Los Angeles herald., 1893-01-09
ANOTHER INDICATIVE STRAW.
A Well-KnOwM Santa Fe Man
Sent to Oakland.
More Talk. About the Mysterious
Railway from GOff.
Colonel Holabird Appointed Land Com
missioner of the California and
Nevada Road-Other
Railway News.


many years confidential agent for Presi-
dent Marvel of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railroad, has been ap-
pointed land commissioner for the Cali
fornia and Nevada railroad, and will
subdivide large tract that company
own near Oakland. 1t is through this
property that the surveys of a compet-
tive railroad were run some two years
ago. 1t is believed that Colonel Hola-
birds connection with this enterprise
may have some connection with the ex-
tension of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe into San Francisco. Mr.. Hola-
bird is the founder of Claremont, and
placed Coronado Beach on the market
in 1886. He has been connected with
the Santa Fe land schemes for years.
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIc's PLANS.
From all sides come repetitions of the
good report that the Southern Pacific
will very soon build its line through
Riverside, South Riverside and Chino,
says the Champion. The ordinary rail-
road rumors are cheap affairs, and serve
an excellent purpose for the newspapers
in furnishing periodical double
scoop whenever church fairs, oranges
and climate fail to fill the valuable
space. But this railroad rumor, we be-
ieve, has some very good support, and
is altogether something more than ru-
NOR. At least the Southern Pacific
company cannot push it's building oper-
ations into better field today than over
this same proposed line. The Southern
Pacific must reach Riverside andaget it's
legitimate share of the heavy freight
and passenger traffic of that wonderful
city. The fruit interests of that place
will always invite competing line, and
the Southern Pacific will fill the bill,
reaching, as it does, eastern terminal
points not touched by the Santa Fe.
Then South Riverside, with her vitrifed
brick and pipe, gypsum and extensive
orchards soon to come into bearing, is
coming into prominence as shipping
point which the Southern Pacific cannot
afford to pass by. Chino, during the
past two seasons, has been the most i'm
portant station on the Southern Pacific
lines in California east of Los Angeles.
Its freight traffic was greater than that
OF any other point, and will be con-
stantly increasing. When this new line
is completed it will open up to the
Southern Pacific system one of the most
fertile and richest sections of California.
Every mile Of the line from where it
caves the present line to where it
reaches it again will be aligned with
cultivated fields, erult orchards and i'm
proved farms. We confidently believe
the Southern Pacific will not long re-
main out of this territory.
THAT ROAD FROM aoFF.
The HERALD has called attention to
the construction of a little railway
northwest from Goff, on the Atlantic
and Pacific road. Golf is the second
station west of the Colorado river in
California, and the line would form a
very direct road to Salt Lake City for
the Santa Fe. In fact it is asserted
that many of its projectors are Santa Fe
stock holders.
However, the San Francisco Chron-
icle contains the following on the other
side of the matter:
''The Nevada Southern railway is in
no way connected with the Santa Fe
system or under it's control or owner
ship, directly or indirectly" said D. ].
Scofeld, director of the company, yes
terday. "The dispatches to the con-
trary from Southern California are all
wrong" he went on to say. sit is a
purely Independent business PROPOSE
tion to reach and tap the rich mineral
districts lying to the northwest of
Needles in California and Arizona, and
the road is controlled by Denver capi-
taliHts, who are also the principal
owners of the Needles Reduction works
at Needles, Cal.
1.-THE Nevada Southern railway was
incorporated at Denver under the laws
of Colorado, for the purpose of con-
Htructing and operating broad-gauge
railroad from the town of Goff, San
Bernardino county, CAL, to Good
Springs, Lincoln county, New, the route
being through portion OF the county
of San Bernardino. in California, and
the county of Lincoln, in Nevada, along
the line and through the mining sta
tions of Goff, Van Trigger, Marvel, Van
derbilt and Ivanpah in California, and
State Line and Good Springs in Nevada,
with branch from Marvel, Cal, to
the New York mining district, CAL, and
also with branch from state line OF
Nevada to Mesquite valley, New, over
State Line pass. The Nevada Southern
railway is really an allied enterprise
with the Needles Reduction works, and
is being built to open up and furnish
reasonable transportation facilities from
the rich mineral districts that are along
its route. Extensive operations are
now going on in the mining dietricte
contiguous to the new road, and trans
portation enough is assured to make the
railroad pay from the start. Contracts
for grading and laying the track for the
first section of 80 miles have been let
the work is now being vigorously prose
cuted, and that portion will be finished
and in running order before March let. ,
NOTES.
The new grade of the Southern Pacific
railroad west of Yuma was completed
last week and the grading force dis.
charged. Track laying is nearly finished
from Ell Rio to the new culvert across
the slough, and but for the latter MOI
being done the entire new track could
soon be used. The bridge carpenters
will not be through with their work fol-
two weeks or more. The company will
now be reasonably free from danger o.
washouts in this vicinity.
AS per request of Postmaster Whims,
published in last weeks EscondidC
Times, change was made in Satur.
days time card ON the Escondido divi-
sion OF the Southern California railway
The Escondido train Con Saturday even
ings only will be held at Oceansid
until the arrival of the Los Angelel
train, thus arriving here at o'clock in