Los Angeles herald., 1890-04-14
THE RAILWAYS.
VARIOUS MATTERS OF NEWS ABOUT
THE IRON HIGHWAYS.
The Redondo Line-Huntington a Rail-
way Builder-Southern Pacific Extsn-
sions-A Round-the- World Ticket.

The Redondo Beach railroad will prob
ably start in operation in week or two.
The effort to secure right-of-way into
the city to point near the end of the
Grand-avenue cable line will probably
succeed. The plans of those who have
the matter in hand involve the extern
sion of the cable line to about eight
hundred feet beyond it's present ter
minus, which would bring it to the
Southern Pacifc's Santa Monica line,
and to the proposed terminus OF
the Redondo Beach line. A union
depot for the two railroads would then
be erected at this point. To allow of
the continuation of the cable to this
point, Grand avenue would have to be
Strengthened and it is understood that
Milton Thomas, through whose land it
passes, has agreed to make the desired
arrangement.
The general opinion of railway men of
this city on the utterance of President
Huntington with regard to the extern
sion of new lines of the Southern
Pacific is that he is in earnest and, as a
result, a considerable amount of rail
road building will be accomplished in
the State by that company in the next
few years. Before the election took
place the Southern Pacific officials of
this city remarked: Mr.. Huntington is
a railway builder; he has always favored
extension even into undeveloped country
on the ground that in the long run it was
the best paying policy for the road. Ii
he goes in we will see decided change
in the matter of railway construction
and Mr.. Huntington's first utterance
when he was elected bore out this state
ment.
The first piece OF construction which
the Southern Pacific will take up in the
southern part of the State, will probably
be the completion of the coast line. A
gap of 120 miles from Elwood to Santa
Margarita remains, which will require
only about ayear to complete. 1t is the
opinion of railroad men OF this vicinity
that this work is likely to be soon be-
gun.
A syndicate of English capitalists, it
is reported, are about to buy large tracts
of land on the line of the Southern Pa
cific railroad, to be sold in small hold
ings to English farmers This report is
confirmed by w. H. Mills, land agent of
the railroad company, who says: ''The
promoters of this scheme are the most
business-like of any ON a like errand
that | have ever met. Their plans are
definite and the outgrowth of the pitia-
BILE condition of the English farmers,
whose profits the heavy tithes and taxes
expected by the Government have en-
tirely wiped out. 1t is their intention
to buy outright large tracts of land,
which they will sell to their countrymen
on their own account, and to obtain con-
troll of other tracts which they will col
Onize on commission"
Three Sunset specials went east over
the Southern Pacific yesterday, carrying
sugar, wool, wine and other California
products.
The Magoun party Of Santa Fe Of
ticlals are expected to return to the city
today
In the window OF the Office of the
Chicago and Alton road in this city are
displayed number of the around the
World' coupon tickets recently pub
lished by the Fitchburg railroad. The
ticket consists of fourteen coupons con-
tanning the names of the different lines
of transportation and the fares, as fol-
lows:
Hoosac Tunnel and West Shore route,
Boston to Chicago. ....................s s % so
Any direct line from Chicago to Council
Union Pacific railway, Council Bluffs to
ogden ........................ 40 90
0. & O. s. S. CO., san Francisco to Yoko-
hama ............... ..................,.. 200 90
z. & o. S. s. Co., Yokohama to Hong
| Kong ........................ so 90
p. & o. S. S. Co., Hong Kong to Brindisi. s35 co
Modane ...........-.......... "a 90
p. L. e. NJ. railroad, Modane to Paris 16 rs
Northern of France railroad, Paris to
Calais ........................... 7 90
London, Chatham and Dover railroad,
Calais to London (via Dover. l.......... 90
London and Northwestern railway, Lon
don to Liverpool ol...................... 90
to New York ......... 100 90
| Fall River line, New York To Boston. 49,. 90
The total cost OF the round trip indi-
Gated by these tickets is 1871 .95, which
for journey of something like $4,000
miles is not excessive. Just at present
the cost of several OF the coupons would
be considerably less than that stated, as
the fare from Chicago to San Francisco
is now only S35 second class, which last
is $3.50 less than the rate named. The
cost of the ocean travel also could be
very considerably reduced, as for in
stance the voyage from Liverpool to New
York, the cost of which is stated at
500, could be made frst-class for $50,
and reductions on other portions of the
route are possible. On a round trip
from New York instead of Boston the
last item of $4 would be saved In vari-
GUS ways the total could be reduced and
an excursion agency could probably ar
range to sell tickets for the trip for