The herald., 1898-06-02
NEWS OF the RAILWAYS
WUIR's LATEST COUP ON THE
RIVERSIDE TRACK
Ue Taes the Issue Into CONTROLLING
the Surf Line Gap-The Pecos
Valley Dicker-Notes

valley O1cker-Notes
SUPERINTENDENT ]. A. Muir of this division
of the Southern Pacific is determined evil
IDENTIFY to make Riverside railway center
of magnitude in spite of her efforts to re-
main simple little country maiden OF
town. A few days. or rather nights. ago
this astute manager OF the company's IN
terests in this part of the state had MS
men lay a piece of track on Market street
between Tenth and Eleventh streets, In
that city, a location which he had been
irving to get a franchise for without sue
cess. The council had backed and filled,
voting and then resembling, until the whole
matter was in a tangle. Mr.. Muir finally
lost patience with the obstructionist tao
tics used against him. and had the track
laid between two suns. There was sput-
ter from both sides. the pros and the antls'
about the matter, the former Claim nS
that the ants were trying to rum the
town and drive away the railways. Inc
others asserted that the corporation had
simply shown it's disregard OF the law
At any rate, there was so mucn talk tnat
the company invited the opponents OF the
measure to take the matter into the courts
for the purpose of testing the question OF
which was right, but the municipal officers
neglected to do this, and so the company
sprung a Enthusiastically bold coup on
the community by themselves applying for
an Injunction against any number of John
Does and Richard Roes, restraining them
and everyone from attempting to tear up
the piece of track in question, and asking
that the Injunction be made permanent.
The temporary injunction was granted by
Judge Noyes and the matter promises to
be a lengthy piece of litigation, during
which 1t is probable that the rails Will
remain where they are and trains be OPP
Grated.
Filling the Gap
It really begins to look as If Huntington
intended to make good his promises re-
garding the rapid completion of the miss
ing link in the coast line between santa
Barbara and San Francisco. Almost all
the men and horses for which there Is
room are now at work. At this side OF
Surf, on the Mckay ranch, ninety-six head
Of horses and seventy men are at work;
at San Miguel there are seventy horses
and sixty men, and between Gonzales and
Eoledad there are sixty-five horses and
sixty men. The contractors assert that
they will put more men and teams at work
as rapidly as room is made for them. SO
there is reason to believe that within year
trains will be operated over the new line
which will take almost all of the passenger
traffic.
Santa Fe Combination
There have been a lot of fairy stories pub
lished lately about the proposed plan of
the Santa Fe to combine or be absorbed
with the Baltimore and Ohio railway, but
there does not seem to be much of any
foundation for this report which lacks any
On the other hand. there is a
decker that the Santa Fe has just con-
summated which has official corrobora-
ton to back 1t up, and this is the contract
the company has made with the Pecos
Valley railway, which. while of not so
much importance to the financial world
the Baltimore and Ohio deal would have
been, is of great value to the Santa Fe
itself. BY virtue of the contract between
the two companies the Pecos Valley cor
poration will be enabled to complete its
line from it's present terminus, Roswell,
New Mexico, to Washburn, the terminus
of the. Southern Kansas division Of the
Santa Fe in the Texas panhandle.
BY this arrangement the Santa Fe be-
comes the owner of ffty-one per cent of the
stock of the Pecos Valley road. and also
becomes joint owners with it of 140 miles of
the new road of that company between
Washburn and the Pecos river, to point
east of Albuquerque, thus giving the
Southern Kansas division that much new
trackage. It Is claimed the Santa Fe will
as soon as possible commence the build
ing of 100 miles of track, thus filling in the
gap between the Pecos river and Albu-
querque. thus giving 1t shorter and easier
route for through traffic, avoiding the
heavy grades at Ration and putting the
company in good condition to carry on the
campaign it has commenced of reaching
after a good portion of the Pacific trade.
Notes and Personals
]. L. Buell., travelling passenger agent of
the Southern Pacific, with headquarters at
San Luis Obispo, has been out on the line
in the interests of his company.
The Southern Pacific men at Kern City
raised flag at the shops in that place on
Monday on pole LOG feet high.
Mrs. F. ]. Hyde, wife of the chief clerk
in the Santa Fe-Pacific's passenger de-
partment. left yesterday for visit to the
east.
Mrs. Frank Oakley, wife of Chief Clerk
Oakley of the Southern Pacific general
offices in this city, has gone to San Fran
cisco for short visit.
The Santa Fe has secured the Seventh
regiment band for Redondo Beach through
out the summer.
On June 18th and 18th the Santa Fe will
place round trip tickets to San Diego,
good for thirty days, on sale at the price
of three dollars.
General Freight Agent Edward Cham
bers of the Santa Fe-Pacific, has returned
from his visit at Milwaukee, where he at
tended the meeting of the transcontinen-
tai freight bureau.
The Santa Fe will have a teachers ex-
cursion to the Grand canyon of the Colo
RADIO, which will leave San Francisco on
the 9Th and this city on the 7th of this
month. The price of tickets for the round
trip is the same from either city-fifty dol
lars. Professor Emory Smith of the hor-
ticultural department of Stanford uni
versity, has gotten the affair I'D.
N. r. Martin. the advertising agent OF the
Southern Pacific in this city, was mar
ried last evening to Miss Mcclellan. at St.
Paups church.