Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-07
REAL ESTATE IS
UNUSUALLY BRISK
MANY SALES CONTINUE WITH
SUMMER AT HAND
EASTERN INQUIRY MAY START
BOOM IN FALL
Good Roads Convention Promises Fa-
vorable Returns-Cars to Run in
Santa Monica Canyon-Whart
Improvements

Real estate men in Los Angeles and
throughout Southern California report
unusual summer activity. Inquiry from
the east and middle west is being made
and it is anticipated that as result
there will be a return of the boom spirit
next fall and winter.
Perbaps the most gratifying condition
of the week was the large number OF
building permits issued. There were
lac, as against 100 for the first week in
June of last year. The amount in
Volved was $193,976, a gain of nearly
O00O over the same period last year.
Good roads will be given boost at
the convention of the delegates from
the different counties at Stockton next
Monday and Tuesday, and 1t seems al
together probable the gathering VIII
result in the formation of a state GOOD
Roads association.
Los Angeles county, as the pioneer in
the recent good roads legislation ana
the first to take action under its pro
visions. was accorded fitting recognl-
tion in the selection by the Stockton
chamber of commerce of Charles ID.
Daggett, head of the Los Angeles coun-
ty highway commission, as temporary
chairman of the convention.
While the members of the highway
commission are deeply interested in the
proposition to organize a state associa-
tion, one of the prime objects OF their
trip to stockton will be an Inspection or
the 'obiect lesson road being con-
structed there along lines favored by
the national government.
Cars will be running direct from Los
Angeles into Santa Monica canyon June
90 The canyon will be opened to the
public as great pleasure resort June
80. and on the Fourth of July the cars
will run direct from the city to the out
er end, a few feet more than mile
from shore, of the long wharf, Port Los
Angeles.
To Improve Long Wharf
On the wharf alone it was agreed that
$4,000 shall be apent in improvements
during the few ensuing weeks The
structure now on the outer end of the
pier is convertible, and 1t will soon pc
1netamorphosed into sixty-room hotei.
1t is expected that hotel a mile from
land will be a great attraction especial
iy for parties wishing to stay over Sat
,rday night and get the benefit of early
morning fishing. There is no place on
the coast that surpasses Port Los An
geles for the excellence of the fshlng.
Launches will be kept there and boating
parties will be invited from all other
points. There is a sure anchorage ana
safe moorings, because the big wharf
is under the lee of Point Dune.
The first work will be done in the
canyon, on which money will be spent
unstintedly in order to make 1t the nm
est camping and picnic ground on the
whole coast. The work of beautifylng
has commenced A pavilion modelled
after the big one at Playa del Rey VIII
be built containing ball room looNou
feet in dimensions. Another attractlon
will be a rustic tavern, with broad YER
andas built of logs, 120x75 feet in size,
and this will be an auxiliary club house
for Jonathanites and others such. III
will be the Mecca for automobile par
ties.
The report of the United States Gus
toms house at San Pedro for the month
of Nav shows the importation of 45l,-
$4,000 feet of lumber the arrival OF lS2
vessels and 6132 passengers. The total
exports amounted to 58,1S6 tons.
A recent contract placed in the Ha-
waiian islands for ties by the Santa Fe
company has occasioned the advance
,nent of a proposition to procure for
Southern California part OF the export
trade with those islands which IS now
being handled exclusively through san
Francisco. o. 49,,
The contract calls for 100000 ties, 10
be delivered during the next flVe years
The ships bringing these ties to South
ern California ports would have to re-
turn without cargo, by reason that
there is no trade now being carried
through Southern California ports with
the Hawaiian lSlanuS. 80.
II is now proposed to overcome TINS
difficulty and additional expense by
loading these ships with products OF
Southern California, and with this op-
ening gradually win much of the eX-
port trade now being handled through
San Francisco.
1t Is also said that the Santa Fe eX-
meets to establish tourist line from
Chicago to the Hawaiian Islands, by
way of Los Angeles and Redondo.
Prode eious Beet Industry
Even as an infant industry, California
is now producing on the average nearly
S10,OOO.000 worth of sugar per annum.
increase the number of factories ten
fold OH the average, and the production
OF beet sugar in this state becomes pro-
digious.
The first water to be turned into the
nine lines that will irrigate subdlVlsloh
No. I of the Southern California colon
ization bureau was released Monday
morning. The $4,000 feet of pipe that
will carry water to the $40 acres of land
arc now filled with the life-giving
LIQUID, and irrigation may be begun at
once.
This is decided move in the ad-
vancement of the big valley, and in
dicates more than ever that the big
company which placed the property on
the market expects to carry out its
agreement TO place water on the land
sold.