Show I THE PROJECTED ROAD I In a few days more the project of building 1 the road between this city and j California ought to begin to take form This Is the best season for work on 1 the line We suspect that for the present I pres-ent the most of the work will be from the other end but this is the very season I sea-son In which to push the work for out on this side of San Barnardlno In I summer the horned toads have to carry sprigs of greasewood to stand off sunstrokes sun-strokes One would think that a company com-pany so fortified with money as this company will be would want to press I the enterprise from both terminals for if I rails and other material should costa cost-a little more It would make quite a I years difference In the opening of the load and then there would be a years I Interest saved and with it quite 20 percent per-cent of the entire cost of the road would 1 be returned to the builders for this road will be no experiment Any one familiar I fa-miliar with the countrys resources can see that it will be an Immense paying I investment from the very first Again the sooner It Is completed timeless time-less danger from competition Two great roads are In striking distance from the East of this city Either one could close the gap In a single year and when once here the natural desire to extend them to the sea shore will not fall to manifest itself Of course the projectors of this road understand all this they arc shrewd business men and will takeevery advantage ad-vantage of the situation possible but sometimes very broad business men In estimating possible savings that can be secured by delay fall at the same time to estlmatc how cosily small economies sometimes are In behalf 1 > of the people who would be glad to supply labor the labor of I men and teams in behalf of the miners I in the desert whose eyes have grown weary in watching for the coming of I the locomotive In behalf of the people who desire to see the line completed that commerce may find a new route over a favored line wo hope the great enterprise will not be I delayed for a day beyond the time needed for organizing and selling the work In motion |