Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-04-15
ASToNIsHED.

the Herald map OF our Back country
on the outside world. 1t sets forth a
class of facts which other interested
sections would fain keep from the peo-
pie who are seeking home in a place
with future. A 5OO-page book can
not convey the information that our
map conveys. 1t brings home to the
eye and the mind the geographical
and commercial position of Los Ange-
les, and dissipates into thin air the
fables promulgated by silly writers
and distorters of facts from other pla-
ces. Los Angeles, the keystone in the
commercial arch of Southern Cali
fornia, has been quietly waiting
for the fullness of time to come,
conscious that nature stretched out,
north and south of her San Gorgonio
Pass barrier insurmountable, and
from which the tide of commerce
would turn to the commercial gate of
Southern California, and pass into
Los Angeles. Col. Scott sought in
vain for direct pass to San Diego.
All of San Diego co-operated with
him. They filled the high mountain
ranges with prospecters, seeking for
some pass through which Scott could
come to San Diego without first COM
ing through San Gorgonio. They
cried, +" 10 here ~ "Lo there " and
Scott's engineers rushed to the points
indicated, applied compass, level and
chain, and all San Diego shouted with
a great noise. But all in vain. The
mountains still reared their impassi-
BILE barriers. The engineers made
their reports, and Scott announced to
the world that as a commercial dis
lance it t0as about so miles nearer to
San Diego by ,oay Of San Gorgonio
than it Vds ouer the mountain range,
that he therefore located his road
through San Gorgonio Pass. So that
settled the Thirty-second Parallel, or
Texas Pacific. Our map is therefore
correct as to the Texas Pacific, and the
mountainous back country of San
Diego. AS to the Atlantic and Pacific
or Thirty-fifth Parallel railroad,
Scott is now President of it. He pro-
poses to connect the Thirty-second
with the Thirty-fifth Parallel road at
albuquerque, as shown on our map,
and run one line across the desert, as
one is sufficient to do the work. Hav-
ing made this connection, he will con-
meet with the Southern Pacific Rail-
road at the Colorado, and thus form
one line to Los Angeles by way of
San Gorgonio. The altitude of this
pass is 1900 feet above tide water. The
heaviest grade is SO feet, and that
for only four miles. Over fifty miles
of this Southern Pacific railroad is
now constructed out from Los Angeles.
In less than three years it will con-
meet with San Francisco, Sacramento,
and the Central Pacific railway by
way of the coast and San Joaquin
routes, as per written agreement be-
tween Los Angeles county and the S.
P. r. r. Co. These facts, therefore,
make the showing of our map correct
as to the railroad system of South
ern California and our back country.
Santa Barbara has been building
railroad castles in the air and trying
to persuade the ignorant that she was
the final terminus of the Southern
railroads. Our map has had the same
effect on their theory that the morn
ing sun has on the Santa Barbara fogs.
For railroad to get into Santa Bar
bara it will have to first go near to
Wynema, which has as bad landing
rs Santa Barbara. Thence it must run
over heavy range of mountains and
a succession of rolling hills some fifty
miles, commercial distance, to get
to the open roadstead at Santa
Barbara. The reader will observe
from our map that all the transconti-
mental freight for this proposed Santa
Barbara terminus must pass through
or near Los Angeles and travel some
$50 miles commercial distance farther
to reach the ocean, an absurdity of
which no railroad company will be
guilty. The great fact is as shown by
our map. Los Angeles county is the
practical terminus of all Southern
transcontinental railroads. The Santa
Barbara Inder realizes that our map
shows up the situation, and ends all
their hopes OF getting settlers by rep
resenting their place as railroad ter
minus. 1t becomes furious, and begs
US to call it an "April Fooln joke.
Never mind, you will see where the
joke comes in. In its ignorance it says
that the Central Pacific Railroad does
not cut right across several mountain
ranges in reaching Salt Lake. What
delusion the Sierra Nevada noun
tains with their snowstorms must be!
What fraud the published railroad
survey of elevations and distances is.
How incorrect their own map!-for
ours is made from copy of the map
of the Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany. Look at the facts: Fifty-five
miles from San Francisco a mountain
of 740 feet; 243 miles a mountain of
7,0l7 feet; 462 miles mountain of
1882 feet; 500 miles mountain of g.
lis feet; 698 miles mountain of $3.50