Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-23

--latest Gossip Of the Rail
road World.
THE SANTA FE's WORKS.
M. Geo. w. Luce, Contracting
Agent Of the Southern Pacific
Co.. Resigns.-NOtes.

The work of construction of the Atchison
Topeka and Santa Fe Company's branches
in this country is progressing finely and 1t
il believed that a few weeks more of such
weather as has existed lately will give the
company simple time in which to finish
everything now being constructed. A great
deal Of delay has been caused by the scare
ity Of building materials, but yesterday a
gentleman prominently connected with the
construction department informed the HER
AIDS representative that plenty OF material
was ON hand at San Diego to finish every
foot of track now being built. There are
now 10, 900 tons of steel rails at San Diego,
and large number of ties are expected
daily. From present prospects the new line
10 San Diego will be in operation within the
next ninety days. Just outside of this city
sixty teams and the requisite number
of men to operate them rapidly.
This force is now crossing the line OF
Colonel Bakers land, and will strike the
and Saturday night the line will be graded
to its connection with the Ballona branch.
This will complete tho grade from this city
to Fulton Wells, as 1t is now named. BY
the middle of next week very large force
Of men win be put to work at Santa a. Fe
Springs to grade towards Anaheim. Five
miles Of the grade from Anaheim toward
Santa 7 e Servings is now complete, and the
distance the force at the last-nemed place
will have to grade before the connection Is
made is about seven miles. From Anaheim
to Orange the distance is about four miles,
and In three weeks time it will be COM
pleted. When this is finished. the entire
e, ths rsoi sss o5aass orange WI &c
connects with that part of the line already
in operation to San Juan By-the-Sea. The
road frem San Juan By-the-Sea to Ocean
side is almost ready for the rails. The
grading is finished, but work on the large
bridges and trestle works has been much
delayed owing to the lack of material One
of these bridges is about ninety feet high,
and the other is one thousand two hundred
feet long. When they are finished the road
will be ready for the rails all the way, but
before that time-by next Wednesday or
Thursday, force OF men will start at
point three miles south Of San Juan Blythe
Sea to lay the track to Oceanside and will
rush it as fast as possible.
As soon as the grade is flushed to this
city and to Anaheim, portion OF the
graders will be organized into track-laying
from that place to Redondo Beach. The
grading to that place is progressing finely,
and will be completed in two weeks time.
There are no bridges or trestle work to be
constructed, and the tracklaying can be &C
complished very rapidly. 1t will rot take
more than week to put the track down,
and it can be ballasted in two or three days
more. In week force of. men
will commence laying track to San
Jacinto from Perris, and the road will be
completed in week or ten days, and ready
for operation. The distance is only eigh-
teen miles, but the line passes through a
most valuable part of the country. The
road to Mentone from San BernardinO will
be completed by this evening, and the track
lay yers will be sent elsewhere at once. Thus
1t will be seen that the Santa Fe Company is
soon to have several new branches open,
and the statement that ninety days is suffi-
cien9 time in which to complete the work
now on hand is not all extravagant.