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Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-18

Significant of the growing popular
ity of acreage at Lawndale, on the Re-
dondo Beach car line, for home sites,
Is the purchase by the Guy NJ. Rush
company Qnc.) of 100 acres from Hop
per- -McFarland-Dunc company, the
acreage to form still another great
addition to Lawndale.
The splendid record of the Rush
company in selling forty-six acres OF
the first addition in six weeks Indicates
a rapid clearing up of the last aVailable
acreage on the Lawndale branch of the
Redondo railway.
''The last of the Mohicans" would be
an apt phrase to express the condltlon
that now exists on the Lawndale
branch of the Redondo railway since
the purchase by the Guy M. Rush COM
pany, with offices at 901 Story building.
of 100 acres of car line property, ad-
Joining the rapidly growing town of
ILawndale. It practically cleans up all
available car line acreage in this Sec
tion. This second big addition to
Lawndale absolutely assures the rapid
development of this wonderfully IA
vored section of the southwest.
The enterprise and hustllng aplllty
of the firm promoting this supdlVlsiomi
have given it an impetus that VIII
surely carry Lawndale to the first place
in towns of its class.
Streets have been surveyed through
the new tract and are nearly all in.
over $4,000 is being spent on cement
sidewalks and curbing. 1t is under
stood that the main streets facing the
car line will be 140 feet wide. Nearly
two miles of shade trees are to be set
out in the parkways. A large steer
water tank is now being erected, which
will give the tract 100000 gallon
water supply, which will be delivered
through nearly nine miles of four-inch
steel water mains. Nearly Sl0,0Oo IN
building contracts have been let in the
last few weeks. Three large brlck
houses have been completed, with three
more to be started in the immediate
future.
LAWNDALE BUYERS LUCKY
Fortunate, indeed, is the homeseeker
or investor whose good fairy gave him
the tin to buy in Lawndale, for a fairer
spot, or one that will be more sure to
pay a generous percentage on money
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-18
Active Realty Firm Buys 100 Acres
on Car Line for Lawndale Addition

| invested would be hard to find. The
investor not only profits by the deVel-
opment that actually is taking place at
Lawndale, but will also receive the
benefit of the wonderful exploitation
of the Los Angeles Investment COM
pany's large tract located on fifteen
minute ride from Lawndale. 1t is here
that the plans are being made to build
500 houses to average over $4,000 each.
This will increase the value of every
foot of ground on the Lawndale branch
of the Redondo railway.
Through the payment yesterday or
81, 1888, 437 to the stockholders of the old
City Gas company, the Pacific Light
and Power corporation becomes first
in the field and announces its intention
and has formulated it's plans to run
| high pressure mains to Long Beach,
Ocean Park, Redondo. Lawndale and
nearly all the suburban towns.
One of the many inducements
which command attention to Lawndale
as an ideal residence section and live
investment opportunity is the county
| boulevard to Hermosa Beach. This is
| finished to within two miles of Lawn
dale at the present writing and before
many weeks will pass through the
town.
The beautiful new depot of the Re-
dondo line is now under construction
and will, when finished, be one of the
most attractive along that line.
The $4,000 school house at Lawndale
is being overhauled and beautiAed with
new coat of paint. The contract for
this work was let by the Lawndale
Improvement association, which will
also install fire hydrant for the pro-
lection of the school house and stores
adjoining. This will be the beginning
of adequate fire protection for the en-
tire tract.
The largest wharf in the world, stu
ated at Santa Monica is to be aban-
doned, and shippers are receiving for
NAL notice to route their lumber ship
ments via San Pedro and Redondo.
This will moke Redondo one of the
busiest ports along the coast and thus
serve to increase values all along the
line
All of these facts. together with the
rigid race restriction, make Lawndale
most desirable locality for home or
investment.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-18
YEAR 1910 sMASHES
BUILDING FIGURES
Total Valuation of Improvements
for Twelve Months Is
$2b125,000
HIGHER SKYLINE IN 1911
All Depends Upon the Action OF
the City COuncil-Big Show
Blocks Are in Sight

Midsummer predictions to the effect
that e year 1910 would be the BAN
ner year in the entire history of Los
Angeles in total valuation of improve
ments have been fulfilled.
With the month of December in
complete the indications are that the
grand total of expenditures viii reach
S21. .125, 900, an average expenditure OF
S., ,760, Ais a month for the year.
Quite a number of large business
blocks are on the slate for erection
during the coming year, notably the
Los Angeles Investment company
bank and office building, which will
be twenty-five stories high, or 32O
feet from the sidewalk to the top of
the tower, and the Hulett c. Merritt
marble building, 300 feet high, both at
Eighth and Broadway, but action by
the city council will affect both enter
prises. If the height limit is removed
both tall structures will show in the
1911 figures and give the business sec
tion of the city new skyline. The tall
L-shaped building to occupy the Ches-
ter building site, corner Spring and
Fifth streets, is another big structure
on the way. Many others are project
ed. And of course home building will
be continued at an outlay of approx
imately 100000 to $1,0O0,000 month.
FIGURES FOR DECEMBER
The department of buildings for
fourteen business days in December,
1910, reports 400 permits issued for i'm
provements' valued at $910 455, as COM
pared with 403 permits and $S13,9S3
valuation for the same period in 1909.
Fifteen of the permits were for bus
mess buildings valued at .$249,073; 23S
permits for dwellings valued at $685.,
$40, and 251 permits were for churches.
foundations, alterations and additions,
valued at SETTLE.
Following is the tabulated report in
detail from December to December 16
iucluSiYe;
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-18
BIG BOOM IN BRITISH
COLUMBIA FARM LAND
J. w. Baxter Local Agent, En-
thusiastic Over Rich
New Country

"The early completion of the Grand
Trunk-Pacific Transcontinental rail-
way through central British Columbia
is attracting thousands of home seek
ers from all part of Europe and Amer
lea, and it is predicted that the rush
of people into that country next year
will be unprecedented in the history of
Canada" says j. w. Baxter, local rep
resentative of the North Coast Land
company, Ltd, who has recently re-
turned from British Columbia. People
everywhere have just awakened to the
fact that the finest agricultural land i'll
America lies in the fertile valleys be-
tween the coast range and the Rocky
mountains in central British Columbia,
through which these great transcon-
tinental lines of railway will soon be
running. This land has previously
been practically unknown and inacces-
sible, owing to the lack of railway
transportation.
The most important of these valleys
are the Bulkley, Nechaco and Fraser
which have been most abundantly ia
vored by nature. The protection and
shelter from the surrounding noun
tains prevent destruction from violent
storms, while the Japanese current and
the moisture-laden air from the Pacific
exercise a moderating influence upon
the climate and provide q copious rain
fall, making irrigation unnecessary at
any season of the year.
1t is often necessary to correct an
erroneous impression in the minds OF
some people, that the weather of CEN
trail British Columbia Is excessively
cold like the prairie provinces of Can
ada, east of the Rockies, and one must
visit that country in order to fully
appreciate the splendid climate.
The soil of the valleys, which are
twenty to twenty-five miles wide, is a
rich brown loan, remarkable for fer
tility. Stock raising and dairying as
sure big returns. Mr.. Baxter's offices
are in the Union Trust building. where
full particulars may be secured
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-18
Big Cafeteria Firm Buys Fine Block
on South Hill Street for $125, 610

accommodate the growing cafeteria
business.
1t speaks well for Los Angeles that
the Zoos Bros, formerly Of New York
city, after having been in business here
for some four and half years should
invest this large sum of money in bust
ness property. They have the greatest
faith in Los Angeles and believe that it
will eventually be one of the largest
cities i'm the United states.
The price paid figures exactly $1,000 d
front foot, including the building,
which cost the CLARK and sherman
Land company over 100000
At the price paid real estate men
consider that Boos Bros. secured gen
uine bargain.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-18

street between Vermont and Hoover
in the Mccarthy company's Florence
Avenue Heights tract, lot 4Ox14O teet'
$675.
Mrs. Hoffee, lot on Fifty-secon.d
street between Halldale and Normanq!e
in the Mccarthy company's Normandle
Avenue Square tract, $3.50.
Frank G. Mcclure, lot on the. cor
ner of Fourth and Temple streets, Long
Reach. in the Densmore Villa tract;
$500 cash.
c. w. Brashear company, lot on
the corner of Fifty-frst and Dalton,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-18
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
MAY MOVE SOUTH TO
CORNER ON SPRING ST.

Architects havo been instructed to
draw plans for twelve-stOry bank and
office building to be erected in the near
future by Isaac n. Van Nuys on his fine
lot, southwest corner of Spring and
Seventh streets. Tho lot frontage OH
Spring street is 11O.22 feet. and on
Seventh 1855 feet.
The First National bank may occupy
the ground floor. The benk has been
considering several proposals for new
quarters ON South Spring, among them
ono for the ground floor of the new
structure to occupy the site of the old
Chester building, northeast corner of
Spring and Fifth streets.
The lease on the present quarters of
the bank in the Wilcox building will
not expire for three years.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-18

5Oxf35 feet, in the Mccarthy coInpany's
Normandie Square tract; S105q
The company reports the compile
tion of another handsome bungalow in
it's Normandie Avenue Square tract on
Fifty-second street between Halldale
and Normande avenues. Great inter-
est is being shown in the Building up
of this tract and many new homes are
being planned.
Van Ness Avenue square. i'm the Viii
shire boulevard district. continues to
attract seekers of locations for fine
residences and at present the tract is
looking especially fine.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-18
100000 MAY co
IN 25-STORY BLOCK
Directors of Los Angeles Invest
ment Company Take
Official Action
TALLEST BUILDING IN CITY
If Height Limit Is Lifted Broad
way viii Have TaIIeSt StruC-
ture with a Tower

How would a 25-story building in
South Broadway look?
At a meeting held late Saturday aft
ernoon the board of directors of the
Los Angeles Investment company voted
to increase the height of that COM
pany's proposed building, designed for
(Contsnued on Page Two1
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-18
LANDSCAPE WORK PLANNED

Power & Morley, engineers and land
scape architects, are preparing plans
for extensive landscaping to be done on
the estate of John Carson at Carson
station, near Long Beach.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-18
INQUIRY is ACTIVE
FOR CHOICE HOME SITES

The Mccarthy company reports the
following sales for the past few days:
T. Naijoka, a lot on Seventy-fourth
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19

ing PhiPs advice as to the proper fly
81 like the color" he declared, laugh
ing. besides. 1t isn't fair to accept any
advice from the enemy. Remember, we
are in a battle where the stakes are
almost half chocolate cake. Me and
my willow pole and my bright, big fly
are going after that cake as greedily as
those trout took our flies"
(Which side of the creek will you
tahe?" asked Phil You can have first
choice"
side? I don't want whole side.
am going to settle down right here,
where l know there is at least one
trout, and I'm going to finish this up
before | move on. You may have both
sides Of the creek from here to it's
source"
But. Ebenr' said Phil, laughing
heartily, this is trout fishing, not
spearing suckers. Honestly. they don't
catch trout that way-at least, if they
do, l never heard OF it. You ought to
whip every pool as we go along up"
you go ahead and whip. and TIL
stay here and see if that fish will come
back with the brown tackle you loaned
me- You might whip up one side of the
creek and down the other, and join me
here atAlunch time"
''All right. Goodby. Eben; don't roll
into the pool when you fall asleep"
and Phil started on to the next hole.
Eben went little way down creek,
crossed to the other side and came
cautiously back UP. keeping well back,
until he reached the rock just above
the place where the trout that Phil
caught had lain. Quietly he climbed
up and looked down into the clear,
still water below him. AS he had
thought. there were seven or eight
big. lazy trout lying there. their fins
barely moving as they held their po-
sitions. Eben dropped the fly on the
water above them and moved 1T slowly
across the surface. Indolently one OF
the fish rose and seemingly shifted II.
then dropped back to his place. Don't
seem to like it," Eben thought, as FIVE
minutes passed without any more in
terest shown In his bait II guess they
are callous to these drug store chicken
feathers. What can L get to tempt
their dainty appetites?"
That started the Michigan boy on
bait hunting expedition, and he went
over in his mind the various things he
would use in his native haunts to make
listless fish take the hook. "Frogs are
daintles for pickerel." he said to him.
self, "and minnows for bass; some-
times bass will take earth worms when
they won't bite anything else. Wonder
If 1 can find some worms"
For a country boy TO find worms in
any land under the sun outside OF the
rays OF the arctic sun is not difficult,
and Eben was soon tearing a dead and
rotten log apart and taking large. fat
white grubs out Of the heart Of it. A
match box from his pocket served as
a receptacle TO carry them in, and he
went back to his position upon the
rock, but sheltered by II from the view
OF the fish He hooked q grub on the
fly and let it sink slowly down.
One OF the fish must have had his
eyes very wide open. for he landed on
that grub before any of the others had
a chance. Eben struck quick. with that
muscular Michigan strike which is ex-
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19

pected to bring anything under. five
pounds flying over the fishermans
head. But this was not a perch or a
lake bass, but the gamest fish that
swims, bred in ice cold waters that
make him strong and aggressive. The
doubled silk line held and the hook
bent but held. The trout came almost
out of the water in pain and surprise
at such rough treatment: then it de-
cided to fight and turned back. The alder
rod was green and tough and strong
and Eben was all three. Round and round
the pool went the trout at the end of
IL short feet of line and Eben held
with both hands to bending pole.
Such energy on the part of a fish could
not last long. Itwas furious while it
was doing, but it grew less with each
second. At the end of minute Eben
lifted an almost drowned fish from the
water with his fulcrum and lever and
put seven pounds of trout in his creel.
Then he sat down on the rock and
wiped big beads of perspiration from
his brow.
"Phil was right I guess" he said,
after he had caught his breath. 'These
fish were not built for still fishing.
There isn't another to be taken out OF
that pool for some time to come. My!
what battle"
The pool above was Eben's next fish
ing place, and he approached it with
the same result. An enormous old trout
had evidently been waiting there, hun
CRY for a fat grub. He swallowed
grub. fly. hook and all, and the fight he
made was very short. The hook was in
his vital parts. and he was dead when
taken from the water. Two more were
added to his creei, when he heard PhiPs
halloo from up creek.
well, Eben, what luck with the
methods of the east?" said Phil as he
came out of the bushes. s
TT isn't the method for the west,
Phil, and I'm ready for lessons at cast
ing with rod and reel. What luck did
you haye?
'Fairish-just so so. Eighteen, but
none as big as the one l took here.
guess he is the grandpa OF Garsey
creek"
"Then there is the great granddad
and his father" laughed Eben. empty
ing out his creel. while Phil gave a
whistling "Wheww of astonishment.
"You eat the cake sure Why, Eben,
that is the biggest brook trout ever
saw taken"
"But it don't win the cake. 1t is num-
bers that count In this contest of meth
ods, not size. Eighteen is the cakewallk
number"
Phil laughed 81 don't see any way
out OF this but to call it a draw and
each eat half. I've got the numbers
and you have the size. And | guess we
are both hungry enough 10 eat our
Jackets know i am
This settlement of the battle was
satisfactory to Eben, and the boys ate
their lunch, dividing all equally. and
during the afternoon Eben stood on the
rock of the pool and made casts under
Phil's direction. IF il isn't always the
surest way, it is the best way" Eben
said 'fos 1t gives a chance 20 the fish
and il gives sport TO the fisherman"
"And what an appetite 10 BOTH said
Phil.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19

gave the butt and eased the strain with
the reel Then he began to draw the
fish toward him. Slowly with frequent
pauses for short battles the fish was
led up close to the rock where his cap
tor stood, and Phil bent down with the
gaff to land him. But there was still
another rush in the trout. Out he went
and upstream again, to be turned as
before and brought undekthe rock. This
time Phil put gaff to gil1~and in sec
ond a four pound Dolly Warden was
quivering in his creel.
Eben had watched the whole process
with intense interest and bfeathless ex-
element The whole battle had not
lasted two minutes, but it seemed to
have taken hours. why didn't you
pull him out at the start?" he asked.
You might have lost him dozen
times there"
"He wouldn't come out Cast in over
there where I did and see if you can't
raise another"
Eben heightened out his line as he
had seen Phil do and made cast; but
the fly did not go half way across the
pool. He was reeIing in the slack when
trout. rising, took his fly and was
down below the brush before he knew
it. Around came his pole with jerk
that nearly took it from his hand and
the trout was hooked by it's own greed
Hell foul you in that brush and you'll
lose him sure. Head him upstream
Eben would have been glad to follow
instructions, but he was not used to
fnny tiger on an eight ounce rod. and
he could not. A moment later there
was snap and Ebens rod suddenly
straightehed out from it's curve. The
line had broken.
Hard luck" groaned Phil, but Eben
laughed. mot luck bit, Phil" he
said, .but lack of knowledge of the
game. I'm out of my bailiwick and
don't know the rules. Let me cut
willow pole and tie on a double strand
of this hair line you're using. and
think l can land fish That's what
I'm used to-"
Better stick to the reel" Phil said.
"You can get.used to it in little while,
and these mountain trout won't stand
being harnessed and dragged about by
a rope"
Eben was already cutting a 12 foot
alder, which he peeled and trimmed.
Every man to his trade" he said.
cheerily. II don't want to discourage
you, Phil, but l am willing to risk my
piece of cake that l will have more of
these wildcats of the creek than you
do when lunch time comes"
I'm agreed; the cake is the prize,
and to the yctors belong the spoils.
Whenever you are ready say the word"
Eben, when he had trimmed his rod.
cut 16' yards OF line from his reel and
doubled ii, giving ii twist enough so
that ii would hold in one strand. Then
he attached it to the pole, almost at the
butt, and carried it up, looping ii every
three feet, and fastening it at the tip.
"Now if the pole breaks l still have
him by the line" he explained TO Phil,
who was new to this kind of tackle.
There was still nearly IL feet of line.
twisted double. and to the end of this
Gben attached a short leader and his
n.y. He chose a royal coachman, reject
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19
BY PERRY NEwBERRY

"We will start early, say s o'clock
and climb way up GarSey creek. There
should be trout there if they are any
where And we'H take lunches and
stay all day
Phil was planning for fishing trip
with his friend, Eben Holt, who was
visiting him for the summer. Eben
lived in Michigan and was skillful
fisherman on the inland lakes for the
bass, perch and pickerel that frequent
those waters, but he had never caught
trout and this was to be his initiation
into the mysteries of fly fishing. II
have cast for bass he explained,
where we use piece of pork rind for
bait and throw it in among the lie
pads. But we always used a long cane
pole and line just a little shorter
than the rod. I've seen rods with reels.
but 1 never saw any use for them
They are awkward to handle and are
mostly for style, / guess, anyway.
Phil opened his eyes In astonishment
at this remark, but he was too polite
to dispute a statement of guest. He
will think differently tomorrow night"
he said to himself; "at least he will II
there are any of those big ones that
were there last summer"
Garsey creek was a small branch Of
the river that began it's course far up
in the San Hedrim mountain Inac-
cessible, except after hard climb, 1T
had escaped the fate of the trout
streams more easily arrived at and
still contained many large, fine fish.
Two hours of back breaking work over
rocks and through mesquite brush
brought the boys to the lower part of
that stretch of the stream that they
intended to fish and at sunup they were
ready to make their first cast.
Phil showed Eben how to attach the
fly to the leader, first selecting brown
hackle as best fitted for the early
morning light Then Phil, taking a
place on a rock beside deep pool in
the stream, cast up against the cur
rent and let the fly drop in little
eddy just below the rapid where the
stream broke into the pool. For a sec
ond he let 1t lie there. swung in a cir
Gle by the current. then he brought 1t
toward him in little darts. initiating
the motion Of bug on the waters sur
face. The fly was half way across the
pool when Splash" trout came out
OF the water and caught it In his down
ward plunge.
Phil struck hard and quick, that
shortening of the line by a downward
and forward movement of the rod butt.
"Buzz-z-z-zw sang the reel as the
trout dashed away upstream. Phil
gave him almost to the rock at the up
per end of the pool. then headed him
around by a quick move of the rod and
a press of his thumb on the automatic
reel Back again. swift as ne had gone
away, came the fish. and the boy
guided in his line with his thumb as
the reel took up the slack. Now the
trout was past Phil, going downstream
as though there was safety some place
below, and the boy was not at all sure
that he was not right There were cer-
tainly bushes and brush and a mo-
ment's ENHANCEMENT of the line would
mean break some place in the detain-
ing tackle. Knowing the danger Phil