Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-08
SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1891.
HINTS TO INVESTORS IN REALTY.

The railroad outlook OF Los Angeles
was never 80 bright and promising as it
is now. 1t was assuredly great thing
for our city when the Santa Fe came into
our valley and opened up to settlement
and prosperity a very extensive stretch
of our tributary territory and gave US a
competitive road to the east. But even
this fine achievement left US isolated
from an immense back country which
possesses the natural resources that are
necessary to give Los Angeles manu-
featuring and commercial prosperity we
could never hope to reach with merely
agricultural advantages. The desider-
alum of cheap fuel could not be satisfied
by the roads we now have; but with one
leading directly into the immense coal
fields of Utah this exigent want will be
met. 1t will enable our city to make q
new and superb departure. 1t will sup
plement our present industries with
metallurgical works on an extensive
scale, and successfully establish manu-
factories that will place the whole
coast independent, to very
great extent, of the manufactures of the
east. 1t will be impossible for those
manufactures to compete with the ones
we may here establish when we have
cheap fuel. for the long haul across the
continent would more effectually pro-
tect us from eastern competition than
the highest tariff that even Mckinley
himself could devise.
Whilst tall chimneys denoting the
growth of our manufacturing industries
Would rise on every hand, the number
less mining districts that lie dormant
now between this city and Utah would
become centers of activity, and Los An
geles would become their base of sup
plies and their chief commercial empo-
rum. Separating and reduction works
wSald inevitably be established here to
reduce the ores of this great mining
interior, and the ores of Arizona, that
are now sent to San Francisco or to
eastern reduction works, would come to
Los Angeles to be treated.
1t will be readily seen that the indus
tries that must spring up here when the
Terminal raiis1sd has opened to US the
mining districts Of the interior and
given to us all tie advantages that can
be,derived from cheap fuel, will insure
phenomenal growth to our city.
There is another advantage that will
spring from this new railroad enterprise
that will necessarily enure greatly to our
benefit. A system of railroads from the
east meets in the great Salt Lake valley.
These now enter California by the
northern route, which is very expen-
sive and roundabout one. The natural
railroad gateway into this state is by
way of southern Utah to southeastern
Nevada and thence along the old Salt
Lake wagon route to Los Angeles. The
Union Pacific, the Denver and Rio
Grande, the Midland and all other roads
from the direction of Colorado and
Nebraska will seek California by this
route, and Los Angeles will become
their first important terminal on the
Pacific coast. As railroad center our
city occupies one of the best positions
on the continent.
The men at the head OF the Terminal
Railroad company are we'll aware of the
great advantages of their route. They
have unlimited means, ard they will
push their road eastward with the
Craatest celaritv