The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-19
SOUTHERN TRAFFIC
A Proposed Coast Line of
Steamers.
ENDORSED BY MERCHANTS.
The Traffic Association Also Approves
of the Scheme - Other Impor-
tant Resolutions Adopted.
ENDORSED BY MERCHANTS.

At meeting OF tie executive committee
Of the Traffic Association yesterday MORN
ing the following resolution was adopted:
That the executive committee of the
Traffic Association of California approves
of the scheme of the Merchants Freighting
Association, as outlined in the articles of
agreement submitted for our consideration.
and we recommend it to our members and
the mercantile community at large as being
worthy CT their encouragement and sup
port"
The proposition submitted by the Mer-
chants Freightng Association is to raise
guarantee fund for the establishment of
line of steamers between this port, San
Pedro and Redondo, in competition with
the Pacific Coast Steamship Company and
the railroads.
The association named is not an offshoot
of the shipping association, which controls
the clipper lines between here and New
York, but is a combination Of local and
southern California merchants, all ofwhom
are more or less interested in the business
of Los Angeles and San Diego counties and
are grasping st the opportunities offered
during the present fight against railroads
and high freight rates to interest the public
in what appears TO be feasible scheme
and an opening for idle capital.
The Endorsement OF the Traffic Associa-
tion is sufficient guarantee of the good faith
of the new combination and gives its initial
step the ring Of financial Solldiiy.
With view TO bringing matters to sue
cesSful and final issue The Merchants
Freibhters' Association, the list OF member
ship OF which has yet not been made public,
has worked quietly among the business men
of this city, meeting with sufficient en-
enlargement to induce it to make public the
purpose of its efforts.
The purpose is TO link more closely the
business destinies of all parts of the State,
not only TO do so by means Of the line of
navigation lines on the Sacramento and San
Joaquin rivers.
The force of the company's pending blow
is directed at the coast lines of the Southern
Pacific between this city and Southern Cali
fOrnia, a sort of an Offset, so to speak. TO
the long hauP' cuts in Eastern rates,
which are shortly to give Eastern cities
such n big advantage over distributing
points in our own State.
Steamers plying between San Francisco
and San Diego, touching at way ports,
could, by perfecting arrangements with the
local independent lines from said stopping
places, control the freightng situation at
all of the principal cities of the south and
intervening coast
To Los Angeles is accredited the origina-
ton of the new line of coasters
The TranscontneGtal Association has
apparently been venting its spleen on the
independent southern metropolis for having
made such a persistent fight against the
tying up of the local coast line to Redondo
and San Pedro.
Southern California is awaiting the reply
OF the north in this matter Of competition,
and the resolution adopted by the Traffic
Association is the answer.
Los Angeles and San Diego capital will
no doubt find its way into the treasury OF
the Merchants Freighters' Association.
series of resolutions were adopted by
the Traffic Association at its last meeting
relative to the Trans Mississippi Congress.
which will convene at Ogden, Titan, on
April q.
The resolutions embrace the greetings of
the Traffic Association of California, and
call the attention of the congress to the
Nicaragua canal as "a WORK necesSitated
by the commercial, political and military
Interests of the entire United States"
Clauses embodying the sentiment Of the
State in the matter of the Improvement of
rivers and haTbors, and reference to the IN
paid national debts OF the Pacific Coast
railroad lines were inserted.
These resolutions will be forwarded to the
California delegation.
ii. E Hinton, agent of the Panama Rail
road. stated yesterday that his road was in
the fight in the interest of the development
of trade 10 its fullest extent and 10 enjoy
the profits to be driyed thereafter.
The Panama Railroad" he said, will
continue to operate its line regardless of
the attitude Of the transcontinental lines,
and should the North American Navigation
Company or ColuIn bian line desire not to
resume their contract at the expiration of
the terms OF agreement We will be ready to
contract with any Independent steamship
company that is in the business for revenue
1--WE are not looking for rate war, nor
do we invite one. War is disastrous to
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