The Arizona sentinel., 1879-12-13

1 On November 11th. telegram relative 70 the City's railroad land reservation was forwarded to the President of the Texas Pacific Railroad by the President of the Board of City Trustees. A reply to this dispatch has just been re- ceived by mail, and at the ad- iOurned meeting of the Board yesterday afternoon 1t was pre- l ser led and read. The telegram lt1l Col. ScOtt's letter in reply are as follows:
 SAN DIEGO Nov. II, fl879. rHos. 4. SCOTT. President Tex . as and Pacific Railway Company, Philadelphia, Pa :-Uontidiug in yOur integrity and standing among the leading business men of our country, and upon your promise to construct railroad to our Bay and put it in operation by July 5th., 1876, we entrusted you with deed to nearly 10000 acres of valuable lands within our city limits. We also expended large sums of money in the pur- chase of right of way and depot grounds, and in assisting you to procure Congressional aid for the said road. These expenditures, and your failure to build the road, have embarrassed our whole community and ruined many of our best business men. In your dispatch to Us of December IS, 1876, you said: ''If you can se- cure a railroad line in any better shape than 1 can, should be very glad to have you take it up and adjust it with any party. or on any terms you may think best; but in taking these steps, 1 shall expect you to relieve me of all possible obligations" Three years having elapsed since the date of this offer, and you having done nothing in the way of con structiOn upon this end of the line, anl are not even within five hundred miles of the western OOundry of the Sfate O. Texas, we are therefore compelled to ask a compliance with your promise made in said dispatch having in our city parties willing and able tO construct the road on terms satisfactory to lis. The deed hetd by ygJ being q clOud upon the title to the iauus honestly belong ing to our impoverished people, we therefore respectfully ask you 10 re.convey them to the city, thereby saving us the expend- iture of large additional sums of money in expensive litigation, and maintaining the friendship and good opinion of our citizens so generously given.
 D. o. MCCARTHY,
 President Board City Trustees.
 TEXAS & PACIFIC R. R. Co.,,
 Office of the President,
 Philadelphia, Nov. p, 1879.
 D. O. MCCARTHY, EsQ., Presi- dent of Board of City Trustees, San Diego, Cal-"My Dear Sir." Your dispatch of the 11th inst. arrived during my absence West. 1 need hardly remind you that our Company promptly commence ed the construction of it's line from your city Eastward, and that continuous and rapid con- nletiOn of the road was, we had reason to hope, assured until all new railroad work was arrested by the financial crisis of 1873. Siu:e then DO effort has been spared to secure aid from the United States Government to construct the line, but our bill failed for want of cooperation on the part of those whose active support We fully expected. We x if expect that the line will be coutrurted. Pending further proceedings however, We have nu disposition tO ueiay your oe- curing railway connections through negotiations with any responsible party, and when such a result is assured by the comple- tion of enc hundred continuous miles of railway Eastward from your city, in manner satisfac- tory to you, 1 will re-convey Uo you one half of the lands, but not so as to embarrass the location of our line, or impair our terminal facilities at your city. This sug- geotiOn is of course cOnditionalup- on diScontlnuance and amicable settlement of the pending litiga- tion. Very truly yours,
 THOMAS A. SCOTT,
 Pres. Texas Pacific Ky. Co.
 -San Diego Union.
 1t Is very magnanimous on the part of Scott 10 offer to re-convey one half the land donated to him by San Diego, upon the comple-