The Arizona sentinel., 1895-06-15

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 that a mass meeting was called 1T
 that city on the 6th,. to consider
 the proposition of a Utah capitalist
 by the name of Thomas Taylor, tc
 assist in the building of the road
 to Salt Lake. MT. Taylor pledges
 some five million dollars worth ol
 property towards the enterprise
 We don't know this MT. Taylor
 but it matters not who he is SC
 long as he can help this project
 through. Salt Lake needs such a
 railroad and must have it before
 she can hold her own against com
 peting points like Denver and Omaha.
 An outlet straight to the coast is
 what she must have, and line to
 San Diego will give us that. while
 line merely to Los Angelss will
 not fill the bill. Los Angeles is
 not on the Pacific coast and no
 harbor of any consequence is nearer
 te her than San Diego. Los An geles is ever jealous of San Diego and will do nothing to assist the latter in any way. For Salt Lake to join with Los Angeles instead of San Diego would be to make a
 mistake which we would never cease to regret. A line from this city to Los Angeles would not take us to tide water, then why go there? A line straight to San Diego would leave Los Angeles some sixty miles to the north of it, and the line could be built just as cheaply from here to San Diego as it could to the "city of angels" and as It is ships we are looking for, instead of an- gels, CT oranges either, why not go to where the ships are?
 San Diego has a magnificent harbor to which the largest ocean going vessels can safely float, and ships from all parts of the world are often seen within it's Iand- locked waters. Once within San Diego harbor heads 8 ship is much safer than in San Francisco bay.
 A line from Salt Lake to Los An geles would only prove a feeder to San Francisco, and San Francisco is no friend to Salt Lake and never can be, while San Diego will be to us all that we could desire. Are we content then to play second fiddle to old jealous San Francisco, or shall we prefer to lead in the waltz with the queen of the Pacific, San Diego? We must choose soon or 1t will be everlasting too late. Already the San Joaquin valley road Is reaching out towards us and invitingIy says 'just step into my parlor," as the fabied spider said to the fly.
 The New Star has once before to the superior advantages which San Diego offers as an out let for the interior trade of Utah. San Diego ships are waiting at the docks for UJah's coal and iron, for Utah's silver ores and her golden grain. Yes, and they are waiting for Utah's superior four which has already won fame in the Far-of orient. San Francisco does 1 not care to push the claims of Utah ! -four, and she will see to 1t that no advantage be given our Territory even though the Salt Lake and Los Angeles railroad be built, or the San Joaquin branch either. With ! line, straight as a crow flies, to San Diego, than Utah could bid defiance to that old monopolist, San Francisco, but in no other way; and sooner or later we shall ind it out,
 This paper sounds a note of to our business men of Salt Lake. If they wish for free lom from the monopoly which both Los Angeles and San Francisco they will pull for the San DIego road, but if they are content o put up with Hobson's choice hey will pull for the other. By HObson's choice Is meant simply he falling into the capacious maw ,f San Francisco. This is the real status of the case. What shall the answer be?-Sa2a Diego For2d.