The San Francisco call., 1895-07-18
BUT TWO DEEDS NEEDED.
Rights of Way for the Line
Have Nearly All Been
Secured.
THE CORRAL HOLLOW BRANCH.
A Shipment Of Rails to Start From
the East During the Present
Month.

STOCKTON, CAL, July 17.-Deeds for
rights of way for the Valley road through
all the land from here to the Stanislaus
River have now been secured, with the ex-
ception of two. A meeting OF the Com
| mercial Association and of the subscribers
to the railroad fund will be held tomorrow
night for the purpose of raising more
money for the purchase of the property in
this city which is wanted by the railroad
people.
Yesterday afternoon the Board of Public
Works decided to allow Contractor Thorn
ton to dredge Mormon Channel for the dirt
that he can get out of it.
Official notification has been filed with
the City Clerk that the Valley Railway
Com pany began the actual work of build
ing the road on the 25th ult. The setting
of grade stakes began on that day.
The contract between the Valley Rail
way people and R. R. Thornton & Co. OF
this city, the firm which is to grade the
city division of the line, was signed by all
the parties at II 80 o'clock this forenoon.
The work of grading will begin at
o'clock tomorrow morning on the south
Only small party will be employed to-
morrow, but within three days forty teams
and 100 men will be at work at various
places along the line inside the city limits,
The contractors have thirty days in which
to complete the grade on Taylor street and
sixty days in which to finish the line from
Taylor street to the water front.
To-day John W. Coleman and others in
terested in the Corral Hollow road went
over the line here to ascertain what could
be done to make everything satisfactory to
those who were objecting.
"The first shipment of rails will start
from the East this month, and arrive here
somewhere between the 5th and 10th of
August" said Director Coleman to-day.
at will consist of 1000 tons. Another
shipment of the same amount will start in
August, and third, also of 1000 tons, in
September. The rails will come over the
Southern Pacific's line. We could save
from $4,000 to $25, 600 by bringing them
around the horn, but we want to open our
mines to the market this winter
Then you expect to have the road COM
pleted before this year ends?"
'Oh, yes; it will be done before the 1st of
next January"
In answer to other questions, Mr.. Cole
man said his company had ordered 100000
ties, delivered in lots whenever desired.
Material for the bridge over the San Joa-
quin River had not yet been ordered, for
the reason that the location had not as vet
been decided upon. AS soon as the loca-
ton was picked out, plans for the structure
would be drafted. 1t would probably be a
Howe truss drawbridge, such as the South
ern Pacific bridge, because the company
did not wish to wait for steel beams to be
made. which would be necessary were
steel bridge to be built.
'Do you'intend to extend the line from
Corral Hollow to Oakland ?" was asked.
"Not at present." said Mr.. Coleman.
"Do you intend to extend it at some time
iu the future?"
"The line may eventually be extended
to Oakland" was the answer, ''but it will
be necessary to run tunnel 1000 feet long
through mountain at the upper end of
the valley. If extended the road will pass
through the Livermore and San Ramon
valleys, and from there on there are sew
eral routes to Oakland"
"In the meantime" was asked, edo Won
intend to put line of boats on the San
Joaquin River to handle your coal?"
"Well, our original intention was to put
some steel barges on the river with the
necessary number of tugs, but that was
when we were thinking of terminus at
Mohrs Landing. Now that Stockton is to
be the terminus | have no doubt we shall
be able to make satisfactory arrangements
with your navigation companies for
handling our coal"
Mr.. Coleman stated that the cars for
transporting coal would be peculiarly con-
structed, being designed especially for that
purpose, but that the road would be thor
oughly equipped also with general freight
and passenger cars.
1--WE shall" he added, conduct a gen.
eral railroad business. Were it our inten-
ton to haul coal only we would not build
so good road. Our railway will be per-
feet; nobody in the country will have a
better one. The material we arc going to
use is first class We hope to accommo-
date the farmers along the road and carry
on general traffic, making Stockton the
distributing point for the country within
reach OF US. The construction of the road
will commence as soon as the right of wny
here in town is granted, and the franchise
will come up for the City Councils con-
sideration on the 10Th of this month. The
contract for grading will be let as soon as
favorable action on our petition for
franchise is taken. / don't know as vet
whether we shall let contracts by divisions
Dr. whether a contract for grading the
whole road will be let
Mr.. Coleman left at $3.50 o'clock this
afternoon for San Francisco. He was
Joined at Tracy by Mr.. Treadwell, who left
'or that town with the surveying party