Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-01
THE RAILROADS.
More Talk About the Santa
Fe Building North.
A Big Right of Way Secured
Through the TETON.
Two Stories About the Proposed
Route to San Francisco.
A Statement that Gen. Beale Has Given
Right of Way Through His TETON
Ranch-Is Pol1asky South
ern Pacific Man?-Notss.


The rumors about the Santa Fe COM
pany's proposed extension to San Fran
cisco are flying thick again, with more
semblance of fact behind them than
ever.
A HERALD reporter yesterday learned
from what should be excellent authority,
that Santa Fe graders will be in camp
in the TETON pass in very short time,
and that Gen. E. F. Beale, the owner of
the immense TETON ranch, has given the
company free right of way, the same
one which he gave number of years
ago to the Atlantic and Pacific
company, and which, when the
terms of its transfer were not
complied with, he took back. The gen.
ersl having been deceived once, it is
raid, refused to consider any proposition
from the company for right of way, until
he was shown conclusively that the new
line would bs built, which was done to
his entire satisfaction.
The San Francisco Chronicle of Satur-
day contains the following apropos of
the same subject:
A. A. Grant, the railroad contractor
who built miles and miles of the Santa
Fe west of the Missouri river, has gone
east in the interest of the Pacific Con-
struction and Improvement company,
which now has control Of the property
formerly owned by the California and
Nevada railroad. This property in
cludes the road, twenty miles in length,
a wharf on the bay shore near Emery
station, East Oakland, and 1905 acres
OF land. Mr.. Grant is by virtue of
recent election the vice-president of the
company, and he is said to represent the
interests of the Santa Fe in the line, it
being openly stated that the great Bos-
ton corporation has put him forward as
one OF the figures to represent it in the
enterprise. Another figure is J. A.
Williamson, the new president of the
California and Nevada, who is the land
commissioner of the Atlantic and Pa
cifc, and was for a time president of
that line.
Messrs. Grant and Williamson have
taken hold OF the affairs of the Cali
fornia and Nevada with determination
to push the line across the state of Cali
fornia and on to Salt Lake City. If
they are backed by the Santa Fe, as
many persons think, they will have no
trouble in doing this, in the opinion of
local railroaders, but If they must de-
pend on outside capital, then they will
have to struggle as other railroad pro-
jectors on this coast have done. With
these two prominent Santa Fe men as
the leading officers of the company it
certainly looks as if the Santa Fe road
had the interest in the project with
which it is credited.
PoLLAsKY AND THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
The San Francisco Examiner seems to
think that Marcus Pollasky, who is sup
posed to have purchased the Los Ange-
les and Pacific Railroad company's
property, is Southern Pacific company
agent. 1t speaks of him as follows
regarding his Fresno road:
"Whether or not Huntington has any
thing to do with the road that Marcus
Pollasky is building eastward from
Fresno is matter that few people care
to talk about. Pollasky is at Fourth
and Townsend streets frequently, fact
which leads many to suppose that Hunt
ington is more or less interested with
him in the undertaking. Be that as it
may, Pollasky is represented as having
the scheme we'll in hand, and those who.
do not believe that Huntington is back
ing him connect Gen. r. A. Alger and
President Arthur Hill Of the Saginaw
Steam Barge company with the enter
prise.
1t is current talk that plenty of money
is behind the scheme, and there are
those who believe that not only is
Huntington not interested in it, but
that it is the beginning of new trans
continental line, which will pierce the
Sierra Nevada mountains through So
nora pass, said to he one of the most
available points at which to cross the
mountains. At the present time twen-
ty-six miles of the road have been COM
pleted, with some little grading beyond.
NOTES.
T.. HI. Goodman, general passenger
agent of the Southern Pacific company,
is due here today from the east.
The Terminal people are preparing to
build their Hueneme branch. They
only await the final order from ST..
Louis.
Southern Pacific officials state that
it is impossible for the Southern Cali
fornia road to overcome the former
lines advantage'in time to Redlands.
Mrs. Pullman has gone east, and the
train dispatchers are all duly thankful.
She has the reputation of requiring
more switching of her special car than
any other railroad king or queen.
The Southern Pacific company has
agreed to make one and one-third
round-trip rate of 500 from San Fran
cisco to this city on account of the ex-
hibition of the Los Angeles County
Poultry association, to be held from
February 10th to 18th inclusive.