The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-07
TRACK, TRAIN And TRAFFIC.
News Gathered i'm Railroad and
Shipping Circles.
The Grsat Salt Lake Rosd to Form Four Sep
arate Corporations TO Protect Local
and Transeontinental Rates.

The directorate of the San Francisco and
Great Salt Lake Railroad, now increased to
30 members, held meeting on Friday TO get
acquainted with each other and 10 exchange
ideas The new members met the old ones
and together they met Manager Leeds Of
the Traffic Association.
The business of the meeting brought out
no new fact. II only confirmed what The
CALL announced several times during the
past few weeks, namely, that there is no
doubt OF the enterprise being a success in
every way. All the preliminaries will be
completed within few days and the pub
lie Will be informed through these
columns of the complete plans. Very few
months will have TO pass before work will
be actually commenced, and, in this conneC-
ton, member Of the directorate said yes.
terday that the people seem to be strangely
impatient. They seem To think that great
enterprises like tine one we have on hand
can be carried out in day; and he added
but the vast amount OF preliminary work
which has 10 be done before new railroad,
900 miles in length. can be said 20 be In a
condition for its promoters to be absolutely
certain that they can carry out their project
is imm ense."
THE FINANCIAL QUESTION.
The director then went on to say that, as
matter OF course, the financial question
was the one which. up TO date, delayed
matters more than anything else. 1t had
long since been determined to build that
road with Independent capital, but when
the Southern Pacific Company learned that
men with money to invest were approached
IN the interest of the new road. they at once
sent agents to the capitalists in question and
offered them Inducements to put their
money into Southern Pacific stock. In some
cases they succeeded and in others they met
with point blank refusals, but their tactics
had the effect to cause annoying delays to
the Salt Lake road projectors.
Irafnc Manager Leeds is happy because
the clipper-ship competition with the trans
continental freight traffic is a success and
because the merchants on both ends OF the
continent are taking every possible advan-
tage of the cheap rates thus esta blished.
But Mr.. Leeds has still much greater task
before him In his struggle to reduce the
local freight tariff.
THE LOCAL TRAFFIC.
He saws that as long as the Southern Pa
citic Company has an absolute monopoly of
all the local traffic there is only one remedy
to relieve the people of the State from op-
preston, and that is legislation.
Competing transcontinental lines can
bring only partial relief unless they also
build up competing local lines" says Mir.
Leeds, and he told the directors of the San
Franc iscO and Great Salt Lake road so
plainly on Friday. AS a consequence of
his remarks 1t is now proposed that the new
one of them having parts OF the scheme as
its main object. One of the corporations
will propose 10 build the line through to
Utah and the other three will cover the va
rious sections of this State and build lines
north and south touching all the fertile val
leys aud populated districts.
w. III. Mills OF the Southern Pacific has
new scheme for the distribution Of fruit
from overland trains. The fruit, as shipped
at the present, Is put into refrigerator cars
aud dispatched to Chicago or New York
direct The cars are not opened in transit
and all the points between Sacramento.
Fresno. Los Angeles or wherever the ship
ment is made and the destination of the car
have no opportunity to buy California
fruit Mr.. Mills is preparing a paper on
the subject, which he intends 10 read TO the
State Board Of Trade shortly.
The board OF control of the League OF
Progress has another big project on hand
which will be discussed and acted on to-
morrow. 1t is said TO be of political impOr
lance.
The North Pacific Coast Railways new
timetable as printed in THE CALLS adver-
Using columns goes into effect to-day. Ii
shows that the o'clock A. NJ. excursion
train, which formerly left here on Sundays
for Camp Taylor. Tocaloma and Point Reyes,
has been discontinued. and that the Sum
day morning 8 o'clock train for CaZadero
and the Russian River country will be con-
tInueQ.