The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-12-17
WILL TAP THE SANTA FE.
Contracts for Over 800 Miles AL
ready Awarded.
FERRY-BOATS To BE BUILT.
Terminal Facilities About Secured.
Seeking the Point of junction
With the Santa Fe.

The various rumors as to new compel
Ing road from San Francisco eastward are
beginning to assume tangible shape, in
fact the contractors who will do the work
are authority for the statement that ground
will be broken inside of sixty days.
The San Francisco and Atlantic Rail-
way Is the company which will give the
Idea the form of substantially, and al
though the details of the project cannot as
yet be made public. for obvious reasons,
yet sufficient information is at hand TO
give the public a general outline of the
work contemplated.
The officials of the new company cannot
be blamed for their reticsnce IN making
public their intentions until all arrange
ments have been perfected. They have
relentless foe in the South ern Pacific Com
pany, and will not soon forget an expert
ence which occurred when a venture sinh
lar to the present was we'll under way and
seemed bound TO succeed. One of the sons
of William a. Vanderbilt was at that time
the promoter of the scheme, and had, In
fact, guaranteed the money TO push the
en- terprise through. But C. P. Huntington
got wind of the affair and Immediately
called upon the Senior Vanderbilt relative
the meeting never became public. but it
was rumored at the time that the latter
gentleman, for an unknown consideration,
agreed to see that his son took no further
active steps in the matter, and the rumor
gathered credibillty from the fact that the
gentleman almost Immediately after the
meeting mentioned occurred severed his
conn ection with the company.
are known at present are Frederick Homer,
who is president. j. w. Eiseuhult, L. F.
Durand and Sir Douglas Fox of % Victoria
street. London. E. G. The latter gentle
man is now in the southern portion of the
State with a corps Of engineers endeavor-
ing to settle upon the exact locality of the
junction which will be made with the At
lantic and Pacific.
This is about the only main feature of
the proposed route which has not yet been
decided upon, but sufficient Is known to
say with certainty that the new road will
form q junction with the Atlantic and
Pacific in either Kings or Los Angeles
County.
All the contracts have been let for the
construction of 300 miles of the road from
this city south. The promoters of the line
well acquainted with the territory traversed.
Along the proposed route the engineer
corps met with very f1attering reception
at every hand. and the right of way was
obtained without the slightest trouble.
Bids are now being received for the
construction of the San Francisco and
West Shore road, which will be part of
the new system. Contractors were over
of several big railroad capitalists of st.
Louis and Chicago were on the register of
the Adobe House at San Pedro Point at
the time the contractors were also there.
By the 20th inst. all the bids for con-
struction and equipment will be closed.
This line will leave the city near the
junction of Twenty fourth street and Po-
trero avenue, and by an underground sys-
tenn of road will reach the ocean by way
of the Spring Valley Water Works, thence
tunnelinR through San Peero Point to
reach Halfmoon Bay. AS before stated,
Sir Douglas Fox Is now endeavoring to fix
upon the most available point to intersect
the Atlantic and Pacific line. The route
through Los Angeles County has been
thoroughly surveyed and discussed In all
it's phases, and that through Kings County
Is now receiving the attention of the pro-
moters of the road.
Within one month the reports of the
engineers will be ready. Mr.. Fox, the
Burlington people and others interested
will have arrived at some definite conclu-
sion relative to the work of the southern
portion of the line, and the enterprise will
then be in a condition to lay it before the
public. Unless something at present un-
forseen should occur work will certainly
commence inside of sixty days. and the
time. place and day will be announced in
these columns.
But this is not all that has been done
and which The CALL is at liberty to