Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1882-01-21

OUR esteemed contemporary, the
San Diego Union, reminds the ed
itor OF the HERALD that, when he
was editor of the San Diego World,
now nearly eight years ago, he dwelt
upon the advantages of direct
line OF railway between San Diego
and Yuma. We advocated such a
line, and, indeed, . through rail-
way system between San Diego
and Mstagorda Bay. But, in look
ing back ct many of the sangnine
expectations OF our green and salad
days, we have often been lost In
wonder at discovering what an un-
mitigated gosling we then were.
Man is permitted to grow out OF
many Sollies. Everything, in those
days, was couleur de rose to us,
and the persuasive tongue Of our
versatile friend Mr.. D. o. McCar-
thy induced US, If not to take to
ourselves the glaes eyes which
Lear suggested as the gift of the
scurvy politician, at least to seem
to see things we did not. 1t was
all in the minds eye, and the rose
tinted phantasmagoria has since
melted into thin air, like the dis
solving fabric of q vision, or as do
some of those charming mirages
which the pleasure-seeker encoun.
ters on the drive between San Di-
ego and La Jolia. In pointing
out the absurdity Of projected
line of railway between Sonora
and Lower California We have
been impslled by no feeling of hos
tility to San Diego. AS we stated.
In our review Of that project, We
regarded it as for the best interests
of this section that q note of warn.
ing should be raised when utterly
irresponsible and disastrous rail-
way projects OF the Peter Funk or
der are developed hersabouts. Our
content orary cannot fail to have
often pondered OF the fact that the
railway situation now and eight
years ago was vastly different.
Then everything was in future.
The Texas Pacific railway was
looming up as giant striding
westward, and Col. Scott had
pledged himself to complete it to
San Diego, ut the outside, In five
years. The Southern Pacific rail-
way was away up north Of the
boundary line of Kern county. Now
one transcontinental railway, COW
ering all possible business which
could have Injured to the direct
route, has been completed to Eastern
conn ections at point near Ell
Paso, by one line, and at New Or.
leans, by another, the Atlantic
& Pacific is pushing its way rap.
idly to the Needles aud San Fran
cisco, and the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe has entered the ter.
ritory of New Mexico, and is
reaching out for sonora. Under
these changed circumstances II
would be the height of unfairness
to allow the money Of unsuspect-
ing investors to be put into such 9
gossamer enterprise as the Sonora
and BBja California Railway, for
which q Mexican concession has
been obtained, as we were recent
ly told by telegraph. One thing is
quite assured, and that is that the
enterprise will fall stil.bors.
Wild as the people Of the United
States have shown themselves to
be, of late, they are yet not quite
prepared to run after such verita-
BILE financial Wills o. The Wisp as
this Sonora Baja California plant.
There are too many insane asy-
lums throughout the broad ex-
panse of this land to admit Of an
insane element being at large,
large enough to give vitality to
this precious project and mex.
pressibly precarious.