The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-30
[Drawm from official records.l

| the commission was issued and severa
new railroads have been added to the
transportation lines of the State during
this period, by far the most important be-
! ing the San Francisco and San Joaquin
Valley Railway.
! Among the roads which will appear fol
the first time on this map are the San
Francisco and San Joaquin Valley; Ala
media and San Joaquin; Monterey and
Fresno; Oakland, San Leandro ano Hay
wards (electric); Crescent City and Smiths
River; Bodie and Benton; Pacific Lumber
Company's; San Diego, Pacific Beach and
La Jolla; Mount Lowe.
The map last issued was brought up to
November Is, 1891, and the one about to
be published will record the railroad
development up to date. Six thousand
copies will be printed. 1000 of which will
be mounted.
There are already about $500 applications
for them on file in the office of the COM
mission, 500 having come from foreign
countries. The latter are mainly from
banks and financial institutions.
They will be about 4x5 feet, and are
drawn on scale of fifteen miles to the
inch. Little but the routes of the iron
rails will be shown on them, thus making
information.
They will be more nearly accurate than
any other map published so far as railroad
lines are concerned, as the drawings were
made from official data furnished by each
road.
On the proof submitted yesterday the
Southern Pacific's great competitor, the
San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley
Railway, is shown only half way from
Stockton to MERGED, when in fact the road
is completed beyond MERGED and is in OPP
Grafton for wheat shipments two stations
the other side of that city. The attention
of the Railroad Commission will be called
to this matter to-day, and an effort will be
made by the Valley road people to have
| their line shown on this map as far as its
route has been definitely fixed. This is
considered an important matter, as an
other similar map will not be published
| for some years.
More than usual interest attaches to this
road and the route it is TO take, as it is
recognized as the only genuine competitor
on large scale that the Southern Pacific
has ever had within the State, and this in
terest has been intensified by its recent in
auguration of the war it is destined to
carry on against its rival. No authentic
map of the Valley road has heretofore
been published, for the simple reason that
none could be drawn, owing to the Encer-
tainty of its route caused by right-ofway
litigation. 1t was only last week that the
last of these suits between Stockton and
MERGED was settled.
The map herewith presented is from the
official records of the San Francisco and
San Joaquin Valley Railway, and shows
that road as it will probably appear on the
revised map of the Railroad Commission.
The monopoly's great rival, it will be seen,
runs about midway between two of the
most profitable branches of the Southern
Pacific Company. 1t is thus in position
to draw traffic from both, as it undoubt-
eddy will, and even though the Southern
Pacific meets the cuts of the monopoly
destroying road the people who have long
suffered from the exactions and extortions
of the Huntington properties are likely to
favor the road which has at last broken
some of the tentacles of the octopus"