Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-07-23
NOTES OF TRAVEL.
Further Incidents in a Va
cation Trip.
THE soLEDAD PASS.
Amusements in the City With q
Forecast Of What is Booked
For Los Angeles.

by-the wsysids on little summer trip
the work Of the y. P. Co. In the Sole
dad pass calls for more than . casua
mention. The new track Is now prettl
we'll completed and the cars are runninl
over II most Of the way up the cahon
A great deal Of good work has been 20
complished. and at tho expenditure o
no small Gums Of money The road ha
been carried away from the wash 0
water all along the cafon and on TO hisl
ground. Where the course OF tn
stream has to be encountered 1t Is don
almost ct right angles, the roadbed no
being allowed to parallel the stream TO
any great distance anywhere. The ne'
roadway Is on solid ground, the rock
sides Of the mountains being cut ava
most Of the distance. The abutment
to the bridges are fsnked with rock
work Of a very substantial nature
Where the current tends 70 sprsAd ovs
! wide area with danger that
might change It's bod and range :
will, wing dams and levess Of hsav'
rock have been constructed, 70 a. to con
fine the wild mountain torrent to def
mite bed. The work being done bear
evidence in its solidity aud complete
mes Of being intended for all tims 3
coms. There are few plaOos in ths
world where more and greater dincutie
have been encountered and overcom'
than thoss seen along the lines OF th'
arest California enterprises which q
successfully crossed the SierrAs on thu
G. P. line. and which bored the big SaI
Fernando tunnel Of some 1000 feet
which climbed tho Soledad CenoD, de
flying the mad force Of it, wild and i'm
petuous winter torrent, and which madt
the steep and tortuous ascent from sum
nsr, ct the head Of the San Joaquin
valley, TO the Tehachepi summit, with
the world-famous loop where the TRACK
crosses itself In overcoming what seemed
to Be an insurmountable obstacle In tn
shape Of . spur Of the mountain.
Los AseHAzs
Il watched by those interested in ths
uppsr oountry with the eyes Of = lynx
HG phenomenal growth and her forward
stsides In business cause the Bay City Il
fell some anxiety - to the rivalry surf
V develop for The business OF . lsrgt
part Of the State. There are strays 81
ready fluttsring 10 the financial breez'
which while they show 1t u blowing u
coed. are no lsss surely III winds to 9th
en-. A firm o.. paper dealers y this city
have offered to sell printing papers OF
The bay . shade lower than the best term
TO b. had Of the big paper warehouses
there. The representatives Of the job
bing housss Of San Francisco are meet
ina those from this city in III branches
Of trade 81 the very Threshold OF thsil
own doom. A San Franciscan just bacL
from the east told the writer In . mo
mont Of generous confidence that whsr
evsr he went ell tongues were busy talk
ing Of California, but the refrain Of 81
their songs was Los Angeles. The idei
IVES that while California In general wa
very we'll 10 it, way and certainly . de
sirsbls place to live - compared will
the east, yet there was no unalloyet
sooS M sunerIativs blessing short O
mi.troplo caiifornis. The dwslisr il
Northsrn CaIiforuia vas in the sam,
-ssio II hanninsss a. 10 his more forum.
~ brotber Who settled near Los Angeles
- mai Al thu New Yorker or Mime
.olsn oompersd to the man domicile,
~ ~ ascramsuto. such Il the East
~ visv a us. An tbs world wants /,
souas % southern Californis. This Ssl
Yr.neiasan aid, "Your oranges ma,
ar 81 scale. YOUR grapes may get th
philloxsrn. but % long - your aoldeI
srmner dsv. snd frostless winter night
~ IN 10 yoa 10 hard times can reach
nor COLLAGE shsks the solid basis from
rndsr yonr beom."
speskipa Of booms, Il Il worthy o
not thst some Of the up country coun
~ ~. var show : positive falling Of
Il ~ ssssssed values Of their property
This sssessmens Is made at their owl
hsnds md Z presumably correct. Solan
q rsported q color $500, 900 - com
pared With the figures Of Las
xeer. Sacramento Ia reported as showinI
< fallipe ~ of n. 900. 0Oo-and this il
epits Of the boom Of the northern citru
helt And ths special session Of the Legia
lnturs.
AnuaxuESrs.
..,., $500, whs, MANI a
- ~" "@,m ~. ,oornt.;y. =
~ ~ S .s".;a. a. Fr.rc;.oo 20 nnus
~, ~, - = - srrssmsnt line m
shs:.!.r: ~ w.,s nanny il : line Of rssii,