Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-11-21
RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION.
Lively Movements fn all Diree
tfOus.

Lively Movements in all Direc-
ttOns.
Col. It. T. Perris, Chief Engineer OF the
California Southern R. R.. was in the city
yesterday. lie has charge of the locating
of the railways from Anaheim to Los Ange-
les via Iron sulphur Springs, and of the line
from San Bernardiao to Los Angeles via
Mud Springs, Covina. Monrovia. santa
Anita and San Gabriel to Los Angeles.
The other line, from Los Angeles to La
Ballona, is under the charge OF another en-
gineer, Mr.. McCrabbe, who will start the
graders at work tomorrow from Ballona to
Los Angeles
The Anaheim Gazette has this to say OF
the situation: From r b. Taylor, who ar
rived from Riverside on Thursday, we learn
that over one hundred teams and several
hundred men are at work, and the grading
is being pushed at the rate of two miles ev'
cry three days, so that the force will reach
| the mouth of the canon in about two weeks.
The right of way across the Newberry vine
| yard has been given to the company, the
route being changed SO as to cut off only
about three acres of his vineyard. Several
hundred Cinnamon are engaged in loading
aud unloading bridge material, etc. The
contractor on the division to Temescal
Wash advertises for $50 teams The pros
poets ara that the road will reach Anaheim
within ninety days.
| When the r., 4. A. & L, A. R. r. first be-
gan their surveys through the Santa Ana
| canon, the Southern Pacific also sent out
surveying party, who ina desultory and un-
business like way ran a line partly through
the cafion. 1t is said that they are again at
work, and the Los Angeles HERALD says
that 'rumor has 1t that Mr. Clement, a
surveyor from San Francisc is out at
Riverside running preliminary lines for
new road from that place via Arlington to
sure to parallel the G. s.. new line through
that part Of the country"
| The more the merrier We hope all the
railroads will be built that the canon can
accommodate. 1t begins to look as II this
southern country is soon to be gridironed
with roads, with Anaheim as the nucleus
from which they will all diverge. So mote
1t be.
Gil on Monday q petition was presented from
the Riverside, Santa Ana and Los Angeles
Railroad Company proposing to construct
permanent levee along the banks OF tht
river from Also street south, provided tht
city will grant the land belonging to the cit!
between Mission street and the southern
city limits, together with any appropriation
| that has been made for leveeing the rive
along the proposed route and not yet ex
pended. In return the company promised
1
and to occupy the same for railway pur
poses 1t is tolerably well-known fac
that the California Southern Company have
decided to build line from San Bernardi
no to Los Angeles by way OF Ontario, Mut
Springs, across the upper end of the Sar
iabriel valley, by Ranchito and acros. the
Laguna ranch, reaching Los Angeles acros
Boyle HEIGHTS. The work on this road viii
probably be held in allegiance until the
lcompletion of the road TO Ansheim, towards
which all the energies OF the company are
now concentrated"
The extension of the California Southern
from Riverside southwest through the SAINTS
Ana Canon to Anaheim. is being pushed
with much vigor. Grading is progressing
at the rate of mile day. 1t is proposed
to reach Anaheim by January 1st next
From Anaheim the lire will be extended
north to Los Angeles and south to a juno
ton with the main line at Oceanside, and
these extensions will be pushed as rapidly
as possible A line is also being surveyed
from San Bernardino west toward Los An
geles. Whether 1t is designed to meet the
san Gabriel valley extension. or to push or
to Los Angeles Independently is not known
II Is very evident that the railroad develop
nent of the near future in Southern Cali
fornia will be nothing short of prodigious