Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-18
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A NEW RAILROAD.
IL Is To he Built From This City II
SAN Francisco.

Los Angeles is to have another rail
road. Application was made to tn
Board Of Supervisors yesterday on behal
of the Los Angeles and Eastern Road fol
a franchise over the following route
Commencing at Arroyo Seco and the city
limits and through the Rancho La
Canada to the headquarters of the North
Fork OF the Arroyo, or canon within
three miles of Arroyo Seco; thence
through north one-half of township
north, range IL, sections IL and 13 west
to the west of Summit station on the
Southern Pacific Railroad; thence
through township 5 north, range II west
township S, 6, and 8 north, range
g, 9, 10 and II west, to a point
in the northern or western boundary line
of the county. The petition was pre-
sented over the signatures of N. B.
Brown, of Concordia, Kas., and w. B.
Nisbet, Thos. j. Rusk, T. J. Cuddy and
j. Marion Brooks, of Los Angeles, and
descriptive maps were filed with the
appeal.
Investigation of the matter resulted as
follows The road is to be constructed
to San Francisco and will be operated as
a local line between that city and Los
Angeles, it also being limited that con.
nections are to be made with an Eastern
road which will give fast line to Chicago
and consequently to all points east of
the river. What road it is intended to
join is not at present made public, al
though the only available route that
appears on the surface is via the Central
Pacific and Union Pacific roads, which
certainly does not make the shortness OF
the new line apparent. For the present
the projectors will be content with build.
ing through TO San Francisco, and they
announce that their line will run through
Ventura county, so it is evidently to be
another coast route. Complete surveys,
as far as this county is concerned, have
been made by Mr.. Thomas j. Rusk and
the request now made is simply for
privilege to operate passenger and freight
trains over the county roads and pa ses,
it being announced that the company
will look after all rights-of-way over
Government and private lands. The
FIVE names given as applicants for the
franchise only form part of the company,
which consists Of nine individuals, the
other four names being reserved for pub
lication later on. The road is to be
built by Eastern capital, but will be
operated locally with head, uarters in
this city. The Southern Pacific
tracks will be used by
the trains for good part OF
the road, though between what points is
not yet made public. The surveyors say
that their route is very pretty one and
will be popular for travel, and another
additional feature in it's favor is that
there will be no very heavy grades to
contend with, and the cost of construc-
ton will not therefore be very heavy. 1t
will Of course be supposed that the road
will ultimately fall into the hands of the
Santa Fe Railroad Company, but
the projectors of the scheme do
not openly countenance any such
scheme at present and insist that it will
be operated purely as a local line. The
fact that the Wilbur railroad has been in
a state of stagnation for some time past
has evidently had good deal to do with
devising the scheme for there is no ques-
ton that competing line to the north
would be profitable apart from the
position that it would occupy as
a bait for any transcontinental railroad
running into Southern California that
wished to break up the monopoly that
the Southern Pacific enjoys regarding the
San Francisco business. The petition is
to be heard on the 22d inst. and the ap.
pelIants declare that ii the franchise is
granted they will settle up the right-ot-
way matters that are now in abeysnce
and put graders to work at once.