Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1879-10-23
THERE is every indication of al

unusual activity in transcontinen-
tai railway building towards
southern California. Our neigh
boring city towards the South, San
Diego, Is again stirred by the hopes
OF q completed transcontinentai
road below the snow belt which
will have its terminus at tide
water on the bay of that name. The
people there now look to the Atch-
ison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
with much of the hope that they
formerly reposed in the Texas Ia
ciac Railway. Many of the San
Diegans who profess to have reiia-
BILE sources OF information assume
to know that an agreement to that
effect exists between the managers
OF that railway and certain citi-
sens Of San Diego. This may be
true; and, It should prove to be
20, the result cannot fail to have a
wonderful influence in resurrecting
property values in that long suffer-
Z Ing town. The time has come for
: change for the better for San
Diego, in any event. Its merits as
: sanitarium will loom into promi-
nsnce again, now that better times
are enabling Eastern valetudina-
rians to hunt health resorts. But
one may be permitted to doubt the
extension of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fee Railway to San
Diego. 1t will undoubtedly connect
with the Southern Pacific Railway;
and, if it is continued beyond the
point of this connection, it is likely
to take the direction Of Mexico.
Some mysterious fascination seems
to attract ranscontinental railway
builders down to Guaymas. Even
Governor Stanford, about tvs o years
ago, spoke of running a branch OF
the Southern Pacific to Guaymas.
To people living in California and
the East this hottest and least In
viting of gulf cities looms up as a
sort of earthly Paradise. To them
the Yaqui river, which empties
into the Gulf, is a sort of Mississippi
or Amazon, instead of being a
stream, like the San Diego river,
dry most of the time. Before en-
tering into large OUTLAWS in Sonora,
however, any railway company, no
matter how regardless of expense
it may be, will look into the veu-
ture a little. They will find that
Sonora is simply a second edition
Of Arizona, with great doubts as to
whether she possesses the mineral
wealth Of our own territory.
Guaymas, as o port, besides, can
only be reached by tremendous
detour around Cape st. Lucas and
the Gulf. The chances of San Die.
go's getting an extension of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
road are chiefly menaced by the
fact that, in country so sparsely
ettled as this, railways cannot be
Jun at will over such regio0
as that which will extend
from the point of Intersection OF
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe Railway and the Southern Pa
cific through Arizona to and over
the Colorado Desert. That San
Diego will, some day in the neal
future, have a terminus of her own,
we entertain no manner of doubt.
As to the present, however, We
think she must look to an ex-
tension south of the Santa Ana
branch of the Southern Pacific
Railway. Meanwhile, no matter
what may be her railway expert
ences, I'VE think that that pretty and
attractive little city is going to see
. decided revival of her old time
prosperity, and that very shortly.
When her time for q genuine com
mercial activity comes, and W.
think railway connection with
San Francisco and Los Angelo!
would start the ball, no city of bel
size on the coast will grow NOR,
rapidly than San Diego. We be
lieve that time to be some years of
but think that, in the interim, thu
city will be thronged by the hun
dreds-almost thousands-of cult
waited people who, in 1927;
thought the place SO delightful, and
who made it prosperous by freely
spending their money there.
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