Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-20

simply because 1t is a daily TACT; II u
were not so smoothly and admirably
managed from day to day the lack of
it would bring out plenty of comment.
But to me it is the finest thing L have
seen in California
Yet this problem of giving Southern
California perfect transportation does
not by any means comprehend all of
Mr.. Huntington's activity. Like all big
railroad men, he has it in the hands of
aids who know his plans and who see
that they are carried out. AS who's
Who" says, Mr.. Huntington is likewise
a man of "also many other banks and
other cos"
Take, as an instance, group of
Huntington corporations which may
represent his realty interests. There
are nearly forty of these alone, and
any one ranks high as a developer Of
Southern California prosperity. Per
haps the most important of these are
the Huntington Land and Improvement
company, Los Angeles Land company,
San Marine Land company, San Gabriel
Wine company, Redondo Improvement
company, Huntington Redondo com
pany Redondo Water company and
the San Gabriel Valley Water COM
pany These indicate a wide range of
interest developing as they do urban,
beach and valley holdings and cover
ing. in fact a charac -eristic belief on
the part of Henry e. Huntington in IA
tremendous future development around
about Los Angeles. He does not ad-
vertise these properties, and no Offer
however well backed, to take them off
his hands would be regarded as Tempt
ing.
This is because Mr.. Huntington
knows Southern California, because he
believes in it.
when | first went to California
years ago" he said in New York on
Thanksgiving day, Il Travelled east,
north and south from ole end of the
state to the other, even going off the
beaten paths by team and studying
every section carefully. l came to the
conclusion then that the greatest nat
ural advantages, those of climate and
as we'll every other condition, lay in
Southern California, and that is why
| made it the field of my endeavor.
have never for one instant lost faith in
it's unEounded possibilities, and l am
more sanguine today than l ever was,
LOS Angeles will not only be the
center for one of the greatest agricul-
tural areas in the world, but it is go
ing to be a great manufacturing center
as well. Already the manufactures
there have reao he'd an astonishing vol
ume and if | remember rightly the to-
tai last year amounted to something
like $4,000, 900, which is extraordinary.
I'm my interests the earnings this
year are larger than they We're last,
and while they are perhaps not quite
as large as they might have been I'M
der normal conditions in the rest of
the country, they have nevertheless
shown a healthy increase. The pros
poets for the next year are splendid.
OF course any reeital L could give of
the prosperity and wonderful growth of
Southern California would be superfiu-
GUS"
That is Henry e. Huntington talking
in New York 1t sounds like a Califor-
MAN, doesn't it? So far as Los Ange-
les is concerned, New York may have
Mr.. Huntington's legal residence,
which his business there necessitates,
for Los Angeles county will always
POSSESS his living residence, which is
per Sc a great enough compliment to