The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-01
TO FORI|FY SAN DIEGO.
Mayor Carlson Returns From
Washington With an Ap.
preparation.
Two New Roads Soon to Be Built Into
the Southern Port-The Mayor
to Run for Congress.

w. H. Carlson, Mayor of San Diego, ar
rived in this City yesterday on his way
home after three weeks business and po-
litical trip to New York and Washington.
He is personally and politically interested
in the construction of two short railroad
lines soon to be built, with San Diego as
their common terminus.
One of these railroads, to be known as
the Southern California and Salt Lake
Railroad Company, will connect the places
indicated by it's name. When completed
it will give the southern part of the State
line to Salt Lake shorter than the Santa
Fee road by 1247 miles, and shorter than
the Central Pacific route by 500 miles.
The new road will be from Marvel, sixty
miles from The Needles, to Milford, dis
lance of 260 miles. Five years ago the
Union Pacific built forty miles on the
prospective line, and in addition to that
the road for a distance of 100 miles is
graded So the actual work will be to
construct about $50 miles of roadbed.
In con junction with the short line to
Salt Lake the same promoters purpose to
build line to Yuma, to be called the San
Diego and Phoenix Railroad Company.
AS guarantee of the roads success
committee of San Diego citizens-ex-Mayo
Sherman, Alderman Prout and State Har
Dor Commissioner D. G. Reed-has been
appointed to raise $4S0,0 to insure per
cent of the net profits for the first three
years and also to obtain rights-of-way for
the entire distance and all needed terminal
depot grounds in San Diego.
Mayor Carlson says that work will be
begun on these two railroads in ninety
days. The intention is to have them COM
pleted in q year and half.
His visit to Washington was to secure
an appropriation for Notifications for San
Diego harbor, the City Council having
passed a resolution to that effect in spite
of Congressman Bowers assurance that
there was no use to make the attempt.
Mayor Carlson went on and, by Senator
Perkins assistance, as he explains, San
Diego got 100000 for Notifications. 1t
seems that twenty-seven years ago, at the
request of the War Department San Diego
gave 1400 acres on the bluff about Point
Iona for Notifications to protect her ex-
tensive harDor.
These grounds will now be used for the
purpose intended and San Diego given a
battery that will not permit of repetition
of the Itata incident of five years ago,
when the Chilean vessel deliberately sailed
out OF the bay without any power to HIM
der her.
Mayor Carlson, although but 80 years of
age, is now serving his fifth term as chief
executive of San Diego.
He has always run on the independent
ticket, and at one election got more votes
than the regular Republican, Democratic
and Populist candidates combined. The
platform on which he has been elected
was one declaring for competing railroads
into San Diego, and his present work Is in
conformance with that principle.
He says that Spreckels by building the
Valley road has done more to settle the
railroad question of freights and fares in
California than all the commissions ever
in Office for that express purpose.
Recently at the urgent request OF his
friends Mayor Carlson has come out as a
candidate for Congress to represent the