The Imperial press., 1904-08-13
ITO BEGIN VERY SOON"
Says the Times. of the csIcSieo-N Yuma
 Road.

the southern laCluC that " Ao CuANNt the main line oi that rcad through the Imperial Valley, and says actual work is to begin very soon. According io the Times map ii makes long dctour into MeIicaL territory, all the tune bs- low the Imperial canal. and the most oi the way over the lands oi a single company, the "Coloraio River Land Co, SA."
 The Times says:
 Actual work Is to l-csin very soon on railroad project ai once so unique, and important io Los Angeles As oom- mercial center that ii can hardly be eoualed in the modern history oi the "opening up oi the arid Southwest, either from the tourist or the industrial standpoint
 A transcontinenial railroad from New Orleans 10 Los Angeles running Tor forty miles through Mexican territory, traversing the Colorado River delta country. and the famous Imperial Val lev, in California, the region ot the most interesting agricultural develop meni in America today, will ce the actual result oi the construction work 10 which the Southern Pacific Railroad has turned its attention. What the re- suits will he from this souihward swing oi & great railroad, lu the qnickening oi a region potent beyond the present realization oi ihe world ai large, and in the increased vlgor impaIied To Los Angeles from direct contact with iis poieniialities, can scarcely he estimated now, so vital are they hound Ia b..
 The Southern Pacific now operates trains through the Imperial Valley io the town of Calexico, iu California, on the International boundary line, over branch read diyerging from the main line between Jos Angeles and New Orleans Ai Old Beach. Some months ago the Southern Pacific obtained con cession, or franchise, from the Mexican government 10 construct s railroad line and operate through trains over de- scribed route from Hexicala, the Mexi- can counterpart of CAlexico. across a portion of the northern district of the territory of Baja California to the inter national boundary line again at point immediately west of ihe Colorado River This is the franchise that Is to be utilized immediately
 The extension from the present ter minus Of the Imperial Valley branch line is 10 be built under the name oi the Inter-California Railway. Briefly de- scribed, the route extends into Mexican territory from CAlexico, through Mexi- cala. on the international boundary, southeasterly fifteen miles, easterly about fourteen miles and noriheasteTly about twenty miles 10 the boundary line again at point immediately west of the Colorado River; thence to a junction with the main line of the Southern Pacific al Fl Rio, in California about five miles west of Yuma.
 TO DIVERT OyEELASDs
 Over this unique route II is expected that the Southern Pacific will divert its principal transcontinental traffic, giving passengers continuous trip, in conjunction with the line now in opp eration to CAlexico, through the great I'm perial Valley and the Colorado River delta, in Lower California.
 An odd feature of the project is the fact that forty miles oi the forty-fye- mile righ, of way will be secured from A single land company, thus doing away with much of the annoyance and delay usually occasioned by efforts to satisfy small individual owners in the path of proposed railroad.
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