anaheim-gazette 1872-10-05

Southern California SATURDAY...OCT. 5, 1872 L. P. FISHER, 20 and 21 New Merchants' Exchange is our authorized Agent in San Francisco. FOR CONGRESS. FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. E. J. C. KEWEN, OF LOS ANGELES. THE LAND CO. ON THE R.R. QUESTION. To W. R. Olden Esq., Agt. of L.A & S.B. Land Co. we are indebted for the following resolutions lately passed by this Company in regard to the two propositions now before the people. The Co. were at first strongly in favor of the Stanford proposition, but from these resolutions it will be seen that they have changed their views, for reasons which will appear below: Resolved:—That the Los Angeles and San Bernardino Land Co. is opposed to the proposed subsidy and donation of the bonds of the County of Los Angeles and of the County's interest ($150,000) in the Los Angeles and San Pedro R.R. Co., to the Southern Pacific R.R. Co., its successors and assigns, in view of the following among many other considerations: The immensely valuable franchise and grants from the government are on the condition that the Southern Pacific R.R. shall be completed between San Francisco, Los Angeles and the Colorado River. The early connection with the commercial city and great agricultural valley of Los ment, prove a mere delusion and snare. S. M. Wilson, J.P.Hoge, McAllister Bergen, and W.W.Cope say: (September 7th, 1872) "Of course, that which is a pure objection cannot be made a consideration any promise or agreement. That we at once change it nature. You cannotter for, or sell, a donation, for that is a tradiction in terms. The only question which the Board of Supervisors canmit to the people at the election is, whether a donation of the bonds shall be made not. The Board has not the power submit to the people the question when they will lend, sell or bargain off bonds for some consideration to be either to the county or to the tax-payer to trustees for them, or any other deduction. And if the people vote subsidy, the Board can only grant subsidy as a donation; for to sell it or wise barter it away, would be deprived from the election of the people. The whole power, therefore, of Board is first to submit at the election rely the question of donation or no tion, the people can only vote on it. And if the donation is determined election, then the Board can only out that same intention, and grant subsidy as a pure donation." The that the county must grant the subsidy as a pure donation, or not at all. Was not all this well known to the Attorneys of the R.R. Co. and itsangers? The new light just now thrown on subject and late and important present a new phase, and are fully ent to decide this company and even payer in Los Angeles county, (hitherto he may have been predic now to oppose a pure donation to th The immensely valuable franchise and grants from the government are on the condition that the Southern Pacific R.R. shall be completed between San Francisco, Los Angeles and the Colorado River. The early connection with the commercial city and great agricultural valley of Los Angeles is a result in the interest of that R.R.Co., logical and certain. To avoid the connection would be suicidal on the part of the R.R.Co. The fact that more money can be borrowed on the bonds of the R.R. than the cost per mile is another guarantee of prompt completion to and beyond Los Angeles. If not discouraged by the exclusive subsidies from Los Angeles County to the S.P.R.R.Co., other railroads, with very little aid, will also soon connect Los Angeles City and Anaheim too, with San Francisco and the great overland lines. The bounty of the U.S. Government has secured to Los Angeles this S.P.R.R.Co., while adding to the millions of wealth of the few favored owners. We may well be excused from paying for what we have secure, and employ our spare means to procure what we have not, to initiate and encourage other more needy, and perhaps more immediately useful, railroad enterprises. The proposition of the Southern Pacific R.R.Co. is to build 25 miles in two different directions, within 15 months after the declaration of the vote favorable to it and to complete the connection with San Francisco within five years. Is the city of Los Angeles to be benefited during these years by its new position of a way station between Wilmington and the two termini? Will not the practical effect be to transfer the stages, freight teams, all trade incidental to or growing out of them, and much other business, to the new towns to be laid out at or near these two termini of the R.R.Co? The county, south and east of the city of Los Angeles, is certainly not to be adequately, if at all, benefited; as now it is not proposed to extend the main line through or near Anaheim, but simply (urd, see.) that within 3 months after the completion of the 50 miles, (for which 15 monhs are allowed.) after the stock and all the bonds shall have been delivered and not even a contract of legal force remains, the South Pac. R.R.Co. promises to commence the construction of a branch from the railroad operated in the interest of the S.Pac. R.R.Co. to the town of Anaheim, and that the completion of this branch shall be accomplished as a pure donation." The new light just now thrown on subject and late and important present a new phase, and are fully ent to decide this company and every payer in Los Angeles county, (the bithertto he may have been predicnt now to oppose a pure donation to theern Pacific R.R.Co. of half a million lars, or any of its bonds, or the Co shares in the existing railroads. A true copy of a Resolution unanimously adopted on 23d September, 1872, Messrs E.F.Northam, Edw.Martin Polhemus, Geo.H.Howard,A.W.Bowman, Alfred Robinson, Exr.of E.t.Stearns, A.Robins Resolved;—That the Los Angeles San Bernardino Land Co. is in favor tending the aid of the county of Los Angeles to the Los Angeles and San R.R.Co.on the basis of its proposal Supervisors of that county: "The Bonds of the county to be and delivered to said company as th railroad shall be completed in sective five miles,in sums proportionate to propriation and the number of milessary to be constructed in tho co form the connection with the TexPacific Railroad." In accordance with the law; th deriving the benefit previous to th of the bonds. A true copy of a Resolution unanimously adopted on 23d September, 1872, Messrs E.F.Northam, Edw.Martin Polhemus, Geo.H.Howard,A.W.Bowman, Alfred Robinson, Exr.of E.t.Stearns, A.Robins To Los Angeles.-McLaughlin press runs daily (except Sundays) Anaheim at 1 p.m. and returning at Fare $200 Commissions promptly ed to. ...Laura D. Fair has been acquainted as a pure donation." Four years from now? A long time, in this age of railroads built a mile per day, to wait for 19 miles of R.R., on a dead level, from the midway of the Los Angeles and S. Pedro R.R. to Anaheim. Long before that it will be built, if this railroad does not become absorbed in the other. The proposed donation of the county's stock in the Los Angeles and San Pedro R.R. Co., after the acquisition, a little later, of the city's shares and the purchase of a portion of the individual interest outstanding, will give the Southern Pac. R.R. the monopoly and control, at their own rates, of the commerce, passenger and carrying trade of the County. This should not be sanctioned by a single vote of the city or county; and as it cannot be separated the whole subsidy should be defeated. The benefit certainly is not worth 1 acres of every 20 (5 per ct.) or one twentieth of the property, real and personal, of the county. Is there any legal binding force in the condition imposed by the ordinance upon the Southern Pacific R.R. Co.? According to the published opinion of eminent lawyers of San Francisco, there is not, and if the bonds are given to the R.R. Co., it is a pure donation. 8. M. Wilson says: (August 9th 1872.) "The aid contemplated is a donation or subsidy &c." "The county cannot contract for any compensation from a railroad company as a consideration for the subsidy, as that would be to destroy its character as a donation." "Any legal scheme to evade the plain meaning of the law would, in my judgment..." 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