Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-19
CAHUENGA PRODUCERS.
Resolutions Regarding the Opening oi
Roads,

rNeSOluIlOuS eiS OP~AAhS Oi
Roads.
The Cahuenga Producers Union met
Thursday evening and adopted the fol-
lowing resolutions:
Resolred, That we observe with salts
faction that the attention of the super
visors is at last directed in earnest to
the reopening of our much-needed road
to the ocean;
Resolred That in our opinion, if only
a small proportion OF the money hereto
fore paid out of the county treasury for
rights of way, which already belonged
to the public, had been expended in de-
tending the peoples rights to roads, we
would have had in this county many
more and much better roads than we
now have;
Resolced, That it has notoriously been
the practice in this county for a certain
class of people to deliberately close up
or obstruct public roads with view to
demanding pay for reopening the same,
and the road funds of this county have
thus, to large extent, by former boards
of supervisors, been worse than wasted ;
Resolued, That the ''amicable arrange
ments" spoken of for reopening fenced
up roads" have been exceedingly unfor-
tunate for the public in nearly all cases,
having been effected at great cost to the
county; and, in our opinion, they are
much more to be deprecated than the
'btter animosities" which it is appre-
hended may result from vindicating the
law;
Resolced, The Cahuenga Township
Producers Union has only been in ex-
istence few months, and therefore as
body could not sooner have made it.
self heard than it did. While as indi-
vidual citizens we have freely made
known our wishes, we surely
ought not to be put to the neces-
sity of petitioning the road commits
sioners to discharge so plain a duty as
to keep open one of the most important
roads of the country, especially when
they alone have authority to proceed
against offending parties;
Resolred, That we deem itproper to re-
mind the supervisors that the Cahuenga
Township Producers Union is a differ
ent concern from the Cahuenga road dis
trict, and we do not feel called upon to
notice so much of their communication
to us as relates to said district further
than to say that the said closed-up road
is entirely in the Laurel road district,
and not in the Cahuenga district at all
and, further, if such large sums OF
money as stated have been expended in
the Cahuenga road district, it will be
difficult to discover the results, except
so far as relates to the half dozen bridges
spoken of, not more than one or two OF
which, at most, are of use to any mem
Der of this union;
Resolved, That it is our matured opin-
ion that the old road, now closed to
Santa Monica, which was good natural
| highway for us to the ocean, might
properly be Strengthened in some places
but should not be given up entirely
and that the Sunset boulevard should
also be opened whenever the large eX-
pense for grading and bridging the same
can be afforded that two roads are by
no means too many to thread a valley
several miles in width, extending to the
ocean;
Resolged; That this association is duly
grateful to the board OF supervisors for
all past favors, and particularly to the
supervisor of this district for his earnest
exertions in the public behalf, and we
can but express the hope that he will so
far further depart from the paths Of his
predecessors as to restore to us without
unnecessary delay our good highway to
the ocean.
Amotion expressing the sense of the
union to be that lands in the valley
should not be rented to Cinnamon was
adopted, and the meeting adjourned.