The herald., 1893-02-19
RAILWAY MAGuATES EN- ROUTE.
III. e. Huntington and w. H.
Mills in Los Angeles.
The Land Agent Says Los Angeles
Has a Great Future.
They viii Inspect Their Traffic Territory
for the Next Ten Days-Mills Pre-
diets Los Angeles VIII Soon
Rival Salt Lake City.

H. e. Huntington and W. H. Mills Of
the Southern Pacific company, reached
here last evening in their private car
and are side tracked 500 feet north of
the Arcade depot. Mr.. Mills is 80 well
known here that personal description
of him is unnecessary here. Mr.. Hunt
ington is large man with a pleasant
face and Saxon complexion. He is
third vice-preeident of the road, while
Mr.. Mills is its general land agent.
These gentlemen, accompanied by their
wives, spent Thursday and Friday about
Santa Barbara and vicinity and will be
around Los Angeles for a week or go to
come.
YOU'RE going to have q great city
here and manufacturing city, too,"
said Mr.. Mills after few preliminary
greetings had passed, ''that packing
house of Cudahy's will make big lot of
business that does not now exiet. You
can't make pork without fat hogs and to
have fat hogs you must produce abun-
dance of Indian corn. This is the great
eat section of the state for corn growing,
and therefore there will never be scar
city of fat hogs after the first year or
two. How does that smelter come
along?"
81 have heard nothing much about it
lately, but at the last accounts they
were preparing to go ahead on it," re-
piled the reporter.
Embellishments of that kind will
prove great benefit to your CITY," said
Mr.. Mills. "Arizona will hereafter do
for you what Utah, Southern Idaho and
Montana have done for Salt Lake. Have
you been there lately? ?"
The reporter smiled his assent.
swell then," continued Mr.. Mills,
"you must have noticed the handsomest
residences in that city are the houses of
mining men, whose lodges are located
150 to 400 miles away, and who have
seized upon Salt Lake as the nearest
place of residence, where they can live
in ease and comfort with their
families and properly educate.
Salt Lake have led up to that condition
will do as much for Los Angeles. They
will bring here all the more successful
and wealthy mining men from Arizona
and the peninsula of Lower California
till there won't be vacant lot on Grand
there not some opposition to the project
Eyes, at first, "replied the reporter, but
it soon died out. There were men who
wanted to see the works 60 to Santa
Monica or Redondo, so that the ore
laden car could meet the coal-laden ship
from Puget. Sound or Nanamo." "In
which they were certainly not far out of
the way" replied Mr.. Huntington, "the
ship can land the coal here cheaper than
any inland transportation system can do.
There are exceptions such as portions of
the Chesapeake and Ohio where 16x24
Bnt those Sa cases % are e8ceptioHaf and
exception goes to prove the rule. You
can compete with swift water
navigation in railroading but not
with ocean transportation. Again, the
car.that brings the ore from the noun
tain to tide-water should carry the mer-
chandiae inland that arrives in ships.
So men who advocated location by
the seaside for smelters knew what they
were talking about. Besides, all the
wages paid to employees would be spent
in this clsy, whether the smelters were
located here or at the beach,"
"How do you regard the appearance
of the country, Mr.. Mills ?" asked the
| reporter.
"Well, they have had little more OF
the rain than they wanted, between
Bakersfield and Red Bluff" said Mr..
Mills, "but the country has yielded 80
well in the last two years that every
body has some money with which to re-
pair damages and recuperative energy
with which to build up levees broken.
1t looks little bad just now in Kern and
Tulare counties, but by September they
will have forgotten all about it,"
Messrs. Mills and Huntington will re-
turn to San Francisco about the last oi
his week.