The herald., 1894-11-10
NEWS ABOUT THE RAILROADS

The changes in the Southern Pacific
being under consideration, have been
made and are now in effect. The lines
between Lathrop, Stockton and Fresno,
including the Raymond branch. are
added to the western division, and will
hereafter be operated by Superintendent
! A. d. Wilder, having headquarters at
Oakland.
All lines between Mendoza. Fresno
and Los Angeles heretofore embraced in
the San Joaquin division, including the
Pollasky branch, will hereafter be known
as the San Joaquin division and will be
under the control OF Superintendent d.
Burkhalter, with headquarters at Bakers-
| field.
Mr.. James L. Frazier has been ap.
pointed superintendent of the Coast
division, vice William II. Haydock, who
has been assigned to other duties. Mr..
James Agler, heretofore superintendent
of the Shasta division, has been ap.
pointed Superintendent of the Truckee
division, vice MIR. j. H. White, who has
been assigned to other duty. w. ii.
Cooley, in addition to his duties as res
ident engineer at Dunsmuir, has been
appointed superintendent of the Shasta
division. vice MIR. j. Agler. transferred.
The Office OF assistant general superin-
tendent, which was held for nearly 20
years by r. Ii. Pratt, and which he not
long ago resigned, has, 1t is understood,
been abolished.
A NEW RAILROAD ON PAPER.
A curious plan has been devised at
60 ko huil nf tn
known as the San Diego railr Dad. The
proposition is that the road be built
from the bay city through La Mesa, Ell
Cajon, Sycamore cafion to Santa Maria.
and on through San Felipe pass across
the desert to Southern Nevada, Utah
and eastward, the idea being to make it
span the continent.
The plan ia to be in the interest of the
railroad men throughout the United
States, and they are to he asked to
finance the Utopian scheme. The
capital stock is to be $1,000, 900, to be
issued in monthly instsllments of 80
cents each. In the event of 100000
railroad men subscribing to the stock.
the sum of $4,000 would be raised
alleged, would build over five miles of
road per month.
A prospectus has been mailed to
2,000,00 railroad employees throughout
the country, and one portion of it reads
as follows:
"The directors promise that on the
first OF every month statement will be
printed and mailed to each subscriber,
giving full and complete account of all
work done during the preceding month !;
also, OF all receipts and disbursements.
This will enable every stock holder to
keep himself posted as to the progress
OF the great enterprise.
THE directors promise, further, not
TO employ man, from a section hand
up, who is not a stockholder. Indeed.
this must be strictly o railroad mans
railroad.
Railroad boys, here is your chance to
| join together, and do something for
| yourselves that will prove lasting BEN
| eft. We ask you to select some one of
your number il every organization OF
railroad division to take this matter up,
secure subscriptions, collect the monthly
installments and forward the same. By
go doing you will be assisting in driving
nails into the coffin of railroad oppres-
sion and slavery. Help. and there will
be one railroad, in the United States
where We can be free and call our souls
| our own.
There are to be no clerks smployed.
Every officer will fill some clerical posi-
ton. The gentlemen who are fatheriug
this scheme and have applied their
names to the prospectus issued are !:
Clifton E. Mayne, president; @. l..
Heartt, first vice-president; John w.
Cook, secretary and auditor; John S.
Bachman, general superintendent; II.
l.. Barrows, land commissioner; Mer-
chants National bank, treasurer; V. E.
Shaw, counsel; Frank Ethridge, at
torney; g. A. d'Hemeoourt. chief en-
| gineer."
1t will be noted that most of the names
are those OF disgruntled railroad men
and figured more or less largely during
| the recent strike.
OIL IN PLACE OF COAL.
| The engine with which the Southern
California road has been experimenting
was put to severe test yesterday. The
changes needed to transform the loco.
motive from a coal to an oil-burner were
made under the superintendence of an
expert who has had wide experience in
| the Argentine republic. where oil is
largely utilized on the railroads.
Previous experimental runs proved
| that head of steam could be obtained
by the use of oil just as great as with
coal, but yesterday when the locomotive
was run out from the San Bernardino
Yards and up through the Ell Cajon pass
it was submitted to the most severe test
Of any vet. Full particulars of the run
have not yet been received, but from
the tenor of telegraphic dispatch it is
understood that the run was made is a
perfectly successful manner.
At the eastern end of the Santa Fe
system coal is loaded OH the cars at
from so to rs cents per ton. while in
Los Angeles it costs from So to $3.50 per
ton. In the light of these facts it may
readily be understood what the utiliza-
tion of oil as fuel really means to the