The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05
STOCKTON WILL
WOO AMADOR.
Another Railroad Projected,
Said TO Be Backed by
Capital.
FIFTY MILES IN LENGTH
Some Mystery Maintained as to
the Real Supporters of the
New Line.
CALLED THE SIERRA PACIFIC
Preparations Have Been Made and
1t Appears That Construction
May Begin Soon.
CALLED THE SIERRA PACIFIC

Another railroad is to run out of Stock
ton. This time it is not paper railroad
to the mines, but genuine scheme backed
by heavy capitalists. Wednesday articles
of incorporation of the Sierra Pacific Rail-
way Company were filed. The road is to
run from Stockton to Jackson, Amador
County. 1t will run from Stockton in a
general easterly and northerly direction
and will have branches running to the
town of San Andreas and to Campo Seco
and to the Plymouth mine in CalaVeras
County. The main line will be fifty miles
in length, the San Andreas branch six
miles and the Campo Seco and Plymouth
branches each two miles. San Francisco
is to be the principal place of business of
the company, but the directors are nearly
all Stockton men.
The articles of incorporation specify that
the capital stock on the new Sierra Pacific
Railway Company is to be $2,000,000. but
as vet only the sum of 100000 has been
subscribed, and by the following named /:
P. A. Buell. of Stockton, 500; w. A. Ship
pee of Avon, Butte County, 500; b. f.
Langford of Acampo, $500; B. w. Moore
of Stockton, $14 800; A. Brown Jr. of
Stockton, $14, 800; d. A. Robertson OF
Stockton, $14900, and NJ. j. Gardner of
Stockton, SD, 800.
The incorporators named are the first
directors of the road, but nearly, If not all
of them, are merely dummy directors, as
one of those interested in the scheme
said that the real owners of the
stock were large capitalists. whose names
he is not at liberty at present to divulge.
They have been working on the scheme
for several months and have at last per-
fected their arrangements and are ready
to commence work.
There was much conjecture in Stockton
at the time the locomotives belonging to
Thomas S. Bullock arrived there, but now
there is no secret made by those interested
in the Sierra Pacific road that the engines
are for use on it, and that the rails
brought by Bullock from Arizona will be
used in the construction of the mountain
railway.
The road will probably run into Stock
ton over the tracks of the Valley railway
Its terminal there will be on the Boggs
tract, facing on Mormon Channel, or close
by it, and arrangements are now being
made with the officials OF the Valley rail-
way to use its tracks into Stockton. Just
where the tracks of the new mountain
elm Der will branch off from the Valley
road could not be learned yesterday, as
some OF those interested said the exact
route had not been decided on. This is
hardly probable, however, but those in
terested in the road wish to secure their
rights of way as quietly as they have made
their other arrangements for the construc-
ton of the road. That they mean bust
ness there is little doubt, as those who
have given out the information that there
are several millionaires back of the scheme
are reliable.
P. A. Buell. and the other incorporators
of the road came down from Stockton to
hold meeting for the purpose of organic
ing the directorate of the road and con-
sulting with those who are really behind
the scheme.
Senator Langford is well known all over
the State; George A. Brown Jr. is con-
nected with the Stanislaus and San Joa.
quin Water Company; NJ. ]. Gardiner is in
the employ of P. A. Buell. here and w. A.
Robertson is connected with Brown in the
office of the canal company mentioned.
Shippee is the nephew of the late L. U.
Shippee and is we'll known in Stockton.
There is much curiosity here as to who
the real hackers OF the scheme are outside
of Capitalist Bullock. Buell. is to be made
the treasurer OF the board of directors. but
who the other officers of the company are
to be is not known. Gardiner was inter-
viewed in Stockton, but would, or could
not say anything about the road, he
evidently knowing little about it except
that he had been made dummy director
part in meeting. claiming even not to
know where the place of meeting was to be.
Z. A. Buel of Stockton, treasurer of the
newly organized railroad. said:
"Its length will be about sixty miles.
We have made some reconnoisances of
the line and will in couple of weeks start
on q permanent survey. Part of the dis
lance Will be through the mountains. The
cost will probably be, on the average, from
$4,000 to $40, 900 mile, both for the build
ing and equipments. 1t will be a stand
ard broad-gauge road.
The exact route will depend consider
ably on the people, as, of course. we want
to get the right of way. We will strike
no large towns, however. There will be
good many stations along the route.
"Our object is to bring out the products
of the mine and ranch and take in such
things as the people want. We are going
to reach good agricultural section. We
have found region that will produce
good sugar beets, and we expect to bring
beets out for factory that we know now
is going to be built at Stockton.
"Besldes this there are immense quanti-
ties OF fine timber as we'll as granite and
marble that there will be a market for as
soon as we get it to tide-water at Stockton.
When once it is at Stockton the freight is
practically nothing to this City.
1.-THE mining interests now are looking
up all through the country our road will
go through. The sulphurets that the
miners formerly threw away because they
thought there was no gold in them are
now found to contain more gold than the
rock.
1--WE expect to use the Bullock engines,
rails and other equipments which arrived
in Stockton recently, and about which
there was a good deal of talk in the
papers. Nobody has known what they
were for.
Work on the line will be started very
soon and will be rushed through. We
hope to have it completed in about six
months. There is not a particle of doubt
about the road being built. Not par
ticle. The money is all raised now, and
the men behind the road, whose names
| cannot be made public now, but will in a
day or two, are in dead earnest.
II can say, too, that the road is abso-
lutely independent of any exis ting road. !"
The meeting which was to have been
held Wednesday was postponed for day
or two.
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