Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1879-10-18

central division of the Atlantic and
Pacific will coon paas into the
hands of the st. Louis aud San
Francisco. In order to obtain ac-
curate and reliable Information on
this subject, reporter called on
JUDGE JAMES BAKER,
Vice. President of the st. Louis and
San Francisco, yesterday after
noon, and asked him for such facts
as he might be willing to give the
public.
Gin the first place." said Judge
Baker, 81 want to contradict the
absurd report that our road has
been leased by the Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe. Nothing of
this sort is true and nothing of this
kind is even so much as thought of
by our people. We are very well
satisfied with our business and our
prospects, and we
DO NOT NEED TO LEASE
To the Santa Fe or any other COM
pany. We think we know how to
run Our road without the help of
any other company. This report is
gotten up for stock obbing spec
ulation, and nothing else. Til ere
is not one word of truth in it.n
"Judge, what do you propose to
do after you purchase the Central
Division of the Atlantic and Pa
eific?u
ave propose to continue the
road"
"You think the sale is sure to
take placer"
''It is as good as settled. Nearly
all the bondholders have,signed the
agreement"
"Where dc do you propose to build
We first propose to build six hum
bred miles of road, and that will
take US into New Mexico"
care you ready to commence
work?'
'If we consummate the proposed
arrangement with the bondholders
Of the A. Il P. we will be able to
GO RIGHT AHEAD
With the work; we will have plen-
ty Of money to build six hundred
miles of new road.n
"After you get to New Mexico,
what do you then propose to do?"
1--WE hope to connect with the
Southern Pacific. That road now
has about 500 miles completed, and
we have 365 miles completed; so
that 1165 miles of the line between
st. Louis and San Francisco is al
ready built. If we build eco more,
that will make 1865 miles. 1t will
be all easy matter to discover some
plan of filling up the gap.n
"You really expect, then, that
you are going to construct a line TO
the Pacific Coast?
1--WE do expect to do that very
thing, and If no bad luck happens
to us, We shall have men at work
on the road to New Mexico within
three months.n
This Is certainly
EMPHATIC ENOUGH
To satisfy anybody. Judge Baker
and his associates mean business,
and it now begins to look as though
st. Louis was to be one of the ter
mini of the second great railroad
leading from the Mississippi Valley
to the Pacific Coast. One of the
greatest objections the people of
this city have to urge against the
Texas-Pacific is that its Eastern
terminus is in Texas, and not in
st. Louis. In such all event there
would be no special advantage de-
rived by this city from southern
route to the Pacific, since other
cities would have the same favors
that would come to this.
The attention of the whole coun-
try will no doubt now be drawn to
the grand enterprise to be carried
out by the st. Louis and San Fran
cisco and Southern Pacific.
IN TWO YEARS
These two roads will offer an unr
broken line from here to San Fran
cisco, through region rich with
mineral as we'll as agricultural re-
sources. The route will be much
better one than that of the Union
and Central Pacific or the Northern
Pacific, as it will never be subject
ed to the hindrances and delays in
cident to cold climate. But most
of all for congratulation is the fact
that the proposed new route to the
Pacific will be fostered by men
friendly to st. Louis. The ST.
Louis and San Francisco Railroad
is empha.ically a st. Louis rail-
road, and whatever it does will be
to the advantage of st. Louis