Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-16
FUTURE FILLED
WITH PROMISE
GREAT MINING TERRITORY Is
BECOMING TRIBUTARY
EFFECT OF RAILROADS FELT
Realty Board Addressed by Prominent
Speakers, Who Predict Persist
ent Expansion in All South
ern California
EFFECT OF RAILROADS FELT

Prophecies of great things to come in
the near future for Los Angeles, for
at large were the feature of an inter-
esting meeting yesterday of the Los
Angeles realty board
G. E. Wantland of Denver, but who,
as general sales agent for the Union
Pacific railroad, is citizen and boost
er" of half dozen states and cities;
j. H. Braly, the property owner and
banker, and D. c. Collier, jr., whose
home is in San Diego but who is vice
president of the Ralston Realty COM
pany, made brief and instructive ad-
dresses.
Mr.. Wantland is no stranger to the
Pacific coast, and as constant trav
eler is familiar with the conditions
which go toward building UP all parts
Of the west. He is prominent men,
ber of the Denver Real Estate ex-
change one of the originators Of the
State Realty association of Colorado,
and thoroughly conversant with real
estate matters. After congratulating
the Los Angeles realty board on its
growth he spoke on the wonderful
development of Los Angeles.
providence has been with you,"
successive steps which have made the
city famous. II don't believe that you
people realize as fully as some out
siders what great opportunities are
even now presenting themselves to you
and to Southern California. This un-
region in Nevada, coincident with the
completion of the Salt Lake railroad,
is inviting you to grow in an entirely
new direction and develop along lines
that perhaps were not possible year
ago. And again, in the future, only
a year or even six months ahead, you
will have thousands of people coming
in here, not as tourists merely, but as
land seekers, just as in Kansas, Ne
braska and Texas, and when our politi-
cal condition permits, in Colorado"
Referring to a report by the secre-
ing convention for organizing a state
association of realty dealers, Mr..
Wantland commended the plan.
Before 1 came here" he said, "your
secretary, Herbert Burdett, went
throughout our state of Colorado, in
which he then resided, working up
movement on behalf of the Colorado
real estate men against the threatened
single tax amendment to our constitu-
ton, and as a result of that work a lot
of disconnected knockers developed
into the Colorado State Realty organi-
zation. Before that work was under
taken, the organization had been
formed, but the first convention was
not very we'll attended; the second an
nual meeting was well attended; and
the third was a magnificent gathering
which assembled to congratulate itself
and the state on the results achieved.
j. II. Braly expressed his pleasure In
listening to Mr.. Wantland's remarks,
which he regarded as instructive. He
compared the comparatively small be-
ginning of the realty board with that
of the chamber of commerce OF Los
Angeles and said that the results in
sight were proportionately as great as
those achieved by that Organization,
despite that, by It's nature, class or
ganization like the realty board could
never attain such numerical strength.
In brief Mr.. Braly suggested an en-
deavor to get better Representatives in
the legislature, a remark that was ap-
plauded His assertion that ever since
he had been in Los Angeles he had
been in the rear OF the procession was
regarded as the most humorous one,
and when he said that the increase In
values accompanying the marvellous
growth of the city made him dizzy a
member of the board suggested that
the dizziness was due to supervision
of great interests from the height of
12-story building.
d. C. Collier. jr, new member who
has come to Los Angeles from San
Diego, vigorously upheld the advan-
tages of the region which he said was
formerly known as city of grief but
is now engaged In singing paeans Of
joy. He indorsed Mr.. Wantland's