Imperial press and farmer., 1902-05-24


 Company knows just what that great corporation will do in the future re- garding railroad building, but the fol lowing statements by one who is in nosition to draw intelligent conclu- sions is interesting matter just at the present time. Public Economy IS monthly edited and published by A. R Hotchkiss. In his last issue MT. Hotchkiss says:
 "The editor of Public Economy ad- vised the people of San Diego that ln his opinion Hartman was the man for them to deal with in their under taking to build the desert road to Yuma, and he wrote to ex-Mayor h. c. Reed to bring Mayor Frary ana eX- Mayor Carlson to Los Angeles to see Hartman and invite him to san Diego to look over the surveys or the new San Diego-Eastern, and generally to confer for the good of San Dlego. The evening that these gentlemen ar rived here MT. Hartman was not to be seen. He had gone out to an en- tertainment, so the next morning early the San Degans put in an ap- pearance at Hotel Green, went up to Harriman's room and knocked Mrs. Hartman came out and informed them that MT. Hartman was not yet LID. but was resting after the late en- tertainment of the previous night, but she said if they would send ln thelr
 
 done about an interview. She lmme diately returned, saying that MT. liar riman would see them st once, although he was not yet out or peu' but was then taking cup or coHee, so they were ushered in and recelveo by MT. Hartman with the most cordial and unaffected welcome 1mag- inable. He made the boys feel at home, was glad to see and welcome them and said he would come down to San Diego at the earliest possible day and 20 over the situation with these railroad people thoroughly. The com mittee were greatly pleased with MT Hartman and his manly ways. On April 8 he and his party went to San Diego and met the railroad commit tee of the San Diego and Eastern Rail road at their office, who showed them their maps, blue prints and field notes of survey; many of the party strayed away from these dry figures, but the Union reporter says as follows:
 "There were two, however, who stayed with the figures. They were MT. Hartman and MT. Kruttschn1tt, the men who get closer to the ques- tions of construction than any of the others. They went over the figures with one map and then called for an other, going over the same figures with that before them. They were left to the care of MT. Marston and MT. Boone, who were ready to answer questions regarding the country be- tween San Diego and Yuma, and they had many to answer, for it seemed something of a surprise to MT. Harrl- man that a line had been run over the mountains to the desert with no greater gradient anywhere than "A feet to the mile, and with only one 160O-foot tunnel.
 "' Messrs. Frary, Carlson and Reed stood aloof while at the committee rooms. They had undertaken to get MT. Hartman and the other railroad men here, and left it for the commit tee to place the facts before them re- garding the survey being made. That business belonged to Messrs, Marston and Boone. President Hartman de- clared that as soon as the survey now being made by the San Diego-Eastern committee is completed he wanted its