The Arizona sentinel., 1901-08-21
THE SUNSET ROUTE
Will Enter San Diego From Yuma. So Thinks the Salt Lake
 Tribune.
From the San Diego Union.


 Tribune has another confirming the special dispatches received by the Union from there, and adding the theory that this port is soon to be made the principal Pacific port of that portion of the Hartman system known as the Sunset Route. The Tribune's story follows:
 The Hartman railroads will in short time make a leading fea- ture of trans-Pacific traffic. This has evidently been the aim for long time past, but recent moves have shown how far-reaching is the plan, and the latest develop ment as to San Diego as har bor is but one more move in the same direction. The Hartman roads today extend to Portland, Ore, and to San Francisco by direct routes from the east. The completion of the line to San Diego will complete the system, and then three important ports on the Pacific will be open to the Hartman roads.
 The next move on the part of syndicate will be to build as Southern Pacific branch a line from Yuma, Arizona, to San Diego, 180 miles, via Jacumba pass, the old Texas Pacific sur vey. A glance at map shows that the Sunset route from New Orleans has to run hundreds Of miles north to San Francisco, while if it builds the 160 miles from Yuma to San Diego, the re suit will be the shortest trans continental system in the south, and this will prove of great ben eft to all concerned. The Short Lines extension also reaching San Diego will make that port busy one.
 The syndicate already owns several Pacific steamship lines, and these will be strengthened by new and fast ships. In the past the ships on the Pacific have been of the second class type, but under the new system they will be equal to, the finest boats on the Atlantic. There will be no favoritism toward San Diego, Portland or SanFrancisco, but each will be treated alike. The Sunset Route will be for San Diego, the Central route for San Francisco, the Oregon Short Line for Portland and it's south ern extension for San Diego, as to ocean traffic. Each port will have it's own boats and each road will to some extent be for traffic.
 AS to the volume of this traffic it is expected to be immense, es- pecially with Hawaii and the Philippine Islands, while the To- cal conditions are we'll known. It is not generally known, how ever, that the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific were unable to handle the orange crop this year, whnh Is another proof that the country will support a new line.
 The plan to build from Yuma to San Diego is not new one, but it is possible now that the Hartman syndicate is in control; in brief, it would complete the shortest continental route from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and the Sunset Route could be made of equal importance with the oth- CTS for fast time across the con- tinent and for Pacific connection. The line from San Diego over Jacumba pass would be an easy one to build, and the saving, Yuma to San Diego, over the the present line would be 170 miles. Today San Francisco is the Sunset route port, so it can be shown on this route, Texas, New Orleans and other points touched by it would be brought over coo miles nearer to a Pacific port, so it is not to be wondered at that just now the Hartman engineers are veering their tran sits to San Diego.
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