Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-04-02

900 miles. Look again at the map.
1t will be seen that San Gorgonio Pass
is almost due east of Los Angeles. At
this pass the mountain range has been
pulled apart breaking the range in two
and making pass of so easy grade
that the ascent is not perceptable to
the eye. Through this pass the 35th
and 32d parallel roads must find their
way to the Pacific, and once entering
the pass are forced through the Los
Angeles valley. These roads tap the
entire resources of Arizona, North
western Colorado and western
part of New Mexico.
The roads north from Los Angeles,
one along the coast, the other down
the San Joaquin plains to San Fran
cisco, Stockton. Sacramento, and con-
Meeting with the entire northern sys-
tenn of State and trans-continental
roads; two Others contemplated, one to
Cerro Gordo and one to Truxton on
the coast, and one now being built to
Anaheim, complete the railroad sys-
tenn which makes Los Angeles its GEN.
ter. These roads will open up an I'M
limited market for our semi-tropical
fruits and farming products. Our
merchants can by energy and business
foresight make this place the great
wholesale metropolis of this vast area.
Spread this information and the fore
going facts broadcast over the land.
Let it reach the eye of the capitalist
| and the railroad men. Some one will
take hold of the enterprise, put it in
shape, and with that determination
which knows no failure, will carry it
out to success. Cannot our Chamber
of Commerce start the matter, and in
duce some energetic citizens to organ
ize company? Go before Congress
for aid and build the road to Phoebe
or Beaver, connecting with the South
ern Utah Railroad.
To give some idea of the
business the road may be ex-
pected to transact we publish the fol-
lowing statistics taken in 1872. Utah
is the best illustration in point. Agri-
culture there had a quarter Of CEN
fury the start of mining, yet in two
years of mineral development the min
ing demand is double the agricultural
supply. More farm products are being
carried to the mining camps of Utah
by the Pacific railways than are fur
nished them by Utah. So it is with
every mining camp between here and
there: 80
The Union Pacific Railway carried,
for the twelve months ending June
81, 1872, to Utah, from the Missouri
valley, POSSESSES pounds of corn and
oats. The whole shipment west to the
mountain regions, of grain, for the
same time, was 36, 443, O40 pounds; OF
flour it carried 4, 665, 800 pounds; of live
hogs, the immediate product of corn,
6,6l1 head; of other live stock, 34,O72
head; of general merchandise, 70, 1879,
1872 pounds. The Willow Springs Dis
tillery, at Omaha, used 100000 bushels
| of corn in the manufacture of high
wines in 1871, which were shipped ex-
clusively to the mountain markets.
/ Other parties must have consumed
nearly as large amounts of grain in
the manufacture of malt beer, ale and
porter, which was also shipped to the
mountains, and which does not appear
in the above figures. Colorado is more
favorably situated for agriculture than
any section in the mountains; but she
is no exception, as her miners and
graziers receive as many farm products
from abroad as from her own soil.
During the first six months of 1872,
the Kansas Pacific Railway carried to
that Territory 8, 476, 1879 pounds of corn
and oats, 2,585, 1892 pounds of flour and
meal, 100000 pounds live cattle, SOL
$50 pounds sheep and hogs, LII, 900
pounds horses, l,978,996 pounds beef
and pork, 1920, 900 pounds salt, $780,
600 pounds wines and liquors-all the
products of your farms. The total of
the shipments to this one Territory
alone, by this one railway, was sc, 3d.
$40 pounds of freight. Cheyenne and
Colorado received by the Union Pacific
Railroad, in 1871, 100000 pounds of
fruit from the far-of orchards and
vineyards of Southern California.
BY the proposed route to Salt Lake
through vast region of mines in an
arid and comparatively barren region,
there will be poured o stream of pro-
duce and merchandise, with return car
loads of rich ores, which would give
the largest dividends to the railroad
company.
To Cerro Gordo the freight by
team is fifty dollars per ton out, on
merchandise, ETC., and forty-five dol
lars per ton on return bullion; by rail-
road it will be about nine dollars per
ton. To the various points in Arizona
and to Phoebe the freight charges are
from one hundred and fifty to two hun
dred dollars per ton; by railroad it
will be fifteen to twenty dollars per
ton, out, and still less on return freight.
For our seaports, Wilmington and
Truxton, Ire both at the foot of down