Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-21
NEWS OF THE RAIL.
Prevention of WashOuts-The New
Connection.


Prevention OF washouts-The New
Connection.
General Manager Wade, of the Santa
Fe. went south to San Diego yesterday to
make q personal inspection of the road
The washouts between San Diego and
Oceanside have all been repaired, and
the trains are now running on time. The
special purpose which Mr.. Wade has in
this trip is to ascertain whether any
means can be adopted to prevent these
interruptions to traffic and expense to the
road by washouts. The company has
concentrated all of its available force at
this point, and has been hard at work for
five days. The cost will be number of
thousands of dollars. The track in the
place where the washouts occurred runs
along q narrow sloping ledge between the
ocean and the hills, and the water
sweeps down in food from the noun
tains over the track. Mr.. Wade pro-
poses to make arrangements to prevent,
as far as possible, recurrence of the
disaster.
The Chicago Railacay Age, which is
one of the most conservative of the rail-
way papers of the country, remarks in it's
last issue as follows upon the matter of
the Jay Gould extension of the Missouri
Pacific to the Coast:
"The Missouri Pacific is credited with
having made very close agreement
with the Denver and Rio Grande Com
pany by which it will reach Ogden, and,
it is further asserted, has determined to
construct an independent line from Og-
den to the Pacific Coast. The Rock
Island Company, it is likewise positively
asserted, will use the new broad. gauge
tracks of the Denver and Rio Grande
from Pueblo west, although it will also
exchange business with the Colorado
Midland at Colorado Springs. The Bur-
lington will use the Denver Short Line
of the Denver and Rio Grande and the
Colorado Midland line to secure an out
let to Ogden; 30 that all the lines now
reaching Colorado from the East seem
to be provided with prospective connec-
tions for the Pacific Coast"
Elsewhere in the same issue under the
heading of Railway Record" the fol-
lowing appears:
"DENvER AND RIO GRANDE AND MISSOURI
PACIFIC.
"These two companies have entered
into an agreement by which the Missouri
Pacific will be given western outlet to
Ogden, Utah, over the tracks of the
Denver and Rio Grande. The Missouri
Pacific will uss the Denver and Rio
Grande tracks from Pueblo to Grand
Junction. and thence over the Rio
Grande Western into Ogden. The work
of widening the gauge OF the Denver and
Rio Grsnde will be pushed"
1t will be noticed that the Aqe does
not state that the new road is to come to
Los Angeles, or that it is backed by Jay
Gould. The authority for Mr.. Gould's
connection with the scheme is D. H.
Moffat, the President of the Denver and
Rio Grande. 1t must be confessed that
whether the road is to come here or to
work north to San Francisco is an
open question. The San Fran
cisco papers declare that it
is to come through one of the difficult
passes of the Nevsdas in the northern
part OF the State. It is known that q
good deal OF influence is being brought to
bear upon the authorities of the road to
induce them to turn their survey in that
direction. Action of some kind will
probably be taken in this city in few
days which may Offset the exertions of
the San Francisco workers.
Colonel E. E. Hewett, of the Southern
Pacific, returned from San Francisco yes
terday.
w. II. Davenport, formerly the agent
of the Santa Fe at San Diego, has been
appointed Contracting Freight Agent of
the Union Pacific in this city.