Los Angeles herald., 1890-10-09
INDUSTRIAL.
Some Railroad Prognostica-
tiOns and Certain Plans.
The Union Pacific, the Santa
Fe and the Road to Mojave.
The Second Street Cable Road to be
Reconstructed at an Early Day.

The Redondo Hotel Closed Until the Turn
of the Year, and the Electric Road
From Pico Heights to Santa Monica.
The San Francisco Bulletin, few days
ago. had this to say:
''Chief Engineer Bogue, OF the Union
Pacific, now in the city, said to re-
porter yesterday regarding plans and
prospects: The Union Pacific has made
surveys into both Northern and South
'ern California, but as far as know, ex
tensions into the state have not been
decided upon. The surveys into North
ern California were completed some two
years ago, but prefer not to speak in
detail about them. The surveys into
the southern part of the state were made
not long ago. Three surveys were run,
all from Phoebe, New, southwark. One
runs to Homer, and another to Ludlow,
points on the Atlantic and Pacific road.
The third survey runs to point on the
Southern Pacific road that do not care
to mention. All of these surveys were
made to furnish to the directors of the
company information about the state.
Further than that do not care to speak,
because know nothing. At the pre-
sent time the company is building about
five hundred and fifty-fve miles of new
road. One piece of road is the extension
from Milford to Phoebe, distance OF
145 miles. 1t will be completed by Feb
ruary 1, 1891. Another of our new roads
is the line from Portland to Seattle. We
have between two thousand and three
thousand men at work on it now, and
want two thousand more very badly.
We are paying laborers 1925 per day
The road will be 1874 miles long and will
have steel and iron bridge across the
Columbia river at Vancouver, Wash. that
will cost 81 ,250, 900. George S. Morrison
of Chicago, is the chief engineer of the
bridge. The river at that point has an
island in the middle of it, and Vancou-
yer is on the north eide of the river.
Between the latter place and the island
the distance is 2.4O0 feet, and there is
where the bridge will be, with steel
spans and draw. Between the island
and the south shore, over what is known
as the Oregon channel, there will be
truss spans. The foundations for the
bridge are now being laid by the pneu-
matte process. We are also building a
branch of twenty miles in Oregon, be-
tween La Grange and Elgin; also, an
extension in Wyoming to our Cheyenne
and Northern road for distance of
thirty miles. 1t will go as far as Fisher,
where connection will be made with the
Chicago and Northwestern. A short ex-
tension in Idaho is also being made,
and one in New Mexico through the
Maxwell land grant fora distance OF fit
teen miles, starting from Trinidad"
Yesterday a HERALD reporter was al
lowed to read letter from Salt Lake
written by member OF great railroad
contracting firm there, which puts a
different aspect on this matter. The
letter states that it is certain thing,
we'll known in railroad circles, that the
Santa Fe is making active preparations
to build from Mojave to San Francisco.
If this is so, the letter says, the Santa
Fe will want to build to Chicago by the
shortest possible route from San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles. That is by way
of Salt Lake. The Santa Fe has secured
control of the Colorado Midland and is
reported as attempting like deal
on the Rio Grande Western. Ii
this deal should be made. then the only
lacking link will be from Ludlow or some
other point on the line between
the Needles and Mojave. Surveys
have been made from the Rio Grande
Western through Utah, Nevada and
California.
The day before yesterday the con-
tract was let for the reconstruction of the
Second street cable road. The Pacific
Construction company secured the con-
tract. 1t is expected that material will
arrive here the end of this week or early
next week, and that work will begin at
once. There is still little matter to
settle with the Los Angeles Cable com.
pany as to the line on Spring
street between Second and Fourth,
but as the Second street
people offer to do all that is fair in
the premises, it will hardly be difficult
to come to an understanding with Mr..
Crank.
Captain J. G. Ainsworth of Redondo
was in the city yesterday. He says
there is positively no change made and
none contemplated in their affairs. The
traffic arrangement heretofore existing
with the Santa Fe people remains un-
disturbed.
Last night Senator WashbuTn, of
=. M1nneSOCa, arrived mere III his special
car and went to Redondo by invitation
of Captain Ainsworth. The sena-
tors son has just married a
young lady of Portland, Oregon,
Miss Florence Savier, whose parents
were old friends of the Ainsworths in
old webfoot days. The wedding was a
very swell affair, and this is part of the
bridal tour. A gay time will mark the
visit to Redondo. Captain Ainsworth
will return to Oakland on Sunday, and
on Friday his son, Captain George j.
.Ainsworth, will return from Oregon and
take charge. The elder Ainsworth will
still live in Oakland, where he still has
the old Ross Browne residence for a
home. The Redondo hotel will be
closed at once, and remain so until jan
uary 1st.
A blunder crept into the HERALD,
yesterday, as to the plans Of the Edison
electric people on a road from Pico
Heights. What is contemplated by
these people has nothing to do with the
Los Angeles street and Pico Heights road.
AS is we'll known to all readers of the
HERALD, that road was sold months
ago by D. Mcfarland Esq, to Topeka
people, represented here by Mr.. Man
speaker and his associates. These
people have been at work putting the