Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-01-20
LOS ANGELES LETTER.

quite d1fferent from what l expected.
Save in the business centers the city
is built mostly on hills and table lands
that gradually reach back to the
mountains. The business portion of
the city is well built up with elegant
business blocks of which we have
none to compare in Salt Lake. There
are many elegant and costly resi-
dences in certain localities of the city,
but as yet l have seen none here that
approach in architectural beauty
many of our own on Brigham street.
Residences here are mostly built of
lumber or terra Gotta, and in unique
architectural designs distinctively
characteristic of southern California
and the old mission style. Quite in
the center of the city many homes
that would be elegant and most beau
tiful are marred and rendered hideous
by the unsightly presence of innumer-
able derricks erected during the oil
boom and which still menace and an
nov resident owners in the vicinity
whore the oil industry is carried on.
Hundreds Of these derricks rear their
ungainly peaks over hundreds of acres
of ground within a few blocks of the
center of the city.
| an told that recently at the re-
Guest of property owners an ordinance
hos passed the city council here COM
pellirg owners of dry wells. of which
there are many, to dismantle the der
ricks, in a given time, and restore the
property as near as possible to it's or
iginal condition. 1t is claimed that
Los Angeles has population of over
200 600 and no one seeing the multi
tudes that daily throng the streets
would doubt the estimate given.
The amount of building now in pro-
gress is something marvellous. Mil
lions of dollars are being invested in
the erection of business blocks cost
ing hundreds of thousands each, and
all over the city one may see the
greatest activity in progressive devel-
opment and improvement. It is
claimed that Los Angeles has the best
street car system in the United States,
and no one who has tried it's service,
can doubt its claim. One may have a
continuous ride on one of the subur-
ban routes of ninety miles at a cost
of but 81, taking in twelve or fourteen
suburban towns and several of the IA
nous beaches. The pleasure resorts
of Salt Lake seem insignificant when
compared to the resorts reached by
the suburban railway service of Los
Angeles, all of which are owned by
the Huntington estate.
There are beautiful parks here and
one may spend a month in Los An
geles and each day find an attractive
desirable change and then not see
nearly all that there is to see. The
people here has energy and push and
1t is all concentrated to one purpose,
the building up of greater Los An
geles. If the citizens of Salt Lake
possessed a tenth of the energy dis
played here, it would not be long be-
fore the City of the Saints would cast
off it's swadling clothes and emerge
to grandeur that it has not attained
There is no reason why Salt Lake
should not soon become a greater city
than Los Angeles if her people would
only adopt the methods and persever-
ance shown by the people of the me-
tropolis of southern California.
| have met many Salt Lakers here,
including Judge Miner, p. H. Lannan,
John Bransford and wife, Mr.. CHS
holm, Mr.. Kendall, Martin Lannan, A..
M. Grant and wife, James Harvey, DR..