The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-09
RIGHTS OF WAY WANTED.
The TGIIey RGtI1Cay Presents a Formal
Petition to Stockton.


Petition to Stockton.
The San Francisco and San Joaquin Val
ley Railway directors determined at a
meeting held yesterday at the railway Of
fees on Market street to make formal appli-
cation for a franchise for rights of way in
Stockton.
1t was an informal session, though Claus
Spreckels, president of the company, oc-
cupied the chair, and the following di-
rectors were present: Isaac Upham, J. B.
Stetson, Charles Holbrook, Louis Sloss,
Alvinza Hayward and Thomas Magee.
Discussion centered upon resolution ask
ing for the franchise from Stockton, and
ended in the adoption of formal petition,
which was presented by P. a. Buell. and
w. B. Storey to the City Council of Stock
ton last night.
The petition asks for franchise to lay
and maintain tracks, and to run steam
railway along streets in Stockton, the priv
ilege to date from February %, 1895, and to
hold good for fifty years. Permission
is sought to maintain upon those
streets roadbed of standard broad-gauge
width, with all necessary curves, side
tracks, spurs and switches, and everything
necessary for operating the railway. 1t is
also asked that due notice of the applica-
ton be published for two weeks, as required
by the Stockton charter, before final action
is taken by the City Council.
The right of way asked for covers por-
tons of the streets of Stockton, as follows:
Taylor street, from East to Edison, for a
double track, the cenrer lines of tracks to be
eigh teen feet apart.
Edison street, from South to Weber avenue,
for double track, the center lines of tracks to
be eighteen feet apart.
Weber avenue, from Commerce street to the
city boundary, for a single-track railroad, the
center line to be eighteen feet north of and
parallel to the main line of the Stockton and
Copperopolis Railroad, and in the center OF the
avenue where no railroad now exists
For spur track, beginning on Taylor street,
about 125 feet east of Hunter, running thence
in curved line northeasterly across Taylor
and Hunter streets through block %; thence
diagonally across FL Dorado street, block 81,
Scots avenue to Center street; thence in a
curved line across Center street, SCOTS avenue.
Mormon Channel and the northern leyee and
across Hazelton avenue to Commerce street. on
the north line OF Hazelton avenue; thence
northerly along Commerce street to Sonora.
SCOTS avenue for double track from Hunter
street to Madison.
For spur track beginning on SCOTS avenue,
about 20 feet east of Commerce street, running
thence in anorthwesterly direction on curved
line across SCOTS avenue TO Madison street, on
the south levee of Mormon Channel; thence
diagonally across Madison street and along the
south levee of Mormon Channel to block r..
thence on a curved line across block 1917 and
across Monroe street TO Kearny, at point $50
feet west OF Monroe street; thence westerly
along Kearny street to Edison.
For siding on Taylor street from Hunter to
Edison
For track beginning on Taylor street. $50
feet east of Harrison, and extending north
westerly on a curved line across Taylor and
Harrison streets, across block IA, across Edison
street to Edison, about ITO feet north of SCOTS
avenue TO connect the tracks on Edison and
Taylor streets.
For double track beginning on Taylor street,
about $50 feet east of Harrison, and extending
southwesterly in a curved line across Taylor
street, block %, and Edison street to Edison,
about 10 feet south of Worth street, to connect
the tracks on Taylor and Edison streets
For track beginning on Edison street. about
40 feet south of Main street, thence in a
northerly direction in curved line across
Edison street, Main street, block G and Weber