Year: 1878

We regard the coming week as
the formal breaking of the depres-
sIon from which Los Angeles has
suffered since the drouth of last
year. The simultaneous opening
Of the Supreme Court and the Fair
will attract to our city multitudes
or strangers from abroad. In addi-
tjon, the harvest labors are about
over and the farmers will flock in
hereto enjoy brief season of
change and rest. We call upon
any citizen of Los Angeles to tax
his memory for anything that ap-
proaches the abundance in the
necessaries of life with which Los
Angeles county is now provided.
Our warehouses are fairly groaning
under the weight of grain. Depots
Of barley aud other cereals are
scattered all over the county.
Great quantities of hay are stacked
up In whatever direction one may
10. We shall make a half million
dollars' worth of wines aud brandies
this year, and our orange crop will
sell for three or four hundred thous-
and dollars. Our sheep interests
are recuperating at very rapid
rate, and we are certain to show
very handsome wool crop for the
coming year. The corn crop which
Il now ripening is nearly double
that Of any previous experience OF
Los Angeles county. This is very
important item, for it should be
borne In mind that we raise in this
county more than two-thirds of all
the corn grown in the whole State
Of California, and this staple will
command a very high figure not
only on account Of the California
demand but because it is in great
: request in both Mexico and Gen.
tral America. Our corn crop
ought to bring us in a cool million
Of money this year. Not the least
pleasant future in a summary of
our local progress is the attention
which Is being given to the raising
OF hogs and graded cattle. Both
are highly remunerative and our
exports of beef cattle, mess pork
and bacon will steadily increase.
The honey crop, also, will be not
ably large this year, and Los An.
geles and San Diego honey are
confessedly the finest in the world.
We invite our visitors from
abroad to look around Los Angeles
county and gauge its capabilities.
II they will do so fairly and COM
pletely they can render but one ver-
dict, and that is that there is no
other valley in the State in which
the same variety and abundance of
dora, fruit and vegetation eau be
noted as here. There is no other
single county in the State that can
fairly compare with us, as there is
no other that will rival us in wealth
ten years from to-day, now that We
have begun In earnest the work of
development. Arizona lies behind
us to absorb our surplus, and the
markets Of the whole world are
open to us from any one of half a
dozen secure harbors and road
steads on our nearly hundred miles
feea. coast.


The visitor will not only encoun-
ter surprising variety of prod u cts
of the soil in Los Angeles county,
but he will find other hints of COM
ing dsvelo pment which. if he be an
intelligent man, he will not fail to
pass to our credit. Our petroleu m
dsposits have now proved them
selves to be extensive and reliable.
II 10 not extravagant to assume
that, some time in the near future,
millions Of dollars worth of petro-
leum will be taken out OF Los An
geles wells, clarified in Los A nge.
les refineries and sold by Los An
Eeles merchants for shipment to
every quarter of the world. That
we have coal of a very fair quality
is daily being demonstrated by the
quantities of that fuel which are
taken out in the Santiago caflon.
The rich prospects at Silverado and
In the San Gabriel csf1on give US
ample ground to hope that as sill
yer producing section Los Angeles
county is destined to assert itself
very respectfully.


Take 1t for all in all, the visitor
will have TO travel far to encounter
region which presents 81 many
Inducements far settlement as Los
Angeles county. We do not depre-
cate the closest inspection and we
heartily hope that it may be rigid.
The more detailed the scrutiny the
more triumphantly we shall em erge
from the ordeal. 1t is this fact
which will again start the tide of
settlement to this county, not per-
haps In . stream SO full and tumul-
tuous as that which once doubled
our population in three years, but
In the steady current of river
which will now on and on indefi-
ntteiy. We heartily hope that the
Impressions the many strangers
who will visit Los Angeles next