Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-04
RAILROAD BUILDING.
The People of Lake County Interview
Southern Pacific Officials.

The People of Lake County Interview
Southern Pacific Officials.
The San Francisco Call of Wednesday
gives the following account of an interview
had by people of Lake county with the Off
Gals of the Southen Pacific Company:
Lake county was effectively represented
at Fourth and Townsend streets yesterday
Some forty citizens from that neglected
section of the State. hearing of the arrival
in San Francisco of G. P. Huntington, de-
termined to lay their transportation neces-
sites before him.
The county is environed by possibilities
Four different lines stretch out temptingly
toward it, yet not one has ever crossed the
mountains nor penetrated into the fertile
region surrounding Clear Lake. Time and
again the expectations of the citizens have
been raised to subsidy pitch, but only to
be disappointed. A sad fate seems to have
befallen the county. 1t has seen work
commenced time and again. Graders have
labored in the canyons and surveyors have
planted fences of stakes. Every one of the
local celebrities, from John S. Davis and
Silas NJ. Holmes to w. H. n. Hart, Ly-
man Bridges and ]. II. Woodland have
commenced the construction of Lake
county road, and all have failed ignomin-
iously.
The last to make the attempt was an
Eastern expert named Pettibone, who came
| out to California anticipating leveling the
hills and making straight the path through
Conn and Butte canyons. But he sue
| ceeded in doing neither, and returned wroth
and disappointed, exclaiming emphatically
| that the county was "hoodooed.' This is
the impression that now generally prevails
in railroad circles regarding Lake county.
| A project to build in this direction seems
predestined to fall through. 1t is not
thought lucky even to talk about it by
some transportation authorities, and rumor
hath it that Colonel Donahue, when ap-
preached one day by delegation from the
Switzerland of California, turned pale.
shuddered slightly, and said Never more"
| like Poes Raven. The only stroke of luck
the county has had of late years has been
| the purchase by the talented actress and
Jersey Lily, Mrs. Langtry, OF ranch there.
| Following her example the noted Geb-
| hardt has located there his stud farm.
| These two celebrities shed the halo of their
| gilt-edged regulations round the county
| which is thus becoming of more than local
| celebrity The citizens now look to the
Jersey Lily as their mascot, and promise. if
her influence is sufficient to remove the
ban of bad luck, to name town Langtry,
after her.
The delegation was headed by Attorney
w. H. l.. Barnes, who ushered in the visit
ors and introduced them to Mr.. Hunting
ton, Colonel Fred Croker. t. K. Stiliman
and Vice President A. n. Towne. Among
those present were Frank Tunis, A. Levy,
Iakeport; J. II. Wheeler, Rutherford g.
E. Mckinley. Middletown George Stark,
Rev. F. A. Werth. San Francisco; Professor
George Husrnann, Chiles valley; NJ. g.
n T.. 1o.,
S. Newcomer, Pope valley; NJ G. Win.
chester, Chiles valley A, II. Cheney, Mid
dlctown; c. w. Abbey. Langtry farm, neal
Middletown; John Spaulding, Seigiei
Springs: Morris Heating, w. c. Gold
smith, +. A. Morrison. Lower Lake; Judge
Rodney Hudson, Dwight Sherwood, So
Gerz, Marshall Arnold and +. w. Brak
bone of Lower Lake.
Il Mr.. Tunis acted as spokesman, and b.
explained what the citizens desired in th'
way Of railroad fsfilities he thought tn