Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-27
THE RAILROADS.
The Santa Fe Scooping in
the Oranges.
No Change in the Position of
the Other Roads.
What Is Said About the Local
Situation.
General Freight Agent Hynes of the
Santa Fe Local Offices Prepared For
the Fray-Plenty of Fruit Cars.
News Notes.

The Santa Fe road continues to scoop
in the orange shipments. The Southern
Pacific, Union Pacific and Denver and
Rio Grande agents are all forced to wait
until the 1st of February before they
can put the 90-cent orange rate into ef-
feet, while the Santa Fe today will be-
gin sending cars east, and have five
more days. advantage over the other
roads.
1t now appears that General Freight
Agent Hynes, of the local Santa Fe
Office, was fully aware of what he was
doing when he got his road to cut loose
from the dictum of the eTranscontnental
association, for he had prepared for the
occasion by getting large supply of
fruit cars on hand in readiness for the
rush he knew was coming. The conse-
quence is that the Santa Fe has fruit
cars in plenty at all the orange shipping
centers.
Mr.. Davenport, of the Union Pacific,
thinks that the result of the Santa Fe's
coup is likely to be serious trouble in
the Transcontinental association, though
what shape this will take no one can
tell. The other lines have lost good
share of the orange traffic through the
arbitrary action of the Santa Fe, and
they will get even some way.
Mr.. Crawley, the general agent of the
Southern Pacific, takes the matter easily.
He does not think that there will be
any rate war as result, though the as
sociation will probably take some mild
action in the matter.
NOTES.
A Raymond excursion party arrived
from the east on Monday.
G. w. Higgins, chief clerk to Traffic
Manager w. T. White of the Santa Fe,
is in the city.
@. s. Lee, general passenger agent of
the Colorado Midland. went to San
Francisco yesterday.
A morning paper enormously stated
yesterday that President Hill of the
Great Northern was in the city. The
gentleman here is Mr.. Samuel Hill,
brother of President Hill.
The lunch counter man at the Arcade
depot was cutting ham on Sunday, when
man in an adjoining closet accident.
ally discharged his revolver, the bullet
just missing the lunch counter mans
head. What if it had struck a sand-
wich
Our good friend L. E. Stanton, clerk
at the Santa F6 freight depot, met with
painful accident Saturday, we are
sorry to learn, says the Riverside Press.
While stepping from the platform to a
freight car he lost his footing and fell
between the cars, striking on his left
shoulder and breaking one of the small
bones. He will carry his arm in a sling
for some time.
Some days ago the motor road COM
menced grading and laying rails from
their track the other side of the Santa
Fe crossing down toward town, says the
Riverside Press. The stakes are set as
far as Fourth street, but whether they
will come any further or not we have
been unable to learn. This is over the
line the company tried to get a fran
chise for, but was refused by the city
trustees. The company owns the land
upon which it is at work, but has no
legal right to cross the streets as yet.
The steamer Carlos Pacheco is now at
Ensenada, says the San Diego Sun, hav-
ing arrived there this morning from
San Quintin. She will arrive here to-
morrow morning. Chief Engineer Earle
is expected to return on board from San
Quintin, where he has been superin-
tending surveying party for the past
three weeks. r. A. Graham is also at
San Quintin supervising the building of
the railroad bridge across the narrows.
1t is estimated that the bridge will be
completed in two weeks, and that five
or six weeks will be sufficient time to
close up the first section of the road
complete. The engine house at San
Quintin is nearly finished. A large
number of photographs showing the
country around San Quintin, the bay
and mountains, etc., and also the work
done by the Peninsula Railroad COM
pany are in the Office of the company
in the LAWYERS block, and may be seen
by application to Mr.. Graham on his
return.