Los Angeles Daily Herald

RAILROAD BUILDERS.

The San Diego Union having completed the Texas Pacific railroad, and the Los Angeles Express having driven the last spike on the Los Angeles and Independence railroad, those two great builders of railroads, on paper, have joined forces and are now constructing a first-class road from Ogden through Cajon Pass to the Pacific ocean. At or near San Bernardino the road is to fork or divide—one track running to Jonesville wharf, eighteen miles West of Los Angeles, and the other touching tide-water on the pebbly beach of San Diego bay. The parties on whom is to be conferred the honor of putting up the small amount of coin our cotemporaries will require to carry out this little enterprise are Senator Jones and Messrs. Flood & O'Brien. We hope these gentlemen will raise no objections to the programme. We should like to see it carried out. The fact that Senator Jones is losing money every day on the only section of railroad he ever built, together with that other fact that he has not just now more money than he knows what to do with, should not influence him to disregard the task his Los Angeles paper has mapped out for him. Messrs. Flood & O'Brien will not, we trust, remember that only a short time ago the Express denounced them as blots and blights on the financial world, whose safes it would be no more than justice to break open by force and their money taken from them by brute strength, and not remembering this will fall into line and hand over to the two great railroad builders the funds necessary to complete the road they now have on paper. Let us have the road by all means.