Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-11-01
Eos Susrles gerald.
RAILROADS TO THE PACIFIC.
Gossip About the A. 7. & s, E. Railroad
and Other Pacific Lines.

fArlzona Correspondence OF the Cleve'
land tohiol Leader.1
While Arizona is leading the van
In her development of rich bodies
of ore and outstripping all the other
States and Territories on the Pacific
slope, she is obliged 10 DIVIDE hef
honors with Lower California ana
Sonora, two of the northern States
of the Republic of Mexico. IN rich
mines OF gold, silver, copper, iron,
coal, sulphur, alum and salt.
Since the decision of the Atchi-
son. Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-
road Company to extend its main
line to San Diego, or rather since
its decision to begin at once to
build the west end of its line from
San Diego eastward, the great rail-
road problem of the Pacific slope
tends toward a practical solution.
Thus far, it has all been an eng
ma as to what Southern California,
with. its fine resources, Lower Cali
fornia (Mexico), with its treasure
house full of rich minerals, and
Northern Mexico, east of the Gulf
Of California, were going to do, so
long as that gigantic monopoly,
the Central Pacific Railroad Com
papy, held them all by the throat,
and neither dared to breathe with
out first asking its permission. Ii
there is corporation on the IA
cific Coast that deserves punish
ment in the future, which 1t is
sure to get sooner or later, it is that
same road and its naughty officials
for their continued inhuman and
unbusiness-like oppression and ty-
ranny which they inflict upon the
public. Arizona sees her way a
little clearer in the future in the
near approach of Jay Gould's
Southern Utah Railroad from the
north, and the Atehison, Topeka
and Santa Fe Railroad from the
east, while Tom Scott fingers still
in the East with his pet, the Texas
and Pacific.
NEW ERA.
Jay Gould will build $50 miles of
road south from York, Utah, on
the Utah Southern Railroad during
the present year, and will extend
his line from there to Callville on
the Colorado river, thence down
the Sacramento or Big Sandy val
leys, passing through the rich min
eral belts of the we'll known Ar
mold, Hibernia, Congress, Me-
Cracker and blackberry silver and
gold mines-through the very best
portion of Arizona, to Aubrey
Landing, the head of low-water
steamboat navigation on the Colo
RADIO river, and thence across the
desert wastes to San Diego. A line
of river steamboats, will connect at
Aubrey Landing with the steam
ship lines at the mouth of the Colo
RADIO for all points down the Mexi-
can coast, as we'll as down the Cen
trial and South American west
coast. Gould must do this in order
to secure his proportion of the trade
from this vast region, and to pro.
tect his Union Pacific Railroad in
terests, which will soon be in peril
from the connections to be made
by the Southern Pacific RAILROAD
(only another name fer the Central
PRcific) with the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe Railroad at or near
Tucson, and the fact that the st.
Louis and San Francisco Railroad
Company has decided to extend its
line at once upon the survey of the
old Atlantic and Pacific Railroad,
to connection with the Southern
(CentraD Pacific Railroad in Ari-
IONA or New Mexico.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe Railroad Company has signed
a contract to commence work be-
fore January LIST at San Diego, upon
the western end Of their main line,
which now takes the place and all
the advantages which would have
been secured by the Texss-Pacific,
and entities the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe to position as one of
the transcontinental lines. This
fact also forces Gould to extend a
southwest branch utah Southern)
of the Union Pacific Railroad to
the Pacific Ocean, which must be
at San Diego, as that Is the only
harbor on the American coast south
of San Francisco.
1t begins to look as if Boston cap
ital would yet control through
line to the Pacific, as it already has
four of the five great links, viz:
the Hoosac Tunnel line, Michigan
Central, Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, and the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railroads. The latter
has built its main line from
Atchison in Kansas to point near
Albuquerque in New Mexico,
which it Is now extending down
the valley of the Rio Grandc at the
rate of two miles day, and which
will cross the southeastern portion
Of Arizona into Sonora, and across
it to the mouth of the Colorado
River, where 1t will connect with
the steamship lines already run
ming down the coasts of Mexico on
both sides of the Gulf of California
and with others of tho West, Cen
trail anc South American coasts,
and from the mouth of the Colo.
RADIO River through the rich miner
al and timber belts of Lower Cali
fornia, crossing the American line
within sixteen miles of San Diego.
The new line already controls the
trade of Eastern Arizona, and will
that of all Northern Mexico in
Sonora and Lower California. II
crosses the richest mineral and ag-
ricultural portions of Sonora, run
ming through its immense beds of
coal and In close proximity to its
great mines of gold and sill
YER. 1t will also pass through
the fine timber belt of Lowor Cali
fornia, 12o miles long by 25 wide,