Louisiana capitolian., 1881-11-15
SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
The Through Line to New Orleans
TO be Completed i'm July.
San Francisco Examiner.


The Southern Pacific and the Cen
trail Pacific, with all their branch
lines, are controlled by one and the
same combination of capitalists -Cbas
Crocker, Timothy Hopkins, G. p.
Huntington and Leland Stanford.
Aside from the Central Pacific, this
syndicate of California capitalists
own and control nearly 1000 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 it's
connecting lines with New Orleans
and Mexico. In late report Of the
Southern Pacific Railroad it gave its
mileage 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 ,82 miles
on the Pacific slope end of the road.
The west or Pacific end includes a
line of l42 miles running directly
south to Soledad, Monterey county,
with branches to Tres Pinos, San Be-
nito county, and to Santa Cruz, q
distance OF 81 miles from the main
line.
THE sOLEDAD LINE
Is the legitimate main line of the
Southern Pacific Railroad, which
now commences at Goshen, in the
San Joaquin valley, on the eastern
side of the Coast Range. The South
ern Pacific, to secure its land, will
have to build from Tres Pinos, in the
San Benito valley, across the noun
tain, to connect with its 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, distance of Jag miles, and
from Lathrop to San Francisco, "a
miles, a distance Of 24O miles. This
gap is used by the Southern Pacific
as a portion Of it's main line, as il op-
crates both the Central and South
ern Pacific roads under the same
management. In addition to the
Northern Division, it operates the
following-named branches: Northern,
San Pablo and Tulare, l63 miles
Berkeley branch, 3.04 miles; Cali
fornia Pacific, to Sacramento, 1878
miles: California Pacific, knights
Landing branch, from Davisville te
Knights Landing, Yo'o county, 81
miles from San Francisco; another
branch, from Yolo to Willows, in Co.
lusa county, $50 miles from Sar
Francisco; branch to Vallejo; an
other branch from Vallejo north tt
Calistoga, in Napa county, 72.79
miles, and a branch from Napa juno
ton to Suisun, q distance Of 81 miles
the amateur branch, q miles; stock
ton and Copperopolis branch, 40 miles
Los Angeles and San Diego, with ter
minus at Santa Ana and Or
ange City, q miles; Los Angeles ant
Santa Monica Senator Jones' pro
jected Independence route), l6 miles
THE MAIN LINE
of the road, commencing at Goshen
near Tulare lake, runs direct to For
! Yuma, $50 miles, where the Southern
Pacific of Arizona and New Mexlc
commences, and runs to FL Paso
Texas, $50 miles further east. From
Ell Paso, Texas, it is the intention Q
Messrs. Crocker, Huntington ant
Stanford to make adirect line to New
Orleans. TO accomplish this the,
have obtained control OF the louisa
. ma Western Railroad of l12 miles
Orange to Houston, JOG miles
and the Galveston, Harrisburg ant
San Antonia road Sunset Route), 43
miles. This, with the Morgan road
, from New Orleans TO VermllliOnville
gives the Southern Pacific about 70
miles of road already constructed eas
of San Antonio, and leaving only tn
unfinished gap between FL Paso an,
San Antonio to build OF this, MI