| Show BY RAIL TO LOS ANGELES A writer in the los angeles times advocates the building of ef a railroad to c connect that city with salt lake by public aid his plan is one that it to is shown has proven feasible elsewhere it is in brief to ask a law at the hands of the legislature by the terms of which counties of a certain class can I 1 issue bonds for building railroads and thus become the owners of them with power to lease them to corporations it is questionable whether such a law would be constitutional but if one having that object in view could be made without such infringement we are informed that it would find many advocates in los angeles county as ae well as ali among the lawmakers them that the project of constructing a railway from the seaboard near los angeles to salt lake city is feasible and highly desirable says the tivies times there is no dispute the lan line would tap a rich mineral region and minerals are what we need it log LOB angeles is to become a manufacturing city it woula put us in close and nd quick communication with a wide area rea of country that requires our peculiar horticultural and agricultural products and will purchase and consume them in larger quaD quantities than ever when a direct line shall have been established by means of which I 1 interchanges can be facilitated 1 I it is ie shown that there la is cheap coal and iron in the utah and nevada mountain and it is deeded on the coast the ocean la Is at our doors aud and a great sea aea traffic would ultimately be diverted to los angeles and through it to the east if this thia road were built A heavy volume of passenger traffic would grow up upon on the now new line for it would afford a very direct picturesque and comfortable for table route from the pacific to the east awl for the people of the entire salt bait lake country to this coast the advantages istivan of ti e line are in short apparent and need not be elaborated here the business men of los angeles county are then invited to examine the question at bouce and to act with vigor determination and persistence it all sounds well enough to us at this end and of the line or rather proposed line and we would hail with delight the announcement of work i j earnest at either end and of it rail communication with los angeles is one of the inevitable things to come and it cannot come any too soon the company that iu iii first in the field will probably hold it for a long time and it can scarcely be otherwise than a most fruitful one it has been promised us on several occasions and we believe some work in the way of surveying but very little of any other kind has been done it is represented as am a rather easy country to construct a road over a great portion of it being level and timber in places abundant A road to the pacific coast via los angeles or one terminating at that point from this city would not only be a moneymaker money maker from the start for its owners but would open up and bring into market vast areas of presently unoccupied and thereby unproductive land much of this is mineral hearing bearing some of it being known to be very rich so BO that in the long run the road would not have to loots look to its ite tl for air ita chief support aup port it would enhance the commercial status of both the great cities chiefly affected and cheapen tropical fruits and vegetables to us while doing likewise with coal and salt at the other end yes we all want a roal to southern california and are not gravely concerned as to who does the job or how it to is accomplished so long as it is ia done to stay push it along |
