Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-10
GROWTH RAPID AND SURE

In the city and county it is recorded
that the name of the pueblo or town
of Los Angeles, following the custom
which then prevailed among the Latin
races, of giving religious names 10
places, was Nuestra Sonora de Los An
geIes, sometimes written Nuestra
Sonora la Reina de Los Angeles-"Our
Lady the Queen Of the Angels"
FOUNDED BY MEXICANs
Los Angeles was founded on Septem-
ber 4, 1881, by a small band of pobla-
dores, or colonists, who had been re-
cruited in the Mexican states OF
Sinaloa and Sonora, and brought here
under the command of a government
officer to found an agricultural colony,
mainly for the purpose of raising
produce for the soldiers at the pre-
sidios.
The first census gave the place
population of 141. The residents were
a mixed class, composed of one Euro
pean. seventy-two Spanish-Americans,
seven Indians, twenty-five mulattoes
and thirty-nine Mestizos. AS recently
as 1881, fifty years after the founding
of the pueblo, the population was only
77O. IN January, 1847, the population
was 1900.
Los Angeles dates its most rapid
growth from November 9, 1885, when
the last spike driven in the line OF the
Atlantic & Pacific railway formed
link which Joined it with the east.
And what induced the hegira to this
land? you ask Listen.
Man is a creature who looks to COM
fort and health. The extremes of heat
and cold of the land east of the Rockies
are too we'll known to bear repetition.
The sunny southland is free OF these
features. Who can wonder that there
are hundreds of thousands of persons
who are aspirants for homes in city
at which the United States weather
bureau states the mercury fell below
go degrees, Fahrenheit, only six times
during ten years? Summer in Southern
California is not blighted by an ele-
waited mercury, which, coupled with
excessive humidity, makes life in
eastern cities almost unbearable.
CLIMATE NOT ONLY ASSET
Someone has said that the possession
of health is more to be priced thas the
accumulation of riches. Under this
beneficent climate the possession of
health becomes more secure, and
health, which is fading away, takes
new life and blooms again.
Many people Of the east gain the
erroneous impression that Los An
geles has climate and that alone to
speak in it's favor. The recital of
few facts may serve to correct such
an impression.
Los Angeles has a present assessed
property valuation Of nearly $300,OOO,-
600. In the confines of the city there
are 1850 manufacturing establish
ments, employing $30,00O,O0O capital,
giving work to $1,000 workers and
turning out $65,00O,00O worth Of goods
each year.
Los Angeles has harbor on which
the United States government has
spent millions and will gradually ex-
pend millions more, the commerce or
which, it is stated, will become stu
pendous on the completion of the
Panama canal. 1t Is now the great
est 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, 100000
and during 1909 the clearings amount
ed to $673, 1928. 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
Angeles is not without adornment.
There are dozen parks within the
corporate limits, aggregating more
than 600 acres. Seven public play
grounds are in operation in this city
as we'll as four vacation or summer
centers. During the past year $4,000
was expended in maintaining the play
grounds.
To look from the past to the future
for moment. the consideration of the
completion of the great aqueduct, now
owens river to the city, distance Of
220 miles. should claim attention. The
completion of this great project will
give the city a supply Of pure water