Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-18
Los ANGELES HERALD MORNING. 8,

add facts, said: Ladies and gentlemen:
La Canada valley is walled in by lofty
mountains of building stone. Some of
the great mountain bulbs are granite,
others are stratified stone almost ready
to go into walls. Both varieties of stone
roll down the mountain, stone or stones
at time, and otherwise, as stone slides.
One of the stone slides is of whitish
stratihed stone. is conspicuous land
mark, and is visible from house tops
and hill tops in the city of Los Angeles.
Vast qantities of valuable stone roll
down the caflons, stopping at conven-
lent reach OF the future railroad. The
stones thus brought out weigh from a
few pounds to many tons.
Overlooking La Crescenta is a noun
tain of stratified building stone that is
quarrying itself. Its vast apron of quarry
lngs Is visible twenty miles away.
have asceriained the approximate cuba
ture of the stone mountain. 1t would
make a wall 2 feet thick, 100 feet high,
and $500 miles long. Railroad this
mountain away and you clear the way
to another vast bulb of stratified stone,
the second of series of such bulbs
closely crowding each other over hun
dred square miles. Here is more than
stone enough to build harbor wall
around sheet of the Pacific ocean that
would float ships enough to crowd San
Francisco harbor. Put the stone on cars
and gravitation will carry it fourteen
miles to the city OF Los Angeles, thence
twenty miles more to the ocean.
A tunnel through the bulb of strait
fed stone near La Crescenta would enter
the Big Tejunga cafion at an elevation
of 600 feet higher than the flocr of the
cafion, and thence the line to the
Mojave desert need have no other tun-
mel, or more than a per cent grade,
and would be eight miles shorter than
other routes. Admitted, that the typi-
cal sierra tunnel is kept in repair at
fabulously greater expense than the
typical eastern tunnel, but the stone
freight business suggests neat recon-
ciliation to this particular tunnel, as
follows: Removing the building stone
would peel the mountain off the tunnel
and would leave no tunnel at all, but
only a railroad. 1t is by no means
as chimerical to say that money will
peel hole in the ground as to say that
money will pull hole out OF the
ground. used these same stone argu-
ments with Captain Gross before he
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same have not been kept from the
Terminal. Captain Cross said the stone
would bring railroad, and if we treat
the Terminal people to right of way it
may soon go without saying that the
stone has brought the railroad.
ARTEsIAN WATER.
No one, until very recently, has ever
proposed to practically tackle the artes-
ian problem of La Canada valley.
There are evidences of underfow and of
sufficient upward pressure. Bnt all,
until few days ago, have thought that
practically inpenetrable geological
formations excluded La Canada valley
from the blessings of artesian water.
But few days ago Mr.. Will d. Gould
formulated plan for bringing artesian
water up and onto the farm tracts of La
Canada valley, at a cost but little greater
than the cost of piping our abundant
springs from the mountains. Mr..
Gould proposes to put up money to test
his plan. If he succeeds he will be a
public benefactor.
The artesian scheme offer, not as a
fact, but as an augury OF fact. What
follows l offer as mixture of fact and
possibility.
LAKE POSSIBLE.
There is no known duplicate of the
Typography of La Canada valley, and it