The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

drainage into the Gulf of California.
60 miles by land and 160 by water. be-
low Yuma. Arizona, the heavy rains
and perpetual SHOWS of the northern
mountain ranges furnishing an mex
haustible supply of water.
While the lower portions Of the
Colorado river country were among
the first sections explored in America,
but very little is even yet known of
that almost impenetrable region.
hemmed in by the magnificent Grand
Canyon of the Colorado and its en-
virons.
1t is down this stream that the new
line of railroad from Cedar City, Utah,
via Yuma, is proposed to be built to
San Diego. The route is feasible. No
such difficulties will attend its con-
struction as those which the Pacific
roads. the Denver & Rio Grande and
others have encountered. If the pro-
ject is pushed the Utah Southern will
connect with it from Frisco, and the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad from
Marysvaie. Utah. The line from Du-
range, Colorado. will not only be ex-
tended to Cedar City. but another
branch wAl be built to Flagstaff, Ari-
iona, and thence to Phoenix. to con-
meet with the San Diego and Yuma
road from that point. AT old Fort
Yuma on the west bank of the Colo
RADIO river, the Phoenix road and the
line from Cedar City will unite and
use the same road across the magnifi-
cent valley of the Colorado for a hun
dred miles and on to San Diego.
No line ever opened on the conti-
nent, or at least in the east, will have
such prospects for a local traffic as
this new line. From Cedar City to
Yuma on both sides of the Colorado.
the country is one vast network of
mines. of gold. silver, lead. manganese,
onyx. marble, some copper, tin, zinc,
great bodies of iron and the finest
limestone in the west. These mineral
belts extend back from the river for
20 miles or more.
With cheap fuel the hundreds of
small valleys and the scores of mag
nificent mesas will be put to produc-
can be pumped for irrigation, and all
these will be converted into fine farms
and orchards, which in time will sup
ply the mines with hay, grain, fruit
and vegetables, and all of this vast
region, now comparatively a desert
will become a rich, prosperous and
productive portion of the southwest in
l. g
ducts. Look at what the new North &
South railroad is already doing for
central Arizona and for Phoenix.
Great mines idle for years are now
producers of minerals; towns are being
built. valleys settled. hundreds of men
employed. and a country developed
that has been dead and of no value
for years.
Open this line from Cedar City TO
San Diego, which will be the shortest
one from the southwest to Salt Lake,
Denver. Utah, Montana. Wyoming and
Colorado, and a new line to the east,
and the vast mineral resources of the
country lying along the Colorado river
will be opened up and developed. the
valleys settled. manufacturing indus
tries built up. as result of one single
fact-cheap fuel. What will it not
do for Salt Lake and southern Utah?
Writing from Arizona in relation to
this road a prominent gentleman
gives this advice to Salt Lakers:
Do not talk Los Angeles or San
Francisco as the terminus for your
new road, but go to San Diego, I'M
bound, united by amy alliances which
will curse your line if built to either
of the two first named places. Secure
the trade and wealth of the Great
Colorado river basin and in ineXhausti-
BILE resources; bring them to your city,
and build her up. Build the line to
San Diego and inside of eighteen
months after your line is opened to
that point, both Los Angeles and San
Francisco will open their eyes and
reach out to take you in. Los Angeles
is no seaport; has none; never can
have one nearer than San Diego.
Nothing has she more than the open
sea. Do not be deceived; build your
new line down the Colorado and have
your own line to San Diego and to the
Gulf of California. A look at the map
is enough to convince even the most
skeptical Of the value Of this new line.