The San Francisco call., 1897-01-20
CLAUS SPRECKELS
ON THE SAN IA FE
Says the Valley Road Ex-
poets to Connect
With It.
This Country Can Produce All the
Sugar the People Could
Consume.
Surveying Parties Still in the Field
Between San Francisco and
Stockton.

The San Francisco and San Joaquin
Valley Railroad is steadily proceeding
with the work of preliminary surveys be-
tween the bay and Stockton. The survey
ing parties are not large, but they are Of
ample size to do the first necessary work.
No surveys for grades are being made.
such surveys will not be made till 1t is de-
cided which one of the several routes
under consideration is the best for all
purposes of the railroad. The parties now
out are simply making rough survey
and examination of the country, and when
a route Is finally chosen, large party Will
be sent out, and the survey made with no
more consumption of time than IS neces-
sary for good work. Even after the choice
OF route is made, rights of way must be
secured, and as Chief Engineer Storey
said yesterday, it may take considerable
time yet until the com mpany is in posi-
tion to announce the route of the proposed
extension from Stockton to San Francisco.
If the route known az the Kennedy sur
vey, made some years ago Tor the now
abandoned San Francisco and Great Salt
Lake line, were selected, Engineer Storey
said considerable time would be saved,
but that in case that route be decided on,
and the railroad come through Fruitvale
! down to a point south of the Oakland
narrow-gauge pier, the old survey will
have TO be entirely gone over again and
! some changes made.
Preliminary examinations and rough
surveys must be made back of all the
points on the bay which the company has
under consid GRAFTON as possible terminal.
| These points are San Pablo, Malate, Dunn
barton Point and Richmond.
Claus Spreckels, president OF the San
Joaquin Valley railroad. was seen yester-
day by CALL reporter and asked concern
Ing the alliance with the Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe Railroad by connection
with the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad~at
| Mojave. Mr.. Spreckles said:
II do not like to talk to newspaper
men on this or any other subject"
What do you think of VIce-President
| Watts statement concerning connection
with the Santa Fe as published in The
CALL last SundayY'
''It's all right; it's correct. That is all I
have to say"
Vice-President Watt said the Valley
road proposes TO effect an Eastern connec-
ton with the Santa Fe.
The Atlantic and Pacific Railr Dad is to
be sold some day this month. 1t is the
connecting link between the Santa Fe and
the Valley road. 1t extends from Albu-
querque, n. Mex, to Mojave, CAL, and
the Santa Fe people have for some time
been buying up all they could get of the
SIG 600. 900 OF Atlantic and Pacific bonds
The Valley road will be extended to
! Bakersfield probably by June next and
there remains only stretch of forty-two 0
miles OF railroad to be built from Bakers
field to Mojave to connect the two roads.
When the connecting spike is driven
California will have a transcontinental
com peting railroad. II is said to be highly
probable that this spike will be driven in
side of year.
The proposed route from MADEIRA, with
entrance to San Francisco and China
Basin, will be surveyed also when the con-
necton with the Santa Fe is effected.
Mr. Spreckels was also asked if the VAL
ley Railroad would be extended to Wat
sonviile. He said it would not for the
! present. When asked concerning the
proposed increase of the tariff on sugar
| Mr.. Spreckels said that California at pres
ent might not be able to produce all the
sugar that is annually consumed in this
country but that the United States could.