Show SOUTHERN california is anxious for railroad extension such as will connect her seaport cities with the great great coal fields of iron iron county this state that such a line will be built in due time now seems almost certain and and when it is it will open up a section of country that is almost unrivaled in its mineral possibilities such a road would cut through some of the richest mining camps that he west can boast of and its construction would not only give a foreign 7 market for the great quantities of coal that iron county can easily furnish but it would also stimulate the iron industry of that section now virtually sleeping but environed by so many advantages that the leash leas sign of encouragement in the way of railroad facilities an open way to the coast would result at once in the establishment of blast furnaces for the manufacture e of pig iron and the erection of foundries for the production of jrsn ron and steel rails cartwheels car wheels and numerous other commodities of commercial value in the manufacture of which iron so largely enters in fact several strong companies are now figuring to enter this field as soon as possible and it is predicted that it will not be long now nov before the iron interests of this state will rank as only second to our magnificent mineral industry the road to the coast should be built by all means |