The herald., 1895-08-01
SIGNS OF THE Titles IN SOUTHERN CALI
FORNIA

SI0NS Of InE IITlES IN SOO nEkN WALL
FORNIA
There is every reason to believe that the
coming winter will be the most prosper
Gus one that Southern California has ever
experienced. The reasons for this belief
are of such tangib nature as to defy
denial. 4
In the first place :he entire country is
experiencing healthy non-speculative
revival OF business interests. and nowhere
in the union is this felt to the same high
degree as in this part of the world. The
resources of Southern California. COM
bined with the capital and population
steadily pouring in, will surely bring
about the happiest results.
Ths past seasons orange crop brought
In about 50, 900. 900, which has gone into
the bank accounts of the producers: the
present hay and grain crops are large and
of excellent quality, and will bring large
returns. The declduous fruit growers
have the brightest Of prospects, and the
outlook for the grape and wine men is
better than it has been for some years
past. Then the minor crops are all in
splendid condition. Ventura county
alone will have $500 carloads of beans for
market this year, aud il to this is added
the immense returns expected from the
small fruits, vegetable gardens, celery
plantations, sugar beets and other lines
of agriculture in the six southern
counties, with every indication that next
winters orange and lemon crop will
sxceed in quantity and price the one just
marketed it is asily seen that the busi-
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suit can hardly be overestimated.
The summer in Los Angeles is usually
regarded with patient dread by the
commercial men, but so far the volume
of business has in few directions shown
any diminution since the winter, and IL
others has largely increased. A good
barometer of the prevailing business con-
ditions in any locality is the newspaper,
and The Herald and its esteemed con-
temporaries in the extent and competi-
tive vivaciry shown in their advertising
columns give indubitable evidence of the
contentment that prevails in the city's
large mercantile establish ments.
Another irrefutable evidence of the
abundance that surrounds US and which
will steadily increase, Is wha. is mistak-
emily called our building boom.' The
extraordinary activity among capitalists
in erecting large business e1itices, and
among residents of building their own
homes, Is in no sense "boom which
word means a fictitious, unbiased and wild
direction OF energy--but is simply a
working out of the primal business law of
supply and demand. Place1 in which to
transact business are in great demand,
people are prosperous and have or can
get the money to build their own homes,
therefore the office and store buildings
spring up and the attractive, comfortable
residence is taking the place of the fat
and the boarding house.
The Herald is further informed, on ex-
cellent authority. that for the first time in
the financial history of this city have the
deposits in the banks increased in the
summer time over the ratio mainlain ed
during the winter. and the demand for
money Tor good, legitimate business pur-
poses has advanced in the same proper
sion.
This is indeed a favored region, one
that is apparently and with the greatest
reverence entitled to the designation of
being Gods own country, where prov-
dence has scattered with a liberal hand
all the natural endowments and blessings
that the most exacting mortal could ask,
making 1t the most beautiful. the most
salubrluus, the most comfortable land
known, the scene OF one of the most ad-
vanced stages of civilization of the age,
populated by an exceptionally intelligent,
industrious, accomplishing people, and
land where labor or enterprise, or both
combined, inevitably meet with the most
satisfying returns. Happy should be the
person who simply exists here, happier
still he who devotes his mind, his Drawn.
or his capital to any form of industry or
development, for nowhere else in the world
does profit wait so faithfully and assiGu-
ously on the investor.