Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
Los Angeles, from Sleepy Pueblo in
CO.'S to Greater Wonder City in 1910
Earliest United States Census Gave Population
1S7o 1908; $780, 5O395; 1o247o;
1910, 319,198-Ineresting Review of More Than
Half Century in Local History

are 1850 manufacturing establish
ments, employing $3O,0O0OOO capital.
giving work to $4,000 workers and
turning. out $65, 100000 worth of goods
each year.
Los Angeles has a harbor on which
the United States government has
spent millions and will gradually ex-
pend millions more. the commerce of
which, 1t is stated. will become stu
pendous on the completion of the
Panama canal 1t is now the greatest
lumber receiving port Of the United
States.
Throughout the country the banks
of Los Angeles are noted for their
solid and prosperous condition. They
have deposits aggregating $125,000O0O
and during 1909 the clearings amount
ed to $G73 3,165,72S. Los Angeles has
been leading all cities of the United
States in increase of bank clearings.
The financial storms of the past
twenty years have been successfully
Ridden out by the local banks.
$50 MILES OF CAR TRACK
Los Angeles has perhaps the most
complete network of car lines on the
continent, the total mileage of electric
railway tracks in the city being more
than $50.
A city's parks are it's jewels and Los
There are a dozen parks within the
corporate limits. aggregating more
than 900 acres. Seven public play
grounds are in operation in this city
as we'll as four vacation or summer
centers. During the past year $42 900
was expended in maintaining the play
grounds.
To look from the past to the future
for a moment the consideration of the
nf an1la1npt
in the course of construction from the
Owens river to the city. a distance of
220 miles, should claim attention. The
completion of this great project will
give the city a supply Of pure water
from the snow-clad sides of the high
est mountain in the United states, suf-
ticient for population of 1000 000.
Not only can the city be supplied
with drinking water for many years,
but there will be enough surplus to
irrigate all the available land in the
county. Not only this, but the water
will furnish an immense amount of
power for electric lighting and for
factories. For this enterprise the
people of Los Angeles. by n vote of 10
to I, authorized bond issues totaling
1923 000, 900.
SCHOOLS ALSO INCREASE
The increase of population has de-
mdnded a corresponding increase IN
the amount of school facilities. The
value of school property in Los An
geles represents almost $3,500,000. The
combined salaries of it's 1900 teachers
totals almost s1,0000oO annually.
There are now 1l3 school buildings,
and new ones are in the course of
construction to accommodate the ever
increasing throng of children.
In the Polytechnic high school Los
Angeles has an institution beyond
compare. Housed i'm magnificent white
granite and marble buildings, which
occupy a block at the head of Hope
street on Washington. it is landmark
which demands attention. The re-
Gently completed manual arts high
school is another splendid institution.
Subsidiary to the city the oil and
mining industries play an important
part Los Angeles is the center of
number Of rich mineral and oil fields
and is the natural center. not only for
the mining fields of Southern Califor-
mia, but also for the vast mining sec
tions of Lower California, Sonora,
Mexico Arizona and Nevada.
Today the petroleum interest of
Southern California is attracting the
attention of the world. One of the |
chief producing sections of the county |
is well defined narrow belt running
across the city in a southwesterly and |
northeasterly direction.
Thus is noted the growth of a COM
munty which thirty years ago was |
made up of 1900 persons and which |
now stands on the census list with |
of 319,19S.