The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-08
ALONG THE RAIL.
A Proposed Line Between Avon
and LivermOre.

A meeting of Contra Costa County land
holders was held at Walnut Creek recently,
to make further provisions for raising the
$4,000 needed to pay for the right OF way
for a branch railroad to be built by the
Southern Pacific Company, from Avon to
Livermore, a distance of thirty miles. Inc
right of way for two-thirds Of the whole
distance has been given, and it is to pay Tor
the 100-foot strip over the remaining ten
miles that the $4,000 is needed. Mr.. Hen
ney, a property-owner, is working faith
fully to raise the money, and an oflclal OF
the Southern Pacific said yesterday that
in all probability the road would be Gem
menced before long; also that the ROAD
would be put through more TO please inc
people than from any benefit which would
accrue to the company.
V. G. Bogue, chief engineer OF the Union
Pacific. with headquarters at Omaha, was
in the city yesterday, en- route to r9set
Sound, where his company is building
extensively. Two thousand men are at
present employed on construction, and the
force will be doubled within the next two
weeks. Mr.. Bogue's- principal object IN
visiting San Francisco was to engage the
services of a number of first-claSs surveyors.
c. ii. Cummings of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad, and party, who arrived mere re-
Gently i'll special car, will leave on Satnr-
Northern Pacific, visiting all points OF IN
terest along the route. The party lett New
Y Ork on May Goth and expects to be absent
exactly III days. covering in its travels TO-
12l miles OF railroad.
Passenger travel on the Southern Pacific
was unusually heavy during the holidays
and the service was taxed to the utmost;
The special rates this year included all
points within a radius of 80 miles, ana
thousands availed themselves of an oppor-
tunity (Which occurs but once in the course
OF Year, OF travelling at Eastern rates.
Southern Pacific freight is now taken
through to Portland without being trans
ferred at East Oakland as Of yore, ana the
Oregon Navigation Company IS not collect
ing toll at its long bridge. The arrange
ments were completed by Mr.. Crocker on
the occasion of his last visit to Oregon.
j. S. Tebbets has been appointed Cen
eral Manager of the coal department Oh
the Union Pacific at Omaha. 1t Is SAID
that f. b. Whitney will succeed Tebbetts
as General Freight Agent.
w. ii. Mills, Land Agent of the Central
Pacific. is giving his Worlds Fair " the
cries" an airing at Santa Barbara.
W. b. Biddle has been appointed General
Traffic Manager of the Santa Fe, with
headquarters at Topeka, Kans.
W. b. Adams will succeed Ii. a. johnson
at Denver in the freight department of the
Union Pacific.
Z. A. Holbrook, General Agent of the
Chicago and Northwestern, is enjoying an
outing at Napa Soda Springs.
The Democrats of Marin County have de-
cided TO support j. S. McCue for Railroad
Commissioner.
j. ID. McGill. Contracting Freight Agent
of the Denver and Rio Grande at salt Lake,
is in town.
G. W. Luce General Agent of the Texas
Pacific, returned yesterday from Monterey.
p. Harvey, General Agent of the Balti-
more and Ohio, arrived last evening from
Portland.
The first excursion of the season over the
Missouri Pacific Will leave to-day for New
York