Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-02-18


Resemble Eden-Mr. Marsh Writes
Of Los Angeles for his West Virginia
Friends Thinks 1t the prettiest
Place on Earth and He Is Not Far
Wrong.
Los ANGELES, CAL, Feb, Il 1901
II 1t were possible for one TO give you
a real vivid pen picture Tor even u
chalk talk) with Los Angeles as the
subject am sure 1t would be found
! interesting to you at this time-espee-
! tally since the rains have come down
in abundance and washed the dust
from the face of all nature and the
drops are sparkling from the branches
Of pepper, orange, lemon, rose, lilly
and the Thousand tropical flowers now
In bloom.
Poets, travellers, journalists, weav-
ers Of juvinale romance delight In por-
| traying the Land Of the Midnight
Sun-a land where the arctic sun
shines without intermission the whole
summer throughput land where
the sun shines the whole winter
uuI0u6u 10 lSdily lnolS dpbi dIUlNG w
most people. But figures and meta
phors though very instructive do not
wholly satisfy. From the Isle Of Pat
mos ST. John saw the Celestial City
and after many metaphors Of descrip-
tion he came to actual measurement
as the best method OF portrayal, the
gates, the walls, the length and the
breadth, and the streets aud a full de-
scription thereof.
For the benefit and pleasure Of the
reader who has not visited California
nor seen the city of the Angels we will
be pleased to lock arms and walk
/ through its streets and look at some
of its wonders and more striking fea-
! lures, merely touching here and there
upon some Of the high places, some
what as Count Zepellin will probably
do when he sails his air ship oyer the
continent and finally folds It's wings
and rests sWan-like upon the placid
waters OF the Pacific.
| La the first place let Inc disabnse
you Of a possibly preeonceiyed notion;
Los Angeles is not altogether "a
heavenly CITY," It Is earthly" (the
other two Pauline adJectives though
not exclusively belonging to It, never
theless may be added as descriptive
''in spots like Peter Carbwright's
sanctiflcatIon.)
Like everything earthly Los Ange-
les has history-a beginning a
growth, boom( this is an extra flour
| ish) subsistence and then an en-
trance upon progress In the past
decade unparalleled by any city OF the
United States--statistics for it. But
come with me, let US go up upon her
Bunker Hill or better and higher still
climb to the pinnacle Of her 81, 900, 900
two million dollar Court House.
Here at this dizzy height (the Sinai
Of our municipal law we get birds
eye view Of the city, 1920 miles in
diameter lover 100000 inhabitants,
| l04 per cent increase in the last de-
cade) in a valley of fertile alluvium
rising with gentle fluctuations TO the
foothills and sloping away down TO the
sea--through the s'midst Of the city"
flows the Los Angeles river. yonder to
the Northeast all up the little valleys
and shady canons she stretches her
| beautiful flower bedecked arms, be-
yond rise the cliff bound mountains,
! Mount Lowe with the Mt Lowe Rail-
way to its summit said to be one of
the most wonderful pieces of engi-
| neering skill the world can show be-
yond this rises snow-capped Baldie
now covered with snow ten feet deep
and snow crowned the whole year
round. To the South and West
orange grove and lemon, apple, peach,
pear, figs. and pomegranite, and the
| waving fields OF grain beyond and still
further IA miles away, but in sight
rolls the Pacific ocean with her sever
al delightful beach resorts.
| Think of i'll The fruits and the
climate of Eden, bathed by tropical
sun in sight OF perpetual snow and al
most in hearing of ssOld oceans roar.''
This is Los Angeles Two transcon-
tinental railroads already enter the
city, third now under construction,
deep sea harbor in sight; to the
West in the city 1000 derricks Of 1000
| oil wells put down at a cost OF $4,000
each with daily output that is felt
on the other side Of the Pacific.
The following interesting items ap-
peared in the weekly bulletin of the
International Investment Bureau:
ssSome idea may be had OF the in
terest being taken in the California
oil industry when we state that we
have for some time been corresponding
with firm OF British oil merchants,
who handle immense quantities OF
this product, and who have been anx-
ious to know about our fuel oil, its
| uses, cost OF production, value as a
fuel when compared with coal, cost Of
transforming coal fire boxes into oil
| fire boxes, etc. And all this inquiry
is made with view to using the Cal
| itornia fuel oil In certain factories ia
Manchester, Eng, the oil to replace
coal as fuel.
ssAnd these gentlemen realize that