Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-23
NOT BOUND FOR SAN FRANCISCO.

lQe ARRIVAL OF TreSlQenb O1auVel AZ
San Francisco has been construed to
mean that his visit is in connection
with some proposition to extend the
Santa Fe road to that city. Mr.. Man
vel has been exhaustively interviewed
on the subject by the representatives of
the San Francisco newspapers, and he
denies positively that his visit has any
bearing whatever upon the extension Of
his road north. We find in the Daily
Evening Report Of Tuesday very ex-
plicit account of Mr.. Manvel's views on
the attitude of his company touching
the subject of railroad extension, from
which we quote:
81 am here simply on my annual visit,
and it is my intention to remain here
two days, to meet the Southern Pacific
officials and to look over the Office here.
l shall see Wells. Fargo & Company's
people, too, in connection with express
business"
"Have you any intention Of extending
the Santa Fe to San Francisco ?"
"None whatever. could never un-
derstand why they did not take the road
to San Francisco when they were build
ing it. But now we have no intention
of extending it."
"But it was recently said you placed
500, 0,000, 900 of bonds in London to build
that line?"
"Our financial arrangements had moth
ing to do with the extension of the At
lantic and Pacific. The amounts needed
to improve our existing lines and put
them in order will absorb the money re-
ceived. The Santa Fe will build no ex-
tensions. 1t has no connection either
with the roads projected in California
and conaected by rumor with our com-
pany.''
:. -. viii be remembered that the citi-
zens Of San Diego recently held great
indignation meeting and denounced the
Santa Fe because it did not rebuild the
Temecula cafion line. This line was
washed out last winter. Mr.. Marvel
was asked his intentions. He replied
that the washout had destroyed prop
erty valued at million of dollars; that
it would cost $l90, ,000'to put the road in
order, and that the company would not
rebuild that road. 1t was the intention,
however, to build by another route,
where they would not be subject to the
expense of being washed out annually.
The Santa Fe, some years ago, was
said to have made an arrangement with
the famous Peninsular and Oriental
Steamship company to Iun a line of
steamers from San Diego to the Orient,
but nothing ever came of it. Since then
the Northern Pacific, Canadian Pacific
and Union Pacific have established such
lines, and the Southern Pacific has had
such trauspacifc line for years. Mr..
Marvel said, when this was called to
his attention; that the company had all
it could attend to to take care of its land
affairs, and he thought it would let the
sea alone.
That would appear to settle the ques-
ton as to the intention OF the Santa Fe
company OF going with their road to San
Francisco. But the answers of Mr.
Marvel are not deemed conclusive by
the newspapers OF San Francisco, go
they build number of theories regard
ing his visit which they insist point to a
determination of the Santa Fe people to
build their road to the bay. One of
these is that because he has with hum
the general solicitor of the company
it is not probable that he would require
the services of that officer for the mere
clerical work OF examining the accounts
his road has with the Southern Pacific,
but that he has been brought with him
for the more important purpose of pass
ing upon the title of the North Pacific
Coast railway property, which ia in the
market and which the Santa Fe is
anxious to acquire so as to get easy ac-
cess to San Francisco.
This seems to us most absurd solu-
tion of Mr.. Manvel's VISIT. What ad-
vantage would the North Pacific Coast
road be to the Santa Fe? Who can
imagine that if the Santa Fe company
wanted to get to San Francisco that it
would build to some point in the Straits
of Carquinez. then cross over to Marin
county by steamboat merely to find it.
self at Sausalito with the roughest and
most difficult portion of the bay to
cross over by steamer again in order to
reach San Francisco? Such q theory
would not have the slightest con-
sideration as a business proposition.
If the Santa Fe should de-
termine to go to San Fran
cisco, it would get there by way OF the
peninsula from some point in Santa
Clara county. The Southern Pacific