The San Francisco call., 1905-06-11
COULD ROAD
BUILDERS HERE
Officials of Western Pacific
Come to Start COnstrue-
tion of the New Railway
BONDS READY FOR SALE
Affairs Now Shaping Them
selves for Actual Work
on TranscOntinental Line

President w. J. Bartnett Of the West
ern Pacific Railroad Company, who has
been in the East for year on business
connected with the new railroad enter
prise, returned to the city yesterday. He
was accompanied to San Francisco by
Director John Treadwell, Consulting En-
gineer Virgil Bogue. Joel F. Vale. the
general attorney for the Denver and Rio
Grande road, and H H Yard. president
of the Butte and PIumas and the Indian
Valley railroads, that are to form the
nucleus of the Western Pacific in Cali
fornia
President Bartnett has returned to this
city for the purpose of Strengthening out
a number of difficulties that have been
encountered by the promoters OF the
Western Pacific in furthering their plans
for the early construction of the road,
and the first step in this direction will
be taken during the coming week. when
IL is expected that the directors will
meet At this meeting it is planned that
Bartnett shall shall be superseded in the
presidency by Edward T. Jeffery, at pres
ent vice president Of the road and also
president of the Denver and Rio Grande.
and Bartnett will then be elected vice
president and general counsel
Prior to this the boards Of directors Of
the Butte and Plumas and the Indian
Valley roads, of which H. H. Yard is
president, will meet and authorize the
transfer of their respective rights OF way
and other interests in California to the
Western Pacific, as has been already
planned by the Goulds. These two roads
are valuable asset. in that they furnish
the only means for the Western Pacific to
get a route from Oroville up through the
Feather River Canyon to Quincy. The
route surveyed by Yard is the achieve
ment of one of the most difficult en-
gineering problems that confronted the
Western Pacific promoters in their
scheme to enter this State.
General Counsel Vaile. who came West
with Bartnett. directly represents the
GoC;ds. and it was under his direction
that bill was recently passed by the
Colorado Legislature permitting the Rio
Grande Railroad and the Denver and
Rio Grande Railroad TO indorse the bond
issue of a foreign road. an act necessary
to allow the directors of the Gould roads
| in Colorado to authorize officially the in
dorsement of the Western Pacific bonds
This was done in order to insure them
a commercial value on the market. The
Endorsement was made in Denver last
week, and this will be followed by a
formal approval of the bonds by the
directors of the Western Pacific at their
meeting this week. General Counsel
vale expects 10 remain mere several
weeks, during which he will assist the
new general counsel Of the Western Pa
cific in Strengthening out whatever legal
entanglements are found.
1t was stated yesterday that actual
work on the Western Pacific will begin
in a few weeks under the direction Of the
CONSTRUCTION company Incorporated for
that purpose. Chief Engineer E j. Yard
of the Denver and hlo Grande road has
already built mile and half extension
westward from the western terminus OF
that road with the understanding that
it will eventually form part of the West
ern Pacific. While Bartnett is here a
number of condemnation suits for rights
of way are to be begun in the State
courts, and while these proceedings are
under way the officials of the road will
be clearing the way for grading from
Oroville to Quincy and at other sections
in Nevada.