Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-27

| Element, but which has already stimulated
long dormant territories to new life, and
has itself created the germs of a business
the magnitude and value of which are now
beginning to be realized. No railroad of
such consequence has ever before been
built with so little parade as the Southern
Pacific, and no railroad, not even the Cen
trail Pacific, has before it so splendid a
future
Passing almost along its whole length
over a country free from formidable en-
cheering difficulties and heavy grades;
secured by its geographical alignment
against these climatic vicissitudes which
render the operations of the Central Pacific
so costly it traverses series of the richest
and most productive regions on the earth,
and finds its natural terminus on the shores
of the Gulf of Mexico, within easy and
convenient reach of the principal marts of
the Atlantic States and Europe. Over this
easy and safe and certain route the vast
harvests of California will presently be
carried to the seaboard, thence to be trans
ported by large and swift steamers to the
waiting markets of Liverpool and Lon
don. The facilities for carrying grain
in bulk on specially constructed bin
cars, over this route, are self-evident,
and the grades are so easy that the cost of
operation will permit of successful compe-
tition with ocean carriage. This, however,
is but one of the functions which the
Southern Pacific is destined to perform.
1t will develop the rich mining regions of
the country through which it passes. 1t
will cause the settlement and cultivation
of hitherto neglected fertile areas. twill
people New Mexico and Arizona and Colo
RADIO, and all the broad stretch of country
down to the Gulf. 1t will unlock a thou
sand treasure-houses which have lain use
less up to the present time because of the
lack of transportation. 1t will replace the
lawlessness and barbarism of frontier life
civilization 1t will create new markets
for California, immeasurably extend the
field of enterprise and commerce for her
merchants and capitalists; raise San Fran
cisco to far higher cminence than she
could have reached in a century without
this assistance ; provide work and pros
perity for hundreds of thousands of indus
trious hands bind the East, the West and
the South together more firmly than ever,
and put fresh life into every Pacific coast
undertaking In many respects it may be
said that the Southern Pacific offers greater
opportunities and promises larger returns,
direct and indirect, than the Central, and
it is therefore not surprising that its far
seeing projectors should be DESTROYS of
pushing it to completion with all the means
at their disposal
The idea that the two great trunk lines
may interfere with one another is super
fetal one. 1t can only be entertained by
such as fail to grasp the possibilities, nay,
the certainties, of the future. 1t must be
SLehS tiiS dSiiiN SoeioO, sihth eiiiiOoN
the entire country through which the
Southern Pacific passes, is as yet only
thinly sprinkled with inhabitants. A hun
bred and fifty millions of people could find
ample room and verge enough in this vast
territory, and in the natural course popu-
lation must increase in the future with
| cpaaI The
duction of wealth from the mining regions
now about to be opened to steady develop
ment for the first time, can of course be
only conjectured, but it is believed that
there are lodes richer than the Comstocll
in that scarcely touched mineral belt.
The tendency of all settlement to extend
itself, and to attract capital and popula-
ton, is well known, and the growth of the
territories crossed by the new railroad is
therefore certain to be swift and steady.
No enterprise so full of significance for
California has been ever projected, and
this great work is already well on its way
toward completion. The vital Importance
to this coast of having such an undertake
ing in the hands of Californians is ap-
parent 1T glance. 1t makes all the diff
ference between a policy of which the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of this coast is the main
object, and one aiming at the aggrandiz,-
ment of the South or the East 1t is
upon this great railroad that the builders
of the Central Pacific are now concen-
trating their energies and their capital,
and we have no doubt that one
cause of their recent sale of Central Pa
cifc stock was the desire to avail them
selves of every opportunity to push the
Southern Pacific, and above all to secure
for it the control of the through traffic to
the Gulf. This may be said to be practi-
cally accomplished now by the arrange
ments which are in course of execution,
and it must give to California not only
second trunk connection with the East,
but q connection the operation of which
will be fully controlled by men intimately
| associated with the interests of the Pacific
coast, and who can be trusted to maintain
those interests against the greed and ra-
pacity of outside spectators and schemers.
A young Nimrod, named Luke Sanguin-
ETH, aged IL, while out hunting near Val
lecito last Sunday killed large California
| lion