Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-03-11
RAILROAD AFFAIRS.
Lively Times in Progress
For California.
BUSINESS BOOMING HERE.
Strained Traffic Facilities, and
0vercrOwded Trunk Lines.
More Needed.
BUSINESS BOOMING HERE.

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ally coming to the surface in this line.
The 'yard" round the new depot con-
tains n domain Of forty broad acres. II
| Is altogether too small for the business
of the s. +. Co. and of the g. s. R'y
which crowds its every inch of space at
all moments of the day and night.
There are eighty locomotives housed
here by the S. p Go. and their force is
taxed TO the utmost 10 perform the work
demanded of them. There are these
days some 500 cars all the time in the
yard and yet the transportation facili-
ties OF the corporation are decidedly
oyertaxed. There are gangs Of men
about the new deport aggregating some
500 employees of one grade or other.
These are all overworked in the effort TO
keep up with the amount Of work rushed
in during all hours of the day.
AS an example may be mentioned the
fact that yesterday there left Sumner
for this city five great freight trains of
| 80 loaded cars and tive empty fruit cars.
1ne same day there passed Yuma, the
other end of the Los Angeles Division OF
the y. Z. line, coming west, 10Y loaded
freight cars. From the depot here there
| were moved in "a hours l40 loaded
freight cars towards Yuma. There were
more cars to move, but there was not
power to take them out.
The same crush OF traffic IL observable
in the passenger department. The trains
moving east and west are all doubled up
| in volume and come over the mountains
| in tive sections. There are ten to four
teen cars in each through passenger
train. All of them are full to overflow
ing with passengers. and around the de-
pot at train hours 1t is almost impossible
| to force ones way through tho dense
crowd on the platforms and in all the
waiting rooms.
| THE CALIFORNIA SOUTHERN
| Facilities are even more strained ut
all points than are those of the other
road. This new transportation compa-
ny Is securing large amount of BUSH
ness and, OF course, in its inception al
most, as it Is, il has not the vast means
all ready TO hand the older line is pos
sesscd of. The offices are crowded full
of people and its long trains go out full
| to the platforms with passengers. The
same crowded state Of affairs is notioea-
BILE in its freight department and its
chief difficulty is to take care OF the
business Offering.
| All this makes it self-evident propo-
sition that the Southern California needs
and will soon get
| ENLARGED RAILROAD FACILITIES.
| At Cotton the Land and Water Com
pany has just given the A. Il p. R'y
twenty five acres of land on which that
tra ranscontnental road will at an early
day proceed to put up extensive car
shops. Here will be the center of busi-
ness for the Great Middle Route railway
system. The Pullman Palace Car Com
pany will also place at Cotton large re.
pair shop for their Pacific Coast BUSH.
ness
In this connection the Tulare Times
says: "For the past lew weeks there
has been decidedly lively movement
Ia railroad lands in Tulare and Kern
counties. The sales have been particu-
larly large in the neighborhood Of Alila
and Delano, and railroad land has al
ready become scarce in those localities.
Many of the purchases were made
| through the land office in this city, but
| some of the largest sales were made by
telegraph, direct with the main office at
San Francisco. Among the larger spec
| ulators in these lands are Miller Il
| Creighton and j. Il. Yoakum. Mr..
Miller and Mr.. Yoakum spent several
days in the vicinity OF Delano last week
aud bought several sections of land,
most of which they sold at considera.
BILE advance. The largest purchaser of
Delano lands is gentleman named Har-
relson, resident of Kansas City, who is
now in Visalia. He has bought much
land from the gentlemen named above,
and now holds some $50. 900 worth OF
railroad lands near Delano. 1t seems
| that the present boom in that locality is
caused by the rumor that the Atlantic
Il Pacific railroad purposes extending its
line Though the western part of this
valley, crossing the Southern Pacific at
Delano. Ths present railroad war, in
which the Atchison, Topeka Il Santa Fe
and the Southern Pacific railroads are
| the principal contestants, seems to lend
some probability to the rumor. Mr..
Harrelson evidently feels much conf
dence in the future of Delano lands, and
might be able to throw considerable light
on the subject, but he maint tains his own
counsels.
Mr.. g. w. Smith, the Vice. President
of the A. h Z. Railway, is now in the
city. He has been at Cotton and sew
eral other important points in South
California, looking over the ground very
carefully with their great development
now in progress full in the eye, He is
here to lay plans for the coming cam.
paign. 1t is, of course, known to all
that the G. S. R'y, the A. h z. R'y and
the A., I. 4 S. Il, R'y all pull together,
with interests more or less identical.
Right in this line of progress is the
new branch to Santa Monica, which
will give this system an outlet on the
Pacific Ocean within few months.
| The A. 4 p. is now making arrange
ments to build eighteen miles of road
from Fenner, station on The Needles
and Mojaye branch of that road, some
eighty miles west of the Colorado river.
The new branch will run to the Provi-
dencs Mining Camp, where New York
capitalists are about to erect smelling
works at a cost of 100000.
THE COAST ROUTE,
| Down through Santa Cruz, San Luis
0bispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura, is
again causing good deal of flying re-
port. The purchase of the narrow
gauge line from Alameda Point to San
Ia Cruz by Senator James G. Fair is
made with some ulterior purpose in
view to the eye of that shrewd fiuancier
and able civil engineer. He has
Just purchased a whole block in the
very heart of Oakland, sold off all the
| wooden structures thereon at auction,
and begun the erection of fine brick
building covering the entire block 1t
is at the present terminus of his newly
acquired railroad in that city. 1t is
said the new building will be for rail
road purposes. In connection with this
he has secured franchise from the city
of Oakland for fine system of cable
roads.
Another report in this connection is
that the road is to be extended this com.
ing summer down the coast some fifty
five miles to point south of Los Ala
mos in Santa Barbara county. The sur
veyors are now in the field running the
lines for this extension. The most sig
nifcant thing about this is that the pur.
chase OF Mr.. Fair is all but universally
believed to have been made in the inter.
est of the c. s., A. 4 z. and A., T. & S.
+. syndicate. If this be correct, there
will be within twelve months road