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Show UTAH SOUTHERN RAILWAY. The Talk of Running it to the 1'aWtlc Upcoming Leuder. Tiic project of opening the Hues uf communication for transportation between be-tween Salt Lake and San Diegj, is being actively discussed in southern California. The San Diego people have organized a committee of nine leading citizens, of wnioh A. E. Ilorton sb president and C. L. Carr, twrelary, for the purpose of entering into correspondence cor-respondence and conference; with partita iiitt-reat.-d, or likely to bovine interested in the construction of a railroad to connect that place with the Union Pacific at ion; the mute proposed being ru San B.-ruar Jinn, l'.oche and I'lili Southern railroad. rail-road. Los Angeles would be necessarily ne-cessarily on the Union line or connected therewith. The people of the latter place have a!o organized a committee to work in the matter. This propped route is not a new one. Years ago, before the days of the Pacific railroad, the Mormons established communication with the Pacific coast by means of a road passing pass-ing through San Bernardino, which town was a Mormon settlement. There was a Mormon settlement aUo at San Diego. Ttie road is only about oOO miles long, aud the route crosses no high mountains. The Utah Southern road is built already 100 miles south from the western term in j us of the Union Pacific, aud it is con-1 trolled by Jay Gould in the interest of the Union Pacific. It was reported last spring that Jay Gould and Sen- a tor Jones had ma Jo a coalition of interests and that the line would run direct from Ogden to San Diego, with a branch through Los Angeles to Santa Monica. The Wash-1 ington correspondent of the Al(at last summer called upon Mr. Gould in New York and sought to learn some-toing some-toing of this project. Mr. Gould admitted that he had said to Senator Jones that be would meet him half way, but there was no definite agreement. agree-ment. So far as the Utah Southern 1 was concerned, ho admitted that it would ultimately be pushed on to the Pacific coast, whether Senator Jones built his road or not. In the course of the interview, Mr. Gould said that the resources of the Pacific coast, from a railroad point of view, were wonder- fully great, and that the capacity of the entire basin between the Rocky mountains and the Sierra Nevada for sustaining railroads could scarcely be estimated. He based his estimates chiefly upon the great possibilities of ore production and the necessities lor the transportalionoforesand base bullion bul-lion to the seaboard, as well as supplies sup-plies to the mining regions. He was emphatic in declaring bis anticipations anticipa-tions of a great future for San Francisco, which he said could not possibly have a rival on the Pacific coast, though Sau Diego was destined to become a aecond Baltimore, and Los Angeles, relatively, a new Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. This was all that could be learned at that time concerning the1 project. Now, however, it appears that the movement is being agitated in a popular way; but no definite action ac-tion is made public. The San Diego committee h:is appointed a representative represen-tative to confer with Jay Gould and the officers of the Utah Southern, Union Pacific and others supposed to be interested. |