The herald., 1893-05-21
THE NEVADA SOUTHERN ROAD.
Mr.. James Campbell's Return
from a Trip Over the Line.
1t Will Open MarvelousIy Rich Min
ing Country.
A Well Built Road Now Completed to
the New York Distrfct-Fresno
Looking to Los Angeles for
a Railway.

James Campbell, the railroad builder
OF Southern California, returned yester-
day from the Needles, after spending
two months on the line of the Nevada
Southern railroad-the little road which
is being pushed northward from Goff
station, on the Atlantic and Pacific rail-
way.
Mr.. Campbell states that President
Blake and Vice President Scofield OF the
new road have completed the line to the
New York mining district, having 26
miles of we'll built road now in opera
tion. The mining region they are open
ing to traffic, Mr.. Campbell states, is
second to none ever discovered before,
and promises to even surpaes the great
bonanza mines OF the past.
The projectors OF this Zine are men of
capital, enterprise and push, and there
is no doubt but what they will continue
through the entire mineral belt between
the Atlantic and Pacific railroad and the
Union Pacific in Utah, which will give
the eentire traffic to this coal, iron and
precious metal found on that line.
Mr.. Campbell is here on railroad bust
will go to Salt Lake City.
FRESNO TO Los ANGELES.
The, wonderful development of the
San Joaquin valley is attracting the at
tention of people in every section OF the
state, and the certainty that the trade
OF this valley alone will make any city
wealthy that receives it, will secure the
much needed railroad competitor in a
short time. just now an effort is being
made to arouse the business men of
San Francisco to the Importance of sub
scribing 81, 100000 towards building a
road from Stockton to Bakersfield. 1t
is to be hoped that the money will be
forthcoming, but if the traffic sssocia-
tion have to abandon the scheme then
we must look to Los Angeles for assist
ance. The southern metropolis is filed
with enterprising and far-sighted busi-
ness men, and it would be an easy mat
ter to get them interested in proposi-
tioD to build road, say from Fresno to
Los Angeles. Commenting upon for
mer article on this subject in the Times,
the Fresno Expositor says:
The idea set out by the Visalia Times
OF building railroad from some point
in the San joaquin valley to Los Angeles
instead OF Stockton, to connect with
deep water thence by steamboat or other
wise, is new proposition and not bad
one. Ii the people of San Francisco ex-
pect the bulk of the large amount of
money absolutely necessary to carry for
ward the proposed Stockton, Fresno and
Bakersfield railroad to point, when the
balance necessary to complete and put it
in operation can be assured, to be sub
scribed by the inhabitants of the sev-
eral counties along the line, they are
reckoning without their host.
San Francisco needs the trade OF the
San Joaquin valley a great deal more
than weneed San Francisco. The trouble
with that silurian city is, and has been
for great many years, that she expects
all producing centers on the coast to be
st all expense III JfIv 1unuvcr VI s,uftufng
highways to the peninsula on which she
sits, like sedentsry apple woman with
ample lap ready to receive all that is
dumped therein. This slothful habit has
become chronic, and Notwithstanding
she has lost nearly all the trade north of
Red Bluff and south of Bakersfield she
still is sitting, still is sitting, and appar-
emily will move again nevermore.
Meantime Los Angeles sees an oppor-
tunity to reach out and get the immense
trade of the San Joaquin valley, and un-
less San Francisco bestirs herself the
chance the proposed railroad offers for
securing this trade for all time to come
will have passed. With the advantages
Los Angeles now possesses for cheap
transportation, it may well be question
worthy Of serious consideration whether
we had not better sgtate the building OF
railroad, say from Fresno southward
instead of toward the Golden Gate.