Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-18

The recent exchange of civillties be-
tween Salt Lake and Los Angeles calls
| to mind the fact that the two cities
are by no means strangers to each
other. As far back as the early SOS
commercial relations existed between
the two places, before the building of
the Union Pacific railway.
When Brigham Young and his fol-
lowers reached Salt Lake they began
to look around them to see from what
point they could most easily draw
the supplies which were necessary to
young and growing community. The
eastern cities were too far away. The
route to San Francisco was altogether
road presented the most attractive
superable difficulties. 1t was found by
experience that the low grades and alb
sence Of snow of what was substan-
TALLY the present route of the Clark
road presented the most attractive
features.
AS a consequence a great traffic
grew UP between the two cities, and
began to dot the desert, hauling
merchandise to the land of the Saints
from the City of the Angels. The port
Of San Pedro was used for shipments
from New York and other eastern cit
les to Salt Lake, and a considerable
and profitable commerce prevailed via
Los Angeles until the Union Pacific got
within teaming distance of ogden.
Good for BIacksmiths
The blacksmithing and wagon build
ing interests of Los Angeles grew to
great proportions, and those who car
ried on the trades soon possessed good
bank accounts. Louis Roeder and the
late Louis Lichtenberger handled much
of this trade and were full of remin-
iscences of the old teaming days.
1t is a singular and interesting fea-
ture Of the history of Los Angeles
that something is always occurring
to help forward the fortunes Of the
place when any source of wealth gives
cut. When the Union Pacific cut off
the Salt Lake trade the development
OF the mines in Inyo county brought
these great mule teams again into
play, and the freighting teams of Remi
Nadeau, plying between this city and
Cerro Gordo, again gave the black
smith and wagon makers steady
work on an extensive scale.
Then along came Senator John P.
Jones with his Los Angeles and Inde-
pendence railway, which was originally
an ambitious project that aimed at con-
Meeting with Salt Lake city and the
Union Pacific railway. Next, in 1876,
came the Southern Pacific's completion
to Los Angeles, with the Sunset trans
continental railway completed to New
Orleans in due time, with the advent of
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe a
little later. Now we are celebrating,
with becoming ardor, the completion of
the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt
Lake railway, a distinctively Los An
geles road, which, by the way, The Los
Angeles Herald has been zealously adj
vocating for a period which runs back
quite generation.
Long in Building
It is a standing wonder, when one
thinks it over, that this road should
have been so long in getting itself built.
For over sixty years the great mineral
riches of southwestern Utah, Nevada
and California have been a fact we'll
known to prospectors all over the
United States and all over the world,
in fact. They were not only known to
abound in gold and silver but in copper,
iron, lead, coal, nitre, borax and other
minerals. The shortness of the route
and its splendid grades were we'll un-
derstood amongst railway men. Never
theless, the circumstances were such
that It's turn was long in coming. We
are we'll grounded in hoping that it will
realize the condition spoken Of in Holy
Writ, where the first is last and the
last Is first. 1t is perfectly warrantable
In looking for great developments for
Los Angeles through the completion of
this road.
There are, here and there, Angelenos
great manufacturing center. Notwith-
standing their fastidiousness, the
abundance of the cheap coal and iron
along the line of the Salt Lake make it
absolutely certain that Los Angeles will
be the center of great iron and smelling
industries. AS the railway which was
completed before the Salt Lake-the
Santa Fe-begot a great boom here
abouts, good people need not be sur
prised If this latest of transcontinental
railways should engender something of
the kind at this present writing.
Nearly Mormon Once
To most people it will be surprise
to know that at one time 1t was almost
toss up whether or no the city of Los
Angeles should be Mormon city, the
refuge of Brigham Young and his re-
fugees. Away back in 1858 great army
was gathered in Utah under the COM
mand of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston
It was for time a question as to
whether Young would go or stay. The
United States authorities were present
49,. ,.taro aItarnafiVea IN the Mormon