Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-31
CHOOSING A ROUTE.
The Delay in the Ccnstruc
tion Of the .. p.
Two PRINCIPAL SURVEYS MADK
Green Campbell's 0ffer-He Wishes
the Road at His Mines
Other Railway News.

Other Railway News.
Mr.. Charles Forman, in recent trip
over the line of the Atlantic and Pacific
railroad, met with an engineer who was
in charge of one of the parties now sur
veying in Nevada in the interest of the
Union Pacific. From him number OF
facts were learned which appear to
throw some light on the long interval OF
time which has passed between the
letting of the first contract to Pioche and
the second to point in Nevada 10
miles nearer Los Angeles. 1t will be re-
membered that the contract for building
the first section of the road from Milford
to Phoebe, distance Of $50 miles, was
let last November, and the work begun.
Kirkpatrick and Collins are the parties
by whom the work is being done. In
December the announcement was made
that the route of the second section
of the line "a length of 125
miles, had been determined upon,
that the contract was drawn and that it
would be let in few days. Then there
was long halt and nothing further was
done, although the work of the surveyors
kept on.
The statements made by this engineer
to Mr.. Forman, which he yesterday
related to q reporter of this paper, fully
account for this delay. The engineer
said that his party was not in the hire OF
the Union Pacific people at all, although
it was surveying a line for them. The
men were employed by Green Campbell,
of Good Springs, who was endeavoring to
persuade the company to lay it's line
through his mining property by an en-
tirely different route from the one that
had been originally projected.
The route Of the road has been def.
nitely determined upon as far as the Gull
yer ranch, in Glover valley, which is
about thirty miles south of Phoebe. 1t
had been the intention of the company
to build from that point in q south.
westerly direction through number of
mining districts to the California State
line, near the Armagosa creek. From
there on it would run through the borax
fields to Barstow or Daggett. Campbell's
mines are near Good Springs, which is
between the Mormon range of noun
tains and the eastern State line of Ne.
vada. To reach these mines the road
would have to run almost directly south
from Glover valley, and after passing
them would bear off east through the
Pahrimp valley. 1t would strike the At
lantic and Pacific at some point
east of where the other line would come
out.
Campbell's mines produce a large
quantity of valuable lead ore. He pro-
poses to make contract with the new
road if it will build in his direction for
the carrying OF 200 tons day for two
years. The engineer told Mr.. Forman
that Campbell had induced the
company to wait until his sur
vey was completed before they
came to definite decision as
to what route they would adopt. This
survey will probably not be completed
until some time in May. If this state
ment can be relied upon, it means that
the letting of tee second contract will be
delayed tor a number of months, and
the work beyond Phoebe will not bs un-
dertaken until next summer.
1t has been an open question all along
as to which route the new road would
take through Southern Nevada into this
State. Four or five different surveys
have been made. The company has been
desirous of exploring the country very
thoroughly for the purpose of determin-
ing what route would be the cheapest to
build and would yield the best returns
in the way of freight business.
The line which it has generally
been supposed would be adopted was
through a series of mining camps
from which an aggregate amount Of
freight could be obtained larger in all
probability than that which would come
from the Campbell mines alone. The
chances are that the original route will
be chosen, although the fact that the
company has been waiting for the other
survey would indicate that there is at
least possibility that the other route
will be adopted.
One fact which will tend to make the
original route the most advantageous to
the company is that it is known that an
agreement has been made with the Car
son and Colorado line to establish con-
nection as soon rs the new line gets
within reaching distance. The original
survey would throw the Union Pacific line
nearer to point from which the connec-
ton could be established than the survey
made by Mr.. Campbell.
Al Wdb SusEC5toO Oy pOAiC Va thO ~ AiUu
Pacific surveyors that a spur could
easily be puilt from some point ON the
line, as originally surveyed, over to the
Campbell lines. 1t would require only
about sixty miles of railway building
over an even country. This form OF
compromise may finally be adopted.
There is very little local railway news.
Both mines are now entirely open, and
operate heir trains on schedule time. A
Sunset excursion of about seventy.five
visitors arrived from the East yesterday.
A special orange train of eighteen cars
left the city over the Santa Fe yesterday.
This road has sent out about 100 car
loads of oranges during the past month.
W. d. Ssnborn. general agent for the
Coast of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad, is in the city.
WINE FROM RAISINS,