Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-04-07
THE SALT LAKE AND Los AN.
GELEs ROAD.
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While it is practically certain that
the Utah Southern railroad is TO b,
extended southwark from Milford, il
seems equally certain that the new
independent line from Salt Lake to
Los Angeles, passing this way, has
very poor prospects, to the outside
world, OF being constructed. The Los
Angeles Tribune Of recent date has
the annexed growl about this subject
which is of deep interest to this
section Of Nevada. We trust the
Tribune has merely allowed its i'm
patience to get the best Of it and that
the outlook for the new company is
not so bad as it seems to think. This
is its article which appears in its
columns in the form OF a leading edi-
torial:
What has become Of the Salt Lake
and Los Angeles Railway Company,
is what a great many people in this
section would like TO know. Some
months ago there appeared here a
couple OF gentlemen who gave the
people to understand that they were
the representatives. OF heavy East I'm
capitalists, not named, and that they
had come to secure the aid Of the
leading citizens Of Los Angeles in the
incorporation Of a company to build
the California end of a short line Of
railroad from Salt Lake City to this
place. They only wanted the in
corporation OF a company to build TO
the California State line, they said, as
they had already organized companies
to construct the road through Utah
and Nevada. They desired, however,
that a pass be found for them over the
Sierra Nevada mountains range north
Of Pasadena as, while ii was perfectly
feasible to build the road through the
Cajon, they would much prefer a
shorter and more direct line into Los
Angeles. These gentlemen were
given all that they desired. A COM
pany was incorporated, the leading
men Of the city being the subscribers
for the stock, and a party Of surveyors
was sent out into the Sierra Madres to
find the desired pass. Then the
strangers departed, but after a time
they came acknowledging with them
an expert Eastern engineer-and then
we had an announcement that a feas-
ible pass over the mountains had
been found, as desired, that the road
was backed by Mr.. Jay Gould, and
construction would commence at once.
The gentlemen departed again, and
since their second departure no man
has been able to discover the slight
est trace OF the Salt Lake and Los
Angeles railway with the strongest kind
Of q magnifying glass. 1t has van
ished from off the face OF the earth-it
is gone-it is no more-it is as though
it had neve been.
Meanwhile, at about the time these
promising strangers first appeared in
this city there was incorporated here
the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt
Lake Railway Company. This was
a much more modest and less preten-
tious scheme. 1t was ostensibly
backed only by local capitalists, and
and its purpose was but to connect
Los Angeles with the terminus CT the
Utah Central road in Southern Utah.
And yet it seems to have turned out
that jay Gould-and it is possible
that the greater was, shall we say it, 3
.pretentious humbug? 1t is certain
that the San Pedro, Los Angeles and
Salt Lake railway will be built, be-
cause it is necessary as n western out
let for the Union Pacific. Is it equally
certain that the Salt Lake and Los
Angeles will not be built? We trust
not-and yet we very much fear that
the scheme has vanished into the
abyss Of nothingness, from whence it
came.