The herald., 1894-09-15
MIGHTY PLEASING FACTS.

are running around just now hunting
for an Office should not focus everyone's
attention upon politics. There are far
more inviting topics to many persons
who are content to vote and allow the
sspirsnt for Office to do the perspiring.
There has probably never been more
interesting era in the history of develop
ment in Los Angeles than that which
oonfronts as now. and this on a number
Of grounds.
1t has lately been said upon what ap-
pears to be good authority that Mr.. D.
o. Mills 10 about to extend the Carson
and Colorado railway to Mojave, where
doubtless traffic arrangement will be
entered into with the Southern Pacific
railway. This will bring to Los Angeles
the mineral products of region ex-
ceedingly rich in the precious and base
metals. and will in short time render
necessary many additional smelters here
to that which is already in process of erec-
tion and which is now being ensrgetioally
pushed forward again. Extensive re-
duction works will necessarily follow in
the wake of these smelters. The section
near Darwin and Pansmint is especially
rich in a great variety of ores OF
all grades which cannot stand the
great expense of transportation north,
but which can be readily run
down to Los Angeles, This region
has resources enough to supply hun
dreds OF camps with employment for
decades indeed, indefinitely. Several
years ago Mr.. D. 0. Mills and the Hon.
John P. Jones bought the old Besudry
and Bslshaw mines at Independence,
at low depths. These mines yielded
many millions of dollars, and for years
countless freight teams were employed
in hauling the pigs composed of lead
and silver to Los Angeles. From here
they were shipped by the Los Angeles
and San Pedro railway to the latter
place. where they were carried ON ves-
sells to San Francisco for smelling. 1t
will not be long before that region will
be again contributor to the prosperity
of Los Angeles. Those long sixteen
mule teams loaded with this treasure
output was, seventeen or eighteen years
ago, the most picturesque feature of the
thoroughfares OF the Angel city.
There is no longer any doubt that the
building operations of the Nevada
Southern railway are to be resumed
with energy and on a scale OF msgni-
tude. By all accounts Mr.. Blake has
succeeded in interesting capitalists of
large means in this promising enter
Lake and to a junction with at least one
great transcontinentsl line ia a certainty
of the near future. The extension of
this road will give as coal and iron and
all that is needed to develop great man
ufacturing industries. Then the mines
of precious and bsse metals that align
it are simply illimitsbls. 1t would in.
sure this city taking immediate metro
politan rank, and guarantee US a popu-
lstion OF three hundred thousand within
decade. 1t will be specially agree.
able to Angelsi1os to see this road car
ried to fnish, because it was origin
ally started by energetic and sagscious
men who were identified with the early
development OF the oil measures of
Los Angeles county.
This cornucopia of good things is made
more toothsome by the fact that there lie
undoubted authority for the fact that
the Central Utah railway is to be at
once completed to Phoebe, from Milford,
to which latter point it was built by the
Union Pacific railway. From Phoebe il
will be pushed with all possible expedi-
ton to Los Angeles, giving US still an.
other transcontinental railway. Capt.
talists of large resources are behind this
movement, and it is supposed that the
new corporation will acquire the facili.
ties Of the Terminal railway.
When to all thess good things OF the
immediate future the fact is borne II
mind that the new coast road between
hos Angeles and san Francisco will b,
shortly completed, the cum of our bless
ings may be partially comprehended
The completion of this road will set the
whole tide of tourist travel in the
United States pouring through the An
gel city. And that torrent will be large
for it is beginning to be quite extensive
ly realized all over the United State
that California lie the only state to iv,
in during the summer. and that South
ern California is the only place to liv'
in in California during the winter-oul
winters being admitted to be far in ad
vance of those OF the Riviera of tn,
Mediterranean by competent authorities
who have tested both.
Verify there is something besides pol
itics to engage the attention OF our peo.
pie The passing days are pregnan
with impending changes. all in the lin,
of progress and prosperity. Our growth
marvellous in the past, is but in its in
ception. We are as yet in the grut
state. The bright chrysalis is to come
When one sets down in cold blood tn,
actual facts concerning Los Angeles on,
appears to be indulging in the most ex
panded hyperbole. 1t looks hyperbol
ical to say that in twenty years this city