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Show mmim -lee a m cosrstalk"; ' What tBc Southern Metropolis Metropo-lis Really Is, as Told by One of the Newspaper Men of Los Angeles. THE PRODUCTS OP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. ' JFollowing is a list of the principal products and their annual y Value of the seven southern counties of southern California for 1904. v tf which Los Angeles is the distributing point. The data herein Jjuoted was collected by the Los Angeles Chaniber of Commerce: . Citrous fruits . .?11,000,000 Dried fruits and raisins 2,030,000 Xuts .... 1,550,000 Beans.... .. . 1,800,000 Celery . 400,000 Potatoes i . 100,000 . Other vegetables exported '. 200,000 Vegetables and fruits consumed ......... 4,000,000 Clrain ...... .:. 2.500,000 - . v Hay".'. ..... ..... ............. 3,250,000 X ugar 3,000,000 ' - Wine and brand v . T. S75.000 " Heer 1,088,000 . . Peef and other dressed meats; 5,500,000 Canned Goods. , 1,000,000 1 Jutter .. ..I..... 1,000,000 Cheese 200,000 Poultry ." 425,000 Eggs ...... v 000,000 Freshfish 450,000 Canned fish ' 125,000 ' ' Wool ..... ..... ................ .100,000 Hides ...................... ......... 150,000 w-.- Fertilizer . ... .'. ....... . .. . .......... 650,000 , r .: Gold and silver ..... .......... ........ 3.009,000 .Gems....... 300,000 Petroleum .......... ... 12,000,000 . . Uorax .... 1,3(10.000 , ( - " Asphaltum ...... ..' .............. 950,000 - Lime . .... 420,000 Mineral water, lithia and salts ..380,00(1 Cement, clay brick, sandstone and granits.. -1,250,000 ; Lumber 300,000 Miscellaneous and manufactured products. 40,000,000 - Aggregating a total of $102,822,000. ' 4 SENATOR HENRY, CABOT LODGE. He will visit California this month with the special Senatorial Irrigation committee. . . public places of religious w orship number num-ber 17. every Christian denomination being represented. Hotels Are Pine Ones. Hotel accommodations are among the best, the city numbering four first-tlafs first-tlafs ho8telrie8.r from Ave to nine stories sto-ries high, one having been added since January 1. In addition there are scores of private hotels of the most modern and sumptuous type, accommodating accommo-dating during the winter months thousands thou-sands of guests. Los Angeles boasts of parks, big and little. Griffith park, with Its 8000 acres and fine native trees, is expected some day to prove a rival to the celebrated Bois de Boulogne of Paris. Elyslan park, in close proximity. Is partly Improved Im-proved and contains 500 acres on heights that lend themselves to splendid splen-did scenic effects. Eastlake park contains con-tains thirty-two acres and Westlake park has five acres. The area of Hollenbeck park Is twenty-six acres. All three are completed and contain lakes and shrubbery growing grow-ing In semi-tropical luxuriance, forming public gardens that are excelled nowhere no-where In beauty. Echo park boasts of specimens of landscape gardening that are a triumph of the art. South park of twenty . acres Is only six years old and Sunset park, beyond Westlake, is only beginning to be laid out. In addition, addi-tion, there is included within the city limits eight smaller parks. In one of which a new public library is about to be located. The Women's Clubs. The city contains no fewer than fourteen four-teen women's clubs of Importance, In addition to smaller organisations. Benevolent Be-nevolent and fraternal associations of every description flourish. The new home of the California club, three stories sto-ries high, fronting Central park, and the handsome Jonathan club, occupying occupy-ing the eighth and ninth floor of the Pacific Electrls Railway building, have given to the city a reputation in this particular second to no other. The Young Men's Christian association is about to construct its own home, a structure that will cost equipped $250,-000. $250,-000. And "the Young Women's Christian Chris-tian association lias in view plans of a fcimllar nature. Last year tho Chamber of Commerce occupied Jts new home, the building having been erected by its membership as their property. The accommodations provided have added much to the efficiency effi-ciency of the organization. Its reputation reputa-tion for energy and success in 'doing things is national. It maintains a permanent per-manent exhibition of the. products of southern California that has become one of the attractive sights of the city, and prepares and circulates pamphlets descriptive of southern California. Last year the exhibit was visited by more than 1,000,000 people. The Big Telescope. . ' five years will not be found uninteresting: uninterest-ing: . -Total Increase ; " assessed over pre-value. pre-value. ceding year. 1900- 1901 $ fi5.E99.92f) 3.3t5,03S 1901- 1902 i ..... 70.6W.307 '4,962,387 J902-19T6 M16.73 -16.864,428 1903- 1904 ... 109.923,823 23.6(r7,0&8 1904- 1905 ..... ........ 126.136.563 - 16,202,740 For the present year the assessed value of land in the city limits Is $70,-073,380. $70,-073,380. The assessed value of improvements improve-ments is $37,133,330. Mortgage deductions deduc-tions amount to $2,662,780. Railroad assessment, as-sessment, as fixed, by the State Board of Equalization, is $400,000,155. Personal property is assessed at $2L711,253. ' Last year's tax' rate was$1.40 per .thousand. Total tax levy aggregated $1,742,549. Fire Towns Tributary. ' Immediately tributary to the city are several towns and villages, Los Angeles being the Immediate supplying point, as far north as Bakers field and Santa Barbara, and east as far as to include Jhe etftire Territory of Arizona and parts of New Mexico and Texas. Towns near the city include Long Beach, San Pedro and Santa Monica, all of ' them located at tidewater, a distance of approximately ap-proximately sixteen miles. Pasadena, on the east of the city, has more than 15,000 Inhabitants; the others mentioned claim a population of 6000 to 7000 each. It is not an exaggeration to say that immediately tributary to Los Angeles and within four hours' ride are living close to half a million people. San Bernardino county. Immediately east of Los Angeles, is twice as big as Massachusetts. It was settled originally origin-ally by emigrants from Utah, whose thrift and other proofs of pioneer Americanism are still largely fn evidence. evi-dence. Riverside county has a population popula-tion of 30.000, and an area of 7000 square miles. The principal products are oranges, alfalfa and cantaloupes. Down in Orange. Orange county, while proportionately small In area, is famous for its grain, celery and citrous products. San Diego, the county seat of the county of the same name, the farthermost farther-most territory of the southern end of the State, Issued building permits last year in excess of a million dollars. Twenty miles of streets were built and Los Angeles county to bond itself for $150,000 and the city for $75,000 for the purpose named. The Issue was submitted sub-mitted to the voters, 500 of whom were a sufficient numbeje to decide the matter mat-ter at- the time. When the vote was counted, 700 votes, were found to be for and 672 ogalnst the bonds. ' .The Los Angeles & San Pedro railroad, rail-road, the first In southern California, was completed to tidewater in October, Octo-ber, 1869, and there was great rejoicing. The fare from the city by rail and by. tug to steamer anchorage was $5 for the round trip. On'.y a few years before be-fore the cost had been $20. The distance dis-tance is a .bare twenty miles. . For four years thereafter, the proceedlrgs of the Common Council were recorded In the Spanish language because a majority of the members of that body could not understand English. The city's ordinance's and the laws of the State were printed in both Spanish and English for twenty-five years after af-ter the American occupation. Twenty-five Twenty-five years after the organization of the county, the Board of Supervisors em- j ployed an interpreter because two of its three members were not familiar with every day English. Minerals in fjhe State. Value of the mineral products of southern California for the year 1903 was $11,291,367. In 1904 the figure had reached in excess of $12,000,000. Adding Add-ing the mineral product of Arizona and southern Nevada, both tributary to Los Angeles, makes a total mineral production of more than $53,000,'000. The copper output of Sonora, Mex., and Lower California are net included" In the above figures. ' The following is a table showing the maximum temperatures at Los Angeles Ange-les for each month of recent years: Max. MIn. Max. Mln. January 87 32 July 93 62 February 77 87 August 94 62 March 81 37 September ....93 fr2 April 80 42 October ..79 47 May ....80 43 November .. ..86 39 June 94 48 December ..80 39 During the past twenty-five years the thermometer at Los Angeles has gone above 90 degrees about twelve times a year on an average. It has reached freezing point on an average of only once in two years. Death Bate of City. Special to The Telegram.) LOS ANGELES. CaU June .12. Los Blngeles is the second city on the Pa-rlflc Pa-rlflc coast and In California. The present pres-ent -population, estimated on the school V census, recently completed, is in excess of 200,000, an Increase of nearly 100 per ' cent since the Government census was ' completed in 1900. .At the end of 1904 the population was 170,000. For the year ending June 30. 1904. the postal receipts were in excess of $350,-000. $350,-000. The city at this time boasts of fifteen commercial banks ten of them . being national and five organised under the State law. In addition the city had two trust, companies.' Up to December 81. 1904, the total bank deposits, exclusive exclu-sive of cash in savings institutions, ag-sregA ag-sregA 4 $26,787,368. Adding1 the savings sav-ings back deposits, makes a grand total to-tal of $61.17t,868. Building activity throughout the city has maintained a " phenomenal record during the past five years, the total for 1905 to date being in excess of one miUIon dollars in value over the same period last year. harbor of San Pedro has been brought Into direct communication with the heart of the continent. The Government Govern-ment breakwater, now buUding, Is expected ex-pected to be completed next year. It has been in active construction since 1891, and will represent an . outlay in excess of three' million dollars. Great Electric System. Los Angeles has the most extensive electric street railway system In America Amer-ica and possibly in the world. With the city as a center, interurban tramways are operated in all directions for a dis- . tance of nearly fifty miles. Four companies com-panies are engaged in the traffic. The Los Angeles Railway company operates about 140 miles of line entirely within the city limits. The Pacific Electric Railway company has more than 300 miles of Interurban trackage, and the Los Angeles Interurban Railway company com-pany about seventy miles. The first named corporation Is entirely entire-ly the property of Henry E. Huntington, Hunting-ton, a nephew of Collls P. Huntington, who Was among the original promoters of the Central Pacific. With President E. H. Harriman of the Southern Pacific Pa-cific and other steam raUway corporations, corpora-tions, Mr. Huntington Is also half owner own-er of the Pacific Electric and Los Angeles An-geles Interurban . Railway companies. There are at this time 65S miles of street railway In operation in the city of Los Angeles and in close proximity to. It. The Los Angeles Pacific operates nearly 300 miles In the city and to various va-rious beach resorts. ten miles oi irn uueu. iuc uuvciu-ment uuvciu-ment is expending large sums in improving im-proving the harbor. Directly opposite is located Coronado Beach, one of the famous winter resorts of America. To the- north of Los Anteles along the Pacific ocean, are located Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. The first named contains a winter resort that has become famous the world over and that draws annually to its million-dollar million-dollar hotel the best known and wealthiest residents of the United States. Another New Railway. One hundred and ten miles of railroad rail-road now being built from Mojave to Keeler will complete the Southern Pacific Pa-cific system from Reno to Los Angeles Ange-les and at the same time will be the means of supplying additional short line connection between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City and to San Fraa-clsco Fraa-clsco from this city. Today, Los Angeles Ange-les Is turning its face to the north to conquer new worlds that , He beyond. Last year the total citrus crop aggregated aggre-gated 28.000 cars and the new crop is expected to be in excess of that figure. The golden fruit circulated throughout southern California about $10,000,000 net profit to the growers. At this time it will not be out of place to give a short recapitulation of the early history of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake railway enterprise. enter-prise. Agitation for a line from the city of Los Angeles to tidewater at San Pedro began in the early '508, but It was not until 1868 that the project took practical shape. .. Bond Were Authorized. That year the Legislature of California Califor-nia passed a. special act authorizing Last yesr the city's death rate was 16.56. based on a population of 180,000. In explanation of the figures, it Is declared de-clared that scores of people go to southern California In advanced stages of disease and also that deaths at the county hospital, situated within the city limits of Los Angeles, are charged up to the city. In excess of 10 per cent of last year"s deaths occurred in the institution last named. During the past winter the total rainfall rain-fall was nearly 20 inches. In 1900, the total was 11.30 Inches, as against 11.90 in 1901; 73.12 in 1902 and 14.77 In 1903. The climate In the vicinity of Los Angeles Is not enervating as Is the case In Other semi-tropical localities. This is due to tlje exceptional dryness in the atmosphere. Vigorous old men, who have lived here for half a lifetime life-time and are still in active business, furnish proof of the fact that the ell-mate ell-mate of southern California does not tend to deseneracy. Tublie School System. According to experts who have visited visit-ed the State, this city holds high rank for the excellence of its public school system. Altogether, Los Angeles has seventy tchool buildings, the total value val-ue of which Is approximated $2,500,000. The city has been one of the pioneer communities In commercial education. The primary school kindergarten Is another an-other feature in the public school education. edu-cation. In addition to the public schools there are over thirty private institutions institu-tions devoted either to general education educa-tion or to specialized branches. The city is the headquarters of the University Univer-sity of Southern California and Occidental Occi-dental College, and both the State Normal Nor-mal schools. The public library possesses pos-sesses more than 110,000 volumes. The " About ten miles from Los Angeles Is located the Snow horlrontal telescope, with a focal length of 145 feet, to which Is being appended a thirty-foot spectral spec-tral heliograph, botn being Inclosed in a special structure 200 feet long. The location Is on Mt. Wilson In the Sierra Madre range. The main purpose of the instruments is to conduct solar Investigations Investi-gations to ascertain what chemical elements ele-ments are feeding the sun's fierce flames; to inquire Into the nature and cause of sun spots. The observatory Is being provided with a Bruce photographic photo-graphic telescope, for the purpose of accurately ac-curately charting portions of the heavens heav-ens and of exploring the stellar depths. The director In charge Is Dr. George E. Halo of the Yerkes observatory, who is a professor of astronomy at the Chl-CBgo Chl-CBgo university, and who is president of the society for International co-operation in rolar research which has a membership In every civilized country cn the globe. Dr. Hale's assistants Include In-clude Prof. E. E. Barnard, discoverer of the fifth satellite of Jupiter, and George W. RItchey, in charge of practical prac-tical astronomy. For the fiscal year ending November 20, 1904. permits for 7040 building improvements im-provements w?re issued in the city of Los.AngeUs, the amount represented being $12,892,479. Throughout the year the city was second In the number of permits Issued, and seventh in the amount represented in building constructions con-structions among all the cities of the United States. The Petroleum Output. California last year produced a total .of 24.000,000 barrels of petroleum. Vnd Los Angeles Is the center for a large share of this product. The city is the natural . distributing point for the oU Three Great Systems. ' With the completion and actlveyop-eratlon actlveyop-eratlon of the San Pedro, Los Angeles . & Salt-Lake railroad. Los Angeles now has transcontinental connection with the East by three separate and distinct systems. The Southern Pacific enters the city by two routes from San Francisco, Fran-cisco, la addition to direct communication communica-tion Eet by what is known as the Sunset Sun-set roite. The Santa Fe has heretofore hereto-fore ten the most direct line to Chicago, Chi-cago, out with the advent of the Clark road that monopoly has been broken. Th, new line has opened up territory heri ofore tributary to San Francisco, ' v nam-y, the mining camps in southwestern south-western Nevada and Utah. In addition, I. th Clark road already has begun to land in southern California hundreds of tourists from Idaho. Utah, Montana i and Nevada, who prjor to Its complex tlon were in the habit of going to California Cali-fornia over the Central Pacific and Its affiliated lines. Seduction In Time. . Senator William A. Clark- has promised prom-ised that beginning- during the coming . winter the passenger service from Salt Lake City and southern California will be reduced to twenty-four hours, running: run-ning: time, and equipment for the purpose pur-pose has already been ordered. This is expeoted to carry to Los Angeles thousands thou-sands of persons who may be seeking the seashore during the summer months - and Probably as many who are anxious to t ripe the rigors of winter. Ey I the opening of the Clark road the Oil and Manufactures. Crude oil and its application fo manufacture man-ufacture has played an important part in the development of the metropolis of the Southwest. ' So rapid has been the increase of industries In Los Angeles that whlle the Federal census of 1900 returned the value of the city's output of manufactured products at not quite $22,000,000, the output for 1904 exceeded $40,000,000. Because of the rapid opening open-ing of new resident sections it has been found to, be almost impossible for the city Street department to keep up with its work. There was paved in the city during the last year four miles of new thoroughfare. thor-oughfare. There was graded and graveled grav-eled twenty-nine miles, and curbed seventy-two miles. The amount of new miles, with twenty-frve miles of new cement sidewalks placed was sixty-two miles, with twenty-five miles -of new guttering and twelve miles of new sewers. sew-ers. At present the city Is engaged In-' completing a new sewer system that will carry to the sea at an expense of nearly $2,000,000. for which bonds have already been voted. First to Adopt It Los Angeles was the first city In the United States to adopt electricity exclusively ex-clusively for lighting its streets. As showing the city's remarkable growth, the subjoined comparative table of as-, as-, sessed valuation of property during I industry of the Pacific coast. It Is surrounded sur-rounded by great fields, such as' Whlt-tler. Whlt-tler. Fullerton and Ventura, with Santa Barbara and Kern closer to Los Angeles An-geles than to San Francisco by 150 miles. Of the enormous increase of production, produc-tion, more than half came from the Kern River field. . During 1904 the estimated esti-mated oH product of Los Angeles county coun-ty was 1.700.000 barrels. Most of this came from Whittler, twelve miles from the city of Los Angeles. The total production pro-duction of that field exceeded 840,000 barrels. Call It Salt Lake. Salt Leke Is the name given to anew district, located about half way between Los Angeles and Santa Monica. The district came by its name when about a year and a half ago Salt Lake City capitalists uncovered a series of .wells that have proved to be excellent pro- f j j ducers. Recently the Associated oil 1 compauy. the rival of the Standard in J California, absorbed the property. Since i then drilling has been pushed actively J and several wells with phenomenal rec- .4 ords as producers have been brought a i- . 1 The district is expected to prove cne 3 of the best of the State. ' Last year. f while the section was in Its Infancy, the f total production exceeded 300,000 bar- j rels. The new owners, the Associated Oil company, have built a pipe line 1 from their field to I,os Angeles, where' H they have purchased tankage n and a distributing depot. . ' More of the Oil Wells. . ' Newhall about twenty-flve miles from ' ' I Los Angeles, has sixty-five producing, . wells, with' an estimated production of , " ' ; about 125,000 barrels- last year' - - - . ' i . |