Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-14
RAILROAD WORK
FORGING AHEAD
SURVEYORS SWARM AROUND
SAN BERNARDlN0
TAPPING ORANGE DISTRICTS
Extensive Salt and Cement Works to
BE Started In Nelahborhood Of
Dandy, In Eastern Part Of
the County
snoclal to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
SAN BERNARDINo, July 13.-sev-
eral extensions of the lines of the San
Bernardino Valley Traction company
and probably of the Salt Lake road in
this valley are soon to be made. Sew
eral crews of surveyors have during
the past few weeks been running lines
in the valley for the Rialto branch of
the traction company, and the Red
lands CUTOFF of the same road. A line
is also to be built at once from Cotton
to Riverside by probably the same in
terests.
Salt Lake surveyors have also been
at work in the valley, and the indica-
tions are that the road will at once
commence the construction of indepen-
dent lines into the orange districts in
order to be in a position to handle
share of the citrus fruit crop this
winter, even if the trouble with the old
roads is not settled.
Within a few weeks the work of in
stalling one of the most extensive
plants in the world for mining soda,
salt, lime and manufacture of cement
will be commenced near Dandy station
on the line of the Santa Fe, in the
eastern part of this county.
Locations covering an area of twelve
miles in extent have been filed here by
men of means who have been investi-
eating this region for months. The To-
cations cover the Dandy dry lake re-
gion and the Solo mining district.
Among the men who are behind the
movement are George w. Fuess of
Grand Rapids, Mich. Greedy Koltz of
Los Angeles, John Reid of Dandy, ].
w. Sullivan of Seligman, r. B. Evans
of Pasadena and Della Wall of San
Diego.
The deposits of salt, soda and lime
rock are said to be very rich, and the
plant will be built for the manufacture
Of salt and cement first.
The big snake is dead. The 13-foot
boa constructor that was recently
caught under the St. Charles hotel
where it had lived many weeks after
escaping from snake show, died Of
cold. not having had proper care while
shedding it's coat.
]. B. Mullen is one San Bernardino
man who has made a mint of money
out of the Redondo boom. He was the
owner of large number of lots there,
and, in the last few days, cleaned up
more than $160,0OO, and last night still
had about $4,000 worth of land left.
Frank Cleveland, also of this city, has
taken out $4,000 from his personal
holdings and commissions.
Prosperous Orange Season
The Highland Orange Growers asso-
citation has declared it's final dividend
for the season and the footings show
that the average price received by the
growers for the entire season has been
$1.0S per 100 pounds net. This is regard
ed as very good, much better than for
some years past. Next year the asso-
citation will market it's fruit through the
San Bernardino County Fruit exchange.
Two bootleggers have been arrested
and fined at Otis, on the desert line of
the Salt Lake road. They were j. F.
cummings anu ID. T. flyIlil, anu JUS
tice Van Dyke compelled them to pay
over 1920 to the county treasury for
their illegal traffic.
Negotiations are under way here for
the erection of large hotel. 1t will
probably be specially designed for the
tourist business. The city's present ho-
tel, the Stewart, will also be rebuilt,
in all probability, this fall in order to
bring it up to date as commercial
house.
L. Enrique, who attempted to kill
fellow prisoner in the county Jail last
week with a erudely constructed
dagger, made of wire. pleaded guilty
and was sent to the penitentiary for
two years by Judge Bledsoe.