Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-10-26


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SATURDAY. OCTOBER 90. 1883.
A New Through Railroad Con.
nectiOn.
The alliance Just made between the
Union Pacific and the Chicago and
Northwestern Companies has stirred a
decided interest in railroad circles. Mr..
Depew sfirms the report Of a traffic agree
ment between the two powerful roads,
and that of course implies that they will
both seek for business at all points which
they can and ought to reach. 1t is we'll
known that the Union Pacific Company
has long been FESTIVE under its depend
ence upon the Central Pacific for the
traffic of this Coast, and has
sought theoretically for way
out of its enforced thraldom..
The alliance it has now made has un-
doubtedly as one Of its objects the reach
ing of this Coast, and it is positively
stated in Eastern railroad circles that
one part of the agreement between the
two companies is to push an extension
Of the Utah Southern from Frisco, the
present terminus of that road to some
point near Los Angeles. There can be
no doubt of the meaning Of this state
ment. 1t means that the road will be
built to this city and thence to San
Pedro harbor. Agents for the Union
Pacific over year ago pur-
chased Rattlesnake Island at San
Pedro, and this city has made valuable
right of way and land concessions to the
same parties along the Eastern bank of
our river. The assurance has been given
time and again by these parties, who in.
corporated branch company of the
Union Pacific, that work would be COM
menced in good time at this end of the
road. AS an evidence of their good faith
these parties have already spent some
$4,000 in preliminary proceedings in
this city.
The distance between this city and
: Frisco is less than five hundred miles.
The road will pass through a country
that offers nearly all the way, until it
reaches the Sierra Madre, natural road.
bed. Up to that point it offers the
cheapest roadway for construction in
the Western country. At the same time
it will tap large number of mining
districts, rich in ores that will pay
with transportation facilities. Phoebe,
Belmont, New York, Pahranaghat and
fifty other districts are directly in the
line of this route, and they possess
billions of tons of low. grade and rebel
lious ores that would from the start give
large amount of profitable business to a
railroad. Then there are salt and
soda marshes in the region through
which this road will pass that will be
rendered valuable by the facility oftrans.
portation. Los Angeles will naturally
become the objective point of the
vast trade and the consequential
industries that will be built up on
the completion of this road. Not
the least interesting fact in this
connection will be our accessibility
to the valuable coal mines of Utah,
which will furnish us cheap fuel for the
factories that will inevitably follow here
upon this new railroad development. In
this connection we present significant
article we Clip from recent number of
the San Bernardino Courier, as follows:
Many San Bernardinoians know Mr..
j. A. Bidwell, the energetic and success
full mining operator, to whom Ivanpah
owes much of it's development. Mr..
Bidwell owned and managed the Ivan
pah mines for years, and with signal
success and profit. He is etill heavy
owner in Iyanpah and will soon proceed
there to reopen his mill.
In conversation with the editor of the
Courier, yesterday, Mr.. Bidwell said
emphatically that the Union Pacific is
in earnest about extending the Utah
Central to Barstow; that the Southern
line has been surely determined on, and
that the extension will be made on the
Ivanpah route.
The dispute between the faction which
favored the Northern and the one which
supported the Southern line, has de-
layed work for year, but the Union
Pacific interest which favored the South
has carried the day, and now there are
eighty surveyors at work between the
Vegas and Ivanpah.
The line as adopted will run fifty miles |
South of the Southern line of Death val |
ley. Leaving Milford, it will traverse |
q rich coal, lead and iron country en- |
route to Ivanpah, where, aside from the |
silver mines, there are vast deposits of |
lead and copper. From Ivanpah the
road will debouch by way of Moil |
springs an3 Soda lake to Barstow, tap
ping rich mineral country en- route. |
Work will probably commence simulta-
neously at Barstow and Milford. Mate
rial can be shipped from San Diego and |
thence taken to Barstow on the Califor-
mia Southern.
1t is needless to say that the HERALD's |
great anxiety to see this through railroad |
connection made renders it perhaps
over-credulous of the reports received |
about this part of the programme of the
alliance between the Union Pacific and |
the Chicago and Northwestern lines. |
But where there are so many seemingly |