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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-21
FROM A REAL ESTATE VIEW.
SCENERY, SHORT ROUTE AND HEAVY
FREIGHTs Nor OVERLOOKED.

I. S. Montgomery believes the road will
necessarily be built through the Santa
Clara Valley. He said:
Certainly the valley road would be
grand thing for Santa Clara County, and
if our people fail to contribute other than
giving the proposition their moral support
they may miss a great opportunity On
the other hand, I believe that the pro-
iectors of the Valley road have too much
business sagacity to even think of building
road from San Francisco without coming
through Santa Clara Valley. San Fran
cisco capitalists are working for San Fran
cisco and not for the counties across the
bay, and for that reason they want the
road to run into San Francisco.
"In addition to the above reason why I
think the road will be built through the
Santa Clara Valley, l believe it will pay
greater percentage of profit than any other
route. We have the richest valley on
earth, the most prosperous people to be
found in the State, and more of them than
there are living adjacent to the other route
under discussion. The distance is shorter,
the scenery grander, and to pass through
the beautiful and delightful Santa Clara
Valley, after having travelled all dav
through less favored localities, would make
passengers forget that they were tired.
Yes, L am manager for G. H. Phillips, the
owner of the San Martin and Morgan Hill
ranches, comprising $4,000 acres of fine
land, through which the road would have
to pass should it come through this valley.
AS to what he would do in the matter of
rights of way or otherwise cannot say. L
am not authorized to s1eak for him in this
respect. I can only say that he is a thor
ough business man aud knows a good
thing when he sees it,
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A RAILROAD MAN SPEAKS.
He BELIEVES THE ROAD WILL PAY
WELL.

J.H. Henry, president of the San Jose
and Santa Clara Electric Railroad Com
pany, believes in the success of the scheme.
He said:
~ am very much in favor of the valley
road because l have the utmost confidence
in the business integrity and ability of the
Spreckelses to carry out successfully any
business enterprise they undertake feel
sure that a successful competing road can
be built and maintained as such and at the
same time pay reasonable rate of inter-
est on the investment, and materially re-
duce the present rates of freight and fares;
as line can be built and equipped at this
time when material and labor are so cheap
for at least one-third the cost per mile of
any other road in the State as represented
by their mortgage bonds and capital stock
While of course these bonds and stock rep
resent a great deal more than the actual
cost the people derive no benefit from that
as interest must be paid on bonds and
stock in sight and the officers in charge of
this property must necessarily lay such a
tariff as will accomplish this purpose. II
this is done a new line honestly built and
operated would be a competing line with a
vengeance. apprehend the best interests
of all the stockholders in the new road
would be best subserved by continuing the
! new road as hot competing road for all
time as they all have large interests that
| would be materially benefited by sub
stantial reduction in freights and fares,
| compared with which any profit to be
made on their investment in the valley
road by selling out to the Southern Pacific
Company or in any other manner destroy
ing the competing feature of it would be a
mere bagatelle.
81 am in hopes the people of this valley
| may be able to offer such aid and submit
such facts and figures together with our
natural advantages as may induce the
management to give this route the prefer
ence. / am afraid, however, that our sub
scription to the capital stock, although
conceded by all to be a perfectly safe in
vestment at moderate rate of interest,
| will not loom up to any alarming extent
even from a Stockton standpoint, as we
have certain class of people land their
number is legion) who are very willing to
accept the benefit of competing road with
| our effort on their part, but are exceedingly
| slow to respond to gold coin call. In
| this respect we are not different from other
California communities north of the
| Tehachapi Pass, l am inclined to think"
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opportunity placed before them. He said
"Ther is only one feeling in the matter.
1 have given no deep thought to the sub
ject, but as citizen l appreciate what
benefits would accrue to the community by
the coming of the new railroad. | believe
the road should be built here, as the valley
could give it so much freight. 1 believe
the railroad men will look at the matter in
this light. The matter of subscriptions is
secondary to the fact whether the road can
be made to run through here. l believe
the people of this county will put up a
larger subscription than any other county,
if they believe the road will be run through
this city. We realize that we are off the
main line, and we want to get on one. 1
believe the people so fully realize the bene-
fits of competing main line road that
there will be no difficulty in raising any
reasonable amount the railroad people
think is necessary. The proposition is a
new one, but the people are now being edu-
Gated to it. The railroad will give great
impetus to the sale and settlement of lands
in this county until it will become the
most productive garden spot in the world
if it is not already So"
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the more we have the better it will be.
What Santa Clara needs now is to get on
the map. AT present We are simply on
sidetrack. The amount OF produce sent
from here and our general resources en-
title us to a direct communication with
the markets of the world. Of course a
through road would be more essential
than the line proposed, but we all agree
that the present proposition will ultimately
lead to that result. As | said before, be-
lieve in railroads. and the more we have
the greater competition will result. The
direct and indirect advantages which we
would derive no man can safely estimate
because they are so diverse and varied that
they are beyond computation. There is a
vast amount of territory over the Pacheco
Pass, which would prove wonderful
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the State per cent out of its gross
earnings, and has one of the finest systems
of railroad in the United States. All that
Santa Clara County wants is starter. If
we ever get under Roadway the foundation
will have been laid for system OF railway
that will reach all parts of the State. \
California beats the world for all prod
ucts which can be grown. Our soil every
year obtains REINFORCED vigor from the
grass which rots on. the hillsides and
washes down into the valleys in the rainy
season. l have known of instances where
the soil was so rich and so deep that young
apricot trees sent down their roots to a
depth of fourteen feet in two years
growth A popularity about this soil is
that it is just as rich at the bottom as at
the top, and the possibilities of cultivation
are greater here than in any other State in
the Union"
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but for action. The people of California
have more substantial realization of the
oppression and the evils of one-man
power system of railroads. No amount of
eloquence, either written or spoken, can
make this more vivid than the impover-
ished condition of affairs suffered more or
less by every citizen of our State, not
withstanding she is ever bountiful in the
products of everything necessary to pro-
mote and foster extreme prosperity. Cali
fornia has given gold, given her rich
lands, given more than her traffic could
stand to aid the building of a system of
railroads, which, in turn for this kindness
seems designed to choke her to death The
only solution to this is competition. Such
also is the only solution to the perfection
and equitable conduct of any business
concern.
mo State like California has ever suf-
fered so long and so much the want of
such competition, and now let's have it.
Just for surprise let's have railroad
built for an honest dollar. Some of our
best-known and ablest citizens have come
forward AMI subscribed nearly two million
and quarter of dollars to build peoples
road, for the people and by the people,
and they have provided safeguards to make
it bona fde competing road. The stock
is to be placed in pool or trust to prevent
it falling in the hands of any other cor
poration. This stock will certainly prove
profitable investment in itself. While
the Southern Pacific must figure interest
on ZOO per mile, the new road can be
constructed for less than $4,000 per mile :;
thus rates can be reduced two-thirds and
yet return more profit than the Southern
Pacific receives.
"The drama of westward immigration
will play its last great act in the counties
surrounding the San Francisco Bay. Here
is the richest and fairest California San
Francisco, with the Nicaragua Canal COM
pleted, will be the New York of the Pacific
The great valley of Santa Clara, extending
into San Mateo and San Benito, teeming
in its great wealth of the highest and most
delicious food products, offers now the
most natural and the most feasible and
profitable course for this new railroad, and
just little energy, little help from each
of its citizens will accomplish this result
In the way of justifying these claims will
add few statistics showing the products
of Santa Clara County, which, with the
assistance of the secretary of the Board of
Trade, have carefully prepared and they
are vouched for:
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peting road the fortune of every fruit
farmer IN this valley is made-that Is, If he
has good business instincts.
Mr.. Spreckels is to this country what
the men who made Los Angeles were to
that place few years ago. The southern
part OF the State has had its spell of push,
and 1t seems the central part will now
follow in the forward march, which means
wealth and happiness to the people. 1t is
the influx of moneyed men which puts
good value on lands. Capitalists from the
East with money to invest have been
afraid to enter into any deals in city
which had only one overland ROAD, and in
which the people showed not enough
energy to secure a competing road. Mr..
Spreckels has set the ball rolling, and if
the people show they deserve appreciation
they will obtain it.
This is the chance of lifetime for San
Jose. 1.-THE people take hold of the mat
ter In the proper manner, secure rights of
way and get up liberal subscription that
Will show progressive spirit national
reputation will be secured for this county.
The people who subscribe will not only
put their money into proposition which
will pay them good interest, but they will
double the value of their land and secure
profitable freight rates. The property
owners of the valley could easily afford to
give $780, 900 outright instead of in subscrip-
ton for stock furnish rights of way, loca-
tons for stations, etc, and then make big
money. | believe new life has come into
this section of California.
ga competing road is necessary to at
tract Eastern millionaires. Men like G. H
Stimson of Chicago, who went to Los An.
geles and invested about So ,0O0, 900, were
attracted because there were competing
| roads running to that point. If the same
kind of work is done here as was done in
Los Angeles it will make San Jose greater
place than Los Angeles, because the prod
ucts OF this valley are staple articles and
not Injuries. In the last two and hal
years we have attracted 126 heads of fam
lilies, who have bought property and are
now living in this valley. We have sole
property in that time to the heads of 81
families in all, though over half have mo-
come here yet. Now, if these results have
been accomplished alone and unaided
just think what we could do if a COMPETING
railroad was running through here anc
money was spent as it was in Southern
California. The population of this county
would be doubled in five years"
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three lines running from this city there is
practically but one road as they all belong
to the same company. Everybody under
stands that this is one of the largest ship
ping places in the State. The county is
settling up rapidly as many of the large
tracts are being divided up and sold in
small farms. Since 1882, when 1 came here,
there have been 465 tracts of lands cut up
into smaller holdings to the number of 3d.
52S. If this ratio continues for the next
ten years the county will be very thickly
settled. Nearly all the acreage subdivided
is being set out in trees and vines.
''The people in this valley are more
prosperous and more contented than in
most parts of this State. The richness of
the soil causes this. | know several men
who started on only three acres that have
become wealthy. An indication of the
prosperity of the people is that in this
large county we have had as low as eleven
delinquents at tax sale. The new rail
road will be of great advantage to the
people San Jose has been sidetracked too
long.
1.-THE large property can afford to
subscribe literally to the stock for the new
road. M. Malarin has an immense amount
of land in this and San Benito and MERGED
counties, which adjoin this county on its
southern end. Ii the road is run through
Pacheco Pass it would have to travel
through the center of Malarin's property.
He has over 10000 acres in this county
alone which would be made vastly more
valuable by the railroad passing through
it. Miller and the firm of Miller & Lux
own about 10000 acres of land in this
county which would be directly benefited
by the new road. They also own tens of
thousands of acres of land in adjoining
counties which lie along the line of the
proposed road.
James F. Dunno, of the stock-raising
firm of Donnelly e. Dunno, owns 14,173
acres adjoining the lands of Malarin. Mrs.
Catharine Dunno owns over 1880 acres
through which the road will cut F.
Fisher and Thomas Fisher have $500 acres.
Lion & Buckley 55s2 acres, A. J. Percy
1890 acres, James Sargent 716o acres, besides
a large amount in San Benito County, Mrs.
Deana Murphy Hill 10, 900 acres, Mrs Mary
Murphy-Columbe 1858 acres, all of which
is on or near the line of the road. Then
there are Daniel Murphy, Thomas Rea,
and many others who have thousands of
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only route that can run direct into San
Francisco. Every acre of land in this and
adjoining counties produce something for
shipment. This county produces more for
shipping than any county in the State and
the amount is increasing all the time, and
then there is the distance to be taken into
consideration, the route through this
county being much shorter, and during the
summer season much pleasanter.
''In fact, upon careful examination of
the various routes which could be taken,
this one, through Santa Clara County and
Pacheco Pa S, is the most practical and
would prove the most paying one.
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Oakland, while if it is started from this
side of the bay it will build up San Fran
cisco. 1t is 101 miles from San Francisco
to Hollister, and the amount of freight and
passenger traffic which would be contrib
uted by that territory would be equaled by
no other section of the State. On the other
side of the bay is a population whose in
terests are not identical with those of San
Francisco.
Several years ago / visited Galveston,
Texas, and while in that city I learned
that its citizens had for years been handi-
capped by exactly the same condition of
affairs as those which confront San Fran
cisco. A little, unpretentious road was the
only railway facility the city possessed,
and it became evident that crisis in the
affairs of the city had been reached. What
was the result? In that city of less than
10000 inhabitants the business men got
together and raised the money necessary
to build line of road to Denver and be-
fore it was completed into that city the
Santa Fe gladly bought the line in. Two
other new roads now followed, and, as a
natural consequence, Galveston has be-
come strong competitor for New Orleans
in the commercial world.
SIN 1891 President Marvel of the Santa
Fe road was in San Francisco, and called
upon him fer the purpose of talking over
the railroad situation. He said that his
visit here was for the purpose of ascertain
ing just what had been accomplished by
their agent, Mr.. Minott, who was killed
while en- route East, after having perfected
arrangements for building an outlet for the
Santa Fe at San Francisco and before he
had had an opportunity to make his
reports.
"Mr. Marvel told me at that time that
he realized that the great mistake the Santa
Fe people had made was in constructing
branch roads which gave no promise of
being profitable, instead of building line
to San Francisco. The natural result of
this enterprise will be to give the West an
other transcontinental line, which means
cheaper freights and better times for every
body
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''My trouble began about three years ago
with a bad cold. 1 neglected it and it soon
worse, until it became catarrhal bronchitis, and
then my sufferings were frightful. My symp-
toms were chronic cough, shortness of breath,
difficult breathing, variable appetite, dull
heavy headache nostrils and throat filled with
mucus which caused hawking and splitting to
dislodge My digestion was impaired and l
had wandering pains through my chest and
between the shoulders. tried patent medi-
cines, but l gradually declined in flesh and
strength. 1 decided to try the treatment of
Drs. Copeland and Neal, and now. after q
course feel first-rate again. am gaining all
the time, and can recommend these doctors to
do all they claim to do"
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A STARTER NEEDED.
VIEWS OF A LEADING FRUIT
GROWER OF THE VALLEY.

J. II. Flickinger is one of the most ex-
tensive fruit-raisers in the United States,
and cans and ships more of that product
than any other individual or company in
this country. He is we'll acquainted with
the needs and facilities of the valley, and
is an ardent advocate of the road. He
said:
1t is not so very many years ago when
the people of Chicago found they were
cramped for railroad facilities, and then
it became necessary for them to guarantee
the money to build the Illinois Central
road. To-day that corporation is paying
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ssThis table shows Eastern shipments
only from San Jose. Add to this the local
shipments and those from the other towns
in our county, and we have grand total of
railroad export traffic amounting in the
season of 1894 alone to $159, 0O0, 600, or $3.50
carloads. This does not include incoming
freight nor the local small shipments from
outside towns, actual statistics of which
are difficult to obtain. conclude, however
from as careful an estimate as is possible to
make from all figures obtainable, that the
products of Santa Clara County alone will
supply train of twenty-five cars every day
in the year."
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MOST PRACTICAL ROUTE.
Mr.. WRIGHT SAYS THE VALLEY
ROUTE WOULD PAY BEST.

II. W. Wright, president and manager
of the Union Savings Bank, spoke of the
most practical route. He said:
'"rhe main features which present them
selves to my mind that the route through
the Santa Clara Valley should be selected
as the most desirable is the population,
travel and products for expectation. A
railway constructed through this valley to
point in Kern County would, l believe,
be as paying piece of property as any in
this State. The great advantage of having
its terminus in the city of San Francisco
cannot be overestimated, and this is the
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LOGIC FROM A PROMOTER.
THE New Road NECESSARY TO AT
TRACT EASTERN CAPITAL.

Amos L. Burbank, real estate dealer
who helped to contribute to considerable
part of the recent history of Southern Cali
fornia, declared his intention to never
leave the Santa Clara Valley if the railroad
could be brought through it. He said:
eff the new railroad is run through
Santa Clara County it will double or treble
the value of all the property in it. The
Southern Pacific will soon have US on a
through overland line, and with COM
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L. A. Splitter County Assessor of Santa
Clara County, spoke of the necessity of
another road through the valley. He said:
"This is one of the frst-class counties
and we need another road. While we have
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CATARRHAL BRONCHITIS.

The Symptoms as Shown in the Case of
Nels Wind.
Mr.. Nels Wind, who lives on Tonquin street,
between Broderick and Baker, suffered from
catarrhal bronchitis, and speaks OF his treat
ment for it at the Copeland Medical Institute
as follows:
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acres which will be greatly benefited. All
of these persons are able to contribute
largely. With main line of an overland
road passing through this valley the people
from the East cannot fail to see the value
of the land and they will stop to invest
their money!"
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SENTIMENT OF A BANKER
SANTA CLARA VALLEY WOULD
FURNISH MUCH FREIGHT.

James A. Clayton, president of the First
National Bank, said:
at is impossible to evade the plain prop
osition that if the road is constructed from
the other side of the bay it will build up
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STATISTICS GIVEN TO PROVE THE
CITY'S CLAIMS.

C. NJ. Wooster has gone to the trouble to
compile statistics, which made him speak
as follows:
at is time now; not so much for talk,
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source of revenue to the road, and it is my
opinion that the most direct and advan-
tageous route by which that territory can
be tapped is by way of this valley"
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IDEAS OF AN OFFICIAL.
SAN JOSE MUST BE ON THE TRANS
CONTINENTAL LINE.

Adolph Greeninger, chairman of the
Board of Supervisors, and a member OF
that body for.the past ten years, had this
to say:
81 am believer in railroads and think
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TREATMENT by MAIL.

For those desiring the treatment by mail, the
first step is to drop line to Drs. Copeland
and Neal for question list or symptom
blank Return same with answers filed out
and treatment may be commenced at once.
Every mail brings additional proof OF the sue
cess of the mail treatment.
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SAN JOSE MEMS IDEAS.
WHY THE NEW LINE SHOULD
Pass THROUGH SANTA
CLARA VALLEY.
RESOURCES OF THE FERTILE Re-
GIoN CANNOT BE LONGER
IGNORED.

SAN JOSE, Feb. 2o.-In the following ex-
pressions, obtained from some of the most
prominent of San Jose's business men, the
opinions of several are given over their
own signatures. In the remainder the
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SAN JOSE WILL PAY BEST.
AN ARGUMENT BASED ON THROUGH
FREIGHT STATISTICS.

Samuel N. Rucker, ex-Mayor of San
Jose, made an argument on the amount of
freight San Jose could furnish the new
road. He said:
Necessity first compelled the business
community of San Francisco to take the
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AS AN ASSESSOR SEES IT:

EASTERN PEOPLE SHOULD VIEW
THE VALLEY BY THE ROAD.