Los Angeles, a city of destiny, located in the center of America's most beautiful and fruitful area, bathed in a wealth of never-ending sunshine, her homes bowered in ever-blossoning vines, her business quarter metropolitan in every sense and her commerce causing her to rank among the great cities of the western world. Such is the "City of the Angels," which, in far less than a generation, has from a semi-Mexican pueblo of but little more than 10,000 souls, covering an area easily measured in furlongs, been transformed into a great and bustling city approaching the 200,000 mark in population and occupying an area which to-day requires leagues in its computation.