Los Angeles Daily Herald

The Ventura Signal calls for more steamers on the coast route and asserts that those now running are carrying more passengers each trip than the law allows. It also claims that the rates for freight and passage are unreasonably high. They are certainly high enough—too high for the rapid filling up of this portion of the State with what we need most of all—people. These things cannot be helped, however, at present. Time will regulate them for the better. The two lines of steamers now doing the business of the northern coast are inadequate for the business, and for the good of the country we could wish that oppositions were not so easily bought off or that the old companies would place more steamers on the route.