This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ... in 1867, gas was first introduced; in 1868, waterworks were constructed, and the same year the first bank opened for business. In 1870, the population numbered 8,000; in 1880, 11,183; in 1886, 40,000; in 1887, 75,000. What will it be in 1890? The activity in real estate marked a rise from $10,000,000 in 1885 to $27 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ... in 1867, gas was first introduced; in 1868, waterworks were constructed, and the same year the first bank opened for business. In 1870, the population numbered 8,000; in 1880, 11,183; in 1886, 40,000; in 1887, 75,000. What will it be in 1890? The activity in real estate marked a rise from $10,000,000 in 1885 to $27,239,626 in 1886, and for the first nine months of 1887, the enormous figure of 875,569,150, or, at the ratio for the whole year, $92,711,440. The city has eight banks, waterworks, 37 ehurches,20 schools with 6,000 attendants, one university, one Catholic college, one private college, a free library, grand opera house, gas, electric light, telephone, etc.,28 miles of street horse cars, and 26 miles of electric and cable cars, built and building, a score and nine hotels, 16 daily and weekly newspapers, secret organizations of all kinds, ana all the modern improvements, besides a great number of manufactories, machine shops, iron works, mills, etc., etc. Besides all, Los Angeles is surrounded by ten towns, with populations of from 1,000 to 5,000 each, and twenty villages and stations of from 300 to 1,000 each. These places were built up and are sustained by the stimulating influences of Los Angeles, and are tributary to her for business of all kinds. In the same tributary country the acreage in vines is 17,112; in oranges, 13,150; lemons, 1,600; figs, 275; olives, 225; apples, 1,650; peaches, 1,400; pears, 739; plums, and prunes, 250; making 36,221 acres; add to this 11,400 acres not in bearing, makes a total of 57,621 acres devoted to horticulture. This is not more than one-fifth of the land that can be cultivated in fruit and grapes. The official figures of the railroads for 1887 give an increase of tonnage over 1886, of 77 per cent. 17 per cent, ..
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