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jr^OS ANGELES, the “City of
5^ the Angels“—or to give the
sonorous Spanish title,
“Nu-estra Señora la Reina de Los
Angeles“—the Wonder City of the
United States, is the most
talked-of city on the continent. Indeed,
its fame has spread all over the
world. A city that increases its
population within the short period
of thirty years from 10,000 to
550,000 is certainly not in the
ordinary class.
There are three leading
features that have contributed to this
growth—climate, soil and
location. Any one of these advantages
would be sufficient to build up a
large city, but taken together they
insure the future of Los Angeles
as the metropolis of the
Southwest.
Los Angeles was founded on
September 4, 1781, by a small
band of pobladores, or colonists,
who had been recruited in the
Mexican States of Sinaloa and
Sonora, and brought here under
command of a government officer,
to found an agricultural colony,
for the purpose of raising produce
for the soldiers at the presidios.
They were a mixed class,
composed of one European,
seventy-two Spanish-Americans, seven
Indians, twenty-two mulattoes
and thirty-nine Mestizos. As
recently as 1831, fifty years after
the founding of the pueblo, the
population was only 7 70. In
January, 184 7, the population was
1,500.
That Los Angeles is, and will
always remain, the commercial
metropolis of Southern California,
admits of no doubt. The City
possesses the great natural
advantage of being located on the
shortest route, by the easiest
grades, between the Pacific and
the Atlantic oceans. The
principal articles of export are fruits,
fresh and dried; vegetables of
great variety, beans, wine and
brandy, wool, honey, canned
goods, sugar, olives, wheat, corn,
barley, petroleum, cotton and
byproducts.
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