The herald., 1894-01-01
THE BURDICK BLOCK.
water to tide.water. A direct road from
San Pedro to Yuma would still further

water to tide-water. A direct road from
San Pedro to Yuma would still further
lessen the distance.
Southern California has already two
competing transcontinental railroad sys-
TENS, and the prospects are good for the
completion of at least one more line
within couple of years.
The Southern Pacific company's main
line, from San Francisco to New Orleans
and the east, extends through Southern
California 1859 miles, 120 miles from
Tehachapi to Los Angeles, and 249 miles
from Los Angeles to Yuma. At Saugus
is branch extending through Ventura
and Santa Barbara counties to Ellwood,
92 miles. There only remain two small
gaps to be filled to complete the coast
line to San Francisco, work which will
probably be accomplished within year.
There are short lines Of the Southern Pa
cifc company from Los Angeles to Santa
Monica cafion, 20 miles to San Pedro, %
miles, with branch to Long Beach,
miles; to Santa Ana, so, with branches
to Tustin, IL, and Whittier, 6. Total
length OF Southern Pacific lines in
Southern California, 479 miles, divided
among the counties as follows: Santa
Barbara, 27 miles; Ventura, 80; San
Bernardino, 4S; San Diego, 1866; Los
Angeles, ia; Orange, "a.
The Santa Fe system is here known
west OF Barstow as the Southern Califor-
mia railway. 1t connects with the At
lantic and Pacific at Barstow, in San
Bernardino county, whence a branch
runs to Mojave, on the Southern Pacific
north OF Los Angeles.
Passengers from the east to San Diego
60 by way of Orange and the coast line.
The line to Los Angeles runs due west
from San Bernardino. From Mojave to
Needles, on the Colorado river, by the
Atlantic and Pacific, is 241 miles |;
Barstow to National City, I'll miles ;
Los Angeles to San Bernardino, 81 miles |;
East Riverside to Orange, Al miles; Los
Angeles to Junction, near Oceanside, So
miles. There are short branch lines
from Perris to San Jacinto, 10 miles !;
San Bernardino to Mentone and back,
known aB the small loop of the ''kite-
shaped track" 25; Escondido branch,
21 Los Angeles to Rsdondo, 90; Ingle-
wood to Santa Monica, Z. Total length
of Southern California company's sys.
tenn in Southern California, 732 miles.
The Los Angeles Terminal Railway COM
pany, which was incorporated in Los
Angeles two years ago with capital
stock of $4,000, 900, several of the stock
holders being st. Louis capitalists, is
intended as the terminus of some trans
continental railway. The company has
acquired the Los Angeles, Pasadena and
Glendale line, has built a line to Long
Beach and San Pedro, and has acquired
excellent wharf facilities by the Npur-
chase of Rattlesnake Island, at the lat
ter place, where wharves and other im-
provements have been constructed.
The total length of the company's lines
is about As miles.
Other short, independent lines in
Southern California are the San Gabriel
Valley Rapid Trsnsit from Los Angeles
to beyond Monrovia, 20 miles, leased by
the Terminal company; Redondo rail-
way, 18 miles from tina: place to Los
angeles; San Diego, Cuyamaca and
Eastern, completed as far as Foster, 26
miles; San Diego, Old Town and Pacific
Beach National City and Otay from
San Diego to Tia Jusna. with branches
to La Presa and Oneonta, about 81 miles |;
the Coronado Railroad company, along
the bay of San Diego. 20 miles; also
short lines from Pomona to Chino, and
from Santa Ana to Newport. The PEN
insula Railroad OF Lower California, be-
tween San Diego and San Quintin, q
distance OF 250 miles, has IL miles COM
pleted and the entire line located. Dis
lance from San Quintin to Yuma, 235
miles. and from San Diego to Yuma, 24C
miles.
"A dummy line about three miles
long extends from the west end
OF Los Angeles to the foothills
near Hollywood. The Los Angeles and
Pacific, from Los Angeles to Santa Mon
lea along the foothills, has been closed
down, owing to financial difficulties, for
several years. The Southern Pacific new
| line, thaee miles in length from Santa
Monica to Santa Monica cafion, where a
large wharf has been built, will proba-
bly, be extended up the coast. The
Glendale branch of the Terminal may
also be extended to Hueneme, in Ven
tura county. The Southern Pacific is
about to construct q branch from Bur
bank to Chatsworth Park, in the north
western part of the San Fernando valley.
A notable enterprise was the construc-
| tion Of an electric road from Mountain