Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-25
THE RAILROADS.
President Marvel Takes In
Santa Monica.
He Seems to Favor President
Campbells Plans.
Captain Cross Projecting Roads in
Ventura County.
He Wants to Build from Ventura TO
NOrdhOf-A Road Proposed from
Port Hartford to FresnO--The
Peninsula Road.


the Southern California, spent Wednes-
day night at Redondo. Yesterday they
came back as far as Inglewood, where
the party was joined by Mr.. Dan Free
man and President James Campbell, Of
the Santa Monica Wharf and Terminal
railroad company, and in four-in-hand
coach the party drove over the line of
the proposed road to Santa Monica from
Inglewood, After making thorough
inspection of the new line, the graders
of which will commence work next
week, they drove about Santa Monica
and up the coast to Santa Ynez cation,
presumably to see what the Southern
Pacific could accomplish by their road
up the beach to that point.
VENTURA COUNTY PROJECT.
As stated last week, says the Ventura
Observer, interested parties went over
the ground between Ventura and Nord-
hof in view of locating the proposed
railroad. Captain Cross says his COM
pany will undertake the road at once if
the following conditions are complied
with by the citizens of Ventura county:
They must have right of way for the
road, and ask the people to take $40, 600
of bonds. This means track along the
creek road, but in the event of track
along the grade road, $4,000 more will
be required. With the sale of each $500
in bonds, an equal amount of stock will
be Issued.
A track along the grade road would
accommodate many more than along the
creek road. This would include the
Santa Ana and also the Matilda people.
If $3.50 is put up by those desiring the
road, the survey will begin at once.
The latter is asked as an act of good
faith.
We understand the track is to be
standard width, and cars can be run
direct from any given point out to Nord-
hoff. Or even change at Ventura
would not involve a serious loss of time.
We hope matters will crystalline at once.
A subscription of forty or fifty thousand
dollars secured by stock ought not to be
hindrance to railroad enterprise like
this. There ought to be fifty men found
who will give $1,000 each, and the right
of way should be given.
THE PENNsULAR ROAD.
Chief Engineer w. q. Earle, of the
Peninsular railroad, was interviewed
the other day at the Brewster, says the
San Diego Union. concerning the pro-
gress of work along the line of the new
Lower California railroad, he having
just returned from tour of inspection
along the northern division.
From Tia Juana Mr.. Earle went by
team up the Tia Juana cafIon, along the
line of survey, to the engineers camp in
La Valle de las Palmas. thirty five miles
from San Diego. The camp is at the
lower end OF the valley, at the Hallway
house. To this point the route has been
previously described. Beyond, down
Conceno caiion he found good line,
with an easy grade, to Vallecitas. In
fact, no heavy grade has been encoun-
tered along the line thus far.
The weather, Mr.. Earle says, has been
very hot until recently, and the men
suffered great discomfort during the
heated term. Lately, however, the days
have been more moderate, and the
nights invariably cool, so that blankets
are required.
Mr.. Shaw is pushing work on the sur
vey and has now located the line to
point thirty-six miles beyond Tia Juana
in southeasterly direction.
Working northward, the engineering
corps have located eighty miles OF the
line. They have not yet reached La
Trinidad pass but are not far from it.
The line In that section lies in rugged
mountainous country through which
progress is necessarily slow, though no
insurmountable obstacles are antici-
pated. Such things do not exist with
railroad engineers nowadays.
PORT HARTFORD TO FRESNO.
There has been much talk in San Luis
Obispo, says the Chronicle, recently, re-
garding a proposed line from The coast,
near that town, through the coast range
and over into the San Joaquin valley.
nj. Daggett is interesting himself in the
project and has aroused the enthusiasm
of the San Luis Obispo merchants over
it. The project is to build from Port
Hartford to Fresno, reaching every i'm
portant town along the way, either by
the main line, which wou be 100 miles
In length, or by feeders. 1t is proposed
to raise the money to build the road in
the counties tapped by it and to organ
ize company among the capitalists
who will become most heavily inter-
ested. 1t is believed that when the
company has been organized, the fran
chises and right OF way secured and
few miles OF the road built it can be
bonded for enough money to do the re-
mainder of the work, so that the paid
up capital would not need to be large.
TERMINAL RAILROAD.
The committee of citizens appointed
to interview the Terminal people in Los
Angeles about the building of their
road through this valley, says the Ana
helm Gazette, were summoned to Los
Angeles by the railroad people on Sat
urday, and were accorded very pleas
ant interview. AS a result of the meet
ing the chief engineer and others inter-
ested in the Terminal road will visit
Anaheim in the near future for the pur-
pose of looking over the territory and
proposed route OF the road. The COM
mittee are we'll satisfied with the result
of the interview, and are making
preparations for entertaining the rail-
road people when they come down this
way.
MoRENo's BRAVE ACT.
1t is said that the Mexican youth Mo-
reno, who saved Santa Fe freight
train from destruction in the canon
above Yorba couple of weeks ago by
running down the track and warning
the engineer that landslide obstructed
the track below, will be rewarded" by
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