Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-05
The Union Pacific Behind she New
lg0ad.


Our morning contemporaries seem to
he very much exercised over the railway !
franchise granted by the Council and
signed by Mayor Bryson day before yes
terdsy. That the new project is in capa-
BILE hands, and that it will give Los
Angeles an East side levee and grand
railway boulevard, are facts that few will
shortly be found to dispute. The scep-
tics, unless our information is at fault,
will soon be confronted by demonstra-
ton. Col. Marble and his associates are
said to represent the Union Pacific, and
that corporation has already pushed the
Utah Southern considerable distance
south of Salt Lake City. One of our con-
temporaries seems to think that there is
only room on Rattlesnake Island for one
railway. 1t appears to have forgotten
that the art Of piling has been brought to
a fine point of late years, and that
wharves and moles can be created as if
by magic where capital points the way.
The HERALD repeats that substantial
guarantees were given before Mayor
Bryson signed the franchise that the
enterprise was solid one. All the great
lines OF railways which reach the Mis-
souri, River will some day seek Pacific
Coast terminus at Los Angeles. The
Chicago and Burlington, the Missouri
Pacific and the Rock Island all aim to
h1~ al xr,h,1 hn Inio
Pacific, in acquiring and extending the
Utah Southern to Frisco, has shown its
anxiety years ago to reach tidewater at
San Pedro. This journal does not pretend
to have actual demonstration that the
Union Pacific ir the real mover in the
matter; but it Can assert with confidence
that when the granting OF the franchise
was hanging in the balance, Mr. Upham,
of the Union Pacific, produced satisfac.
tory credentials from Mr.. G. G. Sander
son, assistant to the President of that
powerf corporation, which satisfied the
Mayor and the Council that 1t was be-
hind the enterprise.
One of our enterprising contemporaries
stated that the franchise would be signed
yesterday, while, as matter of fact it
was signed the day before, as detailed in
the HERALD. The information and the
suppositions emanating from such a
quarter are of doubtful value.
That the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Rail-
way will be built this journal has no
doubt. The fact that the project has been
discussed for years is in no sense against
lit. Thomas H. Benton talked about the
practicability and advisability Of rail-
way to the Pacific ocean thirty years be-
fore it was built. The railway between
San Francisco and Los Angeles was years
in being built, while that grand concep-
ton, the Sunset Route, was regarded by
many persons as something unattainable.
When Col. Thomas A. Scott was in Los
Angeles, somewhat over sixteen years
ago, talking of his project of building the
iTexas Pacific to this coast, nobody
dreamed that the Atchison. Topeka &
Santa Fe would by this time have line
both to Los Angeles and San Diego. The
fact that the project has been mooted for
80 long a time is all in it's favor, and is a
strong presumption that the time for its
Accomplishment has at length arrived.
The HERALD believed in the building
of all these roads, and it has seen them
all facts accomplished. 1t believes now
| in the Los Angeles & Salt Lake road. 1t
sees in the movements that are now
shaping themselves the same ear-marks
shown by the Santa Fe people when they
set about building the California South
ern and when the San Gabriel Valley
road was first agitated, only substituting
the Union Pacific for the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe.
Taking this view OF the matter, we con-
gratulate our people on the fact that
they are shortly to have cheap coal, and
that here will be erected great smelters
for the reduction of the abundant rebel
lious ores OF southwestern Nevada and
Utah. Iu Arizona there are illimitable
quantities of valuable ores which will
furnish the fluxes needed in combination
with the Utah and Nevada ores. This
is the point at which they can be worked
to most advantage; and the abundant
and excellent coal beds which align the
Los Angeles and Salt Lake road will
furnish the cheap fuel needed, not only
for smelling, but for all manufacturing
and domestic purposes.
| Very naturally the promoters Of this
road will build first from Los Angeles to
the sea. In this way they can get their
materials without having to pay tribute
to other roads. The advent of new
transcontinental road to Los Angeles
will mean tremendous impetus to our
population and wealth.
EASTERN tourists who pass through