GROWTH OF CALIFORNIA CITIES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1640, 19 August 1887, Page 3

GROWTH OF CALIFORNIA CITIES

At present. California cities are making rapid growth, incident to the increased tide of immigration which has set m. Within the last few years Southern California has profited mos: largely, owing, no doubt, to the extraordinary energies put forth by the poople of that section m advertising its resources and attractions and the rivalry of competing railroads for buqinesß. ban Diego, for instanoo, contained a few yoara ago only 2500 inhabitants. The estimates of its present population range from 8000 to 12,010 Lite dispatches represent that thb number of school chlldron m that city have increased 70 per ceot during the past fiscal year. A towu of considerable pretensions ha« sprung up on the Peninsul* of San Diego, now known rb Coronado, whiuh boasts a daily newspaper and sic dry other institutions belonging to a well established community. It is only recently that this peninsula was a waßto, Inhabited only by quail and ootton-Ull rabbits Los Angeles, whioh, ten years ago had a population of less than 15.000, now claims 65,000 Inhabitants. Sin Bernardino has developed from a pmall town of 3000 to one claiming a population cf 10.0 CO or more. Riverside is cutting up some of its orange orchards and vineyards into town lots to make room for its growing population. Thes* are merely given as Illustrations of the growth < f all southern towns and settlements within a very recent period. Farther north, San Buenaventu-a, Santa Barbera and San Luis Obtspo fhow r«markable strides m the matter of pnpulition. Frenso l.i the San Jiaqnin Valley has developed from a stmll hamlet into a town whoso real estate transaction run from 50,000d01s to 100,000 lola daily A notable incraase m the popuUn'oi o such neighboring cities as Srao Jote J*ft land, Alameda and San Rafael has been observed within the past few month r. Strangers are noticed m their streets m largely increased number, and investments m real estate are BjU^ht by Eastern visitors.

Sacramento, Orvillo, Mnryßville, Red B'.uft, Reddtnß and other northern iown» are beginning to feel the ii fluei.ca of the new blood flowing into therp Oroville U having quite a boom m property and popu'ation, partly growing out of extrrordinary developments, m the hoiticulturat sense m that vicinity, through the operations of a colony of oran^egrowers,' but more particularly because the northern part of tbe State ia attracting unusual Attention at present. These Northern California towns are likely to show a much larger growth m the near future. The signs of the times are that way. Everybody is preparing for it and the railroad companies a*e making extraordinary efforts to get ready for moving Eastern people whose faces ara turned toward California.