Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-05-12
railroads..
The Great Developers Of Country
what they have done and will do for
Southern California.

When the proposition was first
mooted to build railroad connecting
San Francisco and Sacramento, there
were objections offered by the farmers
on the West side of the San Joaquin
valley on the ground that it would
"ruin the price of horses.n Though
this great danger stared the comm u
nifty in the face,
THE ROAD WAS BUILT,
And to-day the land in that part of
the valley is worth ten times as much
as it was when the farmers feared a
depreciation in the value of horses.
When railroad connecting Whining
ton and Los Angeles was first proposed
there were wise men who warned the
people that such road would destroy
the teaming business from San Peiro
to the city, we should therefore lose
the trade of the teamsters and the sale
of the feed for their teams.
THE ROAD WAS BUILT
And thousands and thousands of dol
lars saved and made by the reduction
of rates and the increased valuation of
property. When the Central Pacific
turned the trade of Salt Lake from US
those same wise men assured US that
ruin stared us in the face, and that
hope of future prosperity was gone,
never to return. We however con-
tinued to thrive and in little time
the trade of Salt Lake was not missed.
When the Cerro Gordo freighting bus
iness left us and found its way TO San
Francisco by way of Tehachepa Pass
and the Southern Pacific railroad, our
wise men warned us that we had re-
ceived fatal blow. We however sur
vived and people soon ceased to won
der that poverty and desttution did
not come in with the departure of
NADEAU's TEAMS,
When it was proposed to vote subsi-
dy to the Southern Pacific Railroad,
our wise men once more rushed to the
front with the assurance that the rail-
road would do us more harm than
good, and that the subsidy would
bankrupt the county. But despite
the remonstrance the people voted in
favor of the proposition.
THE ROAD WILL SOON BE BUILT,
And the good effect is already felt to
the extent of doubling the value of
our taxable property. A few
weeks hence we shall have
continuous rail from Los Ange-
les to San Francisco, and with the ar
rival of the first through train will
commence an era of prosperity for
this part of the State far exceeding the
most sanguine expectations of the
wise men who feared the railroads
would destroy teaming and drive
away trade. Out on such behind-the-
age croakers.
RAILROADS
Have done and are doing more for
Southern California than all other
improvements and enterprises COM
bined. 1t is to her railroad system
that Los Angeles is directly indebted
for her present and prospective pros
perity. While the chronic GROWERS
and constitutional complaint-makers
are denouncing the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company, the sensible and
enlightened portion of the communi-
ty recognize that corporation as the
agent through which we are attaining
degree of wealth and prominence to
which without railroads we should
long have remained stranger.
THE MARKET
For our surplus hay and grain,
which we apparently lost with
the departure of the Cerro Cor
do freighting teams, was never
lost, and the demand for our farm
products will in few weeks be ten
times greater than ever before. With
the closing in of the railroad gap be-
tween here and Tehachipe will return
the entire feed trade of the Cerro Cor
do freight teams. Los Angeles val
ley can and will supply that market
cheaper than it can be done from the
San Soaquin valley. AS the Southern
Pacific reaches the Colorado river
new avenue of trade will be opened,
and the farm and garden products of
our valley will find a market in the
rich mines of Arizona.
RAILROADS
Are doing everything for Los Ange.
les. They have already doubled and
in some instances trebled the valua-
ton of her taxable property. They
are giving her wealth and population,
| and they will in short time make
her city that shall be the second rail-
road center of the Pacific coast.