The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21
TO ORDER LOCOMOTIVES,
Three Engines for the Valley
Railroad Are Sc
leCted.
DIRECTORS WILL BE BUSY.
Have Pushed Into the
Valley Away From Post
offices.

A call for a meeting of the San Francisco
and San Joaquin Valley Railway directors
to be held tomorrow was issued by Secre-
tary Mackie yesterday After last week s
respite from their labors the directors Will
lind large volume of business before
them, and if matters move along smoothly
at this meeting a great deal will be accom-
plishe1.
The certificates of stock have been
written in the offices and are now ready for
distribution among subscribers. As all the
trustees will not be in town tomorrow IN
all probability the issuance of stock VIII be
delayed for a few days. Anyhow the
stock is ready to turn over to them Tor
their signatures before presenting to the
people, whose public spirit and liberallty
swelled the total amount to about 81, SOC, OOO
Specifications for locomotives have been
prepared by the chief engineer in conJunc-
ton with the committee on rolling stock,
and as this committee is expected to report
this week it is believed that bids Will be
advertised for three locomotives. The KIND
selected are from fifty to sixty ton engines
for construction work, which can subse-
quently be used in hauling freight, and
may be utilized in case OF necessity Tor
passenger trains.
During the week a proposition to buy
standard box and fiat cars probably OF
thirty tons each will be considered, and
then an opportunity TO bid upon them VIII
be given manufacturers.
1t has been determined that all rails
after the first lot of 1000 tons now on the
way shall be sixty-two and half pounds
to the yard. That they may be OF standard
quality and uniform weight an inspector
specially engaged by the company is
supervising their manufacture Ill the East.
Just as soon as all the work in hand IS
cleared up early this week canvassers Will
again visit the local merchants, capital
lists, property-owners and others and urge
upon them the advisability of subscribing
generously to the peoples railway. Those
canvassers will have definite offer to
make, and also a splendid showing to
present, which in itself ought to convince
everybody called upon that the valley
road is now a bona tide enterprise, with
men of wonderful energy and enterprise at
its head, who can be depended on to carry
it to successful Inauguration. And after
that the people may rest assured the enter
prise will pay handsome dividend. That
so much good has already been accom-
plished for California in this enterprise
should act as stimulant to the close
listed men OF means to loosen their purse
strings if not indeed to shame some into
buying largely of the stock about to be
offered.
The engineering corps are away in the
San Joaquin Valley running lines south
ward with a vim that partakes of the
character of the whole project. They have
pushed far away from Stockton and are
now far off from postotfices and cannot be
reached, though reports come from them
nearly every day by a mounted carrier to
the nearest postotfice. Chief Engineer
Storey believes they are now nearly half
way between Stockton and the Stanislaus
River.