Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
LAYS CLAIM TO
ALL THE STATES
CALIFORNIA KEEPS OPEN
HOUSE
FRIENDS AND RELATIVES FLOCK
TO SOUTHLAND
Population of Only Eleven to the
Square Mile Will Increase at
Least Ninefold Within Next
Few Years
BY A. j. BURDICK
Editor Beaumont GateWav Gazet

by A. j. BURDICK
Editor Beaumont Gateway Gazette
Why should man invest in Beau
mont or in any portion of Southern Cal
fornia?
There should be logical reasons for
the mans investment or he should
not make it, A man should not buy a
piece of property just because 1t is
recommended by a real estate agent.
He should not-unless he has money
to throw away-purchase because it
peases his eye, or just because the
fancy takes him at the time. If he isl
q sound business man he will use his
reasoning faculties and convince him
self that there are good and substan-
tial prospects for profit in the invest
ment before he makes it,
Too many persons buy haphazard.
They do not go into the merits and de-
merits of the property. They buy from
impulse on little or no investigation
of circumstances, conditions and pros
poets. It's a game of chance with
them. If they win, all right. II they
lose-well, that is to be expected occa-
eionally.
That is not business. One should
deal with facts, not chances
What of the logic of the future of
Beaumont? OF Riverside county? OF
all Southern California?
VIII Beaumont Grown
In the first place. will Beaumont
grow? Will the surrounding localities
become more populous? VIII Southern
California materially advance? Are
there legitimate reasons for expecting
growth and prosperity throughout thls
section of country?
Southern California, comprising the
counties of Imperial, San Diego, River
side, San Bernardino, Orange, Los An
geles, Kern and Santa Barbara, has
today population of eleven persons to
n. L,ng n a
of 100 to the square mile, nine times as
much as Southern California. Connec-
ticut has 1888 to the square mile! New
Jersey has $50 to the square mile,
Massachusetts has 349, Rhole Island has
407 and New York state sos to the
square mile. Is there any reason why
Southern california may not become as
densely populated as Ohio, as Connec-
ticut as Massachusetts, or the other
eastern states?
We have better climate. we have bet
ter soil, we have as good Seaports, we
have as much coast line; In fact we
have every natural advantage which
these other states have and many that
they have not. There is every reason
to believe that we will attain in tipe
a density of population equal to those
states.
Nine Times Greater
Suppose that we become as densely
populated as the smaller of the states
mentioned. That would mean that
Southern California would have nine
times greater population than It now
has If proportionately distributed IL
would give Beaumont more than 10000
population Riverside, San Bernardllo
and Redlands, our nearest cities, would
have 10000 to $4,000 population each
Los Angeles would have become city
of more than 100000 population.
Think what this would mean to the
truck gardener; to the suit grower; TO
the poultryman. Unlimited home mar
kets for their products would result.
But supposing that this section pe-
came as densely populated as Massa-
chusetts. II would mean more than
thirty inhabitants for ever one we now
have Again, If proportionately dis
tributed, 1t would mean that Los An
geles would have become city of
more than 9,50O000 persons; Riverside
would have grown to a town of 100000.
and Beaumont would boast more than
10000 inhabitants.
Would Develop Country
OF course 1t is not probable that In i
the event of so great an increase of
population that the additional popula-
tion would be proportionately distrfb-
uted. The cities would not grow sol
rapidly as the rural districts. New
towns would spring up; new and now
almost uninhabited districts would be-
come populous; the small towns would
grow more rapidly, i'm proportion tol
their size than the larger cities. 1t isl
reasonable and logical to suppose that
we will get a population as dense as
some of the moderately populated east
ern states. and then Beaumont Will be
a populous and prosperous city, as will
the other towns in her class now.
There is another gauge by which we
may measure the logic of growth That
is the measure of previous growth. The
In
had a population in 1850, according to
the United States census of 1868. It'll
had by the census of 1880 a population
of 66,779. BY the census of 1900 it
had population of S1s,544, more than
forty times the population of 1850 and
more than four times that of 1880. I'll
has more than doubled its population
in the last ten years. as will be shown
by the next census. In the census of
1900 the county of Los Angeles was
shown to have a population of 40 1893
while today the city of Los Angeles has
315,9S5.
From other States
The population of Southern California
is made up chiefly of persons from 9TH
er states and countries. consequently
by ties of friendship and kinship Cali
fornia has strings on 900 persons
and these strings are drawing heavily
on the eastern reserve.
President e. p. Ripley of the Santa
Fe railroad began investigating the re-
sources and prospects of Southern Cali
fornia few years ago. and he began
with the view that the territory was
not promising. that its future would be
unsatisfactory. In fact, his prejudices
were against the locality.
After years of investigation, in which
his agents exhaustively studied the re-
sources of the country, made expert
tests of the SOIL Investigated the water
resources, made critical study of the
climatic conditions; in fact, Weighing
every possibility, Mr.. Ripley said that
It was his belief that Southern Cali
fornia would become one of the most
densely populated sections of the United
States. That would mean that the esti-
mates herein made of future popula-
tions would be multiplied by six or
seven.