Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
POINTS FOR INVESTORS
IN INDUSTRIAL FIELD
FINE OPENINGS FOR PROFITABLE
USE OF MONEY
Development of Water for irrigation
Purposes-Rapid Growth In Manu-
featuring NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Factories Wanted

Cne of the strongest and most influ-
ential business organizations in the great
west is the Los Angeles chamber of COM
merce. whose membership numbers over
co0O One of the official pamphlets OF
the organization widely circulated, is the
following:
There are many openings for the
profitable use of money In this 1000
square miles of territory embraced In
Gcs Angeles county, with a present pop
ulation of less than 500,000.A Good interest
is paid for money on real estate loans,
from 5 to per cent net being obtaired.
the former on inside business property
ahd the latter on country land.
The devc opment of water for irriga-
ticn affords good inducements to capital.
During the past ten years several hun
died thousand acres of land have been
made available for the cultivation of
crops in this manner; such land having
increased in value through the develop
ment of water from three to tenfold.
Tile cost of boring wells is not large,
although it is often beyond the means
of settlers.
THE openings for manufacturing enter
pises In Los Angeles are many and
varied The market for the Los Angeles
manufacturers is large one and is con-
stantly beins extended. Our merchants
.rip their manufactured products to
Alaska on the north and eastward as
far as New Mexico ana Sonora, also to
Lower California and to southern Ne
vada With the completion OF the Salt
Lake railroad a large and important
new field has been opened UP in south
,in Utah and Nevada.
Want More Factories
Among the openings for manufactur-
ing in Los Angeles are more fruit and
vegetable drying and canning establish
ments and preserving works, jelly ana
lam factories An establishment for the
manufacture of first class marmalade,
utilizing the cheaper grade OF oranges
which cannot be shipped at pront'
should pay wei, as we have here, be-
sides cheap sugar, an abundance OF kao-
in for the manufacture of jars. In pace
of the bitter orange used in the European
product the pomelo might be utilized to
mix with the orange.
There is an excellent opening here
for mineral reduction works. There has
been a grea, development of the mineral
fields of Southern California during the
past few years. At present the nearest
emeltars are at San Francisco and Salt
Lake City. Wilmington is regarded as
good site for such an enterprise.
promising field for manufacturing enter
prise in Los Angeles is the refining of
crude petroleum.
"Tlere is a fish cannery at San Pedro
which puts up fine brand of sardines,
for which a ready market is found
throughout the country. Crawfish are
canned thers on a small scale. me ia,
cific ocean abounds with fine fish and
there is room for a great extension OF
this industry.
twenty-five years ago there was
factory in Los Angeles that turned out
blankets. There should certainly be
good opening for euch factory here to-
day. At present our wool is shipped
east 5000 milas, with 70 per cent of dirt to
come back the same distance in the shape
OF Manufactured goods. This extra
freight shoIid be good profit OF itself.
There is a felt factory at Dolgeville,
rear Los Angeles.
Beet Sugar Factories
.'There is room for several more beet
sugar factories in Southern California.
At present there are four factories-at
Chino, Los Alamitos and Santa Maria.
TIE business is profitable. California
beets nave chown astonishingly high per-
certages of sugar contents, some raised
in Ventura going as high as 20 per cent.
.4Th ere should be good opening here
for a piano factory. A factory for the
manufacturing of piano sounding-boards
was recently opened here. The lumber
here is seasoned in the sun, whereas in
the east 1t is necessary to steam the
wood artifcially. This takes the gum
INV matter out of the cells of the timber,
decreasing it's resonance. The difference
between the sound OF an eastern board
and one made here is Immediately mani
fest in striking 1t. 1t is believed that
this secr4t Of the superiority of the
celebrated Cremona violins, which are
made in northern Italy in climate very
similar to this"
The Los Angeles chamber of commerce
has bureau for the purpose of bringing
capital and opportunity together.