Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-11-12

Ocnee of Publication, 123-125 West Second |
skrses Los Angeles. Telephone No. 1856
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER ~, 1889.
A Reliable Railroad Pointer.
The HERALD has never waversd in its
belief that direct railroad connection
With Salt Lake was among the inevitable
developments that would soon material.
ise. 1t is, of course, always difficult to
flnd out with approximate certainty the
projects and plans Of railroa d men. A
great deal of guess-work must sometimes
be done to even follow at respectful
distance the mysterious movements OF
the men who are at the head Of railway
enterprises, and sometimes work of the
greatest importance to 3 region is
held go we'll in hand that the
localities interested in 1t are kept
In ignorance until the scheme is
ripe for action and can no longer be
held from the public. But there are al
ways indications and signs forerunning
these new departures which a shrewd
observer can interpret with almost alb
solute certainty. In the past few months
there have bsen many indications point
ing to an impending movement on the
part of the Union Pacific to reach Los
Angeles. Rights of way, franchises and
other easements have been carefully
secured in this city and county that
could only be in the interest of new
railroad project. But the day OF signs
and indications seems to be past, and we
are now on the trail of substantive
facts which 60 to show that
the gap between Los Angeles and
Frisco in Southern Utah is soon
to be the scene of active railroad work.
The coincidence of the meeting here
hast week Of Mr.. V. G. Bogue, Chief
Engineer of the Union Pacific, and Fl.
NJ. Mccartney, resident engin ser at Salt
Lake Of the same corporation, both COM
ing from different directions, might have
had but little significance in itself. But
when it was learned that the latter gen.
tleman had actually come by wagon from
the terminus Of the Utah Central, at
Milford, it was surmised correctly that
the motive of making this peculiar and
unusual trip was to inspect himself the
character of the country along the line of
the survey already m ade. Elsewhere in
this issue Of the HERALD will be found
the full explanation of this significant
meeting here of these two railroad Of
fcials.
There is now no doubt that the Union
Pacific will push to the Pacific Ocean
in two directions-one north and one
south. The southern line will be run
from Milford to this city, and we have
high authority for saying that Redondo
Beach has been selected as the ocean
terminus of the road, whether per-
manently or not, We are not prepared to
state. This last fact comes to us
from so high and credible an authority
that we are puzzled to make 1t fit into
what we have all along regarded as a
matter beyond doubt. Rattlesnake
Island was certainly purchased at
round sum a year ago for a railroad pur.
pose, and we have always been fully i'm
pressed with the idea that the Union
Pacific Company was behind the deal.
Bat this reasonable conjecture must be
abandoned il the Union Pacific has SO.
iected Redondo as its permanent ocean
terminus. Is it possible that the South
ern Pacific Company was the SUB rosa
purchaser Of Rattlesnake Island9
We are assured that one hundred and
fifty miles of road-from Milford to
Pioehe-has bsen let out to graders.
Indeed, the fact that large force of men
are already at work on that section OF
the road was known here two weeks ago.
The entire distance from Milford to this
city is something over four hundred
miles. The territory to be trayersed pre-
sents no construction difficulties what
ever until the mountains that separate
us from the Mohave Desert are reached.
The Union Pacific will have the choice
to come into this valley over the Santa
Fe's rails through the Oh IN Pass, or can
carve out route for itself via the sur
veyed line that strikes in at the Arroyo
No~v' ~ 10 AA0iv, AOWofoT, tn1t lu6
former will be awaited lf at the
start, for there is undoubtedly an
understanding and league of amity on
this subject between the Union Pacific
and the Santa Fe psople, who already
have line of road reaching from this
city to Rsdondo Beach.
We begin to feel that our hopes are
about to be realized, and that the day is
not far distant when the mineral treas
ures Of Southern Nevada and Utah will
be opened to as by line of railroad
direct to Salt Lake. With this road in
operation Los Angeles will not only be
placed in communication with the East
by another overland railway system,
but the manufacturing industries of
this city will be immensely stimulated
BY their easy access to cheap coal meas
ures. The rich mineral districts that
will be tapped by this new road, and
that have lain dormant because their
treasures could not be made probably
available without the aid of cheap trans.
portstion facilities, will become q source
of immense value to the merchants and
producers of this city and valley. The
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