The San Francisco call., 1896-06-03
WRECK|NG PART
OF ITS ROADWAY,
Charges Made Against the
Southern California
Railway.
RAILS BEING TORN UP.
The Railroad Commission Asked
to Take Action in the
Matter.
WILL BE CONSIDERED TODAY
San Diego County Residents May
Dem and the For feiture of the
Company's Charter.

For more than five years the people of
San Diego County residing between Ocean
side and Temecula, including those of the
city of San Diego, have been endeavoring
to induce the Southern California Railway
to restore the portion of it's road washed
out and wrecked between Oceanside and
Temecula during storm in February
1891.
After these people had argued, pleaded
and threatened nearly five years the COM
pany was induced to put into repair
and operation that portion of the road
lying between Oceanside and Falbrook,
and while it has never refused outright to
do anything on the Fallbrook- -Temecula
washout, it has persistently ignored the
appeals mace to it to do So
1t is claimed by the San Diego Property
owners Union, which has had the matter
In hand, that a subsidy valued at Sc 900, 900
had been granted the company for the
purpose OF constructing a road from San
Diego to Barstow, and that its charter was
granted with the understanding that the
road would be built and operated. 1t was
built, but since the storm of 1891,
when it was par TALLY destroyed, all
through traffic has gone by what is known
as the surf route, and it is charged by the
people of San Diego, by those on the line
of the wrecked portion of the road and by
those who depended on the disabled line
for transportation that all this section of
country has been materially injured by
the neglect of the company to restore the
road.
An appeal was made to the Railroad
Commission last year and it was as the re
suit of the action of the commission that
the Oceanside-F Fallbrook section was put
in repair.
At that time the railroad company
claimed that it would take about $4,000
to put the break between Fallbrook and
Temecula into condition and negotiations
were begun bet ween the company and re-
presentatives of the people which prom
ised to lead to an amicable settlement
That the matter has not been satisfac-
torily adjusted is Enthusiastically shown by
the following CORES spondenc ce received by
the Railroad Commission, and which will
come up for consideration at the meeting
of the board to-day.
The first is letter sent to the San Diego
Property-owners Union by Montgomery
NJ. Moulton of FaIlbrook. and the second
is the communication of the San Diego
Property owners Union to the Commits
sion.
have just discovered that force of men is
engaged removing steel and ties from the
right OF way between this place and Tenecula.
The material is, think, being taken to Elsi-
more. Is it possible to drive the railway into
action?
/ herewith enclose letter from our CORE
spondent at Fallbrook, San Diego County, stat
ing that the Southern California Railway Com
pany is removing the ties and rails from the
abandoned portion of their road between that
point and Temecula.
Please bring this matter before the Commis-
sioners at the earliest opportunity, that some
thing may be done to prevent the railroad
company from wrecking the road, which the
citizens OF this city more than built by the
subsidy given to said company.
If the road persists in its present course