The herald., 1893-11-26
A GREAT FUTURE SURELY AHEAD.

There are'few cities and lew countries
in the world that would not like to have
a great railway system growing up that
would be tributary to their city and
county. We have heretofore stated. not
once but frequently, that the Nevada
Southern railway is now under way
under most favorable auspices. This
railway, in the near future, will make
times SO fush throughout Los Angeles
and the whole of Southern California
that the wonder will be that there was
ever, for any moment, so much as sus-
picion that there could be even mo.
mentary interruption to the grand tide
of development that has struck this
region as with the energy OF a financial
and paroxysmal cloudburst. The HER
AID has never, during the whole course
OF it's career. made single mistake ae
to any of the phases OF development that
are sure to be registered in this section,
and we are scarcely likely to begin now
to miscalculate. OF all the enterprises
that have looked towards the conversion
of Los Angeles from 'dobie town to a
superb city. the Nevada Southern is by
far that which, more distinctively than
any other, presents our town as q center
of great mineral wealth and conserva-
tive development. The extension OF
this great work to Lincoln county, Ne
vada. and later to Maopa, in st. George
county. Utah, will make Los Angeles
entirely the most progressive and pros
porous region in the world.
There is small wonder, therefore, that
we should desire to see the Nevada
Southern railway a great success, and
that we should most particularly desire
TO see fruition crown the efforts of the
company to induce the people of
Los Angeles and the adjoining southern
counties to cooperate with the Messrs.
Blake, Scofield and their associates in
making the small subscription proposed
in the southern counties for that COM
pany success. We were pleased to be
able to announce yesterday that the in
telligent and energetic people of Los
Angeles and our neighbors had already
placed upon the enterprise the aureola
of success. We we're the more pleased
because the people of the Southern
counties had been heretofore somew what
comstose in such enterprises. Conse-
quently when Mr.. Isaac Z. Blake, the
gentleman who has put half a million
dollars OF his own into this enterprise,
returned yesterday from Ventura with
a subscription OF $4,000 cash from that
ssgacious community, and announced
that he had already secured 100000 of
the $50, 900, 600 needed to assure to Los
Angeles city and county coal from
Nevada at the rate of SIS ton, of the
same quality Of that for which they now
pay $40 to $ll ton, we confess that we
were not only surprised but inexpressi-
bly, delighted.
And very naturally go, for the extern
sion OF this road means not only cheap
fuel, with consequent manufactures
and smelling works, but it means. be-
sides, q Thousand sources of growth,
population and wealth. AS matter of
fact, there has never been a railway en-
terprise in the history of the world that
has shown better record than this
road. Thus far it has been obliged 70
ship its ores away over to Pueblo. Colo.
rado. Even thus, at the extreme rail-
way tariff. two shipments show profit
of $l10 ton. If the Nevada Southern
railway were in running order to the
point to which the subscription of $780,
600 will carry it, this profit OF $11O ton
would be increased to s400 ton; and
with the smelling works established
here, incident to the progress of the
road, this splendid profit would be in.
creased etill more.
A somewhat unprecedented feature OF
this new railway, based on official fg-
urea that lie before us, is the fact that,
since it has been in operation. it has
made money over and above all operat-
ing expenses and interest on it's bonds.
This is really something out OF the COM
mon. II 1t had not been for the cele.
brated "object Lesson" of which Mr..
Cleveland seemed to be 30 fond. as EN-.
bodied in wretched and indefensibe
panic, the Nevada Southern would al.
ready have been pouring its treasures
into Los Angeles. But, as a matter of
fact, panic and all. this remarkable
youngling OF railways has already done
something atyictlv nhauomana1 Ro.