Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-17
THE RAILROADS.
THE SANTA FEE LOOKING TOWARDS
SALT LAKE.
A Story Which Comes From Portland, Or
egon-A Statement That the Santa Fe
and Union Pacific Will Unite on the
Scheme.

The HERALD some days ago exclu-
sively announced that Mr.. James Camp
bell had left the city on an overland
trip to Salt Lake, over a proposed line
OF railroad from Barstow to that city,
presumably in the interests of the Santa
Fe company. The following special dis
patch in the San Francisco Examiner Of
Sunday, in that connection, will be of
interest:
PORTLAND, Or, Feb. 13. 1t is ru-
mored in railroad circles here that the
Union Pacific is organizing party for
the immediate survey OF line from
Salt Lake to some point on the Pacific
coast in Southern California, probably
Los Angeles or San Diego. This is the
line which has been talked about at in
tervals during the lest ten years, and
surveys have several times been begun.
1t is supposed that the present scheme
emanates from the Santa Fe people.
The Union Pacific now extends to Fris-
CO, in southwestern Utah, and some
years ago line was projected from that
point to connection with the Atlantic
and Pacific at Barstow, CAL, which runs
thence 70 Mojave, Los Angeles and San
Diego. This was the Santa Fe scheme,
and the line was intended to connect
with the Union Pacific, which road was
expected to give the Santa Fe traffic fa-
cilities over its lines and thus admit it
to the northwest. Such a line would
have practicable result and would
open up extensive coal fields in south
western Utah.
NOTES.
The Southern Pacific has secured it's
right of way on the Redlands branch as
far as Grafton.
The traffic arrangement by which the
Santa Fe gets into San Pedro by way OF
the Terminal, which was first an
nounced in the HERALD, has been COM
pleted.
The cable railway has earned more
money thus far during February than
it had earned up to this time in Febru-
airy Of last year, notwithstanding the
supposed interference the electric road
would make with the business done by
the cable road.
The Santa F6 will send an excursion
train to San Diego on Thursday, when
the cruiser San Francisco will try her
heavy guns outside the heads. The
steamer Tilamook will convey excur-
sionists to the scene, which can also be
observed from the Coronado hotel.
The war cruiser San Francisco will
give a practice Thursday two miles
south OF the Hotel Coronado. The Till
amook has been chartered by the naval
corps, and will convey passengers very
close to the cruiser. The exhibition
can also be seen to advantage from the
Coronado hotel.
The work of wiring the track of the
cable company on Spring street, and
especially at Spring and First streets,
will be completed today, and the track
will be in condition to run cars as far as
the Baker block. In about four weeks
more the entire East Los Angeles line
will be ready for operation.
The new 500-horse-power dynamo has
arrived at the power house of the elec-
tric road, and is being placed in posi-
ton. 1t requires two twenty-foot wheels
to drive it. These wheels are three feet
four inches across the bands, aud will
be run by sixteen turns of rope. Each
wheel reached here in two sections, and
they are now being put together. When
this dynamo is in operation the power
house will have 1000 horsepower in
electricity.