The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
WILL INSPECT THE VALLEY
A Long Journey In Carriages to
Be Made by the Direc-
tors.

Seven directors of the San Francisco and
San Joaquin Valley Railway Company
will leave here this evening for a tour OF
inspection of that part of the San Joaquin
Valley lying between Fresno and Visalia.
They will make personal examination OF
the ground over which the line has been
projected, and confer with various COM
mittees OF citizens with regard to important
matters affecting the railroad.
This is going to be no iunket, but on the
contrary tiresome task, which will show
the kind of material the directors are made
Of About 200 miles will be covered in
buggies, and not little ground will have
to be travelled on foot from different points
along the country roads.
The party will go direct to Fresno on
the night train. After short stay in that
CITY they will drive to Hanford, distance
of about thirty-fve miles. From Hanford
they will ride sixty miles to Delano, thence
to Visalia, fifty miles, returning to Fresno,
which is about forty-fve miles north. All
the way they will have to go in teams.
This will be done so that the directors and
Chief Engineer Storey, who will accom-
pany them, may get a clear idea of the
country from their own observation upon
which decision will be reached in select
ing route. Mr.. Storey is familiar with
every foot of the district to be examined,
having gained his knowledge through
wears of experience as civil engineer for
the Southern Pacific Company, and he will
point out all matters of interest to the
gentlemen of the party.
Bakersfield will not be visited this time,
as there is no necessity for visit to that
city at present.
The Sc cretary of the company began
yesterday to call in all subscription books
that are out among committees and can
vassers both in San Francisco and the in
terror. AS the board of directors is desir-
Gus of knowing exactly how much stock
has been subscribed up to date beyond the
amounts already accounted for, it was
found expedient to call in the books. AS
soon as the books are returned a state
ment will be prepared showing the total
amount of money subscribed to the peo-
pies railroad, and these figures will then
be published
Mr.. Samuel, president of the Seventy-six
Land and Water Company, the Carmelito
Vineyard Company and the California
Fruit and Wine Land Company, held a
long consultation yesterday with Directors
Watt and Payson of the Valley Railroad.
The object of his visit was to impress upon
the DOdrO OF ulT6CLOTS Lie importance OF
running the railway along the east side of
San Joaquin Valley, by Kings River.
He said that the Carmelito Vineyard
Company had 1900 acres of rich bottom
land in alfalfa, prunes, corn and hops, the
Fruit and Wine Land Company 6640 acres
and the Seventy-six Land Company 1890
acres, all lying in Fresno and Tulare
counties. These, with other productive
tracts of land in the same district, he held
should be sufficient inducement for rail
way to build into the region in which he is
interested.
eve are free from alkali of any kind, :"
said he. eve have an inexhaustible
amount of water for irrigation purposes
that can never be disturbed. From the re-
port of Secretary S. F. Earl at Ridley, SUBJ
mitted to me this morning, can state that
the prospects for the coming harvest in
that section were never before known in
the history of that country. The products
will be fruit and grain, of which there will
be enough to guarantee an enormous
amount of business for the Valley road. In
the interest of the stockholders / would
advise that the road be built into this
Ridge country, where there is consider
able freighting in lumber and supplies.
1.-THE sawmills up there would run their
6ume to any convenient station on the
line of railway for delivery of lumber. 1t
would not require much of a detection
from the direct route to tap this country,
which I'm sure can give immense business
to the competing road"