The Fact is that California was Never so Prosperous as Now

By Jack Dionne Reprinted From The Gulf Coast Lumberman

On an average of about twice a day some interested person asks me in all seriousness about the "slump" in California; is it as bad as reported? is there any chance for California to come back? what seems to be the big trouble? etc.

When you hear this a few times, you may be inclined to dismiss the subject with the thought that it was just an accidental report. But when everyone you meet rvho is interested in the subject of California expresses the same opinion, and asks the same questions, there is nothing to do but assLlme that a whole lot of people,- somewhere, are busily engaged in the manufacture and distribution of lying propaganda against California.

Because the facts are exactly the opposite of what all these lying reports declare them to be. I have been going to California continuously for seven years. For four years I have been in business there, and very closely in contact with the vital facts about California business. I rvatched conditions during the high tide boom of three years ago in California.

And it is my pleasure to declare right now that THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A TIME SINCE I HAVE KNOWN CALIFORNIA WHEN THAT STATE WAS IN ANY-

ENJOYING RIGHT THIS MINUTE.

And that condition covers the entire state, from the mighty forests of the North, where "rolls the Oregon," to "Coronado's Silvery Strand."

They say that Los Angeles is in "bad shape." With the water of those boom days all squeezed out of her building operations and land values, and right down to bed rock in valuations, Los Angeles is doing more than twice as much building this year, and this week, and this month, as any other city of its size in America, and three and four and five times as much as some cities of about the same size rvhere you can l.rear the story that Los Angeles is in a slump.

From every viervpoint and in every way that I am capable of judging conditions, Los Angeles is in far better shape than she has ever been before since the first settler lit there.

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PRACTICALLY EVERY TOWN, CITY AND DISTRICT IN CALIFORNIA.

San Francisco continues the same steady stride of business and building progress that she has maintained without interruption or set-back, for many years.

The entire Bay District surrounding San Francisco is enjoying the healthiest and heartiest sort of a boom. Oakland is one of the fastest and best grorving cities in the entire land.

Building permits throughout California continue to show a large improvement over last year in every county in California, with not more than two exceptions, which is remarkable indeed.

The lumber people are prosperous from end to end of California. Collections are good, and business is good, with the lumber industry. A loan on a California home today, is as good security as in any state in the union. Values are conservative, anil building paper is a fine investment.

AND THERE IS NO BETTER WAY TO JUDGE ANY DISTRICT THAN BY ITS BUILDING ACTIVITY, THE CONSERVATIVE VALUE OF HOME INVESTMENTS, AND COLLECTIONS IN THE BUILDING INDUSTRY.

I don't know of any legitimate business that is not prospering in California.

In California they believe that all this propaganda against California originates with the professional "boomers" who are working the nation, selling Florida real estate, and they are taking steps to counteract it.

The boom in Southern Florida is probably fir'e times as

Los Angeles Hoo Hoo to Gladden Hearts of Kiddies

The Los Angeles Hoo-IIoo Club's Christmas activities this year will be in the form of a monster Christmas Party, given at the Orthopedic Hospital, rvith fun and gifts for all the unfortunate kiddies rvho are being treated at this institution.

'Elaborate plans are being laid under the personal direction of the Club's president, W. B. Wickersham. He has appointed a splendid committee, consisting of L. H. Stanton, Herman L. Rosenberg, A. L. Hoover, B. W. Byrne, Paul Hallingby and Harry V. Hanson.

fanatic, as the three year ago boom in Southern California. Real estate has risen to prices in Florida several times higher, comparatively, than they ever rose in Southern California.

Florida enjoys a short winter season rvhen the balmy atmosphere is very attractive to people from the frozen north. But the spring and fall are both' very warm, and the summer is hotter than the hinges of Perdition. They have a close corner on the mosquito and other insect crop of the nation.

Ninety percent of the population of California lives on the Pacific Coast, where they have tu'elve months every year of delightful weather, never hot, never cold, never a roach or a mosquito to sully living conditions, practically no vermin or insects (due to the long, dry summef), and delightful living conditions.

The most productive valleys in the world, intensely cultivated to produce fruits and vegetables of great variety and volume, are right at their door. The wonderful Pacific is at their front door; the mountains are always close by and available; metropolitan cities are immediately at hand ; marvelous boulevards cross and criss-cross the country in every direction, reaching every point from sea to mountaintop; the climate fills you with pep, and is strongly conducive to athletic prowess as is evidenced by the college athletic ascendency of the entire state; there are always lovely and interesting things to see, and hear, and do, in California.

Anti-California stories can only be built upon envy and jealousy. California is a good bet in every business way, and will be for all time to come.

The Lord has his arm around that commonrvealth. if er-er He had it around anv sDot on earth.

STANTON JOINS "HOLE-IN-ONERS"

L. H. (Roy) Stanton. head of E. J. Stanton & Son, l-os Angeles hardrvood concern, has had his name added to the list in the Hall of Fame, for making his "hole-in-one" at the Wilshire Club on October 24. The great feat was accomplished on the dififlcult tenth hole and Roy is doubly proud that he made the remarkable shot on a hole that has much trouble connected rvith it, making it necessary to have an absolutely perfect tee shot.

lfe now holds his head up with Gus Hoover and a number of other lumbermen rvho have ioined the llole-in-One Club.