Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-01
A CHEERFUL HOROSCOPE FOUNDED ON
FACTS.

company alone runs eleven trains both
ways daily to Pasadena. The inhabitants
of that place can come into the city,
stay for the theater and go home on the
IL 80 train of the Terminal. Every Sec
tion Of the county is signally favored,
and this region is really bisected in
every direction by steel rails. There is
not point Of the compass to which a
train does not directly tend, and num-
Der of these trains are transcontinental
ones. North, south, east and west, rail-
roads traverse this, the most prolific
region of the United States. and the
most gratifying feature of the whole
thing is that strong combinations of cap
italists have made up their minds to
give us new railways, and the old estab-
lished systems, like the Southern Pa
cific and Santa Fe, are redoubling their
old-time energies in railway building.
The Terminal railway people are do
ing their work well. Every mile of road
built by them is a substantial and DUR
able piece OF work, and evidently with
an eye to a great business. They are
putting down the heaviest kind of steel
rails. The bridge thrown by them
over the Arroyo Seco is structure
highly creditable to the engineering de-
partment of this combination. 1t would
be hard, on the part OF any one who has
watched the work of these people, to re-
sist the conclusion that they are really,
what their name implies, terminal
road, and that their work is but the
harbinger OF another great transconti-
mental line. In addition to their build
ing operations, this company has had
surveys made up the Tejunga and Ar
royo Seco caiions, which have clearly
reference to road between this city
and Salt Lake. OF course we are not
reduced merely to speculation as to the
ultimate plans of the Terminal COM
pany. When Mr.. Richard C. Kerens,
Judge Chandler and the other men,
bers Of the st. Louis syndicate were
in Los Angeles, about four months ago,
these gentlemen had no hesitation in
telling an editor of the HERALD that if
our people responded in any degree to
their efforts we should have connec-
tion with Salt Lake City inside of eight
cen months. In that regard. they
stated that they had had careful surveys
OF the coal measures aligning the pros
pective road in Utah made, and would
guarantee to place an excellent article OF
coal in this city at $6 ton, for period of
ten years to come. The standing Of these
gentlemen in financial circles is of the
highest, and Los Angeles has here an
opportunity to cooperate in the fruition
of project which will land her with
population of $4,000 souls in less than
a lustrum, and make her great smelt-
ing and manufacturing center, in addi-
tion to her other distinctions.
We have already dwelt, in the past
week, on the vigorous programme of
development which Mr.. G. P. Hunting
ton meditates in Southern California,
and of which Los Angeles will be the
special beneficiary. This includes the
acquisition of the San Vicente v Santa
Monica rancho, the making of superb
harbor under the protection of the
promontory of Dune, the converting of
the City-by-the-Sea into the most fash
ing winter and summer resort on the
Pacific coast, the double tracking of the
Southern Pacific railway between Los
Angeles and Santa Monica. and other
good things of great moment to our peo-
pie. In this summary it would scarcely
be fair to overlook the early completion
OF the Coast road, which will shorten
the distances from Los Angeles to San
Francisco to fifteen hours, and give the
people of the latter place great incen-
tive to throng down here, over most
delightful route in both winter and sum-
mer.
Thus, the number and character of the
railway mprovements-al tremendous
agencies Of development-ahead for this
city and county, and in lesser measure
for all Southern California, are abso-
lutely bewildering. The whole captivat.
ing picture is capped by two existing
transcontinental railways which will
shortly be supplemented by third.
These existing roads give us, in addition
to their own through lines, the full use
OF many other roads OF national signif-
canoe, including the Texas and Pacific
and the Atlantic and Pacific, and as
complete use OF the Central and Union
Pacific as San Francisco herself pos
sesses. When our unsurpassed cable
and electric railway systems are added
to this impressive sum total it is small
wonder that the dreams OF our people
are of metropolitan magnitude, and as
to the immediate future, at that.
All this accomplished perfection Of
railway service reminds US OF how few
and poor our facilities of travel and
transportation were as late as seventeen
or eighteen years ago. Then the only
way Of getting out Of Los Angeles, with
single exception, was by stage. That
exception was the short span Of railway
which ran between Los Angeles and
Wilmington--a space of only eighteen
miles. To get to San Francisco one had