| Show THE LOSANGELESRR Prominent St Louis Capitalists Back of the Scheme VISIT THIS CITY AND MILFORD The St Louis Party Own 100 Miles of Hallway at Iics Angeles Deep Water Harbor A road connecting Angeles and Salt Lake has long been the pet scheme of the people of Los Angeles and though the project pro-ject has been frequently agitated in this city it has not been as seriously and continuously con-tinuously uppermost in the minds of the people hero as there The building of such a line would certainly cer-tainly infuse new life into both cities and any movement looking forward to its completion com-pletion is of the highest importance When the Union Pacific commenced t extend its line from Milford it was believed that this was but a part of the plan for a line through Jto southern California But during dur-ing the stringent money market of last summer work came suddenly to a stop Little has been said or heard of a line t southern California since then except an occasionally stray rumor that was put afloat by some enterprising rail road newspaper reporters with a faculty for building and equipping railroads in dream lad and letting the mythical lines mortals down to terra firma t startle territorial morta Something of a tangible naturo is now happening and this something may be realized real-ized as it has capital back of it A special car arrived in this city Tuesday Tues-day containing R C Kerens vicepresident of the St Louis Arkansas Texas rail way Jeff Chandler general solicitor of the j road Charles Green president of the St Louis cable line and president of the Fair 4 Grourd association of that city A H I Handlan of the firm of 1 M Buck Co I and George A Baker president of the Continental National bank all of St Louis These gentlemen accompanied accom-panied by Superintendent Corwin of the Union Pacific and Mr Simon Bambergor a influential citizen of this city made a trip to Manti to inspect the work already done by tho Union Pacific company on its line in the direction of Pioche The St Louis party are the owner of valuable railroads at and about Los Angeles An-geles and ar pressing Congress for a large appropriation deepen tbe harbor at San Pedro which i twentythree miles distant from Los Angeles ana is the only harbor on the coast between San Francisco and San Diego The harbor at present has a depth sufficient t admit vessels vita vit-a draught of eighteen feet and the annual appropriation of 50000 is being expended in dredging to give it more depth The government surveyor estimates that 3000 000 would give San Pedro a harbor with sufficient depth for vessels with a draught of thirty feet making it equal t tho best ports or entry in this country As this is I but onehalf the sum appropriated for the I Galveston harbor there is a very strong j fighting chance that the next Congress will I furnish the money Los Angeles has a population of nearly sixty thousand and with the 8000 inhabitants of San Pedro there are 70000 persons directly beno iitted by this improvement while all the western states and territories terri-tories would be indirectly henefitted With the building of a Salt Lake Los Angeles line this city and Utah and in fact a the intermountain country now at the mercy of the extortionate grasp of the Central Pacific would be given a compet gven lag line to the coast The St Louis syndicate own the railway between St Louis and San Pedro together with 3000 aores of land in and about the city part of which will be used as terminal ter-minal grounds The same syndicate own and operate the Los Angeles Pasadena road and the Glendale line giving them one hundred miles of very valuable railway property This in addition to their heavy holdings in Los Angeles property makes them prime supporters of any scheme that Will benefit that city When asked i they would build I line to this city Jeff Chandler replied There is plenty of chance for the road if Salt Lake people feel a much interested in the line as we do The object of their visit to this city and their inspection of the work already completed com-pleted by the Union Pacific is no doubt I for the purpose of making a proposition to the Union Pacific for terminal facilities together with a favorable traffic arrangement arrange-ment over their road between Los Angeles and the harbor t try to induce it to extend the line to the coast As it is but a Question Ques-tion of time when the Union Pacific must secure a line to the coast independent of the Southern Pacific the negotiations of the St Louis syndicate precipitate the completion of the same at an early day Salt Lake certaily would be benefited as much as Los Angeles i not more and the people of this city should lend a hand |
