Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1890-1893, 1891-11-14
PRospRRIrY's RENAISSANCE.


ing before the chamber OF commerce on
the subject OF the new railroad enter
prise, of which he is the president, and
the great natural resources of the coun-
try through which it is to pass and
vitalize, and their relation to the pros
perity of this part of the state. Mr..
Workman has recently paid visit to
Southern Utah, the present objective
point of the Terminal Railroad COM
pany, and was deeply impressed with
the mineral riches with which that
country teens. 1t has coal of very
superior quality, which the company
proposes to lay down here at the rate OF
about five dollars per ton. The i'm
portance to Los Angeles of cheap fuel
cannot be over-estimated. Mr.. Work
man put the matter very conclusively
when he said that agriculture, without
manufactures. cannot build up city of
metropolitan dimensions.
He struck the key note to our future
greatness and industrial expansion
when he showed that the exhaust
less mineral resources of the country
this railroad will open would here find
the location of the works that are
necessary to separate. reduce and smelt
their rich ores. He assures us that
there are on the line of the road noun
tains of iron ore, hematite and mag
netic steel, which we would be enabled to
work up here to great advantage. With
all these natural resources within easy
reach of Los Angeles, what is to prevent
our city becoming one of the most impor-
tant commercial and manufacturing cen
tiers on the continent? This immense
basis of wealth has remained untouched
simply for the reason that it lies in
region remote from cheap transporta-
ton. But let the iron steed once
awaken its solitudes with the
echoes of its steam whistle, and
busy camps will spring up in every di-
rection. Active, industrious, productive
life will take the place of the death-like
stiffness that has characterized scores of
interior districts since the great mining
revival of 1869, when Reese river. White
Pine, Phoebe, Belmont and hundreds of
other camps were brought into notice
by the explorations of hardy prospect
ors.
The vast populations that will repeople
these districts, and many others that
will be opened up when their ores can be
made profitable by cheap transportation
to reduction works in Los Angeles, will
look to this city for their supplies. The
new country will open good markets for
the products of the farmers and the or
ehardists, and will give an impulse to
the successful Inauguration of endless
lines of industries that always spring up
in thriving centers.
The people of this city are under great
obligations to Mr.. Workman for the
very clear outline he has given them of
the relations his railroad will bear to
the new era of prosperity its completion
will bring to this section of the state,
and particularly to Los Angeles. An
enterprise that is destined to operate so
greatly to our advantage should be lib
orally encouraged, and our people should
stand ready to assist it in any way it
may require. We ought to undertake
to relieve it from all the petty difficult
ties of procuring right of way from the
occasional selfish person who plays the
dog-in-the-manger, and who, when he
finds that he can do so, becomes an extor-
ZIONIST. This road is of too much i'm
portance to our future for us to permit
it to be harassed by obstructionists. We
should also show our good will to
the great project by extending to its
hackers who will visit US this month all
the courtesies and hospitalities of which
a generous people are capable. Let us,
by every means in our power, show
them that they are placing their money
in an enterprise that will be fully
appreciated, and carefully point out to
them our actual resources, and the i'm
mense possibilities of our section to sus-
tain an enterprise OF the kind they are
backing with their capital.