The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-30
AN EASTERN CONNECTION.
The Chamber of Commerce to
Hear the Arizona Gen.
trail People.
ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC LEASE.
San Luis Obispo People Want a
Branch Road to CariSa
Plains.

The Central Arizona Railway Company
| is going to ask the people OF San Francisco
to consider the ACCESSIBILITY of having the
| San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley
road form Eastern connections through
it. The matter will be brought before
the Chamber of Commerce tomorrow
morning by the representatives OF the
Arizona road. Yesterday afternoon Gen.
eral Dimond, president of the Chamber OF
Commerce, President Watkins of the Board
of Trade and President Craig of the Hall
million Club, at the invitation OF Colonel
Wells Hendershott, the attorney OF the
Arizona road, met that gentleman at the
Grand Hotel, and after a conference he
was invited to appear before the Chamber
of Commerce tom 5rrow morning.
Judge Warren, the receiver in chancery
for the Atlantic and Pacific road, came up
from Los Angeles yesterday with Captain
G. N. Sterry, the attorney for the receiver.
They had come to Los Angeles on some
legal business for their road. Judge War
rem last night said that he did not think
that the chances would be that the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa would again get the
lease of the Atlantic and Pacific and the
st. Louis and San Francisco roads. These
roads were intended to be built and run
together as a transcontinental line. He
said
The Atlantic and Pacifcwas built from Albu-
querque to the Needles and the st. Louis and
San Francisco from st. Louis to Sepulpo, in the
Indian Territory, within about 200 miles of
Albuquerque, where it was to have been run to
join the Atlantic and Pacific. The chances are
that these roads will not be leased by the
Atchison road again, and they with that gap
between Sepulpo and Albuquerque filed up
would give clear line through from the Mis-
IN fhn frn1 TOI1ic 70
the Needles. Here is an opportunity for the
San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley road to
get an Eastern connection.
Engineer Graham and his corps of as
sistants in the field began yesterday to
make second and final survey for the Val
ley road from Stockton to the Stanislaus
River, twenty-five miles south. They
found two good crossings for a railway
over the river.
lone of these crossings" remarked the
chief engineer yesterday, "if taken will
| cause US to change the entire route from
Stockton, but if we take the other one it
will be necessary to defect the route a
little. Either is good site for bridge"
Mr.. Jacks of San Luis Obispo called at
the office of the company yesterday and
suggested the advisability of extending a
branch line into the Carisa Plains.
These plains lie between mountains
about sixty miles west from San Luis
Obispo, and they are said to be susceptible
of cultivation, under which they can be
made highly productive. For want of a
railway they have remained unproductiye,
however.
Jacks stated that the people of San Luis
Obispo are DESTROYS of having a railway in
that district, and he suggested that road
could be run either from Visalia or Ar
mona across the San Joaquin Valley in a
southwesterly course over the mountains
| on the west side, where it would drop into
a great expanse of level land known as the
Carisa Plains.
kilograms were sent out yesterday to
President Spreckels and the directors out of
town asking for information as to when a
meeting of the board can be held. Alarge
amount of important business is awaiting
| their return home, the most important be-
! ing the lease of China Basin.