Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-01
HISTORY MADE
IN ONE YEAR
WHAT THE TREES OF TRADE
GAVE LOS ANGELES
Summary Of All Of the Good Things
That Came to Good People
in a Great
City

1905. from behind your curtain, you
can give thanks that Franklin, Hat
field and j. Pluvius worked in triple
harness. as the wetness to the amount
Of IL inches has come TO gladden.
the hearts of all mankind ] give all
honor to Franklin, and a small slice
to Hatfield for his effort at least. but
thank old man Pluvius the most, as
he did tho business. There's nothing
Ike having a friend at court, and Los
Angeles certainly had friend at tho
Supreme Court beyond the rim OF
clouds above Old Badly
IL any old wretch lives in Los An
geles who does fail to give thanks to-
day for all the substantial and mate
rial blessings with which he is en-
vironed, / just hope somebody VIII
pour a pint of ground mustard into his
boots. so he may have hot old dance
and have a taste of what is in store
for so base an migrate. OF course we
can't all be happy but for goodness
sake be happy one day in the year
and let that day be this one Dcnt
inger with the Italian frappe, fer it Is
searching and finds you out and don't
let it be frozen eggnog either, for You
may cackle too loud loot your horn
and give thanks that it's no worse.
That'n be plenty. If you turn over
new leaves keep them clean, and IL
you make any resolutions cut out the
amendments and let the resolutions
pass by unanimous vote.
But say that's all right as far as
you are concerned in general way,
hut did you ever stop to think what
1904 has done for Los Angeles? All or
us know that prosperity has showed
its genial nose down the local battle
line and that no great wreck engulfed
the leaders in trade and that the good
Lord spared scores of the best men In
the world who ever hustled to make
any city famous, great and powerful
And, for our sweethearts, mothers ana
wives we bless them for rising to bless
the sons of men Of whom they are
proud.
Getting back to earth again 1 am
enabled to tell you that last year
7o9O permits for separate construction
items were issued and that these
called for an expenditure of $13,4O9'O62.
Think of that viii you, that in this
imperial city while all We're hustlne,
over one million dollars a month was
being put into brick, stone and frame
Luildings And, the best of it is that
almost 5000 homes We're erected in this
hustling city of your adoption. Now
why don't you toot your horn? That's
a city of its own, and good sized one,
too, and bigger than some of you de-
serted to come west.
But of all the big things that Los
Angeles did produce during 1904 are
the bank cearngs These are fairly
busters and run into the twelve figures.
Any city that can boast of $345,34S,-
s56.35 in clearings in a measly twelve
months is a city spelled in caps and
don't forget that. Just add one more
note in the key of G on your horn as
you toot.
Real estate has been lively 1 win
admit and so will you, all the year. but
I'll wager cookie shell to a watch
lHdI NOu Alu llOl QlSdIIl lHdL even at
the ridiculous nominal figures that go
on record that this total for the year
would reach S2S,651,79S. Well, that't
the total, and its official. AS $40 is the
usual figure used suppose you take an
average of $50, and on my basis 1 figure
that the total transactions in real es-
tate during the year has reached $685.
462, ,456. How does that strike you for
the record of a town located in the
southwestern part of these United
States and almost at the jumping off
place as your maps will show at that?
That sounds good l know but the
best index to local expansion and the
growth in population is the returns in
post Office receipts. My friend Matt
Flint has compiled a table that shows
that the receipts for the year closing
yesterday for the Los Angeles post
office reach S59a6Sl.2s, an increase of
S1O2, ,150.22 That is proud record to
make. and as Flint says shows more
clearly the material growth than does
any other factor. And the days are
just dawning, and with this day of the
birth of a new year is there not much
10 toot a horn for. So toot loud and
long, ana as the run goes down give an
extra blast.
So long for the old year, as ] enter
again new era next Sunday with you.
May all of you good fellows who have
been good to me live long and prosper.
ana here's to all the good fellows who
have been good TO you. ii. JR
Small Deals 6unched
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