Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-10-25

San Francisco is the seat of the
most powerful and hostile rail-
way domination on the whole conti-
nent. To begin with, there is the
Central Pacific, with its present
overland connection with the
Union Pacific, and with its en-
gineers out surveying road from
Ogden, Utah, to Yankton, Dakota,
which will give it perfect system
of Eastern connections independ-
ent of the Union Pacific. Then
there is the Southern Pacific,
which has already a serviceable
Eastern connection by the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe road,
and which will shortly have con-
nection with New Orleans. In ad.
dition, these two powerful roads
have outlined a scheme of railway
connections which will admit of
rail shipments Of wheat, through
the whole extent of Oregon and
California, to tidewater at New
Orleans.
We are no longer left in doubt
but that there is a feverish ambi-
ton on the part of the Atlantic &
Pacific to get to Underwater at San
Francisco. By the time they are
able to get there the sagacious
mRnipulators of this road will find
themselves literally "cross-sawed"
by those twin brothers, the Gen.
trail and Southern Pacific. When
they get there, besides, they will
find their rivals firmly implanted,
with business ramifications which
WILL establish their ascendancy un-
sbakably. In their eager haste to
get to San Francisco "by the short
est route" they will undertake to
whirl passengers through ire.
mendous extent of California Des-
ert, after having hurried them
through the Deserts of New Mex
leo aud Arizona, and the worst
part of the latter. 1t is needless to
say that these passengers, being
reasoning "animals," will "buck !"
and peremptorily decline to travel
bu aunh N yoad Aa RI tba Ok u or
business to which the company
may look as a compensation, it
will find the Southern Pacific pre-
pared to cut under it for the freight
business of the San Joaquin val
ley, in the occasional years in
which that section will yield a
crop and have any freight to com.
pete for.
Were. the managers of the Attain
tic q Pacific men of sagacity and
genius, we should have expected
to see them develop far more in.
telligent and remunerative pro.
gramme. They might, for in.
stance, have bought the San vi
cente ranch, with Its unrivaled
watering place facilities al
Santa Monica and ability te
| do all the business of thu
Southern Coast for the next TWEEN
ty years, with further ability tt
develop splendid harbor at a com
paratively trining outlay. Ever
J San Diego would have presented
commercial and business prospect
OF a character infinitely more at
tractive than running their headl
Into the Central and Southern Pa
cific cuL de sacs of the San Joaquin
valley and San Francisco. They
might have remembered that the
original plan of o transcontinent
al railway which should dominate
the trade of Asia contemplated &
Southern California harbor.
TnlB corporation mas deliberately
elected to throw away its fine op
portunities. 1t has rejected tn,
splendid and phenomenally rapid
development of the local bushes.
OF Los Angeles county. We arr
constrained to express it as oul
OniniOn that i0up hefora II shal
reach San Francisco, a corporation
directed by such bad counsels will
find Itself, through its lack of bus
mess sagacity, without funds to q
anywhere. We are very much
afraid that it will turn out to be {
transcontinental railway without
any Pacific terminus whatsoever