Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1883-02-28
fns ATLANTIC q PACIFIC RAILROAD.
A Through Line by April 10th Ener-
getic Work by the California
Builders.


A few days ago we copied all item
from the San Bernardino Times, which
stated that contract had lately been
let for the building OF ten miles of the
Atlantic & Pacific Railroad on this side
Of the Colorado river, and expressed the
opinion tina. the Southern Pacific Rail
road Company of California, which has
tor some time been engaged in building
branch from Mohaye Station to june.
ton with the Atlantic and Pacific at the
Needles, had abandoned that plan, and
would defect the Mohave branch SOUTH
ward, crossing the Colorado some TWEEN.
ty-fve miles below the Needles, and
building on to junction with its own
line in the ella Valley.
Since publishing this item, we have
had an interesting interview with Mr..
A. Allen, Of this city, who has been
absent in San Bernardino county and
Northern Arizona for nearly four
months, and who has been along the
entire route of the Atlantic and Pacific
and Mohave branch roads. Mr.. Allen
informs us that the opinion OF the Times
has no basis it fact. That, on the con-
trary, both Companies are working to-
ward junction at the Needles in per-
feet harmony, and that the road will be
fully completed SO that trains can run
through by the 18th Of April next.
When Mr.. Allen left San Diego he
went to the Calico mining district, thence
to Providence, and then crossed the
Colorado at the Needles, and went ON to
Prescott, Arizona. Returning, he went
to the end Of the track Of the Atlantic
and Pacific, coming through Arizona,
and then distant seventy miles from the
Colorado. The work was being rapidly
advanced, and the gap was to be filled
before April 18th. Crossing at the
Needles, he found the abutments of the
bridge all set, and the work progressing
with the certainty of being finished by
the time the road reached the river.
At this point he met Mr.. Strobridge,
the Southern Pacific Superintendent OF
Construction, who had just made IN
agreement with Mr.. Grant for grading
ten miles west of the river, to be COM
pleted April LIST. Mr.. Allen went ON
to the end Of the track of the California
road, and returned homeward via
Mohave.
He informs us that the "Mohave
Branch" of the Southern Pacific was
then built to point 60 miles from the
Needles. and was to be completed to
the bridge early in April. Mr.. Sro-
bridge told him the connection would
be made and through trains run over
the bridge on or before the 10th of that
month. From what he saw he fully
believes that this will be done. He says
the energy with which the Southern
Pacific people are pushing the work is
perfectly wonderful. They have over
three thousand men at work, with sew
eral hundred head of the finest horses
he ever saw. Everything is done with
the precision and discipline Of an army
corps. The work moves steadily for
ward, without hitch or break, and with
out the least confusion.
The California section. from Mohave
TO the Needles, is 240 miles in length,
Of which, as stated, but 80 miles remain
to be finished. That it win be done
ION time. Mr.. Allen says there Is not
the least doubt.