Los Angeles HAS the most enjoyable climate in the world, "Month in, Month out, Year in. Year out." a: Ask any one who has tried it Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce by Walter J. Ballard Los Angeles Has LOS ANGELES HAS a present popula- tion of 355,000, increasing at the rate of 25,000 a year. In the past ten years the total increase has been 253,000. LOS ANGELES HAS a present assessed property valuation of nearly $300,000,- 000. LOS ANGELES HAS 1,850 manufactur- ing establishments, employing thirty million dollars capital, giving work to fifteen thousand workers, and turning out sixty-five million dollars worth of goods each year. LOS ANGELES HAS three transconti- nental railways connecting with every city, town, village, hamlet, and way station in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. LOS ANGELES HAS ajiarbor on the im- provement of whi'di the United States Government has spent millions and will gradually spend millions more ; a harbor through which will pass on tlie completion of its government, munici- pal and private improvements, aided by the opening in only five years hence of the American I'amima Canal, a , ^ Jr^J-o-n^ LOS ANGELES worships in 225 churches, embracing all denominations of Christianity, Jewish and other religions. LOS ANGELES with its array of first- class hotels, modern apartment and rooming houses, its many up-to-date restaurants, and other places of public entertainment can (and does) enter- tain fully one hundred thousand visi- tors at any given time. LOS ANGELES HAS twenty-two parks — places of much natural and artificial beauty — one of which is the largest municipal park in the world, covering three thousand acres. LOS ANGELES IS building office build- ings, houses, stores, factories, ware- houses and other structures, to the value of almost twenty millions of dollars yearly. LOS ANGELES HAS a wholesale trade with itself. Southern California, Northern California, Arizona and parts of Mexico, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico, other States and foreign countries, aggregating a value of fully three hundred millions of dollars yearly, including the shipments of Los Angeles Has LOS ANGELES HAS a present popula- tion of 355,000, increasing at the rate of 25,000 a year. In the past ten years the total increase has been 253,000. LOS ANGELES HAS a present asses.serl property valuation of nearly $300,000,- 000. LOS ANGELES HAS 1,850 manufactur- ing establishments, employing thirty million dollars capital, giving work to fifteen thousand workers, and turning out sixty-five million dollars worth of goods each year. LOS ANGELES HAS three transconti- nental railways connecting with every city, town, village, hamlet, and way station in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. LOS ANGELES HAS ^jiarbor on the im- provement of whic'li the United States Government has spent millions and will gradually spend millions more ; a harbor through which will pass on tlie com])letion of its government, munici- pal and ]irivate improvements, aided by the o]x"ning in only five years hence of the American Tanrima Canal, a large share of the yearly seven hun- dred and fifty million dollar trade between the United States, the Orient, and the Far East ; a harbor which is already the greatest lumber receiving- port of the United States. LOS ANGELES HAS city and interurban electric railway systems, operating nearly a thousand miles of track, the cars of which pass through the down- town streets of the city at the average rate of about two a minute during six- teen hours of each day, Sundays and holidays included. LOS ANGELES HAS the best system of electric street lighting of any city on either side of the Atlantic or the Pacific ; it also has more business and residence electric lighting than has an}- other city on this continent or in Europe. LOS ANGELES HAS 37 banking institu- tions, with $23,000,000 paid in capital and surplus; $120,000,000 deposits: and yearly bank clearings in 1909 of $675,000,000, an increase over 1908 of $150,000,000. LOS ANGELES in addition to its pres- ent water-system is completing a new system which at a cost of $23,000,000, will bring a whole river of sparkling mountain water to its doors, over a natural filtration course of 240 miles ; a system which will also produce a large volume of hydro-electric power, by the sale of which at low cost, the diversified manufacturing industries of the city will be largely increased. LOS ANGELES HAS the first call on the great oil-fields of Southern California — the most prolific oil-fields in the world, producing already nearly sixty million barrels yearly. LOS ANGELES IS telephonically served by two companies, whose sub- scribers aggregate seventy thousand — or one telephone for each five per.sons (men, women and children), in the city. The increase in service keejiing pace with the constant and large in- crease in population. LOS ANGELES HAS 113 public sch'jol buildings ; with 50,000 pupils, and 1,300 teachers; a State Normal School, two high schools and 35 public and private colleges and other institutions of higher education. -.1. ■- ^.--^t-c-vO LOS ANGELES worships in 225 clmrclies, eniljracing all denominations of Christianity, Jewish and other religions. LOS ANGELES with its array of first- class hotels, modern apartment and rooming houses, its many up-to-date restaurants, and other places of public entertainment can (and does) enter- tain fully one hundred thousand visi- tors at any given time. LOS ANGELES HAS twenty-two parks — places of much natural and artificial lieauty— one of which is the largest nuniicipal park in the world, covering three thousand acres. LOS ANGELES IS building office build- ings, houses, stores, factories, ware- houses and other structures, to the value of almost tweiUy millions of dollars yearly. LOS ANGELES HAS a wholesale trade with itself. Southern California, Northern (."alifornia. .\rizona and parts of Mexico, Nevada, fdaho. New Mexico, other States and foreign coniUries, aggregating a value of fully three hunilred millions of dollars yearly, inehuling the shipments of fruits, wines, beans, olives, lumber, oil, etc. LOS ANGELES HAS at least fifty theatres, moving picture exhibitions, concert halls and places of public amusement, all in nightly session, and many also in daily session. LOS ANGELES IS surrounded, all with- in twenty to forty minutes access by electric car, with a galaxy of seaside and mountain resorts, orange groves, flower gardens, suburban residential sections of great beauty, interesting "Missions," ostrich farms, good roads under construction in the county to cost $3,500,000, attractive cities and towns — notably Pasadena the beautiful "Crown of the Valley," famous for its natural beauty and its many "million- aire" homes. LOS ANGELES HAS the best summer climate in the world. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Los Angeles HAS the most enjoyable climate in the world, "Month in, Month out, Year in, Year out." Ask any one who has tried it Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce by Walter J. Ballard 021 929 697 fruits, wines, beans, olives, lumber, oil, etc. LOS ANGELES HAS at least fifty theatres, moving picture exhibitions, concert halls and places of public amusement, all in nightly session, and many also in daily session. LOS ANGELES IS surrounded, all with- in twenty to forty minutes access by electric car, with a galaxy of seaside and mountain resorts, orange groves, flower gardens, suburban residential sections of great beauty, interesting "Missions," ostrich farms, good roads under construction in the county to cost $3,500,000, attractive cities and towns — notably Pasadena the beautiful ''Crown of the Valley," famous for its natural beauty and its many "million- aire" homes. LOS ANGELES HAS the best summer climate in the world. 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