The morning call., 1892-09-09
BY WATER And LAND.
More Clippers in Demand on
the New Line.
Transfer Ct Slice of Martinez Water Front
sge-FTesno's Competing Rold to
SeaboaJd.

a special from New York under date of
yesterday was that commission merchants
i'll the California trade have cause Tor com
plant at the extreme port charges on goods
sent from this city by packet ships and call
ing upon the home Office here TO look into
the matter aud remove the suspicion Of col
lusion TO bleed receivers in the East
Another charge was that tie unloading CT
ships is so conducted in New York as tn
keep goods On the dock the longest period
pOss bic.
Mr.. Johnson, President of the Johnson
Locke Mercantile Company and the home
office alluded to, knew Of no complaint hay-
ing been made. He considered the special
as "a commercial kick in the interest vi
Eastern receivers"
The only foundation fer the loading
CHARGE" said he, lis that a vessel with!
90, 900 cases of salmon Unexpectedly made
passage of ninety five days when it was
thought she would make the run in 10 days
and because of this and the consequent de-
lay in sending on the invoice papers she
was detained seven or eight days in the
stream.
No complaint of high port charges al New
York on such clipper freights, or of rates,
has been presented TO the Traffic Associ4-
ton.
OUo ICpUlb 10 tlNt lHO tIippCA tiAAO Ol tiiF
line between this port and New York has
so increased that more vessels are neces-
Sary. This subject may be considered to-
morrow afternoon by the executive COM
mittee Of the Merchants Shipping Associa-
ton.
Current belief in railroad circles is that
something definite on the scale OF rOnstruc-
tive details Will be known by next month
in connection with the San Francisco and
Great Salt Lake Railway.
The promoters OF the enterprise will mol
make public the amount of the sHbScrip-
tons, but give ont that sufficient for tinaR-
cial footing has been obtained from capital
lists in the city, and that the stock WILL if
possible, be kept under the control OF the
prime movers in the enterprise.
Some considerable work in the field has
been DONE and the latest is that fifty-fiye
acres of the water front Of Martinez has
been transferred to T. l.. G. Steele, repre-
sentlng the venture
The superstition is that this frontage i,
intended for warehouses and docks for the
discharge and loading of lumber after the
style of those OF the Southern Pacific at
Port Costa
Apparently there is a little more than Tx
in connection with the recently organized
movement tn build competing road join
ing Fresno with the seaboard at Monterey.
The latest is that San Benito had guaraD-
teed bonus of $4,000 and the right OF
way. In Fresno the movement has taken
the shape of inducing the Town Trustees
to give some official expression of then
Willingness 10 grant right OF way Into the
city and proper terminal facilities.
III. A. Greene, who is interested in this
road and is connected with the Bank OF
Mon terey, has put himself on record to
state that those interested with him can al
most promise to certainty that the road
will be in running order in two or tire
years or less, If the towns and counties Will
obtain for them the necessary right Of way
and suitable land for station purposes. The
Trustees of Monterey are being urged t.
come out and declare what they would br
willing to do in The way of subsidy, amt
this once aseertained the next effort Will be
to call big meeting in Fresno ana set Til;
ball rolling there in earnest
The impression seems TO be that there
may be sharp war in rates to the g. a. Il
encampment at Washington, d. c., because
of the further reduction TO SS4 90 of TIL
round-trip rate from California points 10
Washington or Baltimore.
The Burlington is the official route from
Denver to Chicago, and the Baltimore and
Ohio from Chicago to Washington. The
Santa Fe is expected to meet the reduction.
The Southern Pacific for the reduced rate
permits contrary to the usual custom that
the trip may be made by the Shasta route
and Portland, Or, either in one or both
directions without additional charge
The special between Niles aud Liver
more connecting with the O'clock train
from San Jose and San Francisco has been
discontinued. 1t was run for the acc0mmo-
dation Of the summer campers in Niles
CanyOn,