Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-11
THE RAILROADS.
A MYSTERIOUS SURVEY FROM
FRESNO TO SANTA CRUZ.
Enterprise - The Peninsula Road.
News Notes.

lue SUutHeTu L dClllC eIRlueeTS IfdNe
been watching with interest the move
ments of party of surveyors who are
it is said, about to make a preliminary
survey for a line from Santa Cruz to
Fresno via San Benito county, says the
San Francisco Chronicle. In whose in
terest the line is to be staked off is not
definitely known, though man named
A. Hobson is said to have something to
do with the enterprise, which may OF
may not prove an important one, accord
ing to the amount of capital behind it,.
THE PENINSULA ROAD.
Manager To. Holdsworth of the Lower
California Development company ar
rived on the Pacheco last evening. Mr..
Holdsworth says that seven miles of the
grading from San Quintin north are COM
pleted and ready for track laying, and
that about five miles more are under
way. The steamship Fulwell has ex-
perienced considerable difficulty in dis
charging her cargo on account OF the
poor facilities for such work. There is,
of course, no wharf where the Fulwell
can dock to unload and everything has
to be taken ashore in lighters. She will
not be ready to sail before the 10Th inst.
At this end of the line the surveyors
are still at work, and are making fair
progress. They moved camp for the
third time yesterday afternoon, and are
now located about sixteen miles south
of the boundary line. R. A. Graham is
expected to return from Oregon this
evening, and construction will probably
move livelier in the future.
NOTES.
Fifty new locomotives and 1900 new
box cars have been ordered by the Can
adian Pacific to aid in hauling the grain
crop of the northwest this season.
The Union Pacifc's new policy of re-
trenchment causes much dissatisfaction
among the subordinate officers and en-
ployes along the line. They claim that
as the road is doing business fifty per
cent greater than during any former
year in its history, and there is more
need than ever for help in handling the
traffic, the reduction of the list of rail-
road employees, as well as their salaries,
is a great hardship. The company is
paying over $4,000 day less to en-
ployes than last year, while there are
oUUU less Iu6u Oh llS pay rOllS.
1t is said that the theatrical managers
of the country will soon effect an organ
ization for the purpose OF boycotting
railroads which refuse to grant them
special rates. Ever since the interstate
commerce law went into effect theatrical
travellers have been complaining about
the lack of consideration afforded them
by the railroads. The railroad people
here say they intend to make no further
concessions of any sort, in spite OF the
threats of boycotting.
The contractors at work on the Noun
tain railroad cut of Fresno have about
two miles of ties strung along the line
from the Southern Pacific junction.
In the reorganization of Superintend-
ent Whited's division OF the Southern
Pacific, all that portion of the West Side
railroad between Whites and Armona
will be placed under Mr.. Whites juris-
diction.
Complaint is made that passengers
who take the Southern Pacific Santa
Monica trains at Grand avenue are not
given the benefit of the excursion rates,
but are charged full single fares.-
ExcURsIoNIsTs ARRIVE.
The following named arrived on yes
terday from the east via Santa Fe ex-
cursion party:
Mrs. Mary White, Miss Emma White,
Sturgis, Mich; J. L. Russell, Fresno,
Cal. Miss Mary Trueblood, Ann Harbor,
Mich; Charles B. Gleason, Boston,
Mass. John 7. Messer and wife, w. H.
Messer, G. T. Messer, Earl Messer, Fin
lay City, Mich; Mrs. M. A. Gabel, San
Luis Obispo, CAL; J. Lancing Lane,
Chicago, Ill. G.. E. Bonebrake, wife and
two sons, Columbus, O.. L. Wynn, wife
and family of five, ]. Dewitt and wife,
Sioux City, Ia. George Hay, Savanna
Ill. A. R. Roedes, Sioux City, Ia; D.
F. Boyce, Arthur Boyce, Ft. Scott, Kas.
L. S. Gatz, wife and family of four, St
Louis. Mo-. Mrs. Clara Hunt and son
Huntington, w. Va; D. H. Mccartney
F. N. Mccartney, W.atrons, N. M.
George w. Brown, E. E. Cunningham
G. w. Parker, Chicago, H.; Isaac Nc
Crary, Kansas City, Mo.
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