Louisiana capitolian., 1881-11-19

The Through Line to New Orleans
to be Completed i'm July.
San francisco Examiner.

trail Pacific, with all their branch
lines, are controlled by one and the
| same combination ofcapitalists-Chas
Crocker, Timothy Hopkins, c. p.
Huntington and Leland Stanford.
Aside from the Central Pacific, this
syndicate OF California capitalists
| own and control nearly 1900 miles
of railroad between San Francisco
| and the Texas line, and about 700
| miles OF continuous line, built and in
operation, in Texas. Within the
next year they will own or control at
least 5000 miles of railroad in and
about San Francisco bay and its
connecting lines with New Orleans
and Mexico. In late report of the
Southern Pacific Railroad it gave its
fmileage at the close Of last year, be-
fore it had made it's junction at De-
ming with the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad, as l,43l ,o2 miles
on the Pacific slope end Of the road.
The west or Pacific end includes
line OF 142 miles running directly
south to Soledad, Montere. county,
with branches to Tres Pinos, San Be-
nito county, and to Santa Cruz, a
distance of 81 miles from the main
! line.
TEIt, S0LEDAD LINE
Ia the legitimate main line OF the
| Southern Pacific Railroad, which
now commences at Goshen. in the
San joaquin valley. Oh the eastern
side of the Coast Range. The South
ern Pacific, to secure its land, will
have to build from Tros Pinos. in the
San Benlto valley, across the mouR-
tain, to connect with it's Huron and
HanfOrd branch in the Mussel Slough
country. At present the Southern
Pacific is being operated over the
Central Pacific, from Goshen TO La
! throp, a distance Of JAG miles. and
from Lathrop to San Francisco, 81
miles, distance OF 240 miles. This
gap is used by the Southern Pacific
as q portion Of it's main line, as it op-
crates both the Central and South.
! ern Pacific roads under the same
l management. In addition to tht
Northern Division, it operates the
= following named branches: Northern
San Pablo and Tulare, l63 miles
Berkeley branch, 3.s4 miles; Cali
fernia Pacific, co Sacramento, se7e
miles California Pacific, Knights
Landing branch, from Davisville t.
Knights Landing, Yo'o county, *
Imiles from San Francisco anothe
branch, from Yolo to Willows, in CO
lusa county, $50 miles from Sal
y Francisco branch to Vallejo; an
other branch froN Vallejo north t
W Calistoga, in Napa county, 727
miles, and branch from Napa juno
tion to Sujsun, a distance OF 81 miles
tho amateur branch, q miles; STOCK
ton and Copperopelis branch, ,49 miles
Los Angeles and San Diego, with tel
minus at Santa Ana and o.
ange City, n miles; Los Angeles an
Santa Monica {Senator Jones pro
iected independence route), 10 mile
5oI THE MAIN LINE
to of the road, commencing at Goshel
tx near Tulare lake, runs direct to Fo
g: Yuma, $50 miles, where the Southel
ID Pacific of Arizona and New Aexle
is commences, and runs TO Ell Pas
d. Texas, 556 miles further east Fro
w III paso, Texas, it is the intention (
al Messrs. Crocker, Huntington an
ne Stanford to make adireet line to Ne
In Orleans. TO accomplish this the
l.. have obtained control OF the Louisi:
bs ma Western Railroad of ll2 niles
ne Orange to Houston, LOG mile:
sy and the Galveston, Harrisburg an
?. San Antonia road lSunset Route), 4:
nd miles. This, with the Morgan roa'
te from New Orleans 10 Vermllionvill
m gives the Southern Pacific about 4
III miles of road already constructed ca
ed of San Antonio, and leaving only Il
en- unfinished gap between FL Paso al
SIC San Antonio to build. Of this, NJ
es, Crocker says 1--WE have two cor
II o1 surveyors out south Of Ell Pas