The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-11
LARGEST SUGAR FACTORY IN THE WORLD

shut out manv profitable industries.
However, this has bsen changed with
in the past two years. Since the
discovery of an abundant supply of
fuel oil within the city limits, backed
by unlimited and as yet undeveloped
oil fields which assure never fail
ing supply, manufactures have sprung up
like magic. Factories and mills that were
able to make q fair profit even with high
priced fuel are now ve,itable gold mines.
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE.
With these facts in mind it can easily
be understood why Los Angeles has
quickly jumped to the front as manu-
featuring city, supplying all of Southern
California and sending her factory pro-
ducts into Arizona, New Mexico, Utah,
| Colorado, Old Mexico and the orient.
He. list of factories now includes smelt-
| ing worKs, rolling mills, flour mills, box
| factories, brick works, cigar factories,
Wholesale lobbing houses, patent fence
mandatory, harness factories, bottling
esta bills hments, breweries, ice factories,
drug mills, fertilizer factories, printing,
coffee and spice mills, dye works, fire:
factories, planning mills, machinery and
engine works, machine shops, soap fac
tories, carriage manufactures, canneries,
foundries, wooden mills. sash, door and
blind factories, lithrographing. and en-.
craving, book binderies, distillerv, cleo
trio apparatus factory, oil refinery,
ing works, brush and broom factory
wood and steel pipe works, iron pipe
works, bicycle factory. candy manufac-
tory, trunk mandatory, overall and shirt
factories, wineries, feed mills, novelty
works, boot and shoe factory, dry separ-
-, for ipo alnnliaa
CHEAP FUEL.
The rapid development of Los Angeles
/. as manufacturing center is due TO cheap
fuel, which can be understood better by
explaining the situation as regards the
use uf oil as fuel.
At 10 cents a barrel, reckoning three
barrels and half of oil to be equal to a
ton of coal, the fuel supply of Los An
geles would cost only as much as in
places where they pay $3.50 ton for coal,
which, as stated, would place Los Ange-
les in the lead among the manufacturing
cities of the country. as far as the cost OF
fuel is concerned. There are some who
estimate that three barrels of LOS Angeles
oil are equivalent to a ton of coal, bat
even reckoning three and half barrels,
and figuring the cost of oil at 81, it would
be only So 90 per ton for coal, which is q
price low enough to attarct manufactul ers
from all parts of the country. The Ter
minal railway is using oil on all of its
engines, the Southern California on many,
ana the Southern Pacific will soon adopt
it. A tank steamer is being constructed
in San Francisco to carry oil from Ven-
tura to that city, ppe line will proba-
bly, be constructed fom Los Angeles to
the ocean, and oil shipped to other Sec
tions of the state.
AS an example OF what oil has done for
Los Angeles the iron industry is no,a-
bic one. Fuel enters into the manufuc.
tdring of iron as an important factor in
| cost. This Industry has come to the
front, and though the demand is yet far
| in excess of the supply, 1T has played
quits an important part in the develop
ment of Los Angeles as a manufacturing
| center.
A canvass of the iron industry in Los
| Angeles sho VS. shat there are six foundries
| in tt city and that they represent an az
gregate investment of about 1865, 900.
| fney employ in all about 375 regular
| hands. and do an annual volume of bust
| ness amounting to nearly 81, 00 600.
| The increase in the manufacture OF
| structural iron has been enormous. This
| is largely due to the building going on in
| Los Angeles, San Diego, Pasadena. San
| Southern California. With but few
minor exceptions, every pound of struo
| tural iron used in buildings in Southern
| California cities il made in Los Angeles.
There are several iron manufactures in
Los Angeles now making some articles
which they are furnishing all through the
San Joaquin valley. even as far north as
the Sacramento valley. But, although so
| much has been done in so short time
in these great and important lines OF
manufacture, it is but the prelude OF
much more to follow, and which clearly
indicates that Los Angeles must iuevita-
bly, take the place which natural forces
assigned IT. that of one of the great man.
ufaoturing centers of the United States. i
GOODS FOR THE ORIENT.
The Cudahy Packing com pany is now
looked upon as one of he institutions OF
Los Angeles. Several hundred hogs and