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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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n his electric roadsthrough the heart of Santa Anita ranch, sohe is everywhere in his part of the countryinfusing old conditions with the new spiritof progress. There has been nothing of the bizarre orspectacular about his programme of expan-sion. A trained railway man, schooledby his uncle, C. P. Huntington, he hasswung his energy away from the steamroad, to become the foremost promoter ofthe electric trolley as a means of developingand exploiting natural resources. He hasmade all the towns of Southern Californianear neighbors of Los Angeles, and thistask has been accomplished in less than tenyears. First came the purchase of existinglines, then consolidation and reorganiza-tion, and after that rebuilding and newconstruction, until within the city limits ofLos Angeles alone there are two hundredmiles of trolley tracks. Now you can whirlout into the country over standard gauge,double-track lines operated by automaticsignal systems, at express speed. The real estate boom of Los Angeles
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The Builders 54i cannot be fairly weighed without a knowl-edge of this wonderful transportation de-velopment. H. E. Huntington has madefortunes for others, while at the same timehe has reaped great wealth for himself.He had bought up great tracts of unim-proved land within a few miles of LosAngeles, and then put an electric roadthrough the tree property thus acquired.Of course the coming of the railroad hasincreased the realty values by hundredsper cent, and Mr. Huntington, havingbought on a certainty, has not suffered bythis method of operation. At the same time it should be remem-bered, even though it be the fashion tosling bricks at the railway magnate ongeneral principles as an oppressor and arobber, that for every million H. E. Hunt-ington has reaped from his transactions,the community has benefited tenfold inincreased property valuations and easeof communication. It is a magical sort of an operation, thisdevelopment of the Los Angeles country.A small rancher is struggling to mak

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