Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-02-03
Real Destination of the Unior
Pacific.

Real Destination of the Union
Pacific.
The conversation imputed to Mr.. II.
M. Yerrington, in an Eastern dispatch
to the Examiner, should be taken with a
grain of salt. The notable thing about
his remarks was his admission that the
Union Pacific Railway would extend its
road from Ogden to Mojave, and that the
Union Pacific and Santa Fe would then
unite and build to San Francisco. He
quotes President Adams to the effect that
the Union Pacific has no intention of
building either to Long Beach, San
Pedro or any other port in Southern
California. AS general thing,
Mr.. Adams's declarations should
be interpreted, like an Irishman's
dreams, by the rule of con-
traries. Three months before he &C.
quired the Fort Worth road he announced
that his company did not want the prop
erty. This is easily enough understood.
When people have their eye on thing.
and desire to get it, they do not generally
go about proclaiming their wishes. Very
properly, therefore, as Mr.. Adams be.
lieves, with Telleyrand, that language
was invented in order to conceal the
truth, he disclaimed any interest in the
Fort Worth road. A short time ago he
stated publicly that his company would
only build 145 miles of road towards
California this year. Now we have Mr..
Yerrington's authority for the statement
that Mr.. Adams told him that the road
is to be pushed Immediately from Phoebe
to Mojave. To suppose that this enter
prise will be arrested at Mojsve, with al
Southern California clamoring for the
cheap coal and abundant ores, base ant
precious, of Utah and Southwestern
Nevada, would be absurd in the ex
treme. The HERALD has sources of in
formation, which it deems absolutely re
liable, that convince it that the Utal
Southern will be pushed to tidewater a
Los Angeles in the shortest posi-
BILE time. The probabilities ar
extreme that Redondo Beach viii
be the real Southern California terminu
of the Union Pacific. While discussin,
Mr.. Yerrington's utterances, it may no
be amiss to hazard the prediction tina
that gentleman's own road, the Carson 4
Colorado, is quite liable to put in an ap
pearance in Los Angeles before long.
will be remembered that Mr.. Yerringto1
last summer paid this city and surround
ing country a visit, during which h'
made critical inspection OF the loca
situation. That road is just now a
Keeler, and its logical objective point il
Los Angeles.
The Southern Pacific Company, with
it's road to San Francisco on the coas
nearly completed, and supplementing iti
existing road, and with the extensive
plan of railway building it is carrying ou
in the San Joaquin valley, would seem
to render much additional building
towarde San Francisco, under the pres
ent state of development of the country
very unsttractive as an investment. On
the other hand, the Union Pacific
could not fail to derive lucra-
tive, and Immediately lucrative, busi-
ness from the extension of its road
to Los Angeles. 1t may suit the pur-
poses of the higher officials of the COM
pany to cloak their intentions for the
time being, but the tenor of all the
information which psrcolates from the
headquarters of the company at Salt
Lake and Milford points unmistakably to
an immediate extension of the Union
Pacific to Los Angeles. Even Mr.. Yer
rington's Mojave declaration, when
closely examined, confirms this theory.
1t may be relied upon as the correct one.