The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-07-21
uNsKzmLY LKvIrY IN FACE OF FACTS.


following to say of the lately announced
project to build railway from Salt Lake
City to the City of the Angels:
Los Angeles newspapers are giving
their attention at present to what is
about the ninety-ninth railway between
Utah and the Angel city-on paper.
Drawing beautiful blue, red and black
lines on paper is as far as any of these
roads ever get. however, and it is just as
well for our Los Angeles friends that such
lie the case. Another railway built by
eastern capital into Los Angeles would
be positive injury to Southern Califor-
MIA, asd the reason is plain, as we
have repeatedly pointed out. Eastern
capitalists are interested in the develop
ment Of their eastern investments and
seek market for the products of the
eastern factories. Every road built by
such capital seeks to cripple Californian
industry in order that this state may be-
come, not producer of manufactured
goods, but consumer OF eastern wares.
Eastern capital would make our mer-
chants simply agents or commission
brokers.
Now Los Angeles has begun to de.
velop line territory in which to dis
tribute its wares. II Utah capital
should build this new road what be-
comes of that business? 1t will simply
pass from Los Angeles into Salt Lake,
and instead of becoming great trade
center Los Angeles will become mar
ket for Salt Lake goods. Let Los Ange-
les capital build its own road to Utah
and operate it in the interest of Los
Angeles. instantly Los Angeles will see
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will be master of the situation.
OF course we can very we'll afford to
look with serenity upon the Reports at
tempt at raillery upon the ''ninety and
nine" attempts to build railway from
Los Angeles to Salt Lake City-no
paper. When it used this large mum.
eral it must undoubtedly have had in
view the experiences of its own city in
railway building, which have covered
nine hundred and ninety abortive
efforts-on paper. San Francisco. with
ample resources to build one or more
transcontinental railways-on paper and
indeed in reality-has never succeeded
in building the shadow of one, although,
ii one were TO gather up the "disjecta
membra" OF her thousand and one
futile projects. one would think that
she ought to have at least hundred BY
this time. ALI that the city of the
Golden Gate has succeeded in
doing go far has been to defeat the pro.
gramme of locating the Central and
Southern Pacific railway depots at Goat
island, and planting them in Oakland.
Bet for these marplot tactics-on the
principle OF biting off your nose to spite
your face-the city and county of San
Francisco would have been able, through
her tax gatherers, to get another whack
yearly at the valuation of these puissant
railway companies, for Goat island is in
the city and county of San Francisco,
although we'll planted out in the bay.
What our jeering contemporary means
by it's NINETY and nine" as applied to a
railway between Los Angeles and Salt
Lake we confess we scarcely know.
Though there have been projects look
ing to a railway connection betwe cen
Los Angeles and Salt Lake they have
been few in number. The Union Pacific
railway showed desire for such rail
way connection by building the Central
Utah as far to the southwark as Milford,
and grading this road as fer west as
Phoebe. Three or four years ago per-
emptory stop was put TO this projsct by
Jay Gould aud by the illness of Presi-
dent H. II. Clarke, who was that fnan-
cier's successor in the control OF the
Union Pacific. The only other roaos
that have been go much as named in
this connection, to say nothing of having
been exploited, have been the Nevada
Southern, whose ultimate extension to
Salt Lake has with many people seemed
very likely, and this latest telegraphed
proposition OF road to Los Angeles as q
condition of the admission of Utah to
statehood, which latter event was &C
complished the other day by the presi-
dent's signing the bill.
All these projects put together amount
to three-a considerable discount from
ninety nine the latter about the num-
Der of San Francisco's abortive schemea.
1t ia true that Los Angeles has had
many railway projects; but, unlike San
Francisco, she has managed to get moot
of them accomplished. She has trans
continental railways galore, and prac-
tically without number, but she has
never succeeded in emerging from the
adumbra cast over her ambitious pro-
jects by the Southern and Central Pa
cific railway.
We assure our esteemed contemporary
Of the Golden Gate that, long before the
city in which it is published will have a
second transcontinental railway, Los An
geles will have two new ones.
AS to Los Angeles, why should we not
be able to extend our trade, increase
our manufactures and augment our pres
tige, no matter how many railways,
transcontinsntel and others, should con-
verge here and radiAte from here? The
completion of the Nevada Southern
either to connection with Salt Lake
City, or to a point radiating from there,
will give US manufacturing facilities ab-
solutely unrivaled elsewhere on the
Pacific coast. With the consum-
nation of any one of the two
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