Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-07
AMONG THE RAILROADS.
A New View Of the MOrOng(
Pass Railroad.
The White Squadron to be at Re
dOndO Beach.
Is the Morongo Pass to be Blocked
Against Incoming Rail-
roads?-Notes and
Gossip.

in the southern part OF the state by the
filing OF articles OF Incorporation by the
Riverside, San Bernardino and Los An
geles Railroad company, the directors of
which are D. s. Dorm and Samuel Miller,
both of this city; M. III. Sherman, of
Arizona, and R. j. Davis of Alameda.
The capital stock is fixed OF $4,000 GOO,
and $4,000 has already been sub
scrjbed.
In the. articles of Incorporation it is
stated that the promoters of the enter
prise propose to build road OF stand
ard gauge from point in the Morongo
pass, northeast of San Bernardino, to
the latter city, thence to Cotton and to
Riverside, and from Riverside straight
to Los Angeles, this latter portion OF the
route lying just between the tracks OF
the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe COM
panies.
Some time since the Union Pacific
| company had survey made for South
ern California extension, the preferred
route for such branch passing through
Morongo pass. This is, in fact, said to
afford much easier and generally bet
ter means of crossing the San Bernar-
dino range than any other that can be
found. ae
The question which is now exercising
the minds Of the people of Los Angeles
and vicinity is whether the incorpora-
tors of the new company are acting in
the interest of the Union Pacific or the
Southern Pacific, the possibility that
they may be fighting for their own
hands" being apparently left altogether
out of the question. But that couple
of the directors are understood to be
very friendly to the Southern Paci-
fic, the general opinion would be that
the new road was intended to form the
last link OF the Union Pacifc's Southern
California extension. That circum-
stance, however, causes considerable
doubt. On the other hand, there would,
ordinarily speaking, be no sense in the
Southern Pacific people building line
parallel to the one they have already.
In answer to this, however, it is argued
that the idea may be simply to shut
out the Union Pacific from Morongo
pass.
GREAT NAVAL DEMONSTRATION.
Admiral Ghirardi's feet of handsome
cruisers will pay Redondo parting
visit on Saturday and Sunday, October
9Th and 9th, previous to their departure
| for Hampton roads. The Charleston,
Baltimore and San Francisco will be
present in the harbor, and possibly the
Yorktown and Boston. The people of
Southern California should take this
last opportunity for visiting these YES
sells, and acquaint themselves with the
growing strength and Importance of our
new navy. The vessels of Admiral
.Ghirardi's feet are the very finest type
of the modern warship, and their me-
chanical construction and operation
should interest all aside from the patri-
otic interest, which should animate
every true citizen. The vessels will all
participate in search.light practice, and
special evening trains will be run in
addition to the extra daylight trains.
The vessels will receive visitors, and
ample provision has been made for
transporting them between the vessels
and the wharf at reasonable rates.
/ A grand reception and ball will be
( given in honor of Admiral Ghirardi and
officers at the Redondo Beach hotel, on
Saturday evening. Invitations will be
sent out today.
The Mexican band will, by order OF
Governor Torres, be at Redondo during
the stay of the white squadron.
If anyone is anxious to know how the
naval vessels happened to be ordered to
Redondo, General Passenger Agent
Hynes OF the Santa Fe could tell, if he
would. What Mr.. Hynes fails to think
of in the way of advancing the interests
of his road is not worth consideration by
any OF his rivals.
| George Mcmillan, the Southern Pacific
company's commercial agent at San Di
ego, spent Monday and Tuesday in this
city.
| Agent Horr of the Union Pacific re-
ports business as very brisk at the pres
ent.
James:Campbell has gone to Salt Lake
in the interests of his Salt Lake road
project.
The Santa Fe will ship the Southern
California Fruit Packing company's pacl
this year, amounting to 200 carloads.