Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-30
RAILWAY PROSPECTS
The Coming Visit of Union
Pacific Officials.
Adams, Ames and BOgue Com
ing Here.
Reasons for Their Visit to Southern
California.
What San Francisco People Think-Im-
portant News Coming in the
Near Future.

that it is generally understood among
railway people up there that Charles
Francis Adams, the president of the
Union Pacific, intends to visit this city
shortly. He found capitalists and bust
ness men generally interested and even
excited over the lively prospect that at
last some move is going to be made in
railway matters. The belief is general,
Mr.. Workman says, that the Union Pa
cific is going to build into San Francisco.
Some are of the opinion that it will be
by way of the Beckworth pass in the
northern part of the state, but more
hold that it will be connection which
will admit them to Southern California
as well. The plan which has been often
outlined in the papers of this city for q
joint Union Pacific and Santa Fe road to
San Francisco has many adherents in
the northern part of the state.
Together with President Adams are
Director Ames and Chief Engineer
Bogue. Mr.. Bogue, it will be remem-
bered, visited this city in company with
Mr.. Mccartney, the resident engineer of
the road at Salt Lake City, about eight
to friends that the road intended to
build into Southern California as soon
as practicable.
It is known that Adams, Ames and
Bogue intend, after they have finished
their visit to Portland and the north
western connections of the Union Pa
cifc, to make tour through this part
of the state. At the meeting of the
directors of the chamber of COM
merce held a week ago, it was
decided to send special in
vitation to Mr.. Adams to visit this
city. The entertainment of the party
will be e'suitably looked out for, and Mr.
Adams will be given good opportunity
to see what the resources of Southern
California are.
1t is generally believed that the object
of the trip is to give Mr.. Ames, who,
with Sydney Dillon, controls the major
ity of the stock of the Union Pacific, a
chance to make up his mind what direc-
ton the extension from Phoebe should
take. 1t is said that Mr.. Dillon has
always opposed the plan of road
through Beckworth pass, as it involved
an expense of at least six millions more
than the southern route, and would in
volve serious grades. 1t is reported that
President Adams has all along favored
the southern route, because that would
admit OF connection with Los Angeles
thus opening the southern part of the
state to the road. Director Ames ap-
pears to be the only one who is still in
doubt, and this trip to Southern Cali
fornia was planned to enable him to
understand the situation more thor
oughly.
The departure of l. R. Wilbur from San
Francisco, the president of the San
Francisco and San Joaquin Valley rail-
road, to the east for the avowed purpose
of holding conference with Magoun
and Peabody, of the Santa Fe, is be-
lieved by San Francisco railroad authori-
ties to have no little bearing on the ques-
ton of what the Santa Fe is planning to
do. The San Joaquin Valley road was
projected several years ago as an exten-
sion north of the Santa Fe. 1t would
start at Rogers, which is near Mojave
and terminate at Antioch, which is fifty
five miles from San Francisco, on the
Southern Pacific. Right of way was Sc
cured through a number of localities
and the franchise is now considered &
salable property.
The Phoebe Extension.
A recent number of the Salt Lake
Tribune gives detailed account of the
various proposed routes OF the extension
from Phoebe and an account of the work
now in progress. The article is as fol
lows: The Union Pacific will have foul
routes to select from when building south
of Glover valley junction in Nevada, lis
miles south of Milford. The present
line from Milford to Phoebe, which lies
through Clover valley, is 145 miles long
the Pioche branch being 80 miles long
from Glover, and that will be in run
ming order some time this year, but the
California route can hardly be built be
fore another year, and when the choice
between the routes is to be made canno
yet be stated definitely. When the time
comes for that, the division engineer anC
his men will go over the four routes
carefully, he will make his recommend
ations to the western chief engineer
and after the papers have beer
submitted to the general chic
engineer and the executive depart
ment, the route selected will be let ou
by contract, the same as the line nov
being built from Milford to Phoebe. Til
first route through to the Atlantic an
Pacific railroad was surveyed by En-
gineer j. Fewson Smith from Milfor
over two years ago. The line ran iron
Milford to Phoebe via Clover Valle
junction; thence south and west VII
Bristol, Freiburg, Timpahute, Groom
and the bend of the Armagosa river t,
Barstow, 372 miles from the junction
The second route, surveyed afterwards
runs from Clover Valley to meadow
Valley wash; thence to near Moapi t.
Las Vegas, and via Good Spring
through Ivanpah valley to near Ludloy
on the Atlantic and Pacific, 2S5 miles
The third route is practically the sam
as last, to Las Vegas thence it diverge
to Goff's on the Atlantic and Pacific, rs
miles from Glover Valley junction. Th
fourth route runs from Milford to Iro
Springs pass to Kanarrah; thence dow
Ash creek to the Rio Virgin; theme
down to the Colorado, to The Needles
$40 miles. So it will be seen that wher
the final line is to run is yet good des
like the traditional pig in poke.
The contractors have graded ninet
miles of the Union Pacific extensio
toward Phoebe from Milford but no raj
have been laid, as ties cannot be haC
The contractors therefore have har
time of it in hauling supplies by WACO
across the country. Besides the graz
inc Kilnatrick Pros e. Collins have ais