The herald., 1893-06-16
THE SANTA FE's NEW DEPOT.
The Nevada Southern Within
Ten Miles Of Vanderbilt.
General Manager Wade's Plans for
El Grande Depot.
Tho Building to Have Beautiful Park
-Progress of the Southern Cali
fornia-Cheap Excursion to
San Diego.

General Manager X. III. Wade of the
Southern California Railway company
has done many things which entitie
him to the warm regard of ell Los An
gelefios and Southern Californians, but
he is Gaping the climax In the new. de-
pot he is building at the First street
yards and which will be opened in q
couple of weeks.
This building has been fully described
IN the HERALD, but no words can give
an idea of its beauty and completeness,
Mr.. Wade does not intend to stop at the
building, but will make out of the
grounds surrounding it one Of the pret
test parks in the city. One portion
will be laid out in an exact reproduction
of the famous kite-shaped track, and a
large rose garden will be another fea-
ture.
There is room in front of the depot for
~ tracks for passenger trains. Between
these tracks will be erected ornate roofs
on pillars, which will cover the spaces
Intervening between the cars, thus vir
tually making the yard vast arcade.
Mr.. Wade has under consideration
number of names for the new depot,
but has about decided to call it ''El
Grande !" this is in line with his most
admirable policy of maintaining the use
of Spanish names as far aH possible.
The edifice has been built with the
idea OF being able to increase its capsci-
ty to any desired extent. ALI in all it
presented 30 many admirable points as
to make it a model.
THE ROAD TO VANDERBILT.
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opened for business as shown by cir
cular issued yesterday by General
Freight Agent S. B. Hynes, OF the
Southern California as follows:
The Nevada Southern railway is COM
pleted from Blake station Qormerly
Gof's), on the Atlantic and Pacific rail-
road, to Purdy, located 25 miles from
Blake.
Marvel and Vanderbilt, to which
points track is not yet laid, are four
miles and ten miles respectively from
Purdy. Wagon teams meet the Nevada
Southern railway train at Purdy, which
leaves Blake at O'Clock p. m. daily.
The freight rate from Blake to Purdy
is 25 cents per 100 pounds in less than
carload shipments, and 1871 cents per
100 pounds in carload shipments, the
carload rate being governed by a mini
mum weight of $4,000 pounds.
WILL GO TO SAN FRANCISCO.
Gen. James A. Williamson, commits
sioner of the United States land Office
from 1876 to 1881, ex-president of the
Atlantic and Pacific railway, and gen.
eral solicitor of the great Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe system, has arrived
from Boston and is at the Palace.
AS general attorney for his road on all
land matters he is kept pretty busy. He
visits California once year on the aver
age, and at the same time examines into
the Santa Fe's affairs in New Mexico and
elsewhere. The roads has large offices
and en- extensive corps OF men represent
ing all branches at Albuquerque. The
general stopped in New Mexico for some
DAYS on his way out. He is now here to
confer with Mr.. Grant in regard to the
company's lands across the bay, and will
be here for about ten days. ~
''It is a certain thing" said General
Williamson yesterday, "that the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe road must
come ON to San Francisco. 1t must do
this by the very stress of circumstances
to save itself. 1t cannot stop where it is,
and it cannot come in over another
roads rails and do business in that
roads houses. 1t must have these
things for itself. 1t is as certain OF pos
eessing them and reaching this city as
anything can be. The very stress of cir
cumetances makes it compulsory in order
to cave itself.
81 became very well acquainted with
President Allen Marvel before his death
had not known him intimately until
comparatively lately. | knew it WAS his
conetant, earnest and entirely deter
mined purpose to push the road through
to San Francisco, and that soon. / am
not in position to cay that the road
will be constructed at once. my business
being almost solely with land matters !;
but / am convinced that as soon as
financial matters eaee up a little so the
road can get money the line will be com
pAted.
81 am not blaming the Southern Pa
ciic for not telling the Atchison to come
in here over its road and do business in
it's own buildings on the same basis as
itself. That would be all nonsense.
The Atchison would not let any other
road into any city it controlled similarly,
nor would individuals, and they would
be fools if they did. That we all know.
But do think if we had even as many
as FIVE trsDecontinental roads in here the
city and country would grow in such q
way as to make business even for the
Southern Pacific much better than it is
now. have no doubt that war would
do great deal more, and that altogether
it would be much more to its advantage,
than to do all the business and to keep
the city FROM expanding.
General Williamson is self-made
man. He was born in Kentucky, and
ss boy went to Iowa, where he worked
on farm. When the war broke out he
enlisted and served to it's close, being
transferred st the last to the Powder
river and Big Horn regions to fight the
Indians. After the war he conceived
the idea Of making coke in Utah, and to
acquire particular secret of coke
making went to Swansea, Wales, and
worked as laborer. He mad studied
law in. his youth, and pfacticed at in
tervals before and after the war. 1t was
in 1876 that President Hayes made him
commissioner of the general land office.
Since that time he has been almost CON
tinnally the leading attorney of the At
chison system.
HUNTINGToN's NEW BRANCH LINES.
Mr.. Huntington is keeping a sharp
eye on Southern California, Gays the San
Francisco Examiner of Tuesday.
Down in that section he encounters
the competitor of the Santa Fe and the
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