Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-29
INYo AND LOS ANGELES.

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the future that of the Carson and Colo
RADIO, which now stops at Keeler, near
Owens Lake, seems to be avery probable
one. 1t has been time and again an
nounced that d. o. Mills, the principal
owner of that road, had it in serious
contemplation to build it to an outlet
here. The reasons for such an exten-
sion are so weighty and logical that it
has always seemed strange to everybody
acquainted with the geography of the
country and the business to be devel-
oped that man OF Mr.. Mills sagacity
and means has not long since reached
this city with his road. 1t now runs
from the Mound House, near Virginia
City, to Owens Lake, and is really a
road in air.
Mr.. Mulholland, the editor of the
Inyo Independent, has always been very
much alive to the project of railroad
connection between his county and Los
Angeles. 1t is less than two hundred
miles from Independence TO Mojave,
and the intervening country is, almost
all the way, a natural road-bed. Mr..
Mulholland has been in this city for some
time, and he has favored our people with
lecture on the subject of the American
Alps. In this lecture he gives a most
vivid, graphic and picturesque de-
scription of the mountains that lie be-
tween the valley of Inyo and the San
Joaquin plains. The scenery he de-
scribes has grander features than any
thing that can be found in Europe, and
he naturally wonders that our people will
60 all the way to Switzerland to find
mountain scenery when we have it, even
more varied and attractive, at our very
door.
But Mr.. Mulholland does not con-
fine his information as to the
attractiveness of the mountains to the
lovers of the grand in nature. He
shows the vast possibilities of industrial
development in the Inyo country with
the encouragement OF railroad connec-
ton and capital. The mines are rich in
ores that would pay well if they could
be cheaply transported to Los Angeles
and reduced in separating works. The
Kearsarge mountains have been we'll
prospected ,and the lodges that have been
opened are numerous and apparently
exhaustless. There are also soda, borax
and salt beds and springs in the valleys
that would well repay capital for their
exploitation.
Inyo and its mineral ranges constitute
natural portion of our back country,
and in this age of enterprise, push and
development, it is impossible that it can
long be kept isolated from its legitimate
commercial outlet. If the Carson and
Colorado railroad be not made the vehi-
Gle OF this communication some other
road will be built to open to Los Angeles
this rich and extensive country. The
Terminal railway company Is In the
hands of men of unlimited resources
and great sagacity. They have expended
millions of dollars in this vicinity upon a
road that is certainly not going to stop at
Altadena. 1t has an ocean outlet at
Rattlesnake island and another at Long
Beach. A road of this important char
acter must have more than local des-
tination. 1t is built on too large scale
to stop short of transcontinental con-
nections. Whilst it's projectors know
how to keep their own counsel, we are
permitted to predict that it will be
pushed eastward, and should it take in
the Inyo country in its route, no one
who has correct idea OF the traffic to
be developed at that point would be at
all surprised.