The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-14

water front, and as terminal everything
was as it could be desired.
W. W. Foote said that the Legislature
had done the proper thing. He said that
the city had received a great big boom by
securing the terminus in its precincts.
Among the business men the same jul
! bllant spirit was manifested. Julius w.
, Raphael said that the prompt action of the
Legislature meant more to the city than
could be told. He said that everything de-
pended on the location of terminus, and
now that it was secured brighter business
prospect would be seen.
Achille Roos of Roos Brothers said:
The bringing in of the new road to San
Francisco direct will carry story of increased
prosperity that will be felt by every man.
woman and child. am of the opinion that
the Legislature could have done no better.
w. R. Sherwood of Sherwood & Sher-
wood, commission merchants, 212-214 Mar
ket street, said:
Every possible facility should be given the
new road to accomplish the work it was insti-
tuted for, without hampering it by conditions
The Southern Pacific obtained large tract of
land for its terminal point, and can't see why
the san francisco and San Joaquin Valley
Railroad should not be treated Just as we'll
Both the State and the city would be vastly
benefited by bringing rail and ship together,
for thousands of dollars in freight would be
saved thereby. That's Just what made the
city of Antwerp commercial power in Europe
In twenty years its population has doubled and
its tonnage has developed tenfold. San Fran
cisco will go ahead in the same way if she
would only adopt that business method of en-
couraging new commercial enterprises. Every
dollar saved in freight is so much money in
the pocket of the producer and dealer We
CalifornianS cannot expect the Southern Pa
cltic to give US fair rates until they are COM
PEELED to, for their line from here to Arizona
IS bonded for $40 900 mile, and if they should
drop their freight ra ties to a reasonable figure
the European bondholders would make it
warm for the Southern Pacific officials. In the
meantime the San Joaquin Valley people, and,
in fact, all the people on the line of the South
ern Pacific, between San Francisco and the
Arizona State line, are paying these European
money-lenders, through the freight offices of
the southern Pacific to keep them quiet.
Isn't that d good enough reason why we should
have competition?
a. A. Watkins of W. W. Montague &
Co, importers and jobbers in stoves, etc.,
309-317 Market street, said:
think the valley road should be given the
terminal point they ask fer, because they show
an inclination TO act fairly in the matter.
lhey are willing that any other road NAV use
the terminus along with them, and under such
conditions they are entitled to anything thew
ask: An my opinion the population of the State
ana this city Will increase wonderfully lust as
soon as people with money in other localities
see that we have enterprise and that certain
sections which are at present undeveloped are
convenient for settlement. Thousands of acres
which no one can afford to cultivate at present
will be opened up and made profitable by the
new road. Give the valley road anything it
wants, say.
A. L. Scott of Miller, Sloss & Scott, deal
ers IN hardware, ETC., Is to % Fremont
street, said:
l have not given the matter of the valley
road terminus special attention but you may
say for this firm that we are heartily in favor
OF the new road and wish it success in all it's
endeaYors.
Marcus G. Hawley of Hawley Bros,
dealers in hardware and mill supplies,
southwest corner Market and Beale streets,
said:
II anything is to be, said concerning the ad-
Instability OF giving the San Francisco and San
Joaquin valley Railroad terminal point in
Emma Basin, it is that they have not asked for
enough land | would lik e to see the road get
LOU instead OF 90 acres of land for the terminus
Inc fosd is too modest altogether and they de-
serve all the encouragement we San Francis
cans can give them.
E. w. McGraw, an attorney of $50 Pine
street, said:
l have. always believed that the giving or
leasing OF state or city property to corporations
the opinion that, according to section al of
article ~ of our constitution the Legislature
has no right to lease these mud flats to the new
road. The States OF Iowa. Wisconsin, Kansas
and Missouri have had bitter experiences with
corporations they befriended, and Keokuk'
Iowa, is still struggling along under the load
of a bonded Indebtedness, which they incurred
in helping several railroad corporations out
with subsidies.
John P. Irish, the Naval Officer, said:
San Francisco has suffered from the prohibi-
ton of ship and car coming together and the
drayage tax on commerce which that prohibi-
ton causes. This is what drove business up
the bay, and has also diverted it TO Puget
Sound ports, where ship and car come TO-
gether; In the South Atlantic ports trade goes
TO the harbor where ship and car get alongside
of each other. The great basin works at Havre
France, contrived and promoted by the present