Arizona republican., 1905-10-18
LECTURE ON SAN DIEGO
A Novel and Interesting Style Of Adj
vertiSement.

| sentative OF the tlrn or FOLSOM Broth
ers, real estate dealers of San Diego,
| Cal. The lecture was delivered to give
| publicity especially to Pacific beach, a
| suburb of San Diego, owned largely by
| the Folsom Brothers company, but all
southern California was given men
| ton, San Diego, the city, more than
other points. Mr.. Cotton, the speaker
of the evening, has a most pleasing
style of delivery, and talked with that
enthusiasm that carried his thought
and statements in a convincing way
to his auditors. The views shown were
beautiful and could not help but i'm
press the audience with the beauty of
the section described. Preceding the
lecture J. NJ. Asher, who accompanies
Mr.. Cotton on the tour he is making,
sang three numbers which were well
received and heartily encored. His
first number was Loeb Lomond," his
second number "Davy Jones'" and as
an encore he sang "If I Were
Knight"
over twelve hundred people had en-
tered the theater when Mr.. Cotton be-
gan his remarks.
As a preface to the lecture, it was
explained by the speaker that neither
himself nor the company which he
to attempt to depopuIate Phoenix, but
that his visit to the city was made
for the purpose of interesting Phoe-
nix residents in beach property 1t was
his opinion that if a small part of the
money spent by residents of this val
ley in building schemes was spent in
beach property, dollars in the place
of cents would be the showing made
for their investment. This statement
was based largely on the great interest
that is manifest in the southwest and
particularly California by the resi-
dents of the central and eastern states,
through which section Mr.. Cotton has
recently made an extensive trip. The
one great desire of the people from
all points east of the boundary line
of the Golden State is to GO west"
People have been pouring into the
cities of the Atlantic coast" declared
Mr. Cotton, until they are filled to
OVERLOOKING until competition in all
lines of business has become so great
that only those who in the scramble
for wealth and position have been able
to force themselves to the very top
know whether or not the next day or
the next week will find them still car
rying their regular routine of business,
or forced to the wall by the bigger
man. Then, too, people have poured
into the United States from all over
the world for the last hundred and
fifty years, and today the rush is
greater than ever before. Competition,
as disagreeable as the word may
sound, is staring many of them in the
face and they have but one of two
things to dO-either cut down expenses /
and stay and fight it out, or go west
to a new and undeveloped field and
grow up with the country"
Some came into the west years
ago, and with few exceptions have
lived better and for a less cost than
those who remained east and are still
fighting it out. Others will come for
men and capital must and will come /
where there is less friction and re-
sistance, where money flows more /
readily and where fortunes are more /
easily made. The cities of the Pacific /
coast will fill up until competition |
there equals that of the east. It all .
argues well for real estate values of |
the coast, for with population, realty /
values rise.
San Francisco was the first city of /
the coast to be developed, and look at
her wonderful growth. Think what it
would mean today to own what you
dollars fifty years ago. With the rise
IN values in San Francisco and the
demand for property the attention of
investors has turned to virgin lands
farther south, and about the year 1888
he news of southern California, q
land of perpetual sunshine began to
spread throughout the country and
-wo years later there was a grand rush
,romall parts of the United States to
Los Angeles and San Diego. The re-
suit was a boom which when it
1urst several years later, left after-ef-
ects from which it took some years to
'ecover. However, it is known the
world over the recent remarkable
growth of Los Angeles, and little less
las been the advancement of San Di-
ego during the same period. In beach
ands especially has there been a re
narkabIe advance in values"
The views then shown pictured
many of the busy thoroughfares of
10Th Los Angeles and San Diego, some
AIKEN ten and twenty years ago and
'thers as they appear today. Mr.. Cot
on, by the use of the stereopticOn,
hen took his listeners on a trip from
4os Angeles to San Diego and showed
hem different scenes en- route. out
n the harbOr," said the speaker, "as
GU stand on the upper deck of your
hip and look across the peaceful wa
ers and notice the gentle rise of the
and, forming space sufficient to ac-
ommodate the business section of 4
ity of a million people, then rising
4 gentle terraces two hundred feet,
making the most delightful sites for
he residence section which could be
imagined, you will say as all have said
60. :
ity." The audience was then given the
pportunity to view the different sec
ons of the city and Pacific beach. in
hitch tract the interest of those in at
enhance was conferred. When finished
lere Were NerY few if anX present