The herald., 1895-01-18

what tho Editor of the Gazstte Thinks
OF the Proposition.
Ia common with the people of Ante-
lope valley, We have been Watching the
interest that ia being taken by the peo>
pie OF the San joaquin valley and Los
Angelica ia q competing line OF railroad
that shall etrke the shackles OF thrall-
dom from the great central valleys and
make them free to trade with thu en-
ergetic people OF Los Angeles or where
elss they please. As we go to press, a
meeting lie heing held under the nus
pices Of the Los Angeles chamber OF
commerce, the most responsible and
representative body of business and pro-
feasional men in Southern California. to
formulate some plan by which this
much needed railroad can be built.
Colonel Holsbir6. who IS familiar With
former surveys through the Tojon pass,
il 70 addreas the meeting. Representa-
tives from Los Angeles. San Fernando
valley, Newhall valley, Antelope valley
and San Joaquin valley as far north as
Fresno are expected to be present.
The people oil Kern, Tulars, Fresno
and Kings counties have cent up the
Macedonian cry 40 long to silurian San
Francisco to come over and deliver them
from the tentaces OF the grasping, ALE
the.traffic-will bear, legislature bribing,
political corrupting Southern Pacific
company of Kentucky, and the only an.
swer these thrifty farmers and mer-
chants of the fertile plains of the upper
San Joaquin received, was the formation
of the sickly Traffic association with
20 No -
$40 600.
Still looking for delverance the wide
awake people OF Bakersfield, Hanford,
Tulare, Fresno and surrounding country
saw their Moses in live Los Angeles.
This is the city of destiny. Here Chi
cago energy is mingled with superior
natural advantages. 1t is safe to say
that no city in the United States is
growing like Los Angeles is today. Sh
not only has superior climate. wonder
fully fertile tributary country, oil fuel
for manufacturing, competing uranscon.
tnenta railroads, is on the owe of
splendid harbor facilities, closer to the
eaet now and will still be closer when
the Nicaragua canal is built, but Los
Angeles has the men-the men who
open mountains. build cities and bind
them together with parallel lines of steel
and electric wires. Los Angeles gives us
hope, and may that hope. which is yet
the evidence of things unseen, be
evolved into @ substantial line of deliy-
GRANGE.
We care not how this road shall come,
whether it be by private capital, by CO.
operation. or by the Prof. Sprsgus-Sen-
ator Mathews atate-line route. We
only want 1T to come, come speedily,
come now. One of the prime tactics OF
the Southern Pacific has always been to
divide the forces of opposition. Five
lines are in competition through the
San Joaquin valley now. May one from
Los Angeles unite all forces, is to be
hoped.
As railroad binding Los Angeles
with Fresno will surely go through An
telope valley and Tejon pass, We are
sure the promoters of such q railroad
would have the heartiest support of
every resident of this valley. Rights of
way and help in work and subsidies
and an agreement to patronizs only the
new rosd would undoub tedly be
granted by the property owners of this
broad valley, which has long been re-
tarded in its growth by the
outrageous freight charges of the
octopus Kentucky corporation. Ev.
cry fertile acre of land could
well afford to pay So per acre towards
getting the right kind OF railroad run
ming through the valley. Then we may
not have to pay as much TO ship wheat
to Los Angeles or San Pedro. 80 or 80
miles, as to San Francisco or Port
Costa, about 400 miles, then we may
not expect to pay $3.50 for a car of
secks from San Francisco; or $1.13 q
hundred weight for poultry to Los An
geles, 70 miles; then we may net ex-
poet to sec teams after teams hauling
the valley products over almost impas.
cable primitive roads across the noun
| taina and goods back from Los Angeles