Los Angeles daily herald., 1885-12-03
THE RAILROAD CENTER
of the Great South Califor-
MIA System.
LOS ANGELES BUSINESS
On the Rail-Baggage. Freight and
Passengers In and Out OF
the City.

Ar-~o
Passengers In and Out OF
the City.
To say that Los Angeles is city OF
rising 30, 900 souls does not tell all the
story of her importance. 1t does not
tell half of it. There are many towns
of 100000 inhabitants in the country
that do not begin to do the business
transacted in Los Angeles. To show
the robust state of health prevailing in
this community, the HERALD proposes
to show the pulsations OF the body
commercial financial and industrial. as
indicated by the railroad traiiic.
To begin, Los Angeles is the center oi
the railroad system of all Southern Call
fornia. The Los Angeles and Yuma di-
vision of the Southern Pacific Company
Pacific system) stretches northward
from this city to Summer, distance of
l7O miles. The road runs north Of that
point to Lathrop. 220 miles, aud there
bran shes, one line running to San Fran
cisco and the other. via Stockton and
Sacramento, to the East. Going in the
other direction the road reaches TO Yu-
ma, at the crossing of the Colorado
river, $50 miles southeast of Los Ange-
les, and thence traversing Arizona, New
Mexico and Texas, goes on to Galveston,
New Orleans and all the cities in the
Southwest, South, and North and North.
east. Besides this great main artery OF
the South Pacific system, there are sew
eral ramitioations to ali the important
points in the great Los Angeles valley.
There is one branch to Wilmington and
San Pedro, the port Of entry OF South
ern California. whose great import bnsi-
ness was given in the HERALD of fe"
days ago. The length OF this is twenty |
five miles. At Florence, six miles south |
of Los Angeles, this road branches, one
fork running easterly to Downey |
City, Norwalk, Anaheim, Orange |
and Santa Ana, This is now
about thrty-four miles in length, but its
name. ''The Los Angeles and San Diego"
division, would seem to indicate its
final termination to be ON the bay OF
San Diego, nearly 100 miles from Los
Angeles. The last branch is known as
the Los Angeles and Independence di-
vision, and runs from this city TO Santa
Monica, eighteen miles west OF here ON
the ocean. Here, then. is a system in
cluding ia all nearly $50 miles Of rails.
This is only a single link in the greatest
railroad combination IN the world, reach |
u
ing by its many ramiiicatons not merely |
from "Siskiyou to San Diego, from the
Sierras to the sea, but also by two maiu |
trunk lines to all important points ia |
the great American republic, and to all
those in the sister republic, Mexico, |
south of US. Moreover, under the same
management aud cognats systems 1are
lines of steamers plying aloHg the coasts
of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and
one crossing the latter ocean to Asia.
TRAINS IN AND OUT.
Over these roads there run in and ouft
OF Los Angeles trains as follows: North
ward over the main trunk line two
through freight and | through pas
senger daily each way, or 0 trains; East.
ward by same trunk line, through to all |
points at the East, | freight aud
passenger each way, or trains in all. |
There go out and come in on the same |
track to Cotton ! mixed train each way, |
or trains, Over this same track go \
to Cotton and thence by the California |
Southern track, freight and passen
ger train, under the management OF the |
California Southern Railroad Company. |
Here are 4 more trains. There are on
the San Pedro or Wilmington branch
mixed trains daily each, or trains. BY |
the branch to Santa Ana there is simi-
lar movement. By the LoI Angeles and |
Independence branch the daily move
ment embraces 2 mixed trains daily \
each way, OF trains. IN
Under separate management thefe |
is the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Val
ley Railroad, now in operation dis |
tance of about l3 miles. There are
half o dozen trains day each way on
these tracks, or IL trains day. This |
road will ultimately be extended to Col |
ton, distance of about 60 miles from |
this city. 1t parallels the Southern Pa
cific; but at distance OF several miles, |
and runs through region so exception
ally rich and popu'ous that it has the
best reason in the world to show for its
existence.
1t is hard to give a comprehensive
view OF the freight and passengers
moving in and out. To get general
idea, certain days were taken at random
during e past six months and the cars
coming and going BY each regular train
counted. The first day selected was
July 80, 1885, and the cars moving
"from San Francisco" as the railroad |
A lnt l. al
were counted. There went out on that |
day to San Pedro, 70 carsI to Santa Ana
and way stations the movement en-
braced cars; to Santa Monica, cars;
to Yuma, 30 cars; to Cotton and way |
stations, ~ cars. There came in from
the north 28 cars. Total for the day, |
l5s ears going south. The next date
happened on was August 26, 1885. |
There came in from the north 56 cars.
There went ont to Santa Ana, etc, 6; |
Wilmington, 72; Yuma, l4; Cotton, 6. |
Total, l54. Turning the books. Sep
tember 23 came up. The arrivals from
the north embraced IS cars; departures
to Yuma, S5; Cotton. etc, 10: Santa |
Ana, o; San Pedro, 10; Santa Mouica,
3; total, l07. On October % the in-
ward movement for the month was 81;
outward to Santa Ana, IL; Yuma, Al;
Cotton, ETC., "a; Wilmington Sc; Santa
Monica, 2; total, 49, Lastly, Novem-
ber %, few days ago, was selected and
it appeared that on that day, there came
in III, and departed to Yuma, 80; to
hanta Monica | to Cotton, etc, %; TO
Santa Ana, 8; to San Pedro, 2fi total,
lO2 1t would appear from these hap
hazard days selected as stated
that there is an average south
ward movement of $50 to l75 freight
cars daily. The movement in the oppo
site direction is about the same. TAX
ing November 2S, 1885, as test case, it
was found that there moved northward |
from Yuma So cars; For Cotton, ETC., %,
Santa Ana 2, Wilmington As. and out
of Los Angeles toward San Francisco |
~; total movement for the day l57. |
4 For October 18th the movement was
north from Los Angeles %, into Los An.
peles from Yuma GO, Cotton III, Santa
Ana 7. Wilmington &c; total 1874. On
August 18th the figures show from Santa
Ana 4. Wilmington 81, Yuma 10, Col
ton Ii. out OF Los Angeles 33, north |
tyard. total 129- The regular move
,nent then was something like 300 freight
cars day in and out OF Los Angeles.
The passenger cars would show a
movement OF about % cars a day in and
out from the depot. 10 this is to be
added the cars going from the San Ca
briel Valley railroad depot-say IL each
way daily. Thsre are besides the freight
trains of the new Southern California
Company just beguni also the baggage.
express and mail cars all running the
regular movement Of cars up to rising
400 day. Nor is this all. The great
business of the rails is via the Sunset
Route from Galveston. Three days in the
week special trains come over this line
from the East, aud these cars do not ap-
pear in the list Of regular trains They
would increase the figures by 90 per