Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-15
LOS ANGELES STANDS FIRST IN
HER ALL-THE-YEAR ATTRACTIONS

state is a wonderful city the future
bids to be still greater.
Fruit growing to its fullest capacity
is neglected in California. There are
great expanses of territory that IN
course of time will be cultivated and
If properly handled will produce the
finest fruit in the world. At the present
time there is no place in the world
where so rich a quality of oranges,
olives and olive oil is produced. The
uncultivated territory in the productive
regions should be an incentive to any
one desiring to follow up opportunities
in this line. California is merely i'll its
beginning. There is not the least doubt
in my mind that there is a wonderful
future for this Golden State.
"The population of Los Angeles is at
present, speaking in round numbers,
about $50, 900. Taking into considera-
ton what it has been in the past and
the great influx of people within the
million mark within twenty years.
Nothing to Hinder
"There is every indication that the
population will continue to increase at
an enormous pace. Provided no unfore-
seen calamity should get grip on Los
Angeles this will in course of the
twenty years of growth that l have
mentioned make of Los Angeles one of
the largest cities in the world.
"The strongest incentive toward that
end is the owens river project which
in itself is one of the greatest pieces
of engineering yet taken up by any
municipal board in any city. 1t will
bring together all of the outside towns
and make of Los Angeles a city that
will rival any of the largest cities in
the United States.
"That people will come here has been
proved within the past year more con-
clusively than ever before. The influx
of tourists within the present tourist
season has been nothing short of re-
markable. At all of the European
tourist centers the seasons never last
longer than two months. At the end
of the time the tourists must leave or
make themselves subject to the dreaded
diseases that infest the places and
yearly reap hundreds of it's people.
Old World Drawbacks
"In Italy 1t is the dreaded Roman
fever which drives the tourists away.
In Cairo it is the extreme heat that
plays havoc with the Egyptian city.
In India it Is the horrors of the plague.
In Los Angeles alone can the tourists
find comfort, safety and genuine
pleasure. Everything that goes to make
life worth living can be found here.
The wealthier classes do not want to
check the spending of money when they
come here, and we have everything
that they desire AS each year goes
by these provisions for the comfort and
pleasure of the tourists is added to, and
Los Angeles is rapidly approaching the
point when it will have become in the
full sense of the word the most desir-
able city in the world
Los Angeles stability has long ago
been proved. Each year adds to this.
Los Angeles is now wonderful place.
1t will be more so every year. Twenty
years will work wonders. The city will
then reach from the mountains to the
sea. There is no other future for Los
Angeles than that of not only the
southwestern commercial center of the
United States but the pleasure center
of the world, the playground of the
worlds wealth. a home for everybody"