Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-27

thought, Stanford simmered down; he
had been out-maneuvered, and il he
gave challenge he would be out
fought. Bluff was no use against
twenty dollar pieces.
WORSE DANGERS THREATENED.
But if road is built from Shoe Fly
to Los Angeles, there is an end of the
Southern Pacific purchase, Banning's
pet, the Wilmington road, and If the
new road ever reaches Independence,
q short stretch of 200 miles or SO will
connect it with the Utah local roads,
and the main overland route will have
terrible rival. TO lose the Panamint
trade would be vexatious; to let its
earnings go to build new and shorter
line to reach the Union Pacific was the
biggest blunder Stanford ever made.
But it Is done.
A FEW FACTS.
Truxton, or Shooily, as we have be-
fore stated, is located on the West side
of a bluff or headland. few miles
North of Wilmington, but five or six
miles nearer Los Angeles. a wharf
800 feet long will give rs feet of wafer;
but as the company has to provide fa-
cilities for loading several ships at once,
they will run their wharf 600 feet out
Shoohy over the Truxton Ranch to
Los Angeles is a dead level, and the
line passes close to or through the
Centinela Colony lands. Los Angeles,
frightened up by the astounding pros
poets OF business derived from the
Papamint mines, has subscribed for
500, 900 in stock-or rather its citizens
have-and right of way, land for de-
pots and every facility is promised.
From Los Angeles to Cajon Pass is as
level as Montgomery street, and all
the right of way over private lands
has been secured. The Cajon Pass,
from the first of the rise to the last of
the descent, is about twenty miles
much cutting. In the middle of the
pass there will be a tunnel of 1900 feet
through soft red sandstone. This be-
ing the toughest job on the road, it is
now being driven at both ends, and in
six months or less will be finished.
The highest grade through the pass
will be 100 feet to the mile. After
leaving the pass, the road crosses the
salt deserts on dead level, where not
even scraper will have to be used to
make bed for the ties. Such is the
character of the road through Pana-
mint valley to the mouth of Surprise
canon, the terminus of the broad
gauge road. The company will build
tramways in Surprise cailOn, eight
miles, as the ascent is 500 feet to the
mile. In crossing the salt deserts no
difficulty will be experienced for want
of water, as there are springs at inter-
vals, and fresh water can be secured
by sinking wells. The ties of the road
from Shoofy to Cajon Pass will have
to be brought by sea. From that
point they will have to be supplied by
the forests of Cajon. Iron is cheap
now, and everything is favorable for
rapid and cheap construction. The
distance between Los Angeles and the
mouth of Surprise valley by wagon
road is about 200 miles, but it is ex-
pected that the railroad will cross the
country with 10 or $50 miles of road.
The Panamint road is really branch
from the main line to independence,
but being more important to the min
ing interests, will be built first Even
WAoh tiiO oioelN S6uSO NliiCil utto OCCh
adopted with view to future connec-
tions through Southern Utah and the
Union Pacific Railroad, the
cost on most of the road will not ex-
ceed, if it quite reaches, $4,000 per
mile. The only costly points are the
| Truxton and Los Angeles depots and
cuts and tunnel through Cajon Pass.
The money being ready and the people
men of action, who have millions upon
millions lying idle in Panamint wait
ing for the road, there will be no time
lost, and within twelve months the
shrek of the locomotive will be heard
at the mouth of Surprise Canon.
The future income of the road may
be calculated thus:
1000 tons of ore day at $40 ton....... Sl0,0n0
80 tons OF merchandise a day at S25 a ton |, 80
40 passengers n day at an average of So. 2U0
Sll,450
A day, or SO, 435, 900 year gross in
come from Panamint alone. There is
no other road in the country can show
such n prospect for the gross earnings
from traffic actually controlled by the
proprietors, while the mines show, as
they do now $l,0O0,0OO year more
than the cost of the road itself. No
wonder Stanford feels very mad, but
what is he going to do about it !?