The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-03
He Has Nothing to Say About
San Pedro HarbOr
THAT QUESTION FOR COILS
He Says the San Joaquin Railroad Will
Surely Be Built
Superintendent Fillmore Goes Up nount
Lowe-Thc Cut Rate War

"There is no question in my mind but
what the San Joaquin Valley and the
Salt Lake railroads will be built, said
H. Z. Huntington last night as he re-
clined in an easy chair in his private car
in the Arcade Depot yards. Mr.. Hunt
ington is here with his mother and few
of her friends, and his trip is one more
moving around yesterday, and what
escaped his eye about the Los Angeles
railroads wouldn't worry Trainmaster
Prior, the man of many troubles, II 1t
was in his shoe.
Always urbane, Mr. Huntington treated
The Herald reporter with the courtesy
usually shown to the craft and talked
as freely, without saying anything from a
newspaper point of view, as an inter-
viewer could desire.
.'Yes, the roads will be built" ccntin-
ued Mr.. Huntington, land the South
ern Pacific is not putting stone in their
way. But the Valley road will not be
Southern Pacific an average of S26. 100 per
mile to build and equip their lines IN
this state, and it will cost the Valley road
$40, 900, 600 10 build from San Francisco to
Bakersfield. When a railroad is finished
as contemplated by. its projectors, it is
Just half completed. What | mean is
this: We estimate the cost OF building a
road, build and equip it, then in month
or two fills settle, bridge supports give
way, and a thousand and one things
occur that run up the cost away beyond
the original estimate. 1t has been so
with our seacoast road. That road will
probably be opened in about two years
not before. Tho work on that road illus
trates exactly what | have said. We have
had to expend thousands of dollars on one
fill on that road that we thought was
solid when the ties and rails were laid. "
us it true that the Southern Pacific is
building lines over it's franchises in the
posed Valley road" asked The Herald
man.
mo, sir. The S. P. is doing no build
ing ut present in the San Joaquin Valley
and contemplates none. The new road
will parallel our line as it is, if built,
and that will be roads enough"
What about Santa Monica? Are you
going to make it a summer resort or a
harbor? And what about San Pedro?"
$50 far as Santa Monica or Port Los An
geles is concerned, it is harbor now.
About making it more of a summer resort
than it is, cannot say now. That is out
of my line until it reaches me. About
the San Pedro question and the Reilly
funding BILL which l presume will be
that we do not discuss those questions on
this coast. We leave them to the East
There is the place they must be settled
and there is the place for the Southern
Pacific people to argue the pros and cons.
The Herald is all right only it's wrong.
day, / hope, and come around to our
! way of thinking. No, you think not?
Well, I'm sorry, but anyhow The Herald
is all right on most things. s.s
HAS the Southern Pacific any settled
policy about building up its summer
resort?'
sits summer resort?" said Mr.. Hunt
ingtun with the surprised infection to the
inquiry. - c.
lima, Indio, Santa Monica and other places
the road is advertising extensively
'Not yet. We have talked the matter
over in general way, but we have nc
settled plans arranged as yet. 1ndio, for
instance, is an experiment-one that l had
faith in. 1t has justified my expectations.
and we will perhaps do something for 1t.
The same with Santa Monica. My trip
down here this time is with my mother,
and not for business particularly, although,
of course, | keep an eye on such things In
general while I'm here. Good night, and
call again. I'm always glad to meet a
Herald man," and the reporter went out
into the night wondering whether Mr..
Huntington, when he gave utterance to
the last sentence, had entirely forgotten
the lessons about Ananias, taught him by
the good mother he SO carefully watches.
The Huntington party will remain in
the city several days: Yesterday the
ladies of the party, under the able guild.
ance of Frank +. Prior, trainmaster OF
this division, visited Pasadena and sub
urbs. Friday night they went to Santa
Monica and today they may possibly run
over to Catalina. The party is comfort
ably housed in Mr.. Huntingdon car.
and there eat and sleep when lat home"
~, fba trip