Los Angeles Herald, Volume 31, Number 176, 29 March 1889 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The contract for the building of the new hotel at Redondo Beach was given out yesterday, and work will at once proceed upon tbe edifice. The lumber and other material foots up upwards of $80,000; and, at tbe present low price of everything that enters into an edifice, that figure indicates the scale upon which the company are proceeding. The plane, as originally outlined, have been modified in some respects, but we have the assurance ef another charming addition to our watering place caravanseries. Work is going on in rapid shape on the railway which is to connect Redondo and Los Angeles. The great crops which will be grown in California this year are a double benefaction. The wheat crop of the United States will be short. Dakota, instead of contributing thirty or forty million bushels to tbe stcck, will be in the market as a purchaser for seed and food. All the conditions point to high prices. Los Angeles county will produce an enormous crop of cereals this year, barn'Dg some unlooked for visitation of Providence. Some estimates place the acreage sown in grain as high as three hundred thousand, and thirty bushels to tbe acre would not be an extravagant estimate. The way some of it is stooling out, sixty bushels will be recorded. On the most conservative basis we may look for five or six million bushels of the cereals, and that means that we shall have a tremendous surplus for export. Fortunately for oar people they have learned the lesson that production is tbe truest source of wealth, and they have learned it thoroughly. It is to be hoped that there will be no Oklahoma rush of American settlers to get slices of the sixty miles of territory in Lower California which it is said was left by error on the Mexican side of the line. An examination of the Treaty of Guadalupe de Hidalgo fails to make any mistake in the boundary line apparent. The treaty says nothing about the line running from the mouth of the Colorado river. On the contrary, it says clearly that tbe line ehall take the middle of the Gila river to its junction with the Colorado, and ran thence a straight line to the Pacific Ocean, which it shall reach atapoint one league below the southernmost point of the port of San Diego. In 1849 the Boundary Commission, under Colonel J. B. Weller, ran thelineand established the boundary where it now is, and where it will remain until Mexico and the United Stateß find it to their interest to change it.

Rattlesnake Island is being made the subject of a good deal of active negotiations just now. It is not a violent inference to assume that the recently strongly developed tendency of the Union Pacific Railway to build to tidewater on the Pacific Ocean is at the bottom of this

ac:ivity. The Utah Southern is to be at once pushed to Los Angeles, and Rattlesnake Island is the obvious terminus of that system. This is independent of the statement made in yesterday's Hebald that the Pacific Coast Steamship Company have also agents in the field here looking to the acquisition of a railway which will afford them communication

between the ocean and this city. Altogether, the prospect is for lively times hereabouts, notwithstanding the imminence of cummer. To enliven matters generally, real estate values are now so low in Los Angeles connty as to warrant investment with a view to an early upward turn in prices.

The Board of Education has informally, through a conference of its sub-commit-tees, agreed to ask the Council to call an election on the question of issuing $150,000 worth of bonds for the purpose of increasing the school accommodations

of this city. The condition of the schools in Los Angeles imperatively demands the contemplated improvements. There are now sixty-six classes in this city on half-time tuition, and the increase of school children during the past year has been two thousand five hundred. It is evident from these facts that the city is not, and has not been for the past year, performing its duty towards the school children. It is proposed to increase the facilities of the department by adding fifty-five class rooms to its present accommodations. This will accommodate the increase of scholars and afford every class full time in the school. The Board is evincing commendable energy in its work, and it will have the public at its back in its determination to carry out the improvements outlined.