going on is in the residence part OF
the city, yet the business streets are not
neglected. The business improvement,
on Broadway are many and imposing.
fine corner block is under way at
Third street, diagonslly opposite to the
magnificent Bradbury block. Another
fine brick block is going up at the south
west cornor of Fourth and Broadway,
and ground is being broken for smother
extensive improvement on the west side
OF Broad way between Fourth and Fifth
streets. A. the pace with which bus.
inees Improvements are marching down
Broadway it will not be long before that
splendid thoroughfare will become a
competing artery for the traffic that is
now done on some of our old-established
business streets.
The school census recently completed
for this city shows that our population
is encroaching very near upon the 80, 600
figure. That means an increase OF about
10000 since the last decennial census
was taken. An increase OF population
of so per cent in four years is an aston
lshng augmeD tation. 1t means that we
shall reach the 100, 900 standard by the
middle of this decade. and that the new
century may open upon US with popu-
lation OF 100000. A city which is grow
ing with this marvellous celebrity in pop
ulation must be expected to develop
wonderful activity in its building inn
provements to keep pace with the in
crease in it's inhabitants. We may
therefore set it down ss fact that will
surely be realized before many years
that the traffic OF Los Angeles will spread
far beyond its present business iimits,
and that what is now considered the
center OF trade will soon become one of
its extremities.
The proposed new electric road to
cross the city and to reach the south
western locality will give rapid transit
to extensive districts thst are now only
very partially improved. We have seen
how rapidly that portion of the city
trsversed by the existing electric road
has been covered with beautiful resi-
dences. The new road will do the sam
for the localities through which it will
pass that the first road did for that por-
ton of the city lying south of Washing
ton and west OF Flgueroa. There will
then be compact mass OF fine resi-
dences upon tracts that are now almost
vacant. In thu meantime the boom in
building improvement is not confined to
the portions Of the city glanced at. 1t
is in full blast in all parts OF Los an
geles. The tract known as the W olfskill
has received a wonderful Building i'm
petus since the sales OF lots in that
vicinity q few months ago. HouGes are
going up all over it, and although the
great majority of them are unpreten-
tious dwellings, yet there are are many
notable exceptions to the rule.
The east side is also partaking of the
building boom, and Boyle Heights and
East Los Angeles are improving in all
directions. We must not forget that this
is no merely ephemeral or speculative
spirit, but that it is based upon the fact
that the new homes are actually needed
for the demand caused by our rapidly in
cressing population. Whilst Los An
gees has not escaped from a touch of
the depression that has fallen upon
every part of the country, yet it has en-
joyed more nearly than any other Amer
lean city, exemption from the acute
operation OF that depression. This is
due to our exceptional resources and to
the fact that we are the focus of one OF
the most promising material develop
ments in the United States. We
need only mention that tribu-
tary to the commerce of Los
Angeles is one of the richest and most
extensive agricultural and horticultural
sections in the United States, producing
sub tropical fruits in abundance, and
growing in great profusion everything
that can be grown in the temperate and
northern zones. In addition to this
great advantage we are surrounded by
an OF! territory that has only been par
TALLY explored and which promiCes to
surpass in the vAstness of its yield the
famous oil districts of Pennsylvania.
Then we have an immense back coun-
try, rich ia minerals of all kinds. which
will look to Lo. Angeles for its supplies.
The coal and iron mines Of Utah will
contribute to make our city great
manufacturing center as soon as We have
made rail connection with them.
Finally, our maritime commerce will
prove an immense factor in our prosper
itv when the Nicaragua canal is opened
and the government has given us the
deep sea harbor congress has decided to
build.
1t is no wonder that city with these
actual and prospective advantages should
grow apace. The keen eyes OF business
men and capitalists everywhere are
looking towards us and getting ready to
take part and lot in the prosperity that
Is sure to be ours. 1t will not be many
years when Los Angeles will take her
place ss the first and largest commercial
city on the Pacific coast.
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The stubbornness of the British au-
thorities in Furnishing criminal convic-
tions, even after probable cause has been