The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-04-21

William M. Bunker. the able editor and
proprietor of the San Frncisco Daily Re
port, is one of the chief members OF the
Half Million club. which is making such
strong effort to create spirit OF state
unity in Southern California.
In 1887 he was in this city and wrote
the subioined article on the interesting
boom episode in the history of the CITY,
After sweeping through the pastoral
lowlanGs of Alameda and Contra Costa
counties. and feasting with artistic fervor
on the Alpine glow of Mount Diablo, the
traveller on the $3.50 pm. Southern Pacific
Los Angeles express is in fit frame of
mind and body for Sybaritc repast at
La.nrop. From 7 :25 to 7 40 he eats. at an
expense of rs cents and then he returns
to his sleeper to sweat and squirm through
a hot and dusty night in the San Joaquin
valley. He passes through Modesto, Tur-
lock. MERGED and Athlone, drops silver
palace at Berenda with its Yosemite con-
tingent, and speeds on to MADEIRA, Fresno,
ex-Mayor Bryant's Goshen, Sumner Cali
ente and Bealville, and at $3.50 rises for
the apparent purpose OF studying the
loop. This desire to see the loop is sim
ply fashionable falsehood. The inter-
est attaching to the loop as q specimen OF
scientifi c skill is not of the popular sort,
and of the few passengers who really sue
coed in seeing it an intinitesimal number
realize it's engineering significance. Men
use the loop as an excuse for rising from
unbearable berths. Women have hazy
idea that the loop has matrimonial Sig
niiicance. On no other hypothesis can
| account Tor It's fascinating influence
over them.
4 The women seldom see it. Just before
4 retiring for the night they ask the porter
to call them for the loop, and are assured
that all will be right: And all IS right
SO far as the porter is concerned: ne
eight minutes this side of the loop and
STAYS near to show the serpentine tracks.
But the average woman requires at least
forty minutes to bang her hair into shape,
and by the time she is ready to take e. IN
the situation the loop is far behind. She
is just as well off. The shrewd porter
never lets her know what she. has lost.
He points to an angling fence as piece
of the loop, the misty morning, light en-
riches the illusion,. and with deer. sigh
OF satisfaction she draws her head from
the window and seeks the seclusion of the
ladies' toilet. At Z: 80 a. m.--two and
half hours later-she emerges from the
room for breakfast at Mojave and smiles
serenely on the woman whose presence
in the sleeper she has coolly ignored
Plevna! Why, his conduct was rank
cowardice compared to the civil smile of
n lady monopolist as she revels in the
Joyous knowledge that she has been i'm
posing on her own sex. At 500 a. M,
At Iancaster-twenty- five miles from Mo
first tangible evidences of an irrigation
boom are noted. The rich lands of Tu-
lare and Kern were passed in the dark
ness of the night. Lancaster is
AN ARTESTAN OASIS
In the desert. Until the flowing well was
struck Lancaster was simply a dry and
undesirable station on the railroad. Now
it is a grateful green spot where the eye
longs to linger. The yucca palms and
cactus plants of lesser note have given,
way to fruit trees, vines and, grasses, Thes
success of the Lancaster wei y has sfgtve5&
value to the previously valueless desert
lands in this region, and many sections
have already been secured BY forehanded, 1
men. Lancaster has an elevation OF 800
feet above the sea. At San Fernando, 40le
miles from San Francisco, the work oof d
drying apricots for the great mercantile
house of William T. Coleman u Goa fsafn
progress under the supervision OF Joe
Cook, erstwhile of Coffin, Sanderson &
Cook, the assistant manager of the Will
liam T. Coleman e. Co. agency at Los An
geles. The apricots are cut in halves.
placed on trays in the open air and in
two days are cured. Thermometer 100 de-
grees. At II 40 a. m. the train draws into
the station at Los Angeles. and we de-
bark. The city of
LOS ANGELES ,,.-,
Is the focal point of several systems of
railroads, and may be APPLY termed the
Chicago of California. The manana of
the native Californians who formerly dom.
mated this region has given way 10 the
I 4 .lA+n ,,,l
leans. The sight of such city stirs up
the latent patriotism of citizen of the
United States and makes him justly
proud of his countrymen. Deserted
streets and decaying mills are silent mon
itors in the old mining camps OF Califor-
mia and constantly warn mercurial peo
pie against foolish and extravagant ex-
elements. Remem boring, and too ofte N
alas, for cause, the sad fate of camps that
once promised to flourish forever, the
resident of Central or Upper California
naturally inclines to skepticism in regard
to the future of Southern California. He
is constantly asking himself if it is not
about time to short tn, boom. He cannot
grasp the idea that the development O +
the country is not. in a sense at least SIM
liar to mining discovery. A lasting and
living bonanza is beyond his mental
grasp. For two years he has been await
ing the borasca that has failed to appear.
The situation is growing serious-for
him. In the light of today his predic-
tions of two years ago make him appear
foolish. Long before this time the bot
tom of the southern country should have
dropped out. Instead vi dropping it is
apparently
MORE FIRMLY FIXED THAN EVER.
The lumber landed at San Pedro, the
port of Los Angeles. during the past two
months amounted to 25, 600. 900 feet. Peo-
pie who think the southern boom paper
affair OF who having failed to get in at
low figure, affect such a belief, should
stick pin in this statement. The South
ern California boom and the mining
booms are as far apart as the poles and
absolutely have nothing to do with each
other. There is no artincial excitem ent
in the development of Southern Califor-
MIA. Brass bands and barbecues are
among the attractions of auction sales.
But then what of that! Never mind the
bands and barbecues Think of the %, 000,-
900 feet of lumber that has been landed
at San Pedro inside of two months. and
the refusal of orders by several lumber
firms. For it is a fact that the demand
for lumber at Los Angeles. Garvanza and
Pas .dena actually exceeds the supply
Is there any secret in the success of
Southern California? | think there is,
and | have found it. | may not be the
original finder. do know. however that |