The San Francisco call., 1895-10-10
The Corral Hollow and Valley
Road Companies Are at
Peace.
LAST OBSTACLE REMOVED
Money Advanced to Purchase a
Much - Needed Tract of
Land.

JOAQUIN valley anu OOIId4 I1Ol4OW SOhl-
panIes in an antagOnistic light, are highly
colored an dentirely misleading. A story
given wide circulation is to the effect that
the San joaquin Valley Railroad people
were working day and night in order to
shut off the Corral Hollow line at the
various crossings in the city, and that rival
gangs were laying" for each other to
acquire some advantage by stolen march.
As matter of fact, the Corral Hollow
Company has no construction force oper-
ating within the city limits in Stockton at
the present time, and has not had for sew
eral days. Work on their line is delayed,
awaiting the arrival of lumber.
The crossings which arrived, Tuesday,
and which, it is said, the Valley Road
Company did not want put in, are still
lying here unused, and nothing is hinder
ing the company from placing them as
soon as they wish to.
The reason for the speed of the Valley
Railroad construction work lies solely in
the fact that the superintendent is anxious
to finish the work inside the city limits,
for when the construction work is begun
on the outside grade next week all the ex-
perienced men and available engines and
cars will be needed. Chief Engineer
Storey was not here when the much-talked-
of crossings arrived, and the Corral Hollow
people do not consider him antagonistic to
their road
Tonight, because for the present there
is no other handy location, the Valley
road rolling-stock was switched to the
foot of Center street, and in short time
the report was out that it was another
move to block the Corral Hollow road.
All these matters in regard to crossings
are settled between representatives of the
two corporations in San Francisco, and it
is not within the province of the officials
here to map out any policy of aggression.
Some tracks on Weber avenue must go
down first, and as the Valley road was the
first conner there is no reason why it can
not put down its tracks at once.
Both the Corral Hollow and San Joaquin
Valley railways have acquired vested
rights in the way of franchises and it
would be impossible for either, if so dis
posed, to encroaeh upon the rights of the
other. Like the cases in other great enter
prises, petty spites between employees oc-
casionaIly crop up, but the company is not
held responsible for this.
H. E. Barber, the local agent of the
Corral Hollow Company, said this even
ing: 81 don't see what all of this fuss is
about. The Corral Hollow Company is
not Kicking"
The enthusiasm over the building of the
Valley Railroad seems to be breaking out
again in most substantial manner. This
morning the Farmers Union and Milling
Company held a meeting and contributed
$500 cash to the Valley road fund. This,
with the $1,000 already on hand, max ss
$4500 in the hands of the Stockton Com
mercial Association, which will enable it
to purchase the Simpson and Gray block,
needed by the railroad in order to reach
the yards where its track material is stored.
This is block 81, south of Mormon Chan
mel, and Simpson and Gray have agreed to
sell it for $4,000 The deeds will probably
be signed before morning.
Attorney d. Woods of the Commercial
Association said to-day that enough money
was in sight to wipe out all outstanding
obligations, but he was not at present at
liberty to divulge the names of citizens
who had promised funds to aid the asso-
citation in meeting its promises to the San
Joaquin Valley Railroad. Thomas Con-
nelly of the Grangers' Union has seen
two firms which were reported to have
gone back on their promises to subscribe
$500 each, and he had no difficulty in secur.
ing their pledge to pay the money.
Superintendent Wilbur is busy with hi.
track work within the city limits. Thi.
afternoon force of men was engaged in
raising the track of the Southern Pacific
Company near the Crown Mills. Where
the Valley road turns from Edison stree
into Webber avenue the grade is the
steepest on the whole line thus far. Ir
order not to have it too steep on thi.
curve the track where it crosses that of tn,
Southern Pacific Company is about tive
feet higher than the latter. This neces
STATED raising the latter track, and thi
work Superintendent Wilbur is dong to
day.
There are a number of cars here will
rock ballast for the road. The rock will b,
used in macadamlzing the crossings of th,
streets intersected by the road. For in
stance, the intersection of Taylor and Sal
Joaquin streets has been raised and tn,
approaches filled in with earth. On this
will be laid about six inches of hard rock
which will be rolled and sprinkled until i
is equally as good as the street that wa
torn up by the railway.
The work will now be pushed outside O
the city, and within five or six weeks Su
perintendent Wilbur expects to have al
the tracks down as far as the graders have
thrown up a roadbed. This will enapl
the railway people TO send along the pile
and bridge timbers by rail as fast as the,
are needed, which will materially hastel
the work of building the road.
Down on the neck of land between
Stockton and Mormon channels there usec
to be wagon-road, which was used a
times by teamsters in bringing material t.
the mills and warehouses. This road wa
taken by the railroad, whose tracks vii
run where the road used to be. In orde
to repay the teamsters another wagon
road will be built by the company along
side its track to the point.
PEACE OFFICERS ARREsTED.
1tC0 Deputy Constd6Ies at Stockton &c
Themselves Into Trouble.