The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-01-15
yOME IMPORTANT TRUlns.
A Denver Mans Opinion of Our
Future.
Five Things the City Needs to Become
Metropolis.
A Lucid Staten ant of the Position Los
Angeles Occupies in South
erD Caiifornis.

emit greatness over all other cities In
Southern California" said G.. @. Kirby
OF Denver yesterday to q HERALD repre-
sentative.
II don't desire to say anything de-
rogstory Of the city, I wish rather to
talk of its brilliant prospects and what
is required to make these prospects it's
own. 1t is necessary that sill the men,
women and children in Southern Calls
fornis join together and act as unit
Theirs are five things which this city
needs and must have to make il great,
remembering that city will not de-
velop the country aurr,unding it, but ia
always increased in population aud im-
portsncs whsn that country ia do.
veloped.
NICARAG VA CANAL.
Tho frst thing needed is the building
Of the Nicaragua canal. which will gUs
this city and its surroundings chap
freight rates and make 1t a seaport open
to ell the markets of the world.
A HARBoR AT SAN PEDRO.
Second-A hsrbor at San Pedro, md
by the way | want to cay just here. hat
think the management of the Southern
Pacific railroad is not what it is crGked
up to be. 1t seems to me tina Mr..
Huntington is not looking into etails
and studying this country or it's wslfare
as he should. 1t would seem ike
good business proposition that theSsnta
Fe people. Southern Pacific peope and
the citizens of Los Angeles shdld all
join hands and get n large appropriation
for harbor at San Pedro. Let is sup
pose for moment that Mr.. Huntington
kills the appropriation for San Pedro;
on the other hand that the liens of
this county kill an Appropriation for
Santa Monica. What will th result
be? The Southern Pacific will
have to spend to put in a
harbor at Santa Monica severA million
dollars. Now. wouldn't it be pod bust
mesa management for all hand to Join
and let the government make An appro-
priation of from 10 to ~ mil
lion dollars to make San Pedro
first-clsss commercial harbor,
and let the Southern Pacific teople save
tbs millions it would cost item to put
in harbor at Santa Monicai Then, in
turn let the Santa Fe, Southern Pacific
in making Santa Monica d frst-csss
pleasure resort. | know that the South
ern Pacific largely owns thu lands fronts
iEg on the ocsan at Santa Honica, but ii
| Santa Monica can bs mad, by common
consent the resort OF this country, the
value of its real estate would DO equally
ae great, aa il it WAS a commercial har-
Dor, and the Southern PGtic company
would have saved It's moIby. The prop
osition js this. let the government put
| up the money to deyelp the harbor.
and let all hands be unitid on one point,
and the natural growth II this country
will solve ell others.
RAILROAD sYsTSM INTENDED.
Third-Riilroadss should be built, one
from here to Salt Lake and one from
here to Fresno. The result of the build.
ing of these roads will hs that a large
number OF small towns, with few largo
ones scattered an ong them, will tpring
into existence. All OF these will do
their jobbng trade in this city.
These rail load facilities will make
available for settlement thousands upon
thousands of acraa OF good lands. which,
when settled by agrculturaits, will
give an increased business to The whole
country. Right here l want to say that
it is the country which makes thc city,
not the city the country. When all the
land that ID III these mountaii valeys
is in cultivation, within 2lg miles of
this town, this city through 10 iobbing
trade, iss light manufacture and its
tourist business will be , one of
400. 600 people.
But the moneyed men of Lbs Angeles
will have to invest their capital look
the fsld over and devise planlfor carry
ing these ideas out; if they don't Salt
Lake, San Francisco and oher places
will cut off what by nature bdongs to it.
For instance, the mineral lof South
eastern Nevada shonld come to this
town to be smelted; the Goa of South
western Utah should be plsced ON this
market and compete with tie imported
article, and the grains which can be
raised in Southeastern Nevada and
Southwestern Utah, especially the bsr~
ley, which is at present in great demand,
would be marketed here.
Brewers even come from 81. Louis and
beg the people in this locality to raise
barley for them, stating that it ID the
finest produced in the United States.
These which have menti,ned, together
with many other articlesof commerce,
such as lead, aalt, coda, borax, kaolIn,
marble, timber, ETC., wouh all find their
distributing point from this city.
Speaking of railroad development. 1t
the Southern Pacific management is 90
shrewd as Southern California people
think they are, they would lock this
county up 90 tightly that every pound
Of freight and every passenger to tho coast
would be in their hands. For instance.
supposing the Southern Pacific railroad
should acquire control of the Oregon
Short line, the Utah Northern and the
u tab Southern and jussAimply complete
the lstter road from Milford to Bsrstow,
a distance of 300-odd niles. then they
would control every pound of rfeight
and every passenger iare between Salt
Lake and the coast. Ihere ia a scheme
on foot now, which some corporation is
trying to work, whether it ia the South
ern Pacific or not, don't know, but, il
it occupied the lines mentioned. psssen-
gers on the Rock Island, Burlington,
Missouri Pacific. Northwestern, Union
Pacific. Denver and Rio Grands West
ern. all of which land passengers in Salt
Lake, could be carrisd from this point
to Los Angeles over the Los Angeles and
Salt Lake road, those for San Francisco
over the Central Pacific and those for
Portland over the Oregon Short line; the
freight also in the came way.