The sun., 1873-02-05
THE GOAT ISLAND JOB.
San Franchises Citizens' Committee Refutius
Mr.. stanford's Arzument-The Tricks Of
the Railroad Ring Exposed.

San Frnncisco's Citizens' Committee RefutIuE
Mr.. stanford's Argumcnt-The Tricks Of
the Railroad Ring Exposed.
SAN Francisco, Feb 3.-The Citizens
Committee, appointed at the recent public
meeting presided over by Gov. Booth to take
all proper steTs in opposition to the bill pend
ing in the United States Senate cedlng part Of
Goat Island TO the Central Pacific Railroad, ask
the Eastern press to give place TO the following
statement, viz:
Mr.. Stanford's argument before the Senate
Military Committee, az reported here Is mar.
vel OF plausible sophistication and disregard Of
known facts He speaks OF the company beins
thrust back seventeen hundred feet from me
deep water line In Mission Bay, IA II deep
water line " and water front were convcrthle
terms; The fact is that the company's land
stretches along the west side of Illinois street,
and directly opposite to IL, extending along the
other side OF the same street for sixteen hun
dred feet, lies the Central Basin of thirty-fow
acres area. Their land also fronts on Kentucky
street. and on the opposite side OF the nttf
street lies the great CHINA Basin, with an ares
OF forty-nine acres, and frontage opposite the
company's land of sixteen hundred feet more;
so that the railroads have frontage Of thirty
two hundred feet on the two basins, only
separated from the water by the width II the
external street.
The line Of deep-water soundlngs in the bay
has nothing TO do with the matter, The basnl
were reserved for shipping, ana the COMPANY
wants TO own the external street also, not 80
much to use II as to prevent the approach Of
nopoly Of the water front. They can have the
privilege of laying rails and delivering freight on
the water front streets whenever they VIII con-
descend 10 ask the Supervisors for it No one
opposes II. Our citizens object only to making
the external street the private property 81 an
already overgrown monopoly.
The disclaimer of an intention to use The shoal
north OF Goat Island and that adjoining the
companys wharf should not satisfy any one,
The friends of the central Paci1c kntrodI
Company who own this immense body ot anu
which the building OF the proposed bridge + 70
be the means Of Teclaiming are no other thal
the Railroad Ring. The company, a. such' may
not build warehouses or undertake To nulll
new city on the seven Thousand acres oi OYER
flowed land but the Ring will. The litic ioku
Is under the other thimble but IL O., me SANE SANE
little Joker. These race course tricks shouu"
understood. A..
The charge that the compromise with le
Committee OF One Hundred was defeated W
| Parliamentary trick Ia a daring mi~rcpIts,ha@a
tion, The ordinance a. prepared 10y me oHulpr,
| ny's attorney, introduced In the lloarI o s1Pf,
visors and passed 10 print, merely pr"NGeui iy
the money payment 10y the city tu the 'ulur%n,
of two and one half millions of dollar ol.'ia,
the conditions to he performed by the i9''.'
| return. Tho amendment merely added W. ,'Ts
of the bargain and made It's perlurmah,E uy"S
| railroad Il condition OF the payment, "hee,,t,re
amended the company shullled 1ut ui h,,'pJrd
| H. The suppostion IL that they never wv '"1sns'
to Keep their engagement win the N,HtnId
| Committee, and therefore objected 1" p""'"s
| in "A binding form.