Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-03-15
Recommended for Tho HaSly Pro.
posed Line from Los Angeles.
PROSPECTS AND PROMISES.
What the Il. q. W. Would Do-A Let
ter Written by Thomas Taylor TO
the Mayor OF Los Angeles,


that city, nii ou ruesIayl pt8 Foiug
70 be n very close shave . wrsuccDcJ
DO getting 30 through, but am begin.
uingto hope Tint we will 90 s1, now
ihal have obtained this place ln ,le
urgency nio. You may rot assured,
aud holo that you VIII s0stata 90 al
u the irisudu Of tho enterprise, TIM. 1
viii 10 anything In my power 10 pd-
vance rho bir.n
The LTlrCss goes ON TO say: The
meyer has alec received the following
letter from Thomu Taylor president
Of The Coal aud Iron c3mrsny o. Utah,
At Cedar CITY, lion county,
81 notice from tho los Angeles iJ
pFtst ihAt you arc adopting muutuIuH
lOF lhc uui.dlug ui railroad from Los
Angeles 10 Salt Lake. The coal auu
iron OF southern U,ah will undOubtud.
~ bo an objective point, and 49, own
the best aud largest mines ami the best
polut Tor setting out thu coal 10 a rail-.
road THIS Is my apology for low sug-
gUstiuus.
"rhc city nnd county Of Los Angeles
should build aud own tue railroad.
lnty could thus IND employment TOT
tbrir own people aud control the price
OF tue freight On coal, for IN limo there
VIII certainly DO competition aud you
nucu cheap iuBl o. II Iron. 90 introduce
manufacture. Nu want an iuuu.
pendent through line.
"f our hue should uo short aud ul.
tee. 40 plsiblc. Being somewhat uc-
quaiuird with tho different routes, /
VIII give you the one that believe
would uu tBu moot profitable. Loo
Angeles via FaHuuCun 90 san BrTuuf-
uiuoi thence 20 Banning, crossing the
southern Pacific, "a great distributing
place Tor c9algud pig ron 10 san Diego
aud Mexico; thence through tho Nor
JuEO pass (buttef grade than the Colon
phTs D thence % Ludlow, crossing thy
A, a. r., another Distributing point f1r
/ coal anu pig ZION 90 Arizona; thoucs o.
lyanIgh silver, iuau anu gold mining
| diaircii coal wanted; thence ~ Las
| Vegas a large agricultural district
thruCr down inc Vegas wash nearing
the Eldorado canyon and arrives uu
tue Colorado riycr, h tho Junction OF
Ito Muddy AID RIO Virgin, where
there are uumbsTs ol gold. silver, lead
aud copper miuuF, ana agricultural
lands, settlers Increasing.
"lhCuce up tie East bank " Rio
Virgin 10 Bunherville, bordering ON
N0uhWosIetn Arz5uh, whore there
has lately been discovered gold and
copper nllnes, very rich; thence to -.
| George, Utah, where you would cal-
turu the trade Of Kane and Washing
ton counties, Of some slK or seven
thousand people, constantly on thusiu.
cichtui some tropical ifut raised, but
too cold for CilTuH iTuits. They have d
cotton and wooden mill and smeller.
There 10 also gold, silver aud lead In
mountains ucur this route on TO our
Iron county Iron mines at Iron city,
where we expect 10 have an extensive
| population iu few yeah after the al.
vent Of o railroad.
"rhence through Cedar city to our
coal about siE miles uast, where 10 lies
| In ineEhaustiUlu quantities. Cedar Is
90 miles from Milford on the Union
| Pacific. There IN about 25 milt0 Of
grading done between Milford aud
Cedar.
81 wss told by Mt. Peabody, vice,
| president Of tho RIO Graude Western,
that n a railroad was built from Los
| Angeits 10 Cedar CITY, they would
| that they are now preparing 10 mOvu
tlls way In the spring. There Is talk
Uf the SprrckCls und Blake lines run
ming on 20 Phoebe. There Ia nothing
/ at all from Good Springs 10 pIuchu.
Then the largest body Of ore they have
| only carries twenty ounces silver ana
would NOT pHy either 90 chip or smrlL
. Then there IL nothing from pI1cho 20
Milford. There has been another
survey mado from BafslOw towards
UtAh, IL would tap some mineral
lands through Cant ruin, but the
route 1 have given Is the beet, all In
al.
The writer sends q map with the
proposed routes marked IN different
c1lgts, aud gsks investigation Of hir
suggestiuuB loiOgr work ~ commenced.
Hu continues: "Ouly temporary
would build from Cedar 70 Milford,
then on thTOugh the towns OF summit
ParOwan, PaTagO0nAh, beaver Pine
Creek, sulphurdale, Rauasu, Pitts.
burg, MeadoWvllIo, Fillmore, Holden,
Scipio, Leyan and Nephi; here there
arc competitive lines, OF will be
shortly"
Gan the towns from b. George 70
5alt Lake would contribute depot
grounds and night Of way; but Salt
Lake will not be- bgnoiiltsl sO much
At tue present time IN Los Angeles. Al
the pfoseut time salt Lake IL the great
distributing poln, Tor California anI
oriental merchandise Tor Southern
Utah. A railrua ifom Southern Cal
liuruh Will leave this freight as 10
passes, anu We shall 40 nearly all our
business " i'm Los Angelica that we now
do with Salt Lake, especially SUCH
goods rs you get from the East by
water.
81 nave been IA correspondence with
an eastern syndicate, who SAY they atU
pufiecling details for building 10 MY
iron and coal MINES. shall know
within two weeks n the legislature
pas,es your bin. We might be able D.
make your rails Tor you. II this com.
pany does not take h0ll, thiuK
could do your PARTY somB good, II dc.
eifRblc, by i9ilin- Ia our efforts.
81 have bOvu twice TO California and
back looking over the different routes,
with view 10 building this route,
you are enabled 10 ~ on with the
project and like my route, could come
down again and lock over SUCH paris