Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-14

! nt hpH't am IIlt FHI1ntiI lpt'Ib
/ ITO, people when they counted the town
, IN 1900 The revival has continued
! steady and regular until :sa.'1S people
| were reported for 1910 the fst OF
June. 1910. and the gain will doubtless
continue from this time on.
Sacramento has had a similar expert
ence. but during the last ten years has
! almost doubled in
Sacramento population and the
Making Gains. tna " s,ne r..,,
| San Jose has gained "a per cent dur
ing the las; ten years Fresno has
gained nearly 1fp rcr cent Stockton l.
enjoying a similar increase and there is
healthy development among the to Sns
and villages of the mountains as we'll as
| those along the coast.
| The people of Los Angeles will tell Won
that the assessed valuation of property
in that county is five millions greater
than that OF Cook county, Illinois, i'm
which Chicago is situated which Is a
! matter worthy of attention.
The building permits IN Los Angeles
! are NOR" numerous and represent a
! greater valuation than for any city of
double its population in the world Dur
ing tho year 1910 there werc 1O73S resi-
dences. business blocks. factories and
other buildings erected. at q cost Of sci
6s4.1o That was the record year The
highest previous record was In 1903
when o.543 buildings were erected at a
! cost of s15.1s2.O67. The books OF the
building department show that during the
last twenty years there were erected il,
the city of Los Angeles 9O,53o buildings
at cost of sl55.4Ol.s19 Thus far IL,
| 1911 they average 81 7SS. 900 per month
! According to the school census, Los
ANGELES Is growing at the rate OF about
10000 year
| The increase in business has kept ur
with the increase i'm population The
bank clearings twenty years ago were
So, GB l26; ten years ago they were s1I3,
! i6G3IS: five years ago they were $40.
$50. Dos: i'm 1909 they were 500. 265, 72a
while In 1910 they reached the total of
SSH 81, 4s7.
| There are forty-one banks in Los An
Gcles. with combined capital Of s21. $50.
ooo ana $I2"wO,~O deposits. an increase
OF 70 per cent over the previous year
There are 800 manufacturing estah-
lishments, employing $4,000 workmen and
they turned out last year products val
ued at $So,H0.oOO, which IS an increase
of 2tO per cent during the ten years
previous
| Los Angeles leads all the cities of the
united states in increase of postal bust
ness. Twenty years ago the total re-
| ceipts of the post Office were sos. sos 46:
ten years ago they were S25S. Ol7 Is: five
years ago they were $713O23 10: two
years ago they were s1,Osa. 493, and in
| 1910 they were sl.476.941.
! X <
There are two telephone companies with
eighty-f1ve thousand telephones. which is
one for every four men.
Los Angeles women and children in
| the city. The Los Angeles
AoAopAoho' people insist that this is
the highest percentage for any city in
the world. They also claim that Los An
geles is the best lighted city, and has
more street electric lights than any other
city in the world in proportion to it's
population.
There are two public utility corpora
tions-the Southern California Edison
Company and the Los Angeles Gas and
| Electric Corporation The population
served by the Edison company has grown
from 269,l2l in 1900 to 678.O54 in 1870 a
gain Of 4OG,93;. During the past four
years the transmission lines Of this COM
pany have been heightened from 2lO to
| 533 miles; the number of electric engines
in use in 1906 was 1,346. generating 1868
horsepower. On the 1st of January, 1911,
the number had increased to 4,273 and
| the horsepower to 81 $40.
| January l. 1906. this company was sup
ing 531, 77G sixteen candlepower lights,
and had 25.32l electric meters in service.
| The LIST Of January last there were
392, 567 lights and 55.O0l meters. The
gross earnings of the company in four
years have increased from 81, 731 $50 to
| S3. :}S4, 1913
| The gas company has increased it's
street mains ia per cent during the last
| five years. The list of January, 1906.
| it had All miles of mains. the list Of
January. 1911, 1t had ST. miles. On the
date first named there were "a. 439 gas
meters and O,l34 electric meters in use.
January l, 1911, there were S4.773 gas
meters and 81, 1870 electric meters in use.
One might roll up these statistics in
definitely. which ! suppose are the most
extraordinary every recorded for any
city; at least, that assertion is made
| here. and ! have no evidence to justify
a doubt. Everything expands in the
| same ratio: the statistics Of one industry
confirm those of another But the most
gratifying OF ali, better than the increase
| In the sale of postage stamps, or the bank
clearings, or the gas meters, are those OF
| the schools. There are III pubic school
buildings and forty private schools, with
a Polytechnic Institute at the top and
an enrollfent Of 53,954 pupils. which is
pretty good: for population Of $4,000.
The circulation OF the public library is
said 10 be the third highest in the United
States, there being total of 1871 1874 VOL
| umeS on the shelves and q rircu la ton OF
| 1892 volumes during the year 1910.