Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-24

business of Los Angeles in the next
the next three years, and would de-
velop the great mineral district lying
to the northeast of US with a rapidity
unexampled in the history of the
State. The question, "Will it Pay"
is thus answered by the Inyo hide
pendent:
"Lying within a parallelogram of
less than one hundred miles in one di-
rection and two hundred in the other,
we can name the following districts,
each and all more or less developed,
and each and all of which require and
afford many tons of freight, every
pound of which would be commanded
by the proposed road. These are: Pan
amint, Granite, Coso, Cerro Gordo,
Eclipse, Fish Spring, Kearsarge Silver
Sprout, Waucoba, Piute, Deep Spring
and Sylvania, all within this county.
Close by to the north is the town and
district of Benton, and some others in
the vicinity; thence easterly, we have
Columbus, Belmont and Phoebe. In q
straight line the latter place lies almost
due east from this place and not to ex-
coed $50 miles distant. Belmont is
somewhat nearer and nearly north
east 1t is nearer from either of these
places to San Francisco via Los Ange-
les than by their present route via the
Central Pacific, and their freights can
be delivered in San Francisco by this
narrow-gauge road cheaper and quicker
than by any other way or route. But
these may be considered outside our
boundaries or left out of the count en-
tirely. Inside of these we have all the
others named, to which are to be
added Montezuma, San Antonio, Sill
yer Peak, Palmetto, Ida, Gold Noun
tain and dozens of others known to be
rich in minerals, if not largely popu-
lated at this time. Every one of these
can be counted as certain to contribute
o great deal in the way of business to
such a road, while the aggregate of the
whole would simply be beyond compu-
tation, with the new impulse it would
receive from this enterprise. Cheap
freights, just such as might be profita-
bly, furnished by such road on this
indentical Los Angeles and Cerro
Gordo route, would cause every one of
these districts and twice as many more
to literally TEEN with life. Truly the
available mining deposits of this re-
gion are beyond all estimate. If
worked to its capacity, or to the ex-
tent it would be under the new and
greatly essential advantages arising
from completed and cheaDly operated
railroad, as proposed, we verify believe
this region would afford business be-
You'd the capability of any railroad in
existence.
"But taking things as we find them,
we have within the area mentioned,
but excluding the two principal Ne
vada towns of Belmont and Phoebe, a
population of not less than three thou
sand to furnish business for this road,
were it running to-day. This business
is at present almost equally divided
between two routes running in oppo-
site directions; or rather, taking the
whole together, but small part now
goes by the southern route, consdera-
BILE though it is. But this route would
undoubtedly command the whole,
even as far north as Belmont, and as
far east as Phoebe, though these places
are not considered in the count.
"The mines of this region are largely
of the smelling class, and in the mat
ter of freight furnished are Of the more
Importance on that account. That
class can be made to furnish full down
freights at all times, while we have
enough of purely silver mines to re-
quire nearly balance in the opposite
direction in the way of supplies and
machinery for the thousands whose
attention could then profitably be
given to them, rich and numerous as
they undoubtedly are.