Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-06
LOS ANGELES EXPANSION

able pride to many big things begun
and to more held in contemplation. I'm.
mense buildings, thirty-three miles oi
homes. streets improved, new trolley
lines and vast increase in population
are among the accomplishments, ant
any city might we'll swell up over Lo:
Angeles record in any of the lines
named.
But the year Just begun gives prom
ise of accomplishments so much vaster
that it puts 1906 quite into the list OF
ordinary periods.
In the first place Los Angeles Is now
ready to begin actual construction
work on the owens river water project
the greatest ever undertaken by any
modern city This project has been IN
It's preliminary stages for year and
half; it is now at the point of actual
work. Arrangements are pending for
bond issue to cover it, and, best of
all. the bonds will be absorbed right
here at home. The conduit will be 25C
miles long and will cost S25,0000O0. OF
course 1t will not be finished this year,
but 1t will be we'll begun.
Then there is that dream of all Los
Angeles. a seaport harbor within its
limits; this is so near accomplishment
that it may be deemed assured San
Pedro has given its pledge that it will
defeat the corporations scheme to sad
die it with a charter and will vote to
join with Los Angeles in a greater
city. Intervening territory will then
be taken in and the city which now
by means of the "shoestring" reaches
tide water, will have genuine harbor,
one of the finest on the coast. And with
San Pedro will come many other ad-
jacent places, till before the year is
done Los Angeles will reach from the
mountains to the sea in actuality.
The new postoffice is another acquire
ment which the present year will see
we'll toward completion. A hole has
been dug for it and foundations would
have been in ere now, save that the
unprecedented growth of the city has
demanded several successive enlarge
ments of its plans. That the new build
ing will be we'll under way within a
short while is assured.
Still another magnificent promise for
this year is the system of Hartman
subways, rights for which have just
been granted The system will bring
the beaches to Los Angeles doors and
make them only twenty minutes away.
1t is expected that these subways will
cost $4,000, 900, and of course they will
not be finished during 1907, but they
will have progressed so far that they
may be counted among this years
Along with them
comes a S1,00O,00O terminal station, to
add to the glories of the downtown dis
trict.
In the way of big buildings, already
assured, may be mentioned the Ham
burger store, to cost $1,000, 900, which IS
already started; the new Arcade sta
ton, which is to be started as soon as
the tourist rush is over; the extension
VI lllc <AlCAdllhllti lIpbtl W Ii OShuN oS
and so many new downtown blocks
that it is impossible here to mention
them. AS to home, hotel and apart
ment buildings, the year must see a
wonderful extension, for already these
quarters are too cramped to accom-
modate those clamoring for dwelling
places of any sort.
There is certain to be a large in
crease in the gas company's plant, for
its own admissions show it's present in
capacity. New train service on the
ailroads-double what it was a year
ago-is now in operation. The extern
sion of the city and surface interurban
trolleys is going on as fast as men can
build them. Wholesale houses are
coming here every week, and factories
are springing up like so many mush-
rooms, while new retail establishments
merely wait buildings to house them.
All this indicates very plainly that
great as tst years have been to Los
Angeles the coming one will surpass
them all; they have merely laid the
foundations for the city's real growth,
which is just now beginning. Those
who foolishlv said that the earthquake
which nearly destroyed San Francisco
would rea"t on Los Angeles are thus
shown to have badly missed their
guess; instead of harming this city it
has vastly aided it. Los Angeles is
now the greatest city between st. Louis
and the Pacific, and is becoming
greater every day. And yet its future
is merely family foreshadowed by its
present; its actual destiny no man is
bold enough to predict.