The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-08

presslons or preferences as to a route for
the new road. 1t will be time enough to
do that when the necessary funds to build
the road are assured and we see what the
people of the interior are going to do about
the matter.
| Daniel Meyer-I think the road will be
built from Stockton to Bakersfield and will
not have its terminus in San Francisco, at
least for the present. Why? Because we
must begin building at once and have
enough to finish. 1t will take $500, 600 to
complete line from Stockton to Bakers
field. Besides that there is good water
communication between San Francisco
and Stockton and we can get along with
out a railroad for the present
Walter NJ. Castle of Castle Brothers
San Francisco is contributing $1,000 900
and will probably in time contribute
100000 to the road, but on receipt of
subscriptions for the first amount a cor
poration will be formed and ready for
business. Now, 1 contend that the coun-
ties which furnish the best facilities and
which come to the front most prominently
with either coin or rights of way and not
series of resolutions are the ones which
are entitled to have the road pass their
doors. That is what, more than anything
else, should determine the route.
j. w. Sperry of the Sperry Flour Com
pany-We believe that the road should be
built from Stockton, with that city as
terminus, and water used for transporta-
ton from there to San Francisco. In this
way much more good can be done with the
money. Wheat from Stockton to Port
Costa can be handled practically as cheaply
as from Oakland to San Francisco, and
there is no necessity for the road from
Stockton here to reduce rates. Nearly all
the merchandise now shipped to the San
Joaquin Valley goes by river, and all the
wheat and other products come down from
Stockton in the same way. If all the
money subscribed is used from Stockton
down more good can be done than by build
ing from this city, for the road as far as
Stockton would pass through territory
where there is already plenty of competi-
ton.
E. r. Lilienthal of Lilienthal q Co.-The
valley route from Bakersfield to Stockton
will develop a magnificent principality.
but it would be incomplete without a
direct lire, all rail, into San Francisco.
~ 5AACAAo nave a pldliClly WHICH III snort
time would become the main line, running
from Fresno through Pacheco Pass in a
northwesterly direction mp the peninsula
into San Francisco.
Daniel Roth of Roth, Blum g. Golf it
can be done feasibly, the road should be
built right into the city up the peninsula:
otherwise the terminus would be on the
other side of the bay. In that case Oak
land ought to make very large subscrip-
TONS If the road is to be built into the
city, an all-land route, the subscriptions. I
believe, could be doubled.
M j. Brandenstein of M. J. Branden-
stein d Co.-With the funds we have
now in sight as much use as possible
should be made of the waterways. think
that the road should begin at Stockton and
be built on down the San Joaquin Valley. |
In time, of course, it should be built to |
this city. The counties through which it
will pass should build as many feeders as
possible in the way of short steam or elec-
trio roads.
George W. McNear, the grain shipper