The herald., 1898-03-09
LOCAL RAILWAY NEWS
SAN DIEoANs BRoACH A NEW
RAILROAD SCHEME
Anything to Get Even With the South
ern California-Santa Fe Arrang-
ing It's Land Grant Titles

Those people down in San Diego
the Griefers-are bound to have a SCRAP
with the Santa Fe. Their hostility to Gen.
eral Manager Nevin and the road itself IL
such that nothing less than an encounter
will satisfy them. They have exposed the
pool with the Santa Fe and have shown
Mr.. Nevin's hostility to them, and have ap.
pointed committees to investigate. and to
sue, and to do this. that and the other
thing, but the road is still operated and
Mr.. Nevin holds his position for the time
So the Griefers have gotten up new plan
by which they hope to get a railroad which
will not turn them down as hard as has
Mr.. Nevin, and which will enable them to
take the business which they now have to
give to the hated Santa Fe. The project
was told yesterday by a man from San
Diego, who is the best informed on such
matters and who is deeply interested in
the project. This is nothing less than the
using of the Cuyamaca railroad as nu-
cieus for the new line, which 1t is intended
to extend to Yuma in one direction and 10
Oceanside in the other. This, it is thought
will be a profitable bit of road, and will
give the projectors sweet revenge.
AS a matter of fact the plan has taken
c. p. Huntington, who is in conference
with several of the schemers. Mr.. Hunt
ington will never build road to San Die
go which would cost him a penny: he has
said so on different occasions: but if the
people there wish his beneficent rule
enough to make him a present of a line,
he would probably graciously accept it,
though even this is not sure The trouble is
that the local business of San Diego is not
IN n
country" traffic is insignificant. On the
authority of a Santa Fe freight agent ii
is said that Riverside furnishes larger
percentage of freight than does San
Diego.
RECORD-BREAKING LAND SALES
First Vice President E. d. Kenna, Treas
urer Edward Wilder and the local attor-
ney for the Santa Fe have been busy for
some days buying several millions of acres
of land for that company in New Mexico,
Arizona and California. The land pur-
chased amounts to the largest transfers
on record in the west, but 1t happens they
are only nominal in character. The land
in question belonged to the former Atchi-
son. Topeka and Santa Fe Railway COM
pany. When the foreclosure suit was fin
ished, by which the property of the old
company was transferred to the present
organization, it was found that the land
grant had not been included, so it has
been found necessary to have all of this
sold and bought by the present corpora
ton, to technically transfer the title.
The extent of upward of 100000 acres in
New Mexico was purchased on Monday,
and today about as much will follow the
same course in Arizona, when the party
will come to California and repeat the
transaction in this state. The 100000 acres
in New Mexico went under the hammer
for s71O0.
Mr.. Wilder, besides being first vice pres
ident, is general counsel for the company
NOTES AND PERSONALS
Grading has commenced on the Prescott
and Eastern road. This is to be 2S miles
long, and will open rich mining region.
The Santa Fe's branch to the Grand
canyon, it is thought, will be completed
by July, when people can ride in Pullmans,
instead of, as heretofore, on burros, to the
most marvellous scenery in the world.
The Cotton city trustees have refused to
care for the City park any longer. and the
Santa Fe road has taken charge of the
grounds, with an agreement to take care of
it indefinitely.
Orange shipments are going out at the
rate of about 100 cars day. many now be-
ing sent by the northern route on account
of warm weather in the east.
TRANSFER OF PASADENA RAILWAY
Probably today, according to the order of
the reorganization committee of the road,
the Pasadena and Los Angeles electric
railway will be advertised for sale. The
idea is for the reorganization committee
to purchase the property for the new COM
pany organized by it. The sale is carry
ing out of technicality required to make
a legal transfer of the title to the property
from the old company to the new one. All
H. J1I.k 81 f,,1Ix
provided for, and there is no possibility of
any complication.
When asked about the matter, President
c. w. Smith of the new organization made
the following statement:
This sale is a matter of formality pure
ly, to carry out the provisions agreed to a
year ago by the reorganization committee
of the Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric
Railway company 1t is designed solely to
transfer the title of the road to the new
company, of which Andrew McNally, P.
M. Green, Col. G. G. Green, myself and
others are directors.
1.-The sale is of no significance as regards
the present or future of the property. 1t
was required to comply with the legal ne
cessities of the original transaction"
A NEW RICHMOND IN THE FIELD
Rumor has it that the Los Angeles Rail-
way company is going actively into the
lighting field; that it will do this by what
is known as the Block lighting method,
that Is to say. establish a motor generator
at some convenient point in a block, and
serve the larger customers in that partic-
ular block with light as well as power
This will prevent the necessity of going
on the street with overhead wires and will
also make the lighting of that particular
block free from interference that may
happen with lines in other parts of the
city.
The apparatus for this method has been
brought to a degree of perfection and it
promises both economy to the customer
and profit to the company. The use of
light is growing SO rapidly and the ability
of large steam plant, such as the railway
company possesses, to supply power
cheaply has progressed to such state of
perfection, that this field is an inviting one
even in the presence of four or five COM
petitors.
The fact that the time when the light is
being used is about the time that the load