Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-30
Ell psRApo,s JUBILEE.

The opening of the road is an event of
the utmost Importance to III Dorado
county, of much moment to Sacramento,
and of lively interest to all the State. 1t
brings large rich and but partly devel-
oped section of California into immediate
market relations with the seats of COM
merce, and connects it with all the great
lines of transportation of the United
States All railroad extension has the
effect of largely eliminating time and dis
lance between markets; between producers
and consumers, and thus reducing the risks
of production and charging the oppor-
tunities of industry The fact that rail
way connection is complete between New
York and Florida, brings the Florida pro-
Queer as much nearer to the New York
consuming and distributing market, as is
represented by the difference between the
time now occupied in transit and that
necessary prior to the construction of the
connecting railway lines. Before the
transcontinental railroads were built,
California was considerably more than
three thousand miles from the Atlantic
markets-she was really about n month
distant in poin; OF time, and that repre-
sented nearly ten thousand miles of actual
transit. Now she is but five or six DAYS
away from the commercial centers of the
Atlantic coast, and thus by twenty-four
days a time California is nearer TO the
EAs; than she was before the railroad era.
So 81 Dorado county, while but fifty
miles distant from the Sacramento mar
ke;, prior TO the completion of the rail
road Was in reality long way removed
sufficient, indeed, to inhibit, in large part,
the marketing of her perishable products
The consequence was that such production
was, of necessity, limited to the local con-
sumption, with the addition of such choice
growth as could endure the long time and
rude means of transportation. Now, how
ever, her fruits can be plucked at day
break, packed and laid down in Sacra-
mento by 9 A. NJ, and be far upon their
way to, the Atlantic seaboard before the
sun sets on the same day. Such change
in conditions can have but one effect-to
enhance the value of every acre of pro-
ductive soil contiguous to or reasonably
near to the road What must result !?
Greatly increased production, large acreage
of cultivation of lands, greater number of
industrial workers, an enlarged census and
corresponding prosperity.
The railroad in these days is the "magic
wand" that transforms sterility into fruit
fitness. Where it touches, the soil is most
made to yield to the will of man; into
whatever region it reaches, the latent vir-
tues of the section are brought into lively
activity.
The people of Ell Dorado have, there
FORE every reason to rejoice; and it is not
mere enthusiasm that we witnessed in
their manifestations of joy yesterday The
welcome they extended to the pioneer To-
comotive was more than mere jubilation.
1t means new energy, enlarged capital,
multiplied industries, more fields and
acres under tillage, more homes and peo-
pie and money, much greater general pros
perity and corresponding broadening of
opportunities for all her residents. 1t
means that Ell Dorado, once the county of
greatest political and social potency, will
again come to the front as power in the
State She will be felt in every activity
making toward the full achievement of the
destiny of California, and in a manner
heretofore unknown to her. Sacramento
expects, with reason, to share in her pros
perty. Every wly-conquered acre of her
territory, every addition to her whirling
wheels ofindustry, every foot of extension of
her canals, every ounce Of gold mined
from her hills Of groaning wealth, will
pay tribute to Sacramento, and the people
of Ell Dorado will receive in return COM
pensation dollar for dollar in the new
opportunities they will enjoy by reason of
closer relation to the commercial adyan-
tages of this trade center.
We congratulate the people of FL Do
RADIO; Sacramento congratulates herself on
the achievement of this new undertaking
The railroad builders, to whose enterprise
the construction of the road is due, are
likewise to be felicitated. They have not
for many long years seen their way clear,
until now, to extend the road into the
bowels of Ell Dorado county They had
long been importuned to build the line,
but have not until very recently been able
to consummate long-entertained desire.
As it is, the road will probably take for
some time the punishment inseparable
from the building into but partly devel-
oped region without passing on through it
to a commercial terminus. But these rail-
road builders look beyond the present
they probably realize that the road will
for time be operated at an expense in ex-
cess of returns, but that, we believe, will
be for but comparatively brief period.
Ell Dorado must now rapidly develop
all her latent resources; she will speedily
take a first place with the great producing
counties; her fruits will rank among the
gilt-edged = her timber will find markets
before unknown to it; her mines, under the
stimulus of newly attracted capital and
improved means of transporting supplies,
will be worked with renewed energy, give
greater yield and at lessened expense; her
manufactures viii enlarge; her agriculture
be greatly augmented; her unsurpassed
vater-power be fully availed of, and
throughout al her broad territory the
spirit of enterprise and development will
rule. With this new era viii come due
rewards to the builders Of the road and the
people who extended needed aid to secure
its completion.
TIE residents of El Dorado well under
stand all this, and we can therefore COM
prehend and appreciate the pleasurable
excitement and jubilant enthusiasm which
was manifest yesterday on all sides in