The herald., 1895-08-05
WHY LOS ANGELES WILL ALWAYS
PROSPER

All travellers VINO come to Los Ange-
les agree that this city is the most pros
porous one in the country. They said this
before the panic of July. '94; they said it
during that financial bouleversement; they
said il afterwards. and have been saying
it ever since, and il will be just as true
next year and for all time to come as it
is now.
The person who has not studied South
ern California, or who has only taken a
superficial view of it will probably give
an indignant snort as he reads the
above paragraph and say "buncombe, "
but all who can observe what is plain to
any person of brains know that this city
and the country Immediately surround
ing it will always be proportionately bet
ter off financially than any other part of
the country.
The reasons for this are not contro-
vertible and are only two. One-the
leading one-is the fact that agricultur-
ally and horticulturally Southern Cali
fornia cannot be equaled in the value
and variety of Its resources. There is no
other region whero the farmer can cut
eight crops of hay in the year, making
four acres OF alfalfa here equal to forty
acres of timothy or clover in the east.
The apple or peach orchardist of the At
fantic seaboard, subject as he is to the
vcissitudes of vicious weather and aftlict.
ed by frosts and insect pests. is in great
luck if he averages one-fourth of the in
come per acre of the orange or decduous
fruit grower of hereabouts. The same
comparison can be drawn with the small
traits man, thu vegetable grower and all
the gamut of producers. These are no
wild assertions, but cold facts. If any
one questions them, the proof of their
accuracy can easily be had from the auth
orjzed publications of the chamber of
comm cree.
This tact of lavish productive quail
ties is alone sufficient to make ever hard
times in Southern California better than
good times anywhere else.
But there is another reason which is
only less forceful than the first-a reason
which with richness of its surrounding
resources and the frugaity OF the natives.
makes Paris the city that it is. and that
is the presence of the stranger with big
income within our gates. As a pleasure
resort Los Angeles is unrivaled. Its eli.
mate, its scenic beauty, its historic inter-
est. its blossoms, its fruits, its manifold
attractions of endless variety have made
it the resort of the wealthy from ali the
less favored parts of the country, many
of whom make 1T their continual home,
and others spend large portion of their
time here.
A very large portion Of the western part
of the city is filled with the elegant
homes of people who do not toll nor spin.
whose only occupation is to enjoy life and
spend their money, for both of which
ends Los Angeles offers unrivaled oppor.
tunities. The visitors of passage keep
our hotels and boarding houses full
nearly all the year, and from them comes
q constant stream of money. This fea-
ture is alone sufficient to make a great,
wealthy city, but add to both of the
reasons given the consequent develop
ment of manufactures and comm merce, the
presence in inexhaustible quantities of
the cheapest fuel in the world. and it
will readily be conceded that the present
benehcent conditions, and the possibili-
ties OF the future, can hardly be exagger-
ated. and that all the claims made by the
mosd enthusiastic. sanguine lover Of this
lovely land are far within the bounds of
prosaic truth.