Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-04-21
LAND FOR THE
RICH AND POOR
AUDUBON MAN WRITES INTER-
ESTING FACTS OF COUNTRY
VISITED BY TOURISTS.

Los Angeles, Cal, April 8, '21.
Friend Hoogenakker
l have read with much interest
the letters written by Audubon
Shelley, of his trip to southern Cali
fornia, and am glad there are more
than myself impressed with this
beautiful metropolis and l agree
with him when he says one can write
all the time and the half would never
be told.
Southern California is always
written and talked of as the sun
shine and flower country-and so it
is from tourists view-but there
is great deal more than that here.
have been gathering some data
this winter and am going to give
you few facts and figures to prove
it:
Los Angeles is the climatic cap
ital of the world, the government
record over a period of forty-three
years giving the following figures
on an average:
There are twelve days in the year
with no sunshine: only IT days
when more than Il of an inch of
rain falls, Al days during which any
rain falls, 81 days in the year when
there are fogs. The velocity of the
wind is between four and five miles
an hour. No rain in summer and the
heaviest rain is during March, aver
aging inches. Annual rainfall,
1871 inches. Few extremes in
weather. The record shows only IL
days in the year the thermometer
goes above 90 degrees, and 10 days
that it goes below 40, and less than
per cent of the days it reaches
100 degrees.
Los Angeles in 35 years has in
creased in population from 1900
in 1885, to Gil, 1886 in 1920. They
attribute this rapid growth to three
things-climate, soil and location
any one of which ought to insure the
future of this part of the southwest.
Twenty-Five years ago there was
not a paved street in the city; today
there are 1900 miles of paved boul-
lions have been spent on the high
ways which radiate like the spokes
of a wheel from the heart of the city
to the surrounding country.
There are 400 miles of improved,
not paved, roads within a radius of
four miles of the heart of the city
This is admitted to comprise the
best developed country road system
in the United States.
There are 111,500 automobiles
registered last year-an average of
one to every five persons. The new
auto speedway opened last year is.
the finest track for motor events in
the country one and fourth miles
in circumference, and has. a seating
capacity for 100000 people.
There are 1900 manufacturing
plants in the immediate vicinity rep
resentig more than ZOO million dol
lars and the output of the factories
for 1919 was in excess of 600 mil
lion dollars. Workmen employed in
factories, 10000.
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber
Co. have constructed a factory here
on 500 acres of land, at cost of
S25,00O,000, which will employ
5000 men in the twelve buildings.
They claim the efficiency of their
employees here is so per cent more
than any other part of the country,
owing to the advantages of owning
their own home, few heavy clothes
to buy, very little fuel, and other
advantages, for they can sure get
more out of life here than elsewhere,
The banks of Los Angeles are
solid and prosperous, with deposits
reaching $450,00O,O00, and clear
ings to July, 1920, over $4,000, 000,-
900.
Building permits for 1920 were
so million dollars. There are $50
churches - all denominations; 80
picture shows, 200 producing COM
panies, So picture studios, 20 thea