Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-04
REMARKABLE GROWTH OF
THE GREAT SOUTHWEST
Rapid Development and the Romantic History
That Characterize This Section of
Written for The Herald by COL Joseph D. Lynch
Southern California

I ern California to report upon the fea'
sibility of coming here in a body ant
building their homes. Berry reported
satisfactorily and out they came, being
known for years as the Indiana colony
He had bought for them one-half oil
the San Pasquale ranch, with half the
water OF the Devils Gate. They were
tremendous success.
shall never forget going over the
Indiana colony with the late Vice
President Thomas A. Hendricks. and
what a pride and pleasure he took IN
the splendid exhibit made by his fellow
Hoosiers in this far away land. Among
The houses we visited was that of Mr..
Locke, an old friend and constituent,
and the father of the Locke boys, well
known all over the United States as
lmpresarios.
The Indiana colony could not be held
down to it's original lines, and 1t soon
affloresced as Pasadena, 1.-The Crown of
the Valley" and leers at the world
with a calm assurance that it claims n
population of 10000 and a lot of urban
charms that are absolutely bewildering
in variety and magnitude.
d. NJ Berry, the founder of Pasa-
dena. who was man of intellect and
a savant, had an Irresistible impulse
to publish Republican daily paper.
He "blew into" an afternoon sheet
property which would now sell for four
or five hundred thousand dollars. He
ended his useful life as a valued men,
Der of The Herald's local staff.
The Genesis of Long Beach
Long Beach is today cutting a swath
in town growth which is exciting the
wonder of the locker on in Vienna. The
way it is setting its gait we may ex-
pect soon to sect it claiming a popula-
ton of ten thousand or SO. 1t started
out very modestly some twenty years
ago. An Angeleno named w. A. Will
more bought tract of land and laid
it out as a townsite. The purchase
was made from the Bixbys and COM
prised a portion of the lordly Alami-
tos ranch. Wilmore named it Wilmore
City after himself. A handsome hotel
was erected on the bluff above the
beach--which, by the way, is beauti-
full one-and everything went on swim
mingly as marriage bells. In bad day
Wilmore sold out, realizing handsome
ly and taking himself and his earnings
to FL Paso and embarking in an extern
sive land scheme in that section, which
turned out disastrously. To add to his
bad fortune the change of climate
ruined his health, and he was wrecked
in purse as well.
To show how things have Jared at
Long Beach 1 may state that 1 was in
the daily newspaper business at that
time and that 7 took four lots in Long
Beach, then Wilmore City, for adver-
tsing space in my paper. I afterwards
sold them for what would be a fair ad-
vertising rate, $40O or $500 for the four.
The last time | was down there I
learned that they would now bring from
$40, 900 to $4,000 at the rate at which
property was then selling.
Long Beach for awhile was quite un-
der the weather. Its fine hotel, which
was kept by Cowley & Baker, was
burned and things were dull for sew
eral years. About six or seven years
ago things began to pick UP and now
no place on the map of the Pacific
coast or elsewhere shows a greater
ratio Of growth
An AIl-Round Expansion
There are dozens of places by the
shore and inland that today have more
population than Los Angeles city and
county had when the Central Pacific
railway was completed. The list of
spick, span and new cities, large and
small, is a formidable one, beginning
with Los Angeles, with 100000, to San
Diego and Pasadena, with 10000 each.
1t is instructive to read over the ros
ter: Santa Ana, Anaheim, Santa Mon
lea, San Pedro, Long Beach, Redondo.
Ocean Park, Playa del Rey, Holly
wood, Monrovia, Redlands and River
side, not to mention Santa Barbara and
San Diego, are all pressing forward
at hot pace. All these beautiful new