. The street railway review . .But the growth has not clustered along the rights of wayof the cable. To the contrary it has spread, tapering awayoff until much of it became practically out of the reach ofthe cable, so that the system came to afford a very poorservice to some districts, and the need of additional rail-ways became to people living therein a serious and press-ing matter. The district of the city known as TheHills comprising the elevated section west of the center. POWER HOUSE AND CAR BARK—BATTERY OF STIRLING BOILERS. made but poor returns on such an investment, the S3rstemhad bee
. The street railway review . .But the growth has not clustered along the rights of wayof the cable. To the contrary it has spread, tapering awayoff until much of it became practically out of the reach ofthe cable, so that the system came to afford a very poorservice to some districts, and the need of additional rail-ways became to people living therein a serious and press-ing matter. The district of the city known as TheHills comprising the elevated section west of the center. POWER HOUSE AND CAR BARK—BATTERY OF STIRLING BOILERS. made but poor returns on such an investment, the S3rstemhad been placed under heavy mortgages and a squabblewas pending between stockholders and mortgagees as towho should escape with the least loss. The cable com-panvs lines were built in the shape of an elongated crossand reached into the eastern, western and southern por-tions of the cit}. These branches penetrated the suburbsand there is no question but they contributed immenselyto building up the outlying sections of the city. But evenin sections reached by the cable company there werelarge areas equally as populous as those immediatelytapped by its lines which were so remote from thoselines as to be altogether unprovided bj a railway sys-tem. Los Angeles has encountered a phenomenalgrowth and this growth has been, as it were in spots,dotting the great stretch of land enclosed by the boundarylimits of the city, and this growth has been greater perannum since the cable compan
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